Waiting for Bodo

Mar 28

4Better Or Worse

The week in review
Best present a girl turning 13 could ever get: Dave Matthews plays at the bat mitzvah of Jessica Colburn, daughter of AOL Time Warner exec David Colburn who hired ‘N Sync...

The Dish

Rebirth!
Though we’d heard through the grapevine that Chiang House owners Jong and Li Yun Chiang plan to rebuild after the blaze that destroyed their restaurant nearly three weeks...

Essays

Real Estate

Real Estate - On the Block

Nothing ordinary
ASKING: $325,000SQUARE FOOTAGE: 2,000 finishedYEAR BUILT: 1820 NEIGHBORHOOD: Rockfish, Nelson CountyCURB APPEAL: 8 on a scale of 10LISTED BY: Larry Herbert of McLean ...

Movie Reviews

Music Reviews

Dark Little Rooms, Edison Woods, the Ones and Zeros, and Order of the Dying Orchid at Tokyo Rose
Booking four bands for a single night’s show can be problematic. Good luck finding four bands who belong in the same space in the same night, good luck divvying up approp...

News

History isn't always pretty
In 1927, Charlottesville-born Carrie Buck received a dubious honor by becoming the first person sterilized under Virginia’s infamous eugenics laws which had been enacted ...
Leafing through the Book Festival
The eighth annual Festival of the Book seemed longer this year, perhaps because the opening ceremony was on Wednesday instead of Thursday. Some events we wanted never to en...
Lost foundation
Sometimes you get hints a break-up is imminent, as with downtown developers Lee Danielson and Colin Rolph. But last September, the world of nonprofits was stunned when, wit...
Mozzarella mystery
Chris Perry at Mellow Mushroom didn’t know why a pizza oven shut off in the middle of a busy Friday night shift March 8. He’d noticed the oven was burning “funny,” ...
Stratton Salidis
Stratton Salidis envisions a pedestrian-oriented world. Should someone want to contribute to his candidacy for City Council (no one has yet), he’d prefer the donation be ...

Facetime

Mood music
The breeze is warm on our faces, and the grass is greening in the early spring sun: it's the kind of morning Jack Donahue might sing about. "Don't you love this weather?" D...

Letters

Who gets to say?
Ronald Bailey misses the point somewhat [Essay, “Design your baby?” 3/21/02]. Bailey says, “If it’s all right to use efficacious medical treatments to cure a 40-yea...

Cultural preview

A backward glance
In what’s dubbed in typically efficient fashion on its website, tomorrow night is “Looking back 1998 Tokyo Rose” at the Ivy Road sushi bar/club. The players:Draw the ...
Into the wild
One summer a few years back, my family and I went to summer camp together. It was a wilderness survival program in the Woodstock Berkshires where seasoned woodsmen taught u...
Shadowy meanings
When Charles Wright titles his new book of poems A Short History of the Shadow, he knows full well the many ways we might read that word.Shadow: a silhouette, the absence o...
Speeding up
The Olympics have come and gone with their corruptions and upsets as well as some shining examples of triumph over adversity. Either way you see the Olympics, the events (w...
Split screen
Baltimore-based artist Joyce Scott has worked in all kinds of media, from performance art and installation to sculpture. Some of Scott’s signature beaded sculpture is inc...
Who knew?
Well, it was sure news to me. "The students and instructors of the Blue Ridge Irish Music School (BRIMS) have been actively bringing traditional Irish music and dance in it...
Writing in wartime
In war, soldiers— pilots, officers, infantrymen— follow detailed orders to accomplish their missions; they carry out carefully crafted battle plans with the ultimate ob...