Spinning trouble

Apr 11

4Better Or Worse

The week in review
Best item from St. Anne-Belfield’s auction catalog: A week in Mustique in a five-bedroom villa designed for Britain’s Princess Margaret, including roundtrip private jet...

Essays

Real Estate - On the Block

No swinging cats
If you want to buy a house in Charlottesville on a shoestring budget, there’s really not much out there. Things are so bad that realtors are writing solicitation letters ...

Movie Reviews

Music Reviews

News

Closing the door
Here’s what Greg Smith knows about going into detox for alcohol and cocaine addictions: if an addict is down and out and ready to enter a program, he has a better chance ...
Prof presses wine suit
Daniel Ortiz’s wine-loving friends were having a problem getting their boutique wines in from out-of-state.“You can’t bring it in from California or D.C.— only four...
The pied Baker
In 1998, Tom Baker made a commercial touting Charlottesville’s Guaranty Bank, of which he was president. In a cozy living room setting, Baker said community was as import...
Time for dish?
It hadn’t been a good week for Adelphia Communications. First, Adelphia Business Solutions, which was just spun off from Adelphia Communications in Janu...

Strange But True

Hot on your tail
Q. I read somewhere once that every human has a “plume,” a sort of invisible trail that follows you. Is this true, and if so, what’s it made of? –Not a peacock ...

Letters

No value in greed
In The Hook No. 1 [February 7, 2002], there was an article about an upcoming book-signing by Craig Winn and others. The book was about the birth, life, and death of Value A...

Cultural preview

Better all the time
Face the facts: men are still working their way out of the cave emotionally. From Adam in the Garden of Eden to Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners to Al Bundy of Married Wit...
Cold comfort
In a free-speech nation (as we want to believe ours is), there are many ways for radical thinkers to make a point. Letters to the editor, calls to dial-in radio or TV shows...
Divine orders?
Lea Ann Douglas has spent more than a year writing and researching her new play, The Neophyte, which opens next weekend at the Helms Theater. An M.F.A. student in UVA’s D...
In the middle of Mayberry
I have a friend from Northern Virginia who teases me about living in the sleepy television town of “Mayberry” where friends and neighbors love to pull up a chair on She...
Lean in close
In lieu of the typically prolix, and not-always-helpful statements of intent which artists like to hang alongside their work, Adam O’Neal substitutes a dictionary definit...
Professional rockers
By Mark Grabowski
This old tree
Former president Ronald Reagan’s uttered one of his more laughable statements on the campaign trail in 1980. Obviously not much of a nature man despite all those pix of h...