Home for the holidays: And every other day, too

Dec 18

Published December 18, 2003 in issue #0250 of the Hook Caryn Hamilton and son Ellis For those who view homework as that nightly race between parent and child to see who will begin banging their head on the kitchen table first, the concept of home schooling might seem as appealing as chewing tinfoil.

Extra-curricular: 'School' didn't keep Waldo home

Waldo Jaquith Where's Waldo? As noted in a recent Hook story, Charlottesville's most famous ex-home-schooled child is now a 25-year-old man studying at Virginia Tech.

4Better Or Worse

The week in review
Best arrest for the spam-weary: Two North Carolina men are indicted on four felony counts of transmission of unsolicited bulk electronic mail following an investigation by ...

The Dish

Does size matter? New eateries say yes and no
Christmas came early this year for Charlottesville. And I'm not talking about the snow. Two– yes two– locally owned and operated restaurants opened on the eveni...

Essays

Better living through... Christmas feast full of chemicals
When you get down to the stuffing this Christmas, think on, there's more to that bread sauce and sausage meat mix than meets the eye. Researchers in Germany have discovered...

Question of the Week

Would you home-school your children and why?
Charles Kaye: "I have two children, and my wife and I are going through this dilemma right now. There's a part of me that would like to home-school them because we can pr...

Real Estate - $old

Property transactions
Albemarle 8/15 Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to Jay D. and Carolyn P. Hamm, 2005 Kemper Lane, Rivercreek of Dunlora, $315,950. Charles E. and Jacqueline R. Woeppel to Todd W. ...

Real Estate - On the Block

Time travel: Classic mill and Crafty bungalow
ADDRESS: 3211 and 3197 Lowesville Road ASKING: $895,000 SIZE: 2,732 fin. sq. ft. YEAR BUILT: 1929 NEIGHBORHOOD: Lowesville CURB APPEAL: 9 out of a possible 10 LISTED BY: Ca...

Real Estate - Update

Still available
What happened to "On the Blocks" of the past? APPEARED IN THE HOOK: July 3, 2003 in issue #226 ADDRESS: 7603 Esmont Road, Esmont ASKING PRICE: (originally) $119,900 (curren...

Real Estate Property auctions

Foreclosure auctions
December 29, at 9:30am, at the Charlottesville Courthouse Property: 500 10-l/2 Street Debtor: Rosa L. and Ivana Key Amount owing: $66,000 Bidder brings: $7,000 or 10 perce...

Movie Reviews

Big little man: Big little movie
If you find anyone who doesn't love The Station Agent, it's time to reactivate the X-Files, because they're not human. Writer-director Tom McCarthy shot much of his film fr...

Music Reviews

Faulknerian: The Trouble isn't with Harry
The Trouble With Harryat Dürty Nelly'sDecember 12 Though the crowd was rather sparse at Dürty Nelly's last Friday night, it definitely was not the fault of local pop/roc...

News

Air coli: New outbreak goes beyond food
The Hook's November 13 cover story highlighted the growing concern over a vicious strain of E. coli bacteria that has killed a child and seriously injured dozens more throu...
Enough already? Enter the <I>Hook</I>'s rainfall contest
Are you good at guessing how many gumballs are in the big jar? How about how much that average-size dark-haired lady weighs? Do you have a Ouija board? Even if none of that...
Final jug: Sheets cider mill bottles its last
With little fanfare but much nostalgia, a 75-year Virginia tradition ended December 11 as the Sheets Cider Mill bottled its last jug of sweet apple cider. "This is a sad ...
Guinea pigs: New film needs test audience
A producer of a highly acclaimed film has produced another, and he wants you to be his guinea pig– er, serve on a focus group.
NEWS- Slumped over: Alleged rape followed party
The night started with festive drinking, but by the early morning hours, a 19-year-old UVA student alleges, she had been raped by a classmate. Details of the incident emerg...
Solo entry: Gravedigger nominated for Grammy
Solo Dave has won a Grammy nomination in his freshman effort. "Gravedigger," the first single from Dave Matthews' solo album, Some Devil, earned a nomination as "Best Male ...
Wet view: Dell project unfinished... really
The pond at UVA's Dell has been filling, but the project, the subject of The Hook 's August 14 cover story, isn't quite finished. Trapped in culverts since around 1950...

The Brazen Careerist

Don't bail: Go to your company's holiday gig
For all of you who are plotting to ditch your company's holiday party, forget it: You have to go. And for all of you who are really excited about the holiday party, you can...

Strange But True

Evolution: Fish face to your face
DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR MCCLINTOCK Q. Lover, where'd you get that wonderful face? C. Tuna A. Some 600 million years ago, the human face-to-be was little more than...

Facetime

Wild Heart woe: Sobel's journal needs a home
When we last left Eliezer Sobel in March 2003, his short story "Schneiderman" had just won runner-up in The Hook's fiction contest, and he was actively seeking a publisher...

Hotseat

Uber dean: Ayers an academic of all trades
The image people have of a college dean is John Houseman-like: distinguished, formal, a bit stern. That is so not Ed Ayers. "I always wanted to look distinguished," muses U...

Letters

Girlyman deserved better
Published December 18, 2003, in issue #0250 of The Hook While I certainly respect Mark Grabowski's right to review CDs he receives, his review of Girlyman [Prowl: "Upping t...
Plath movie doesn't bore
Published December 18, 2003, in issue #0250 of The Hook Poorly written, logically adrift, and miserably slight, Steve Warren's piece on the film Sylvia in the December 4 ed...
The Stepford Hook?
I've learned so much from your paper lately. I used to think sexual harassment was a bad thing. Then your Brazen Careerist ["Make harassment work for you.," November 2] sho...
Union stands up to bigotry
As a staunch supporter of the Staff Union at UVA, SUUVA, I would like to comment on its controversial November 21 picket against racism at the university, about which you w...

Cultural preview

Cultural calendar, December 18-25, 2003
THURSDAY, December 18 PERFORMANCE Swing swap: The Charlottesville Swing Dance Society holds this weekly east coast swing practice session with re...

Full Stories List for December 18th, 2003 issue #0250