When war hits home: Bush push changing lives

Feb 6

It's a bright but bone-chillingly frigid Saturday as people gather to make their voices heard. A week before this cold rally, local U.S. Army Reserve members lined up in Charlottesville for their monthly drill session, wondering if they might soon be putting their skills into practice on a Middle-East battlefield.

Winn's vision: Islam is very, very bad

Who's afraid of calling Islam an evil religion? Not Craig Winn. Who's afraid of writing a novel to convey this novel idea? Not Craig Winn. Who's afraid of parlaying two business bankruptcies into a fledgling writing career? Not Craig Winn.

4Better Or Worse

The week in review
Worst homecoming: The space shuttle Columbia, with a crew of seven, 15 minutes from a scheduled landing in Florida, disintegrates over Texas February 1. Best outcome for Fo...

The Dish

Divine swine: Hog Heaven finds greener pastures
Now that the smells of saffron, seafood, and garlic are swirling around downtown Belmont with the recent opening of Mas Tapas Bar, you might think that hickory is history....

Essays

What's it all about? Many fingers in the Shuttle pie
What are we doing in space? In the wake of the Columbia disaster, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe has told America that "every piece of evidence" will be examined to determ...

Real Estate

Foreclosure auctions
February 6, 2003, at 9:45am at the Charlottesville Courthouse Property: 1309 Cherry Avenue Debtor: Suzanne E. Rebich Originally owing: $142,350 Bidder brings: 10 percent o...

Real Estate - $old

Sold!
Charlottesville 1/15 Clement L. Speiden to Charles M. and Doniphan C. Guggenheimer, unit in McGuffey Hill condominiums, 211 Second Street NW, $215,000. Alyce F. Haw...

Real Estate - Off the Block

Sale Withdrawn
ASKING: $299,000 SIZE: 1,800 square feet YEAR BUILT: 1993 ADDRESS: 1749 Rock Quarry Road NEIGHBORHOOD: Zion Crossroads CURB APPEAL: 6 out of a possible 10 LISTED BY: Debora...

Real Estate - On the Block

House or home? Crozet farmette exudes warmth
ASKING: $449,000 SQUARE FEET: 1545 fin./1000 unfin. YEAR BUILT: 1931 ADDRESS: 868 Miller School Road NEIGHBORHOOD: Crozet CURB APPEAL: 6 out of a possible 10 LISTED BY: Jim...

Movie Reviews

How-to movie: 10 minutes and audience is gone
Two cute people with opposing agendas have 10 days to fall in love– or not– in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, a comedy so formulaic the structure shows through t...

Music Reviews

LDOM: Organic music with soul
The CD jacket of Inner System Blues, the third album by The Last Days of May, is covered with multihued portraits of sad-faced, weary businessmen. They stand in groups, imm...
Stars in the shed: Rapunzel's makes listening easy
The Jan Smith Band and Brady Earnhartat Rapunzel's Coffee & BooksSunday, February 1

News

Columbia tragedy: Local astronaut looks ahead
For one Central Virginian, news of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on Saturday hit particularly close to home. Kathryn C. Thornton, former astronaut and now assistant d...
Faulconer foiled: Defers plans for Ivy move
Ivy residents turned out 200 strong February 4 to testify to the Albemarle Planning Commission why Faulconer Construction should not be allowed to set up shop down a narrow...
Funny paper: Is the new Progress trying to be funny?
For at least a week before the Daily Progress unveiled its new design on January 20, full-page ads teased the change with the mysterious "What's next?" campaign. On the big...
Ivy's black residents: Faulconer is merely the latest assault
On the eve of a key decision on a construction company's effort to locate itself near a bucolic village, questions– including allegations of racial bias– have a...
Slaughter dissed: Republicans say no to environmentalist
Last summer, when Governor Mark Warner named former mayor Kay Slaughter to the State Water Control Board, it seemed like a sure thing. After all, most gubernatorial appoint...
Unanimous consent: State passes sex offender measure
The Virginia House and Senate have unanimously passed a measure aimed at keeping Richard Alvin Ausley and other convicted sex offenders under civil incarceration after thei...

Strange But True

Underwater pull: Trolling for magnets
Q. A World War II British mine expert was investigating an unusual object washed ashore along the Thames River. An eight-foot cylinder, it lacked torpedo propellers or the ...

Facetime

Sundancing: Sisson seizes the celluloid dream
Fifteen years ago, during an electronic security industry workshop, Barry Sisson found himself paired with fellow businessman Robert May. The two were instructed to describ...

Hotseat

Being John Casteenovich: The lighter side of the UVA president
John Casteen is not at all keen to do the Hot Seat. Maybe he figures he's in the hot seat enough as UVA president.

Letters

Intolerance is Un-American
I read with interest your brief interview with Sheriff Ed Robb [Hot Seat, "Ed Robb: Tales of fooling the Mafia," January 16, 2003] (http://www.readthehook.com/92947/hot-sea...
Rethink those roundabouts
Your piece on roundabouts caught my interest. [News, "Going in circles," January 30, 2003] (http://www.readthehook.com/93012/news-going-circles-roundabouts-come-rou...). As...

Cultural preview

Dark and deep: But these woods are not lovely
There are few better visuals for the desolation of winter than skinny, twisting, and color-drained trunks of leaf-less trees. In the low-slung light of a winter afternoon, ...
Healthy fun: So little time so much to do!
Meditate, get a massage, do yoga, listen to music, participate in discussions on the socio-economics of health, cancer, or the objectification of the female body in the med...
Ode to falling: J. Mascis-- older and better?
Call out the dogs and set up the torture chamber, for the following statement will be regarded as heresy by some idie-rock elitists here in town. I actually like the new so...
One-Legged Dancer: Low-key, playful poems
One thing you don’t expect to come across in an anthology of poetry about Native Americans and Mexicans is a reference to Monty Python.But there it is, in a piece called ...
They're here: Talking about the v-word
Based on over 200 interviews with women from around the world, Eve Ensler’s play, The Vagina Monologues, “explores the humor, power, pain, wisdom, outrage, mystery and ...
Visit the prairie: See the animals, search for plants
When Thomas Jefferson asked Meriwether Lewis to lead the exploration of the new western territory, one of his three main objectives was scientific documentation of new plan...