On display: Does the public really want public art?

Jul 11

4Better Or Worse

The week in review
Worst place to need to go to the bathroom: Fridays After Five. The city drops public restrooms from a $1.5-million renovation of the Downtown Recreation Center because of c...

The Dish

Suddenly shafted: Metro closing takes some by surprise
By Mythili Rao. Last week, Dish noted that Charlottesville's bastion of fine dining, the nationally acclaimed Métropolitain, had closed for two months' renovation. Faced wi...

Essays

Underage and under siege: Kids' sexuality finds a champion
By Sharon Lerner Ask Judith Levine when a kid ought to start having sex, and she'll respond like the levelheaded, Brooklyn- and Vermont-based liberal she is: "There are som...

Real Estate

Foreclosure Auctions
July 17, 2002, at 11am at the Fluvanna County Courthouse Property: 3.728 acres near Scottsville Debtor: unknown Originally owing: $98,150 Bidder brings: lower of 10 ...
SOLD!
REAL ESTATE UPDATE- SOLD! Address: Bridalwood Trail, Keswick Seen in The Hook : 3/14/02 Asking: $325,000 Contract price: $320,000 Days on market: 60 Agency: Listing ag...

Real Estate - On the Block

Room to grow: Add-on potential in Earlysville
ASKING: $159,900 SIZE: 1606 finished square feet YEAR BUILT: 1972 ADDRESS: 584 Link Evans Road NEIGHBORHOOD: Earlysville CURB APPEAL: 7 out of a possible 10 LISTED B...

Movie Reviews

Perdition
If Steven Spielberg had made The Godfather it might have turned out like Road to Perdition, which instantly becomes the front-runner for year-end honors as of July 12...

News

Book Crossing: Locals set books free
By Mythili Rao It was no accident that Candace Cone left a copy of Ayn Rand's Anthem on a Hook box on the Downtown Mall in April. The Charlottesville resident was Book Cros...
County allows mini-dumps: Rejects vehicle displays on Rivanna
The Board of Supervisors has opened the door– or the ground, actually– to allow contractors, or anyone else, to dump construction debris without a permit. As lo...
Observer walkout: Valley publisher giddy after staff exodus
By Bill Ramsey "A new era: New faces prepare to lead while old faces leave," trumpets the June 27 edition of the Waynesboro-based Shenandoah Valley Observer. While i...
Smiles in Schuyler: Quarries community gets national air
Schuyler can't seem to stay out of the news these days. Controversy recently rocked the Museum dedicated to the 1970s television show The Waltons. But this weekend, the tin...
Take a hike! Rivanna Trails Foundation detours path
There's a lesson to be learned from the dust-up over the Rivanna Trail: don't mess with property rights. As reported in last week's cover story, "Trail Nix," the Rivanna Tr...

Strange But True

Deep throat
Q: Are sword-swallowers for real, or do they use some sort of illusion or trickery? L. Lovelace A: Proof positive is Guinness eight-swords-at-once record-holder Brad...

Facetime

Hill climbing: Sam gives bands the business
By Amy Briggs In a field often marred by instability and red ink– music booking– at least one local company has created a success story. For seven years,...

Letters

Did you buy limning options?
I'm 14 pages into The Hook's current issue [June 27, 2002] (http://www.readthehook.com/issues/0121) and have read, at least four times in three different pieces, the word "...
It's called stealing
There's a word for using someone else's property without asking permission. It's called stealing. If you were to use your neighbor's lawnmower, or drive away in his car, wi...
Setting it straight
I read your story on Anomoanon [Interview, "Sibling supergroup," June 27] (http://www.readthehook.com/99240/sibling-supergroup-conversation-anomoan...).

Cultural preview

Ash Lawn opera: Arias amid the squawks
Here’s a puzzler: how can a bird as beautiful as the peacock, with its iridescent blue-green feathers, graceful neck, and regal headdress, possess such a ridiculously lou...
Backlash: Neo-realists seem stagy, frozen
Any form or trend big enough to matter eventually evokes a backlash. Abstract expressionism, pop art, and minimalism– they’re all big enough to matter. They dominat...
Big bed: Hands-on help multiplies yield
Looking at magazines with “Garden” in the title can start almost anyone wishing for their own piece of Eden. Glossy pictures and simple descriptions make one feel that ...
Electronica lives! One is the loneliest number
By Mark Grabowski
Left Bank beagle: Lauren was a beloved chien
By Elizabeth Kiem
Speak up! Toastmasters are listening
By Mara Rockliff
Time travel: Mingle with history at Ash Lawn
Well, vacation time is upon us, and everyone seems to be headed in a different direction. I have friends who are going out west to see the Grand Canyon, and lots more who a...