We Love This Place: Shopkeepers, citizens dish on local holiday tradition
The Hook's editorial staff takes a break this week from producing the hard-hitting news you've grown accustomed to (at least in the cover story), choosing instead to check in with local shop owners and citizens to ask them how they celebrate the holidays in Charlottesville, and where they go to find gifts for their loved ones.
November 22nd, 2012 issue #1147
News
A white deer, appearing to be an albino white-tailed buck, recently ventured in the Western Albemarle yard of Susan Heald, who snapped this image on the morning of November...
Boyd's Crossing: 3-mile Old Mills Trail finally open for business
Last week, a new 3-mile trail was opened along the Rivanna River, the Old Mills Trail, that connects Darden Towe Park to the new Martha Jefferson Hospital, and is designed ...
High water? Autumn Hill residents question $180 bill
Tara Stankovic and Scott Lester have lived in Autumn Hill apartment complex for three years and say their water and sewer bill for their two-bedroom apartment would typical...
Kitze acquitted: Judge vents, but rules for rapist
The man known as the "graduation rapist" was found not guilty of probation violation November 13 by a judge who said he fully expects Jeffrey Kitze to be back in court agai...
Lyle Lovett and his guitar play the Paramount
Noted Americana artist Lyle Lovett gave an acoustic show at the Paramount Theater on Wednesday, November 14. He graciously let photographer Milo Farineau capture the first ...
Movie wars II: Carmike fights back with $1.50 flicks
The recent opening of the Stonefield Regal 14 has hit Charlottesville movie theaters like a tidal wave, with the 4-screen Regal Seminole already closed and the downtown Reg...
Shortly after Twinkies-provider Hostess Brands announced it was ceasing production Friday, November 16, the iconic cream-filled cakes were being sold on eBay. By Saturday, ...
Unsolved, unforgotten: Retired Harrington investigator pens letter
Nearly a year after he retired from Virginia State Police, leaving one of the highest-profile unsolved crimes in Virginia history to his successors, the former supervisor o...
Two years ago, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors approved bond-backed spending of up to $6.7 million (including structural, fire-suppression, and elevator modifi...
The Dish
Cozy drinks: Downtown fireplaces stoke the season
When you're chilly and tired from shopping or checking out the big Christmas tree at Central Place on the Downtown Mall, there are at least five fireplaces within footsteps...
Rivertown redux: Scottsville's Bocce reappears in C'ville
Remember Caffe Bocce, the first of the upscale restaurants to start putting the little river town of Scottsville on the maps de cuisine? After a near decade-long hiatus, th...
Essays
Survey says: What if money can buy happiness?
"Everybody wants more cash!" declares Capital One bankcard TV pitchman Jimmy Fallon. Except for the cute baby, that is, who throws Cheerios at Fallon when he offers 50 perc...
Real Estate - On the Block
