Riding the rails: It's the only way to fly
It's late afternoon, and I'm standing inside New York's JFK airport with over a dozen of my favorite relatives, when we suddenly learn that the flight back to Reagan National has been canceled due to a severe weather system in the nation's capital. Even worse, the storm has knocked out the rest of the day's flights as well.
As frequent travelers know, when weather grounds planes, there's no free ride and no free hotel–- just the prospect of lining up a set of hotel rooms (each of which can easily run $500/night in Gotham City) or scrambling to find a squad of large, luggage-ready rental cars and enough drivers willing to launch a five-hour (traffic-willing) trek to the DC area.
4Better Or Worse
Latest in the Western 29 Bypass resurrection: City Council votes 4-0 June 20 to oppose the controversial roadway. After a more than 10-year hiatus, the bypass revived June ...
The Dish
Plant life: Tufton Farm herb workshop
One of the hidden treasures at Monticello, or rather down the hill from Monticello, is Tufton Farm, one of the five satellite farms that Jefferson maintained, and home to t...
Salatin shines again in 'Farmageddon'
Back in 2009, we had an opportunity to see Joel Salatin, the Shenandoah Valley's most famous farmer, in action. When we arrived at sunrise, the outspoken agriculturist was ...
Two masked men— one in a hooded sweatshirt and the other in a Scream mask— robbed Zazus Fresh Grille and assaulted one of its employees on Sunday, June 19. Albemarle Co...
Essays
Should Anthony Weiner have resigned?
Question of the Week
Real Estate - $old
5/16/2011Robert & Asal Rahimi to Theresa Smith, 1292 Courtyard Drive, $330,000 (Albemarle)Mary Ann Sipes Family Trust to Sarah F. Ackerman, 500 Crestwood Drive, Unit 21...
Real Estate - On the Block
High flying: Mystery nests in Quail Hollow
Address: 1015 Quail Hollow LaneNeighborhood: Quail HollowAsking: $850,000Assessment: $918,500Year Built: 1957Size: 4,566 fin. sq. ft. /50 unfin.Land: 4.4 acresCurb Ap...
Real Estate Property auctions
June 24 at 3:30pm at the Charlottesville Circuit Court Property: 228 Sunset Avenue Debtor: Douglas L. and Joan E. Williams Amount owing: $173,000 Bidder brings: 10 percent...
Art Features
Social network: Vitali sees the big picture
For most photographers, it’s thrilling to have their images projected onto the giant screen at the Paramount Theater. Not so for Massimo Vitali, one of the three photo ar...
DR. HooK
Meningioma: These tumors benign but still bad
Mary Tyler Moore was America’s sweetheart on her show. What will happen to our heroine as she faces a brain tumor?MTM announced she has a meningioma, the most common type...
Movie Reviews
Dim pleasure: 'Lantern' not quite bright enough
Green Lantern presents yet another case of a human being given the responsibility of leading the battle of good versus evil, or, in this case, of the will versus fear. We l...
News
Beyer announces bid for City Council
Paul Beyer of R.L Beyer Custom Homebuilders announced his run for Charlottesville City Council on Wednesday, June 8. Beyer, 29, who grew up in Charlottesville, hopes to giv...
Full-timer: Kluge working while filing bankruptcy
Patricia Kluge may have literally put everything she owned into trying to save the winery she created. After months of foreclosures on her businesses and homes, the now Tru...
Naked Beta: Paintless grafitti bridge gleams (for now)
Struck by an errant University Transit Service bus last October, a nine-foot section of wall on the famed graffiti-laden Beta Bridge was reconstructed last week. Crews not ...
New digs: CFA Inst. taking over old Martha Jeff
The old campus of Martha Jefferson Hospital is getting a new owner that plans to turn the hospital into a job-producing machine– and in the process make the place th...
No exit: Has Hunter Craig created more unsellable land?
Last week's news about the overhaul of the old Martha Jefferson campus shines a spotlight on another piece of the hospital's portfolio, a property on a prominent downtown c...
A bicyclist gets a ticket from Charlottesville officer L.A. Durrette on Market Street. The cyclist said she was charged with running a red light.
On Architecture
In the ongoing project to replace 11 residence halls built to accommodate UVA's rapid expansion in the mid-1960s, another has fallen.
JPA bridge fallout: Is Shamrock Road dangerous now?
When Charlottesville resident Lora Kelly and her husband, Eric, purchased a house on Shamrock Road in 2009, its two lanes and mish-mash of missing stretches of sidewalk al...
The Brazen Careerist
You're fired! Learn from this valuable phrase
Maybe you have never been fired. I sure have– more often than I care to remember– and I can assure you that, while the moment may be humbling, the experience ha...
Sports Doctor
Omahuh? Cav coaches can learn things there
Ah, Omaha, home of– well, of what?According to NPR, Omaha isn’t home merely to the greatest indie-rock club in the country (Slowdown), but also to a very polluted M...
Strange But True
Big leap: Elephants, rhinos too big to jump
Q. Is it true that elephants are the only quadrupeds that cannot jump? –S. BubkaA. Elephants can't jump from ground level anyway, nor can turtles or large crocodiles; eve...
Online only
COVERTravel tricksSo you wanna go to California or Costa Rica this summer? You might find that just getting to your plane takes as much time as you'll spend in the air. The...
10/25Linda B. Hicks to Claire H. Mihalski, 0.27 acres at 1208 Bixham Lane, Fieldbrook, $250,000.Professional Foreclosure Corp. to Federal National Mortgage Assoc., 2.1070 a...
Black and White
On June 13, Citizens for a Sustainable Water Supply member and former school board chair Dede Smith announced her candidacy for City Council– in a park, under a tree,...
Full Stories List for June 23rd, 2011 issue #1025
4Better Or Worse
On Architecture
Cover Stories
News
Art Features
Black and White
Corrections
DR. HooK
Essays
The Dish
Movie Reviews
Online only
Question of the Week
Real Estate Property auctions
Real Estate - $old
Real Estate - On the Block
Sports Doctor
Strange But True
The Brazen Careerist
