Trouble on Walton's Mountain

Jun 27

4Better Or Worse

The week in review
Worst swipe at the League of Women Voters: City Council’s invitation to a League observer to attend the June 18 interviews with school board candidates that were closed t...

The Dish

Tea time
If you think you’re hip, sitting in a coffee shop sipping a grande double skinny latte, Dish has some sad news: you’re actually passé, because, like, coffee is so ’9...

Essays

Real Estate - On the Block

Anything goes
ASKING: $189,900SIZE: 1,700 square feetYEAR BUILT: 1920ADDRESS: 814 Hinton AvenueNEIGHBORHOOD: BelmontCURB APPEAL: 6 of a possible 10LISTED BY: Betty Duncan of Century 21 M...

Movie Reviews

Music Reviews

News

Bikes in hiding: Where have all the yellow ones gone?
When the yellow bikes made their city debut back in March, pessimism was rife, with many skeptics predicting the rapid demise of the program through theft and vandalism.Thr...
Film boot camp: Video bugs strut their stuff
By Kimberley Liu
Hail, yeah: Tornadic possibility in Western Albemarle
After a pair of bruising storms that brought hail and high winds, some residents could be forgiven for wondering if they're living in storm central.While a huge storm limbe...

Strange But True

Hairy and scary
Q: In search of the roots of vampirism and werewolfism, modern science has looked recently past gas-bloated corpses shifting in shallow graves (the "undead") and rabies vic...

Hotseat

David Toscano
After 12 years on City Council, including a stint as mayor, David Toscano is ready to ride into the sunset. Yeah, right.One place you won’t find Toscano on July 1, date o...

Letters

Bottom line
I was very pleased to see an article about cloth diapers (http://www.readthehook.com/99145/diaper-dilemma) in a recent issue of The Hook, and I'm happy that Charlottesville...

Cultural preview

Dirty blues
By Mark Grabowski
Fourth fest
By Elizabeth Kiem
Grab the goggles
After the success of “Get Surreal” a year or two ago, the Second Street Gallery is back in the locally produced group show gig. With “Surreal,” the Gallery approach...
New citizens
By Mara Rockliff
Swimming season
They say “Records were made to be broken.” It seems central Virginia is trying to prove the old cliché true: every June, July, and August we seem to reach new he...
Theater jackpot
It’s practically a tradition already. Come July, the folks at Live Arts will roll out their third annual Summer Theater Festival (STF). Based in part on the famous Fringe...