https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/blog-post-title-one-4l5z5 monthly 0.5 2026-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c8d4ac4d-1108-4380-bb64-d299fb9e3289/Screenshot+2025-10-15+at+3.04.55%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - A real drag? 1963 killing of Pat Akins remains the coldest case - COVER STORY: A real drag? 1963 killing of Pat Akins remains the coldest case One of the town's biggest boys lay dead underneath one of the town's smallest cars. Initially, cops claimed that 19-year-old James Patrick Akins had been dragged from Greenwood to Charlottesville under a Triumph TR3. September 26th, 2013 issue #1239 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/sjsfumygn1pn193ic9giiqzvcgoarz monthly 0.5 2026-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/85efb6d5-b99a-4d55-96c0-42734315fff3/Screenshot+2025-10-15+at+1.21.06%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Life and death: A child's-eye view of Jim Crow Charlottesville - Life and death: A child's-eye view of Jim Crow Charlottesville The headlines in the Daily Progress that September described a world that was as distant as the moon to the boys who slept and woke on Dice Street. “France Prepares for War Threats,” one read; in Germany, Hitler joined “50,000 disciplined youths” at the annual Nuremberg Rally and watched as hundreds of artillery units and tanks streamed past the reviewing stand and the Hindenburg hovered overhead. September 19th, 2013 issue #1238 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/angels-among-us-how-charlottesville-is-becoming-a-hot-spot-for-start-ups monthly 0.5 2025-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d664d973-43fe-46ee-9b9f-eee4efc2c189/Screenshot+2025-10-15+at+4.40.42%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Angels among us: How Charlottesville is becoming a hot spot for start-ups - Angels among us: How Charlottesville is becoming a hot spot for start-ups By Peter Galuszka Her three-month-old infant Benjamin strapped to her chest, Crystal Icenhour moves from room to room in a cream-colored building on a side street of downtown Charlottesville. “And that,” she says pointing to several trays of plastic-filled bags near a laboratory, “is our product.” Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. September 12th, 2013 issue #1237 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-67-cent-felony-a-veteran-winemaker-runs-afoul-of-the-abc monthly 0.5 2025-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/55511960-951a-466a-92f0-9a4560e6f7c6/Screenshot+2025-10-15+at+7.02.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The 67-cent felony: A veteran winemaker runs afoul of the ABC - The 67-cent felony: A veteran winemaker runs afoul of the ABC Long before vineyards became agriculture du jour in Virginia, Mike Bowles planted grapevines in 1977, and he claims he's Albemarle's first farm winery operator. Thirty years later, he wanted to be a pioneer again and hop on the craft-distillery trend to make the Italian spirit grappa from his chardonnay grape leftovers. Instead, he's earned a more dubious distinction as possibly the first person to get busted while applying for a federal distillery license. Under Virginia's Alcoholic Beverage Control regs, that could cost him his license to make wine at all. September 5th, 2013 issue #1236 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/2013-fall-music-preview monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/990fac4e-afe5-4d19-9a46-0e32a545de75/Screenshot+2025-10-15+at+8.35.08%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - 2013 Fall Music Preview - 2013 Fall Music Preview While there might not be the scientific data to back up this claim, the fact of the matter is that the music scene in C'ville is like an ocean: high-energy, action-packed music moments come in waves. Charlottesville was once home to a dynamic scene of '70s ensembles; it later morphed into a sleepy little town where Dave Matthews found his calling; it went through fits and spurts of re-invention as industry moguls staked their claims on the area and ramped up the venue game; and today, the line-up for the fall season is jam-packed with must-see talent— both locally and nationally-renowned. August 29th, 2013 issue #1235 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/back-to-school-let-the-good-times-roll monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e58c699b-7dad-4fab-b723-1013922256f9/Screenshot+2025-10-16+at+2.14.19%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Back to School: Let the Good Times Roll! - Back to School: Let the Good Times Roll! A collective sigh of relief can be heard across Charlottesville as parents pack lunchboxes and send their little and not-so-little ones back to school. From athletes to watch to a principal shake-up at CHS to a preschool program that's facing challenges, the Hook takes a look at what students, families and schools are up to this fall. (Sorry, we were unable to retrive this cover story. But there is news from the issue below.) August 22nd, 2013 issue #1234 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/where-are-they-two-missing-girls-one-suspect monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/6d4740ca-e809-469f-83f8-728473a7a31f/Screenshot+2025-10-16+at+2.29.22%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Where are they? Two missing girls, one suspect - Where are they? Two missing girls, one suspect Last fall, a seemingly outraged citizen walked into the Hook office portraying himself as the victim of an allegedly overzealous missing person investigation. The man talked of getting pushed out of his job and his home by dubious investigative methods that convinced even a judge he'd been unfairly tracked. Ten months after that interview, the disappearance of another young Central Virginia woman has renewed the specter of horror and brought fresh scrutiny to his claims. August 15th, 2013 issue #1233 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/bear-witness-jackson-landers-learns-first-hand-that-virginia-is-bear-central-and-they-taste-good monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d8ea6750-4f04-45a4-9cd3-e5427715e531/Screenshot+2025-10-16+at+2.44.55%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Bear Witness: Jackson Landers learns first hand that Virginia is bear central— and they taste good - Bear Witness: Jackson Landers learns first hand that Virginia is bear central— and they taste good By Jackson Landers The growl of my truck engine rose an octave as I shifted gears to climb a hill and then began making my way around a bend. The twisty road in the woods of Central Virginia was dappled with late-afternoon sunlight. My mind was on what I would make for dinner— I wondered whether I had any sour cream— until I came around the bend and saw an SUV stopped in the middle of the road. I slammed on my brakes and squealed to a stop. August 8th, 2013 issue #1232 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/hotel-city-when-will-charlottesville-get-roomier monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/3398d5f7-a7bb-475c-9e9d-dbed04ca8461/Screenshot+2025-10-16+at+5.04.50%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Hotel city: When will Charlottesville get 'roomier'? - Hotel city: When will Charlottesville get 'roomier'? On a crisp, bright day in March 2008, a suave-looking guy with long hair and a tailored light-grey suit (no tie) told us at a ground-breaking ceremony that a stylish, luxury "boutique" hotel, complete with a roof-top bar and stunning views of of the southeast mountains, would tower over Central Place on the Downtown Mall. What we got, of course, was an ugly tower of grey concrete rising out of the demolished shell of a bank building, an eyesore on our cityscape since 2009 that has the permanence of a metamorphic rock formation. July 25th, 2013 issue #1230 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/gift-gate-star-scientific-jonnie-williams-amp-a-governor-in-hot-water monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/26b0febb-ed67-484e-b336-fb81ff019b19/Screenshot+2025-10-16+at+5.14.37%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Gift-gate: Star Scientific, Jonnie Williams & a governor in hot water - Gift-gate: Star Scientific, Jonnie Williams & a governor in hot water By Peter Galuszka. Their expressions say it all. Making their entrance at a recent midday celebration of Virginia wine at the Executive Mansion, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, appear as dark as a glass of burgundy. July 18th, 2013 issue #1229 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/6krp9sq2wm9x39uqjxtk27p54k4o61 monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5a29d957-654e-446d-8fcc-d984b907ecdc/Screenshot+2025-10-16+at+5.35.53%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Fiction Issue: Silent Grace - Fiction Issue: Silent Grace By Carolyn O'Neal. My cousins are beautiful. Dark eyes, shiny black hair, and cheeks as full as the sunset. When I look at their photographs, I pretend I’m looking in a mirror. I pretend I have a face that people want to see and a body that will fit into white dresses with pink ribbons and matching shoes. I run my fingers across the images of my beautiful cousins and I don’t feel like I’m living at the bottom of a well where every sound echoes off barren walls, cuts my skin, and hurts my ears. July 11th, 2013 issue #1228 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/becoming-american-refugees-share-tales-of-horror-hope-and-achieving-us-citizenship monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/15bdb712-7d79-476e-841d-7d22e8f60042/cover_0.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Becoming American: Refugees share tales of horror, hope, and achieving U.S. citizenship - Becoming American: Refugees share tales of horror, hope, and achieving U.S. citizenship “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt July 4th, 2013 issue #1227 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/pain-for-gain-high-intensity-fitness-trend-trumps-machines monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/4842c479-feb7-4ab3-bed9-390c59c0f9bd/Screenshot+2025-10-16+at+8.07.49%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Pain for gain: High-intensity fitness trend trumps machines - Pain for gain: High-intensity fitness trend trumps machines “Who’s gonna win?” calls former Navy Seal John McGuire to the group of about 50 people lined up before him. “We are!” the group yells back in unison, “Hoo-yah!” Up before the sun, the group sprints across a still-dewy field, drops and does pushups, runs relays, lifts and carries one another, working in teams to hoist giant inflatable rafts across an invisible finish line. At the center of this coordinated commotion is McGuire, calling out instructions. June 27th, 2013 issue #1226 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/roseberrys-eye-60-years-behind-the-lens monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/740e0b95-6147-409e-87d6-5a02669d7415/Screenshot+2025-10-16+at+8.23.51%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Roseberry's eye: 60 years behind the lens - Roseberry's eye: 60 years behind the lens Local photographer Ed Roseberry is excited and a little anxious. After eight decades shooting film— producing an estimated 200,000 photos that have won him national awards and will soon form a special collection at UVA— he's recently made the leap to digital and has spent the last two months experimenting with his new camera, a Nikon D-7100. June 20th, 2013 issue #1225 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/code-of-silence-county-clams-up-when-cops-open-fire monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/41ee4377-1f5f-4cff-bef4-420c57d9c0ef/1224cover.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Code of silence: County clams up when cops open fire - Code of silence: County clams up when cops open fire Two days after a 21-year-old Crozet man was shot dead by an Albemarle police officer on June 8, officials finally released his name. Neither Albemarle police nor Virginia State Police, which is investigating the case, responded to a request for the name of the officer who used lethal force. June 13th, 2013 issue #1224 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/cicadas-if-you-cant-beat-em-eat-em monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/b85e364a-18a6-4560-8909-4abdaa47497e/1223cover.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Cicadas: If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em - Cicadas: If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em Jackson Landers stands over his stove. Spatula in hand, flanked by his two eager children, he stirs the contents of the saucepan thoughtfully. “It’s olive oil and Old Bay,” Landers says. “I was going for a traditional blue crab kind of feel.” Crabs, however, aren’t on the menu. Researchers’ fascination, fruit growers’ nightmare, and naturalists’ phenomenon, cicadas are now, apparently, dinner. June 6th, 2013 issue #1223 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/dem-duke-out-candidates-face-off-in-june-primary monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/4265010a-31e9-4c70-acdd-1713f3f73707/1222cover.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Dem duke-out: Candidates face off in June primary - Dem duke-out: Candidates face off in June primary Wes Bellamy, Adam Lees, Kristin Szakos, Bob Fenwick, and Melvin Grady want to be on City Council, where two seats are open. Usually the Democratic primary in Charlottesville means game over for the general election in November. This year, two Republicans— attorney Buddy Weber and city cop Mike Farruggio— will be on the ballot for City Council to challenge that routine in the fall. May 30th, 2013 issue #1222 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/blue-ridge-swim-club-100-years-of-splashing-swimming-and-sunning monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/3185f02a-4a3a-4f15-8aee-2b96920d3568/1221cover.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Blue Ridge Swim Club: 100 years of splashing, swimming and sunning - Blue Ridge Swim Club: 100 years of splashing, swimming and sunning Want to time travel? You don't need a flux capacitor, you don't need a degree in physics, and you don't need to resurrect Albert Einstein to ask him how to do it. You just need a swimsuit and way to get yourself out to Ivy, where the Blue Ridge Swim Club is celebrating its 100th Anniversary this summer. May 23rd, 2013 issue #1221 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/shock-and-awe-inside-the-rugby-road-raid monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/a96baf88-8680-4844-acec-897b90bb5a2d/Screenshot+2025-10-16+at+9.23.22%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Shock and awe: Inside the Rugby Road raid - Shock and awe: Inside the Rugby Road raid After the entire city of Boston was shut down last month during a massive manhunt following explosions that maimed and slaughtered marathon bystanders, news that a block of Rugby Road was shut down last week for a multi-agency operation sparked ominous speculation. Was it a terrorist threat? A hostage situation? A murderous rampage? Virginia State Police initially refused to say what nefarious activity had taken place that warranted closing off a stretch of one of Charlottesville's most prestigious streets. May 16th, 2013 issue #1220 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/bucking-tradition-does-democrat-terry-mcauliffe-have-what-it-takes-to-beat-ken-cuccinelli monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/3e75b797-c069-46d1-b1b1-a93ef707df48/Screenshot+2025-10-16+at+9.33.48%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Bucking tradition: Does Democrat Terry McAuliffe have what it takes to beat Ken Cuccinelli? - Bucking tradition: Does Democrat Terry McAuliffe have what it takes to beat Ken Cuccinelli? by Peter Galuszka. Easter Sunday blows rainy and cold while the cell phone buzzes at 12:58 p.m. It's a surprise email from Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Terry McAuliffe. "Peter," his message reads. "My family and I are about to head out to Easter brunch but I wanted to make you aware that today's the last day we have to file our first financial report of the year." McAuliffe asks for a $5 donation. May 9th, 2013 issue #1219 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/biscuit-run-bonanza-how-hunter-craig-turned-a-donation-into-a-windfall monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/25d38e7a-428f-4af0-9400-e0a6658aad8d/1218cover.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Biscuit Run bonanza: How Hunter Craig turned a donation into a windfall - Biscuit Run bonanza: How Hunter Craig turned a donation into a windfall Hunter Craig has a way of snatching victory from defeat. Craig's masterstrokes in the field and in the courtroom follow a tumultuous year for the now 52-year-old media-shy banker, developer, and UVA Board of Visitors member. In May 2012, he withstood a publicized effort to remove him from the bank he helped launch. Two months earlier, one of his children was diagnosed with cancer. While arranging for the girl's treatment, Craig suddenly found himself near the center of what became known as "UVA June." May 2nd, 2013 issue #1218 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/good-vibrations-music-heavies-weigh-in-on-the-scene monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/8a3d1864-a34a-4720-8a37-56c38a2cb380/cover1217.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Good vibrations: Music heavies weigh-in on the scene - Good vibrations: Music heavies weigh-in on the scene "Vibrant," appropriately enough, is the word many local musicians the Hook spoke to used to describe the local music scene these days. April 25th, 2013 issue #1217 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/under-fire-is-the-elks-lodge-getting-a-bad-rap monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/9b45b32d-c2ae-4c37-83dc-b2ee1eb70a21/1216cover.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Under fire: Is the Elks Lodge getting a bad rap? - Under fire: Is the Elks Lodge getting a bad rap? After working a long shift as a chef at the Main Street Arena on Friday, March 15, Kenny Jenkins headed over to the Elks Lodge on Second Street NW for a drink and a dance with his fiancée. A longtime Charlottesville resident, Jenkins has been going to the Elks Lodge, a historic African-American fraternal organization with deep roots in the community, for over 30 years. April 18th, 2013 issue #1216 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/can-anyone-stop-ken-cuccinelli-heres-how-virginias-pro-life-pro-gun-attorney-general-could-take-over-the-governors-mansion monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/728884af-bc71-42a3-ba46-d2f859755385/1215cover.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Can Anyone Stop Ken Cuccinelli? Here's how Virginia's pro-life, pro-gun attorney general could take over the Governor's Mansion - Can Anyone Stop Ken Cuccinelli? Here's how Virginia's pro-life, pro-gun attorney general could take over the Governor's Mansion by Peter Galuszka. It is a wintry afternoon on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014. Strutting against a cobalt blue sky, a fife and drum corps dressed in resplendent red and blue colonial garb plays martial airs in front of the steps of Virginia's stately Capitol. The governor is about to take his oath of office administered by the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia… April 11th, 2013 issue #1215 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/beyers-market-innovation-rules-at-tom-tom monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/243d32c9-68e3-41f3-aa66-cd8a2979d0ac/1214cover.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Beyer's market: Innovation rules at Tom Tom - Beyer's market: Innovation rules at Tom Tom Stopping by the Hook office two weeks before the second Tom Tom Founders Day Festival kicks off on April 11, it's clear festival organizer Paul Beyer is a busy man. In addition to putting the finishing touches on Tom Tom's big events, including a $10,000 community pitch night, 60 musical performances, and a series of talks by local innovators, there are the tiny details to attend to. "The banners need to be tightened," says Beyer, peering through a window at the Tom Tom signs flapping on Downtown Mall lightpoles. Add one more thing to his "to-do" list. April 4th, 2013 issue #1214 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/rotunda-to-rivanna-the-future-of-our-urban-core monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/b5fb2ce8-f66c-4aaa-a49c-ce69f5432c72/1213cover.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Rotunda to Rivanna: the future of our urban core - Rotunda to Rivanna: the future of our urban core Like the palm of your hand, our city, if you were to look at it from high in the sky, has a similar pattern of lines that time has carved out. One of those lines, running east to west from the Rotunda to the Rivanna River, and parallel to the Buckingham Branch railroad, has local "palm readers" looking to the future. "In 50 years, I hope someone can walk from the grounds of the University all the way to the… March 28th, 2013 issue #1213 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/fiction-contest-winner-the-cliff monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/cf2b2dfc-97c0-4251-b13e-bf126520994a/1212cover.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Fiction contest winner: 'The Cliff' - Fiction contest winner: 'The Cliff' By Charles McRaven They rode in as if they owned the place, and within five minutes, they did. Thirty Union soldiers, commanded by a captain, spreading out over the farm, posting sentries. Ophelia stood on her porch and watched it happen, knowing absolutely that there was nothing she could do, or should have done, to stop it. There’d been no warning, no frightened neighbors rushing by to safety to scream at her to get out. The men had the bold ruthlessness of invaders, the certainty that nothing would oppose them… March 21st, 2013 issue #1212 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/virginia-is-for-book-lovers-10-hot-book-fest-picks monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/474c4e68-ee3e-4ffb-8cee-daf500c45f50/cover.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Virginia is for book lovers: 10 hot book fest picks - Virginia is for book lovers: 10 hot book fest picks You can go seeking knowledge. You can go to gaze upon a literary idol. You can go desiring bons mots. Or maybe you just go to have fun– along with all that other stuff. Whatever your motivations, from the 200-plus happenings March 20-24 for the 19th Virginia Festival of the Book, the Hook hones in on 10 events with a simple criterion: authors we'd like to have a drink with, even if they're surly, or, ones we could at least animatedly discuss afterward. March 14th, 2013 issue #1211 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/county-in-crisis-dumler-digs-in-as-outrage-mounts monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/b7620162-9e18-45fa-8347-8c382f7e6031/12010cover.jpg Issue Archive Blog - County in crisis: Dumler digs in as outrage mounts - County in crisis: Dumler digs in as outrage mounts More than a month after Scottsville Supervisor Chris Dumler pleaded guilty to sexual battery and steadfastly refused to resign from the Albemarle Board of Supervisors, igniting a firestorm that's jumped the pond to the Daily Mail in Britain, the Democratic committees of Albemarle and Charlottesville have called for him to leave, as did Dem Delegate and House Minority Leader David Toscano. March 7th, 2013 issue #1210 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/tragedy-on-the-tracks-mystery-surrounds-death-of-kimberly-welch monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/efbefa39-86ed-4be1-b91a-0282d5b7fb8f/Screenshot+2025-10-17+at+6.46.57%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Tragedy on the tracks: Mystery surrounds death of Kimberly Welch - Tragedy on the tracks: Mystery surrounds death of Kimberly Welch Two weeks after 18-year-old Kimberly Welch was killed by a train on the tracks just east of Charlottesville city limits, details about the teen's tumultuous life on the streets are emerging as her friends and family grieve the loss of the young woman, an aspiring musician who dreamed of moving to California and whose family was trying to bring her home. February 28th, 2013 issue #1209 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/bell-wether-will-rob-be-our-next-ag monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/a531d1f9-67cb-4007-8349-28a6a0db89c1/1208cover.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Bell-wether: Will Rob be our next AG? - Bell-wether: Will Rob be our next AG? Rob Bell is drinking a Slim-fast in his corner seventh-floor office in Richmond. It's 10:40am and the delegate has already been to two committee meetings. The Slimfast isn't a weight-loss solution for the already trim Republican; with no breakfast, the drink is a snack he can keep in his office, he explains, and it will tide him over until lunch. February 21st, 2013 issue #1208 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/we-love-this-place-let-us-count-the-ways monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/436803bf-f4f2-453b-a743-148871bc2bde/Screenshot+2025-10-17+at+7.31.07%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - We Love This Place: Let us count the ways - We Love This Place: Let us count the ways Whether you arrived in Charlottesville by plane, train, or birth canal, or if you've been here just a few days, you know there are few places as rich in resources both natural and manmade. From the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Rivanna and James rivers to quaint coffeeshops and top-notch restaurants, from the ever-expanding shopping options to one of the country's premier public universities, and to a music scene rich in local and internationally known acts, we live in a place brimming with energy, activity and opportunity. How'd you end up in Charlottesville, and what keeps you here? We asked our fellow residents, and their answers make it clear: We all love this place. February 14th, 2013 issue #1207 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/rect-urrection-how-will-dragas-foes-cope-with-her-victory monthly 0.5 2025-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/817028a7-7160-459d-bd4d-3b8fa5cca40f/1206_cover.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Rect-urrection: How will Dragas foes cope with her victory? - Rect-urrection: How will Dragas foes cope with her victory? Has there ever been a University of Virginia rector as reviled as Helen Dragas, the woman who united students, faculty, and alums in calling for her head following her failed ouster of President Teresa Sullivan last June? And yet, on January 30, the reappointment of this seemingly Teflon-coated Virginia Beach businesswoman sailed through confirmation in the General Assembly with a final 63-33 House of Delegates seal of approval. February 7th, 2013 issue #1206 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-liars-club-keeping-the-wild-history-of-white-hall-alive monthly 0.5 2025-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0c5c6488-0bba-413c-9a31-996d3a0e9ee7/1205_cover.jpg Issue Archive Blog - The Liar's Club: Keeping the wild history of White Hall alive - The Liar's Club: Keeping the wild history of White Hall alive Nazi POWs picking peaches in Crozet? Check. An Albemarle County farm boy surrounded by Ethiopian tribesmen carrying spears? Believe it. The Albemarle County area called White Hall might not look like much more than bucolic countryside for those just driving through, but folks stopping at historic Wyant's Store any weekday morning may learn that things aren't always as they appear– and, if they listen up, they'll hear some wild stories being told by a group of men who call themselves the Liar's Club. January 31st, 2013 issue #1205 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-session-what-local-legislators-are-up-to-in-richmond monthly 0.5 2025-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ee8414f1-2ed4-41c8-a38d-77ed8ed130d5/Screenshot+2025-10-17+at+8.59.32%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The session: What local legislators are up to in Richmond - The session: What local legislators are up to in Richmond The 2013 Session of the Virginia State Legislature kicked off on January 9, and if last year's focus was all about probing lady parts, this year's legislators will tangle over a variety of no less controversial issues. January 24th, 2013 issue #1204 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/luckily-local-stomachs-get-ready-to-rumble monthly 0.5 2025-10-18 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/missing-inside-the-dashad-smith-investigation monthly 0.5 2025-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/b97806b5-9266-4d62-bdea-eebedb078d72/1202cover.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Missing: Inside the Dashad Smith investigation - Missing: Inside the Dashad Smith investigation At the Preston Avenue Shell Station, a few blocks from the apartment Dashad "Sage" Smith last occupied on Harris Street, his name is familiar and his disappearance is on people's minds. "He used to come in here every day," says a woman working the register, as another cashier nods. "He was quiet," the woman recalls. "Never caused any problems like some customers. I sure hope they find him." January 10th, 2013 issue #1202 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/armed-ed-should-teachers-be-packing-heat monthly 0.5 2025-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/92cb7b54-825f-451a-bb09-64c5e66974ac/Screenshot+2025-10-17+at+9.52.30%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Armed ed: Should teachers be packing heat? - Armed ed: Should teachers be packing heat? "Schools should be places of safety and sanctuary and learning. When that sanctuary is violated, the impact is felt in every American classroom and every American community."– President George W. Bush, April 16, 2007, following the deadliest single-gunman school shootings in U.S. history at Virginia Tech. January 3rd, 2013 issue #1201 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/big-year-bruce-unplugs-and-lots-more monthly 0.5 2025-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/561369dc-be02-4c91-be74-d30ffe174258/Screenshot+2025-10-18+at+9.48.14%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Big year: Bruce unplugs and lots more - Big year: Bruce unplugs and lots more The year 2012 was another big one in the annals of Charlottesville music history. It would have been news enough to have "The Boss," Bruce Springsteen in town, but it's what he did with his time in town that created an everlasting glow. Appearing here just a few days before the election, in addition to his evening performance at John Paul Jones Arena, he gave a free afternoon acoustic show at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion. December 20th, 2012 issue #1151 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/person-of-the-year-uva-president-teresa-sullivan monthly 0.5 2025-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/33e36a72-f2ab-4226-bcd6-e5c899545de1/Screenshot+2025-10-18+at+9.59.12%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Person of the Year: UVA President Teresa Sullivan - Person of the Year: UVA President Teresa Sullivan Two years ago, after Teresa Sullivan was selected as the eighth president of UVA, and the first woman to fill the role, replacing John Casteen, III after 20 years at the helm, an associate dean in the McIntire School of Commerce, George Overstreet, joked that "a reduction in testosterone level can never be bad."Of course, this past summer, we learned that estrogen-fueled leadership can be just as powerful, if not more so. December 13th, 2012 issue #1150 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/season-of-giving-is-panhandling-vagrancy-destroying-the-downtown-mall monthly 0.5 2025-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/506a5683-df31-46e8-b0a8-8c91a8482bd8/Screenshot+2025-10-18+at+10.17.19%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Season of giving: Is panhandling, vagrancy, destroying the Downtown Mall? - Season of giving: Is panhandling, vagrancy, destroying the Downtown Mall? The success of the Downtown Mall is a miracle in many ways. After it was completed in 1976, initially eliminating five blocks of Charlottesville's Main Street to revitalize the downtown area, it did nothing of the sort, sputtering along for 20 years, a largely desolate place with an odd assortment of stores, and a few bar/restaurants that served a budding underground music and art scene largely ignored by the general public. UVA students, by and large, didn't go near the place. December 6th, 2012 issue #1149 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/towing-tales-part-deux-wreckers-guns-and-money monthly 0.5 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ad33b617-7a04-4e07-8257-346f93a3a051/Screenshot+2025-10-20+at+1.03.31%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Towing tales part deux: Wreckers, guns, and money - Towing tales part deux: Wreckers, guns, and money Nicholas Rigterink may not have been seeking a fight over property rights when he went out for a mid-November dinner, but the 29-year-old Charlottesville man found one– one that ended up with him staring up the barrel of a handgun. November 29th, 2012 issue #1148 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/we-love-this-place-shopkeepers-citizens-dish-on-local-holiday-tradition monthly 0.5 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/b203711e-9194-4349-8901-d7eae0db3b92/Screenshot+2025-10-20+at+3.56.26%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - We Love This Place: Shopkeepers, citizens dish on local holiday tradition - 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 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/bantam-wait-another-indie-theater-gears-up monthly 0.5 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/70eac952-3fab-4b65-a595-f955ec265079/Screenshot+2025-10-20+at+4.06.57%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Bantam wait: Another indie theater gears up - Bantam wait: Another indie theater gears up As Vinegar Hill prepares to duke it out with Regal cinemas for the art film market in Charlottesville, another independent art house is gearing up to open, but its co-founder says it won't be competing with the other two theaters. "We're going to be a true independent film space," says photographer turned filmmaker Jason Lappa, who's joined forces with freelance journalist Jayson Whitehead to open the Bantam Theater in the former Live Arts building on Market Street in January. November 15th, 2012 issue #1146 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/cavalier-developments-uva-buys-199-acre-near-town-farm monthly 0.5 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/08d5ae25-5380-4455-aa3a-846a822c7e6e/cover1145w-touts-1.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Cavalier developments? UVA buys 199-acre near-town farm - Cavalier developments? UVA buys 199-acre near-town farm After two decades of dealing, a sprawling Charlottesville-area farm recently came into the possession of UVA, practically completing a sort of university-owned western wall around Charlottesville and stoking development concerns in the surrounding neighborhoods. By paying $1.575 million to Foxhaven Farm LLC on July 7, the University of Virginia Foundation finished its purchase of the properties long owned by the late Jane and Henderson Heyward. November 8th, 2012 issue #1145 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/festival-origins-founder-patricia-kluge-tells-how-it-all-began monthly 0.5 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/30804c7f-3f6f-4967-b90c-c2c34936a9a7/cover1144w-touts.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Festival origins: Founder Patricia Kluge tells how it all began - Festival origins: Founder Patricia Kluge tells how it all began On the 25th anniversary of the Virginia Film Festival, Patricia Kluge and former Governor Gerald Baliles both are being honored for its founding. According to Kluge, however, someone else first floated the idea of a film festival in Charlottesville. November 1st, 2012 issue #1144 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/living-in-the-shadow-as-samantha-clarkes-family-mourns-a-suspect-claims-police-harassment monthly 0.5 2025-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/922e101d-84d8-4a7c-91f0-c39b5b1d9930/cover1143w-touts.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Living in the shadow: As Samantha Clarke's family mourns, a suspect claims police harassment - Living in the shadow: As Samantha Clarke's family mourns, a suspect claims police harassment Every day brings fresh torment for Barbara Tinder. "I keep expecting her to walk in the door," says the 37-year-old town of Orange resident, who has spent the last two years anguished over the disappearance of her teenaged daughter, Samantha Clarke, who was last seen in September 2010. October 25th, 2012 issue #1143 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/mr-jeffersons-greed-new-book-challenges-image-of-reluctant-slaveholder monthly 0.5 2025-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f1b1ac26-62ce-4283-9f20-c5b2fa8fc29b/1142coverw-touts_0.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Mr. Jefferson's greed: New book challenges image of reluctant slaveholder - Mr. Jefferson's greed: New book challenges image of reluctant slaveholder Publishers Weekly calls it the number one history title of the fall and one of the best of all genres. Both Smithsonian and American History magazines have made it a recent cover story. However, thus far here in Thomas Jefferson's hometown, the reception to Henry Wiencek's new book, Master of the Mountain: Jefferson and His Slaves– which builds a portrait of the author of the Declaration of Independence as cold, greedy, and a lying racist– has been less effusive. Far less effusive. October 18th, 2012 issue #1142 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/greenwood-epa-leaves-superfund-site-27-years-after-fatal-disaster monthly 0.5 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/559b8109-f5f3-4151-80db-fab86110fac1/1141_coverwtouts.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Greenwood: EPA leaves Superfund site 27 years after fatal disaster - Greenwood: EPA leaves Superfund site 27 years after fatal disaster The most obvious disturbance to the bucolic setting of Mt. Zion Baptist Church is the sound of constant traffic zooming from Interstate 64. Less obvious, but way more disturbing about the location of the little country church: Its next door neighbor is Albemarle's only Superfund site, the designation the Environmental Protection Agency gives the most polluted, most toxic places in America. October 11th, 2012 issue #1141 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/all-thats-glitters-should-a-perv-profit-from-wahoo-wah monthly 0.5 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/bcbcb5b6-67bb-4d13-bb63-8629fd8cb254/1140cover.jpg Issue Archive Blog - All that's Glitter's: Should a perv profit from Wahoo-wah? - All that's Glitter's: Should a perv profit from Wahoo-wah? It's the riff that's been pumping up UVA fans for years, energizing the Scott Stadium crowd pre-game when the Cavalier Marching Band plays its distinctive chords. And when it blares over the Scott Stadium loudspeakers after touchdowns, the crowd usually launches into a Stadium-wide chant: "U-V-A. Go Hoos, go." But hearing it makes at least one Cav fan very angry. October 4th, 2012 issue #1140 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/prospective-presidents-how-they-might-appeal-to-the-bov monthly 0.5 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/8780396d-2b51-4b3a-8afd-b323f82b4512/coverw1039.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Prospective presidents: How they might appeal to the BOV - Prospective presidents: How they might appeal to the BOV It has long been an intriguing question. Did the leaders of the ouster of UVA President Teresa Sullivan have someone in mind when they made their daring weekend move? Also in this issue: • McDonnell's BOV: Who gets their donations? September 27th, 2012 issue #1139 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/second-cooling-behind-the-new-frozen-yogurt-craze monthly 0.5 2025-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0cd2aed6-c4f5-4488-b374-c2f1a5dc375f/Screenshot+2025-10-24+at+9.25.29%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Second cooling: Behind the new frozen yogurt craze - Second cooling: Behind the new frozen yogurt craze Just two years ago, locally owned Arch's Frozen Yogurt, with locations on Ivy Road, the Corner, and Emmet Street, was the only fro-yo game in town. Today, there are three new regional franchises serving the stuff, and one already has three locations–- Sweet Frog (Downtown, Barracks, Hollymead), Bloop (Pantops), and Berry Berry (the Corner). And it might be only a matter of time before the big national players, Pinkberry and Yogurtland, take up residence. September 20th, 2012 issue #1138 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/little-washington-big-taste-a-central-virginia-high-wire-act monthly 0.5 2025-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/40b03254-b2eb-42cf-bff7-bbcd7c86ccfe/cover1137.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Little Washington, big taste: A Central Virginia high-wire act - Little Washington, big taste: A Central Virginia high-wire act The Inn at Little Washington has been setting people up for disappointment for years. About an hour and twenty minutes north, just past Sperryville in the small town of Washington, the Inn has become a veritable shrine for the world's foodies. As a result, its storied reputation, considerable expense, and remote location can cause people to harbor wild expectations and plan their visits years in advance. September 13th, 2012 issue #1137 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/unfathomable-grief-shock-and-questions-follow-family-slaying monthly 0.5 2025-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/fa4678f1-f694-49b4-ac4e-58571772f08a/cover1136.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Unfathomable: Grief, shock, and questions follow family slaying - Unfathomable: Grief, shock, and questions follow family slaying "The shining light in the room." That's how Jenny Clark remembers her friend Beth Walton, the 49-year-old mother of three who died along with her children in a murder-suicide that police say appears to have been perpetrated by her older son. September 6th, 2012 issue #1136 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/foxchase-nightmare-crozet-mom-allegedly-tries-to-poison-husband monthly 0.5 2025-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/3b46ece9-25c3-4806-be3b-939a75fbc3e0/cover1135.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Foxchase nightmare: Crozet mom allegedly tries to poison husband - Foxchase nightmare: Crozet mom allegedly tries to poison husband On a day when her son was set to head to the first day of first grade, Theresa Lynn Brady wasn't around to see him off. Instead, the 33-year-old Western Albemarle mom was i... August 30th, 2012 issue #1135 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/dragas-on-board-the-rector-who-wouldnt-go monthly 0.5 2025-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/12e39dac-6aa5-4305-9b61-5604613e00e6/Screenshot+2025-10-24+at+10.36.15%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Dragas on Board: The Rector who wouldn't go - Dragas on Board: The Rector who wouldn't go Fear, distrust, sadness, anger. Welcome back to the University of Virginia.If you spent the summer on a desert island with no internet, you are in for a surprise. This isn't the same UVA you left at the end of last semester, and the storm didn't stop raging with the June 26 reinstatement of President Teresa Sullivan. August 23rd, 2012 issue #1134 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/giant-problem-the-surprising-silver-lining-to-seminoles-loss monthly 0.5 2025-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/17bac4ac-91df-4baf-ba83-f0cb8a48f40c/cover1133.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Giant problem? The surprising silver lining to Seminole's loss - Giant problem? The surprising silver lining to Seminole's loss The news about the impending closing of Giant, Charlottesville's first upscale supermarket, reminds Mariflo Stephens why she began shopping there in the 1980s as an overworked young mom. August 16th, 2012 issue #1133 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/big-easy-bound-cox-embarks-on-new-orleans-adventure monthly 0.5 2025-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c3cf4bf6-3ad6-45f8-94ae-033bc32817f4/cover1132_0.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Big Easy bound: Cox embarks on New Orleans adventure - Big Easy bound: Cox embarks on New Orleans adventure It's not the first time moving trucks have pulled away from the home of architecture professor and former Charlottesville Mayor Maurice Cox on Ridge Street. But this time, there's no planned return for the man perhaps best known for his support of high density urban development and alternative transportation– including his own early example of bicycle-commuting long before Charlottesville had bike lanes. August 9th, 2012 issue #1132 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/hooks-annual-manual monthly 0.5 2025-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/27ae2d11-39e4-40cb-bb76-4a951016eaf3/amcover_1131.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Hook's Annual Manual - Hook Annual Manual This is the Hook's Annual Manual which supplants our normal Thursday issue each August. All of the content lives in a set of guides described online as "Discover Charlottesville." (Please note that the content of these online guides may change over the course of time and not exactly reflect what was in the Annual Manual.) August 2nd, 2012 issue #1031 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/jury-nullification-the-elephant-in-the-room monthly 0.5 2025-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/425d1c89-ce64-44cd-be15-02378c8a1fda/cover1130.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Jury nullification: The elephant in the room - Jury nullification: The elephant in the room There's an elephant in every courtroom. Prosecutors and judges won't show it to jurors, and even Virginia defense lawyers seem forbidden from mentioning this fact: If you think a law is unjust, you can acquit. This week's cover package • Not guilty: Jury acquits in two pot-plant case.. July 26th, 2012 issue #1130 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/just-say-know-tim-wilson-wants-to-change-the-world-one-story-at-a-time monthly 0.5 2025-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/6f71236e-1b98-4248-997f-044d30862a5a/cover1129.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Just say know: Tim Wilson wants to change the world-- one story at a time - Just say know: Tim Wilson wants to change the world-- one story at a time UVA psych professor Timothy Wilson's book Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change begins with a horror story. A police officer in Florida is the first to arrive at a house engulfed in flames. There are screams for help coming from the structure, and through a window the officer sees a trapped man. The officer tries to break down the heavily bolted front door, but when it finally gives way, it's too late. "He was curled up like a baby in in his mother's womb," says the officer. "That's what someone burned to death looks like." July 19th, 2012 issue #1129 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/borrowed-assets-did-deans-plagiarize-or-just-repeat-gobbledygook monthly 0.5 2025-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/6f8038d6-e1d0-4c63-be19-a96c0f7b8cb9/cover1128.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Borrowed assets: Did deans plagiarize or just repeat 'gobbledygook'? - Borrowed assets: Did deans plagiarize or just repeat 'gobbledygook'? In the wake of the abrupt June 10 resignation of University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan, the deans of UVA– before eventually reversing themselves and calling for reinstatement– sent out a raft of statements urging calm, resolution, and damage control. But the messages contained something peculiar: identical words. For instance, a paragraph from Darden Dean Robert Bruner and Engineering School Dean James Aylor, explaining the controversial reasons why Sullivan was departing, appear to be nearly verbatim. July 12th, 2012 issue #1128 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/doctors-orders-spiked-bill-has-him-lauding-obamacare monthly 0.5 2025-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/63236cd4-1548-426e-80e3-7b41e26080e1/cover1127.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Doctor's orders: Spiked bill has him lauding Obamacare - Doctor's orders: Spiked bill has him lauding Obamacare The Supreme Court's surprise ruling to uphold the highly controversial "individual mandate" component of President Obama's Affordable Care Act, a rule practically requiring all Americans to purchase some health insurance, has one local man hailing the decision as a big win for all Americans, particularly after an incident with his own medical bills. Related Nurse practitioners: They'll save your life... and money July 5th, 2012 issue #1127 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/bobs-mess-please-stop-governor-mcdonnell-urges-alumni-faculty-legislators monthly 0.5 2025-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ac86fca6-96ed-45d6-ad0d-7baca8114de8/cover1126.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Bob's mess: 'Please stop,' Governor McDonnell urges alumni, faculty, legislators - Bob's mess: 'Please stop,' Governor McDonnell urges alumni, faculty, legislators As many of you know, no major decision of this kind can be made at Virginia without the support and assent of the Governor. – Peter Kiernan June 28th, 2012 issue #1126 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/dragas-shrugged-defiant-rector-hires-pr-firm monthly 0.5 2025-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/afeb4096-4f34-45e5-96f5-7a04ee4fa628/finalcover1125.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Dragas shrugged: Defiant rector hires PR firm - Dragas shrugged: Defiant rector hires PR firm With the UVA Faculty Senate formally requesting her resignation and a Board of Visitors meeting with ousted President Theresa Sullivan slated for Monday afternoon, the pressure's on for UVA Rector Helen Dragas to pull a rabbit out of a hat. But even her possible status as the most despised woman in Virginia doesn't appear to be bending her will. At least not yet, as she's hired one of the nation's priciest PR firms to help her manage the crisis. June 21st, 2012 issue #1125 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/cabal-hall-why-would-darden-trump-carrs-hill monthly 0.5 2025-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d7e1de8c-da53-45dd-b311-9ce54c273e71/Screenshot+2025-10-26+at+10.41.27%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - 'Cabal Hall': Why would Darden trump Carr's Hill? - 'Cabal Hall': Why would Darden trump Carr's Hill? An alleged clash between UVA President Teresa Sullivan and the Board of Visitors has resulted in Sullivan's ouster after less than two years in office, leaving faculty and staff at the University in shock. However, details emerging from defensive-sounding Board members suggest that the departure was less a mutual agreement and more of a palace coup orchestrated by alumni and friends of the Darden School. June 14th, 2012 issue #1124 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/taking-residence-25mm-hotel-targets-random-row-site monthly 0.5 2025-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/48a0be65-b3cd-4ee9-96f9-d72ac3d60890/cover1123.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Taking Residence: $25mm hotel targets Random Row site - Taking Residence: $25mm hotel targets Random Row site Even before the Landmark mess gets sorted out, a developer has made plans to build a new hotel in Charlottesville that will transform a high-profile corner of West Main Street where a funky used-book store and other businesses have set up shop. A Marriott extended-stay Residence Inn, comprising seven stories around an interior courtyard standing atop an underground parking area, would be one of the largest buildings ever built in Charlottesville at about 113,000 square feet of space under roof. The developer is Charles Wendell of Virginia Inn Management Inc., and he says Charlottesville's in for a treat. June 7th, 2012 issue #1123 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/budget-bus-starlight-gears-up-for-big-changes monthly 0.5 2025-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d2d862e2-d258-4af4-a2ba-4242df746bfa/Screenshot+2025-10-26+at+11.26.13%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Budget bus: Starlight gears up for big changes - Budget bus: Starlight gears up for big changes When A. Goff Limousine purchased luxury Charlottesville-to-New York bus service Starlight Express in 2010, general manager Dan Goff promised to give Amtrak a run for its money by offering competitive rates and expanding the round-trip bus service to the Big Apple. Less than two years later, Goff says, he's getting ready to do just that as he prepares to unveil "massive" changes that could prove a game-changer in the local transportation business. May 31st, 2012 issue #1122 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/guide-to-a-death-defying-summer-o-2012 monthly 0.5 2025-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/df556872-d2f2-4a32-9580-3563eac26e87/Screenshot+2025-10-27+at+10.58.31%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Guide to a death-defying summer o' 2012 - Guide to a death-defying summer o' 2012 Mint Springs provides a beach with mountain views. Skinny dipping at Mint Springs… May 24th, 2012 issue #1121 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/towing-tales-like-hassles-everybody-has-one monthly 0.5 2025-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/774b1b3a-04c2-4581-bcde-528e199082d4/Screenshot+2025-10-27+at+11.19.57%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Towing tales: Like hassles, everybody has one - Towing tales: Like hassles, everybody has one It was supposed to be a fun night out on the Downtown Mall for a pair of mothers: dinner followed by a show, then home to their families. But on April 17, after shelling out nearly $80 for tickets to see Nanci Griffith at the Paramount, and dropping another $140 at Hamiltons' restaurant, not to mention paying $10 for four hours of pre-paid parking, the good times came to a screeching halt when the two women returned to the lot across Market Street from Lee Park just before 11pm to an unwelcome discovery. The minivan was gone. May 17th, 2012 issue #1120 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/starsia-sued-uva-lax-coaches-state-targeted-by-love-family monthly 0.5 2025-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ed535cf8-0727-4bbf-b568-f60998319c5f/Screenshot+2025-10-28+at+12.06.38%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Starsia sued: UVA lax coaches, state targeted by Love family - Starsia sued: UVA lax coaches, state targeted by Love family The family that sued George Huguely V in the death of their 22-year-old daughter has now filed a $29.4 million suit against the lacrosse coaches who reportedly missed key signals that they had a violent man on their team. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/battle-of-the-noodle-allied-heats-up-recycling-rhetoric-against-van-der-linde monthly 0.5 2025-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5c7ae4f4-c116-4843-9c96-5023dea1befa/Screenshot+2025-10-28+at+12.28.16%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Battle of the noodle: Allied heats up recycling rhetoric against Van der Linde - Battle of the noodle: Allied heats up recycling rhetoric against Van der Linde For several years now, Allied Waste, which is owned by mega-waste company Republic Services, has been largely silent while Van der Linde Recycling (VDLR) steals all the local trash and recycling glory. Now the company is fighting back with a vengeance. With an onslaught of web, print, radio, and TV advertising, Allied suggests that much of the recycling collected by local haulers using VDLR is ending up in a landfill. May 3rd, 2012 issue #1118 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/six-bands-and-venues-to-watch monthly 0.5 2025-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/abf1471f-3797-4f89-9af5-edcf239c6a5d/Screenshot+2025-10-28+at+12.45.06%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Six bands (and venues) to watch - Six bands (and venues) to watch For a town with a long lineage of locally-grown musicians, rounding up contenders as "up and coming" stars is easy, but choosing from all this talent is hard. Our venues are constantly packed with lots of bands, lots of sounds. So we turned to some big names from radio stations WTJU and 106.1 The Corner to do some nominating. What exactly does it mean to be a "big thing"? For Charlottesville, it means more than just creating a cool sound– the musicians that are loved the most are those with a real presence in town. April 26th, 2012 issue #1117 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/wasted-gateway-how-the-city-mistreats-the-belmont-bridge monthly 0.5 2025-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/b541a96e-b657-4b82-8605-92e5da48fa18/Screenshot+2025-10-28+at+9.07.48%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Wasted gateway: How the City (mis)treats the Belmont Bridge - Wasted gateway: How the City (mis)treats the Belmont Bridge Few of today's college students were alive in 1986. That was the year the space shuttle Challenger exploded, and Ronald Reagan was president. That was also the last time the Belmont Bridge was painted. Such a 26-year omission bolsters the view that Charlottesville has neglected one of its most prominent and valuable pieces of infrastructure, a vital gateway to downtown that city officials now want to destroy and replace for an amount estimated to top $14 million. April 19th, 2012 issue #1116 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/belmont-vortex-vision-vs-reality-in-belmont-bridge-debate monthly 0.5 2025-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/92cf6f12-60fd-4922-b4f9-4a7a863793cf/Screenshot+2025-10-28+at+9.19.50%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Belmont vortex: Vision vs. reality in Belmont Bridge debate - Belmont vortex: Vision vs. reality in Belmont Bridge debate There's a grass roots community movement calling for the re-design of the east end of the downtown area, creating a "gateway" ("Gait-Way," actually, to emphasize pedestrianism) from Belmont that would dovetail into the Downtown Mall in a less car-centric, more pedestrian-friendly way. There's just one problem: there's a big bridge in the way. April 12th, 2012 issue #1115 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/down-and-dirty-new-mud-race-draws-thousands monthly 0.5 2025-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/25aee6ad-80a1-4945-9d89-80e39e387411/Screenshot+2025-10-28+at+9.47.10%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Down and dirty: New mud race draws thousands - Down and dirty: New mud race draws thousands It was less than two months before race day when Joshua Bare got the bad news: the owner of the Ruckersville-area property where Bare had planned to hold his upcoming Mud Warrior mud race was backing out. "He kicked me off his property," exclaims Bare. "There was no reason given." April 5th, 2012 issue #1114 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/draining-feeling-lawsuit-challenges-dam-pipeline-plan monthly 0.5 2025-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d89aeaef-34c7-4f0e-b7a6-0dcdb9893a68/Screenshot+2025-10-28+at+10.12.17%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Draining feeling? Lawsuit challenges dam-pipeline plan - Draining feeling? Lawsuit challenges dam-pipeline plan Back in 2010, before changing his position, Charlottesville City Councilor Satyendra Huja predicted that wars would be fought over water, but he may not have realized that the battle would reach his desk. Last Friday, the dredger-turned-dammer and now-Mayor Huja found that he was on the receiving end of a lawsuit slamming his turnabout vote as illegal, wasteful, and "absurd." March 29th, 2012 issue #1113 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/free-man-michael-hash-out-on-bond monthly 0.5 2025-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/6c5080e6-9150-4fcf-a118-d02faa84f66b/Screenshot+2025-10-28+at+10.31.10%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Free man: Michael Hash out on bond - Free man: Michael Hash out on bond Less than a month after a federal judge tossed the capital murder conviction of Michael Wayne Hash, who served a dozen years in prison for a crime it now seems he didn't commit, a judge in Culpeper Circuit Court took less than five minutes to decide Hash should go home. March 22nd, 2012 issue #1112 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/best-o-the-book-fest-may-we-suggest monthly 0.5 2025-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f2c5f80b-128d-45d1-b347-3f5d08d3832c/Screenshot+2025-10-28+at+10.53.46%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Best o' the book fest: May we suggest...? - Best o' the book fest: May we suggest...? March means bibliophilia in Charlottesville. That's how much of an institution the Virginia Festival of the Book has become as it readies for its 18th annual book-athon. Whether your interests are hoarding, after-life experiences, or serial bad relationships, the March 21-25 fest with 222 events and nearly 400 participants is likely to have the proverbial something for everyone. Browsing the festival schedule to come up with 10 recommendations, the Hook somehow ended up with nearly 30 items in its book bag. March 15th, 2012 issue #1111 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/what-ever-happened-to monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/96323099-fe44-4c9a-a434-b12b81ea1c9f/Screenshot+2025-11-01+at+8.14.59%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - What ever happened to…? - Melted dream: Simpson's snowmobile race hopes dashed Prior story • Simpson's folly? Nelsonian gets serious about Alaska race Russ Simpson, the Nelson County man who vowed to race a snowmobile across the icy wilds of Alaska… https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/convicted-huguely-whats-next-for-georgie monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/27977e75-5f95-426f-a100-048d1ee31580/Screenshot+2025-11-01+at+8.31.21%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Convicted Huguely: What's next for 'Georgie'? - Convicted Huguely: What's next for 'Georgie'? Recent stories • Missing Huguelys: And other damaging would-be witnesses • Huguely convicted: Jury gives him 26 years in killing • Closing arguments: Intent and malice debated in Love's death *** Huguely convicted: Jury gives him 26 years in killing Missing Huguelys: And other damaging would-be witnesses https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/in-depth-analysis-of-the-huguely-trial monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/2807ac27-f438-41df-9b5a-bd2699a0caf7/Screenshot+2025-11-01+at+8.46.07%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - In Depth Analysis of the Huguely Trial - Closing arguments: Intent and malice debated in Love's death Attorneys in the murder trial of George Huguely made their final pleas to the jury to convict– or not convict so harshly– the defendant for the death of Yeardley Love after the defense rested around 2pm Saturday, February 18. During the roughly 90 minutes each side spent, the prosecution hammered home the brutal attack on Love when she thought she was safe at home, and the defense argued that Huguely had no intent to murder Love or to steal her laptop– the taking of which added five additional felony charges to the first-degree murder charge he's facing. February 23rd, 2012 issue #1108 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/huguely-trial-coverage monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d9c94c3e-1e6d-4381-9bf4-394d9df596c8/Screenshot+2025-11-01+at+9.13.50%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Huguely Trial Coverage - 'Out of control': Witnesses say Huguely's drinking escalated Day Two Thursday, February 9 - afternoon When University of North Carolina lacrosse player MIke Burns came to visit friends at UVA in the winter of 2010, he witnessed an altercation between George Huguely and Yeardley Love that prosecutors allege foreshadowed her death in the morning hours of May 3. Related stories • Tough morning: Photos bring tears at Huguely trial Analyst says: Huguely still heading for a conviction Despite the previous day's revelation that after getting brutally beaten Yeardley Love survived for two hours, longtime Hook legal analyst David Heilberg indicates that he stands by his prognostication that a first-degree murder conviction remains a possibility. Previous day's story • Crib death? Defense insists Huguely merely 'contributed' https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/big-scrap-artists-fight-for-their-right-to-pick monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/56ea20ed-4c65-4491-860b-2aa14b0c5271/Screenshot+2025-11-01+at+9.31.09%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Big scrap: Artists fight for their right to pick - Big scrap: Artists fight for their right to pick If you've ever hauled junk to the Meade Avenue place long known as Coiner's Scrap Iron and Metal, there's a chance that your old gutter, gear, appliance, or tin slab never got melted down, that it actually became part of a custom lamp, a sculpture, a reinvented machine, or a piece of "found art" that might hang in a fancy gallery in Washington, D.C., or even in the home of a rock star. February 9th, 2012 issue #1106 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/bloody-sunday-repeal-of-hunting-ban-thrills-and-chills monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0914749f-a5b6-4bc6-b29c-5411bfcc3a2b/Screenshot+2025-11-01+at+9.49.01%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Bloody Sunday? Repeal of hunting ban thrills-- and chills - Bloody Sunday? Repeal of hunting ban thrills-- and chills When Karen Wood was shot to death in her own backyard in 1988 while wearing white mittens, some suggested the Maine woman's death was her own fault. After all, those mittens might resemble a deer's tail, and she had stepped outside during hunting season without wearing blaze orange. Related content • Should hunting be allowed on Sundays? February 2nd, 2012 issue #1105 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/life-behind-bars-its-more-than-just-pouring-drinks monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f1f5e230-28e4-4186-b8cc-f20a6155ae2f/Screenshot+2025-11-01+at+10.00.52%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Life behind bars: it's more than just pouring drinks - Life behind bars: it's more than just pouring drinks Everyone knows the story of Charlottesville's most famous bartender, you know, that musician guy who worked at Miller's before becoming a world renowned rock star... what's his name? January 26th, 2012 issue #1104 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/hall-sold-richmond-magnate-buys-keswick-resort-and-club monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/678953d9-ede6-4600-8fa3-1e77df7dcdd9/Screenshot+2025-11-01+at+10.17.45%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Hall, sold: Richmond magnate buys Keswick resort and club - Hall, sold: Richmond magnate buys Keswick resort and club At least one suicide and a murder: what you won't find in the releases 1912: Robert B. Crawford spends $100,000 to build his dreamhouse, Villa Crawford.1947: Local busines... January 19th, 2012 issue #1103 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/meadow-creek-parkway-rubber-hits-road monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c449ce51-d2dc-468d-9c12-db0f79d48508/Screenshot+2025-11-01+at+10.33.12%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Meadow Creek Parkway: Rubber hits road - Meadow Creek Parkway: Rubber hits road The man touted as instrumental in getting what was long called the Meadow Creek Parkway built– or at least 1.4 miles of it– wasn't there. Former U.S. Senator John W. Warner, 84, checked into the hospital the night before the January 6 ribbon-cutting/unveiling of the portion of the road named in his honor. January 12th, 2012 issue #1102 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/broken-beauty-the-lofty-life-and-tragic-death-of-linda-doig monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/bb6d345a-4af4-4d05-b755-dfcf48a3ed44/Screenshot+2025-11-01+at+10.45.44%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Broken beauty: The lofty life and tragic death of Linda Doig - Broken beauty: The lofty life and tragic death of Linda Doig "She had further to fall than I did," says the wiry, bearded man, gesturing to his companion on a beat-up sofa. Next to him sits a tall but weathered blond who nods in agreement and asks the man to retrieve a magazine page from the tent they're sharing downtown during the waning days of the Occupy Charlottesville movement. The picture– a Miss Clairol ad from the mid-'80s– features an exquisite blond, arm around a young girl with matching flaxen locks, and the slogan that launched a thousand home dye jobs: "Does she or doesn't she?" January 5th, 2012 issue #1101 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/year-in-review-the-best-and-worst-of-2011 monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/477e73da-914f-43ea-8625-31ffb21b678d/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+12.22.05%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Year in review: The best and worst of 2011 - Year in review: The best and worst of 2011 December 22, 2011 Since the Hook started doing a year-in-review issue 10 years ago, we've always wanted to say that this is the best year ever: The economy is on a roll, employers are hiring as fast as they can, partisanship is passé, elected officials value compromise to make our country a better place to live, people feel optimistic about their future, and that of their kids. Alas, that would not be 2011. December 22nd, 2011 issue #1051 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/person-of-the-year-ken-boyd-king-of-the-road-and-the-midnight-vote monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/01abaa83-0a24-42fd-9ed8-e002aec27705/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+5.42.40%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Person of the year: Ken Boyd. King of the road... and the midnight vote - Person of the year: Ken Boyd. King of the road... and the midnight vote If Ken Boyd's entire political career were an Aesop's fable, he'd be the slow-and-steady tortoise. But when the opportunity arose earlier this year, the usually mild-mannered Republican maneuvered and rammed through a late-night vote on the controversial Western 29 Bypass, a highway project that had been presumed dead for more than a decade. In seizing the reins of power after the public had gone home, Boyd helped overturn long-established opposition from the Board of Supervisors, sent shock waves through the environmental community, and launched a permanent change to the landscape of Albemarle County. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/unsilenced-how-this-mother-fought-to-protect-her-daughter-and-yours monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/a79eb505-6d5a-4cbc-beea-56f5b08f4c06/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+5.33.50%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Unsilenced: How this mother fought to protect her daughter... and yours. - Unsilenced: How this mother fought to protect her daughter... and yours. "Mom, I was raped." The words hit Susan Russell like a fist to the stomach in late winter 2004, and she responded with a question to her 20-year-old daughter, Kathryn, who was home from UVA for the weekend. "'Did you call the police?" Russell recalls asking, certain that law enforcement and school administrators would help her daughter through the ordeal and bring her attacker to justice. That's not how things would go. Prosecutors said there wasn't enough evidence to take the case. UVA's Sexual Assault Board agreed, issuing a not guilty verdict after hearing from Kathryn and the man she accused. But Russell believed her daughter's account, and the idea that her child's assailant would get away without any punishment sparked within her a transformation from anguished mother into fearless victim's advocate. Since 2004, her efforts have brought rape victims at UVA out of the shadows and helped instigate change to UVA's sexual assault policy. Most recently, Russell has pushed for a change in state law regarding how rape and murder investigations are handled at all state universities. "I will not back down," says Russell, who's boldly placed her daughter's alleged rapist's picture and name on the front page of her website even though, without a conviction against him, such a move could elicit legal action against her. "Let him sue me," she says. "I have nothing to hide." It's a no-holds barred attitude that's won her enemies and friends, but she says there's only one thing that will bring her peace: the arrest and conviction of Curtis Ofori. It's peace she's unlikely to find. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/whats-next-occupiers-ponder-the-future monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f6df79ef-240e-4244-bf1f-8e96c093dce5/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+5.29.25%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - What's next? Occupiers ponder the future - What's next? Occupiers ponder the future Tuesday, November 29 is deadline day for Occupy Charlottesville, but at noon– just six hours before protesters must decide whether to stay in Lee Park in violation of an expired permit or to move to another location– there's still no consensus."We just don't know yet," says one Occupier, who declines to be identified before cutting off a reporter's questions to "go check out another option." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-road-death-count-mounts-in-albemarle monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/bb015bd8-b1ed-4628-bb66-6959b46b61bc/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+5.21.43%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The road: Death count mounts in Albemarle - The road: Death count mounts in Albemarle "Let me grab my phone– I'm expecting a victim's family to call." That's Sergeant Sean Hackney on November 17, the morning after the fifth person has died in less than a week on an Albemarle County road. He's operating on an hour-and-a-half of sleep, and all the officers in Albemarle police's traffic unit are working a fatality. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/by-the-wayside-busted-bridge-burns-businesses monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/294725a1-b84f-44c4-b131-d449deb13aec/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+4.53.08%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - By the Wayside: Busted bridge burns businesses - By the Wayside: Busted bridge burns businesses Back in May, just a month into a planned 18-month project, owners of several business located next to the Jefferson Park Avenue bridge replacement complained that the construction was hurting their businesses. Now, they say the JPA project is "killing" their businesses. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-flip-that-flopped-biscuit-run-men-want-20-million-more-from-taxpayers monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/06750f43-3cce-4dfe-a9aa-0b8764c48597/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+4.49.43%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The flip that flopped: Biscuit Run men want $20 million more from taxpayers - The flip that flopped: Biscuit Run men want $20 million more from taxpayers Biscuit Run is the gift that keeps on… taking. Initially sold to the public as a $10 million state park, the nearly 1,200-acre tract has actually extracted more than $21 million from state taxpayers in what has been called one of Virginia's biggest corporate bail-outs. Now, nearly two years after the sale, the former owners are seeking nearly $20 million more, and, in the latest chapter of this saga, they have filed suit to collect. "That sounds outrageous," says Creigh Deeds, the state senator who inadvertently allowed situations like this to happen. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/best-o-the-fest-what-real-filmmakers-want-to-see monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/af6ca4da-6117-48ff-a576-b0f2a6946c2a/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+4.44.29%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Best o' the fest: What real filmmakers want to see - Best o' the fest: What real filmmakers want to see Salivation. That's what happens when you're a cinephile and you pick up the program for the 24th annual Virginia Film Festival and see all those unreleased new movies, and all those classics you've wanted to revisit, and all those films you really won't get to see anywhere else, and the filmmakers and actors who will be in town, and then– Head explosion. How in the world are you going to sift through the more 100 screenings and cram in as many as possible during the few short festival days of November 3-6? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/jury-he-did-it-abshire-murder-trial monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f671784d-e0e5-4e7a-8d66-5d296c938f57/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+4.40.18%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Jury: He did it. Abshire murder trial - Jury: He did it. Abshire murder trial As the jury weighed its decision in the first-degree murder trial of the Greene County dump truck driver accused of killing his wife for a $1.5 million in insurance payout in a crime so shabbily staged that veteran investigators suspected his involvement within hours of her death, the parents of the victim wondered what their daughter, a kindergarten teacher known as a homebody and animal lover, ever saw in Eric Dee Abshire, a man with a history of violence.Getting to know him https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/balance-of-power-whats-at-stake-in-the-2011-elections monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e79876b0-b059-44b9-af1c-2f51c297300c/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+4.35.09%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Balance of power: What's at stake in the 2011 elections - Balance of power: What's at stake in the 2011 elections Three perennials always make the list of top local controversies: the Western 29 Bypass, Meadowcreek Parkway, and the water plan. Whether you love these projects or hate 'em, the deciders on these and many other quality-of-life issues sit on the Albemarle Board of Supervisors and the Charlottesville City Council. And who's elected to fill seats on those key boards on November 8 has the potential to shift the balance of power on these controversial projects. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/reefer-madness-copter-and-swat-team-weeded-out-2-plants-on-their-property monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/8923ea44-3cf8-4e8c-988e-0d08c68faf44/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+4.31.12%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Reefer madness? Copter and SWAT team weeded out 2 plants on their property - Reefer madness? Copter and SWAT team weeded out 2 plants on their property Philip Cobbs likes gardening. You can tell from the neat perennial beds, the carefully trimmed yard, and from the fenced vegetable garden on the 39-acre tract in southeastern Albemarle that's been in his family since the 1860s. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/thanks-a-million-students-raise-seven-figures-to-honor-mead monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/78930d34-b150-448b-b346-6c3867e714cd/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+4.25.36%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Thanks a million: Students raise seven figures to honor Mead - Thanks a million: Students raise seven figures to honor Mead When Greg McLean, University of Virginia Class of '95, had chemotherapy over the summer he was an undergrad and then insisted he was returning to school, a professor said, "Why don't you live with me?" What's extraordinary to McLean even today is that the professor didn't seem to see anything unusual about opening his home for several months to an immune system-compromised student. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/turf-warriors-silverbacks-put-charlottesville-on-the-football-map monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f4bab94f-3ccb-496e-8a32-f1d9997a4f92/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+4.21.06%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Turf warriors: Silverbacks put Charlottesville on the football map - Turf warriors: Silverbacks put Charlottesville on the football map When a football team with the name Virginia Silverbacks hits the field, you might expect to see a bunch of macho guys living up to their animal kingdom namesake, flaunting their strength, agility and aggression. You'd be right, but then you might also be surprised at the colors worn by those same tough guys on this game day: black, silver and– pink? Pink socks and pink tape around ankles, knees and elbows. If it's incongruous, it's for a good cause. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/green-light-why-not-sync-every-signal-before-bypassing monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/97b491ef-f0f6-40a3-958a-eac31e1e477c/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+4.16.12%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Green light: Why not sync every signal before Bypassing? - Green light: Why not sync every signal before Bypassing? Can you imagine zipping up U.S. 29 north through green lights and reaching the airport in a matter of minutes, so efficiently that, wait, we don't need this new $436 million, forest-cutting, mountain-moving road that just been revealed to cost double earlier estimates? Okay, maybe that's not in the wildest imagination of planners. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/glitchy-system-inside-the-student-software-debacle monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f1439f83-47d6-4352-8d85-1468a0020fef/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+4.11.59%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Glitchy system: Inside the student software debacle - Glitchy system: Inside the student software debacle Why did Albemarle County school officials commit nearly $2 million to a software system that has proven faulty, despite multiple complaints from teachers that using it was a "waste of time," and an admission from one County school official that it was "glitchy, to say the least"? At a time when school systems are facing budget cuts, losing teachers, and seeing classroom size increase, spending on technology has soared. Indeed, terms like "digital learners" and "data driven education" have captured the imaginations– and purse strings– of school administrators. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/911-reflections-3000-dead-and-freedom-too monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/a19cf9be-b13e-42be-87c5-5eb604595f07/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+4.05.39%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - 9/11 reflections: 3,000 dead and freedom too - 9/11 reflections: 3,000 dead and freedom too We lost the World Trade Center. We lost 3,000 people. Black people, white people, Asian people, Middle Eastern people. People we didn't even think were at risk. My girlfriend called me to say that a plane had crashed into the Trade Center. "That's happened before at the Empire State Building," I replied. "It'll be fine." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/whats-next-is-the-quake-just-the-beginning monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/81ac80b3-6d0f-46e1-8673-86775f63c6e1/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+3.59.07%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - What's next: Is the quake just the beginning? - What's next: Is the quake just the beginning? Unless you were in the presence of a perceptive animal– and there were scattered reports of skittish dogs– it came without warning four seconds after 1:51pm on a sunny Tuesday, August 23. At 5.8 on the Richter scale, it was the biggest earthquake to hit Central Virginia during human habitation, the biggest in Virginia in the era of measured earthquakes, and, according to the state geologist, taking note of reports stretching from Canada to South Carolina, "the most-felt earthquake in human history." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/un-super-size-me-can-city-schools-stem-the-obesity-epidemic monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/4d5db22f-465f-4dc4-89a3-65626aa6c7ae/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+3.53.58%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Un-super size me: Can city schools stem the obesity epidemic? - Un-super size me: Can city schools stem the obesity epidemic? If Ivana Kadija ever hears Tony the Tiger telling kids his Frosted Flakes are "Grrrrreat!" she'll probably tell him to shut his furry trap. It's high-sugar food like that, says Kadija, chair of Charlottesville's School Health Advisory Board and a recently announced School Board Candidate, that's leading more local youths down the wide path to obesity and diabetes. Citing statistics that show a full one-third of city students are overweight by fourth grade, she wants the school system to make some not-so-sweet changes. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/fiction-contest-winners monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ea54b169-cc76-45b2-a82e-197ff8a508d2/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+3.38.38%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Fiction Contest Winners! - Fire on Ice b y Gary Kessler Please, God, this isn’t happening. Where did I go wrong? What did I do wrong? When did this dusting of snow become so deep? We were struggling along the trail– or at least I hoped we were still on the Appalachian Trail. Two scouts and me. But it was hopeless. It was quite dark now. What we’d said was that if any of the teams of boys didn’t return to the Humpback Rock parking lot at the end of two hours, we’d send a team for them. They were to stay on the trail and in their designated sector. We’d come along the trail, blowing our whistles, and then we’d be sure to meet up. No problem https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/wheres-waldo-at-the-white-house-in-your-computer-where-isnt-waldo monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5aba88b8-d90a-4a76-b10f-0b221a3acce9/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+3.32.45%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Where's Waldo? At the White House, in your computer... where *isn't* Waldo? - Where's Waldo? At the White House, in your computer... where *isn't* Waldo? Where's Waldo? It's a clichéd question to ask about a man by that name, but in the case of Waldo Jaquith– who so resembles the famous find-the-character cartoon that he changed his first name to match– it's irresistible. Hey! There's Waldo in court as a teenager, launching a lawsuit against local government! Look, he's on the red carpet at the My VH1 Music Awards! What's he doing all by himself on the Appalachian Trail at age 17? Psst. Turn on the TV and there's Waldo on the Today show talking about workplace bullying! And wait a minute, isn't that Waldo popping up at the White House just a few weeks ago? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/annual-manual-5 monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/9fd4e467-2282-46bf-a593-2813f5ca489f/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+3.24.33%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Annual Manual - Annual Manual This week's issue of the Hook is the Annual Manual, the most comprehensive and reader-friendly guide to Charlottesville and Central Virginia. By supplanting our regular weekly issue, the publication gets into the hands of everyone who normally picks up the Hook. There's even an online component called "DiscoverCharlottesville." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/flaws-tripled-rates-spun-numbers-and-conservancy-conflicts-why-the-war-on-dredging-slogs-on monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/556771a9-53f9-4d01-b85c-65466b0eec4e/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+1.48.40%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - FLAWS- Tripled rates, spun numbers, and Conservancy conflicts: Why the war on dredging slogs on - FLAWS- Tripled rates, spun numbers, and Conservancy conflicts: Why the war on dredging slogs on Just when you thought it was safe to save the reservoir, the war against dredging it has reached flood stage. Waterworks director Tom Frederick– perhaps rattled by a yank of his permit to build a new reservoir, and a growing desire, amid upcoming City Council elections, to muster political support– has been spinning the latest data. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/hot-contests-democrats-clash-in-dog-days-of-summer monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5727774d-7781-4582-b203-f5e155fbbc93/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+1.44.28%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Hot contests: Democrats clash in dog days of summer - Hot contests: Democrats clash in dog days of summer Across Virginia, voters go to the polls in November to elect state and local legislators, but in Charlottesville, the election will pretty much be sewn up in August. In this overwhelmingly Democratic burg, perhaps a thousand or two people will vote in the party's primary and decide who will serve on City Council and as the hotly contested clerk of circuit court. The bleak odds have not deterred four independents from joining the race, raising the number of candidates to 11 seeking the three seats up for grabs on City Council. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/shenandoah-secrets-pork-propaganda-and-the-creation-of-a-cool-national-park monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/2759b7e7-c29c-4f52-8961-aa12c76d8ec7/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+1.38.53%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Shenandoah secrets: Pork, propaganda, and the creation of a COOL national park - Shenandoah secrets: Pork, propaganda, and the creation of a COOL national park A lot can change in three quarters of a century. Walk along the Hughes River in Madison County in a place called Nicholson Hollow, and there's little trace that this was once a thriving village. Now heavily wooded, the hollow was a lot more open then because trees had been cut since the late 1700s to build houses, barns, and fences, and the land left open for gardens, orchards, and pastures for cattle and horses. Seventy-five years ago, the hollow became part of the East Coast's first national park when it opened after heaps of controversy. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/rock-hill-forever-charlottesvilles-not-so-secret-gardens monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f4a40bc4-4109-4719-825f-50108be9e98a/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+1.34.17%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Rock Hill forever: Charlottesville's not-so-secret gardens - Rock Hill forever: Charlottesville's not-so-secret gardens Forget about the impending Meadowcreek Parkway and the 250 Interchange project for a minute, as well as the fabulous history of the nearby eight-acre Rock Hill estate, once the site of a circa-1820 two-story Federal style house (which, thanks to a mischievous youngster, burned down in 1963). Forget that famed architect Eugene Bradbury once called it home, and that the Rev. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/whatever-happened-10-updated-stories monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/9ced1dd0-2bf3-4a8b-bcb3-c20fdc761ba6/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+1.17.42%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Whatever happened? 10 updated stories - Whatever happened? 10 updated stories Whatever happened after authorities slew the geese in Forest Lakes? Whatever happened to Oliver Kuttner's remarkably light car? What's the latest on the search for Morgan Harrington's killer? This week, we look back at ten classic cover stories– dramatic tales, poignant remembrances, investigative reports, and colorful profiles– to learn the very latest. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/riding-the-rails-its-the-only-way-to-fly monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/891b2b96-481e-4c52-8cff-e98281ccf107/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+1.13.27%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Riding the rails: It's the only way to fly - Riding the rails: It's the only way to fly It's late afternoon, and I'm standing inside New York's JFK airport with over a dozen of my favorite relatives, when we suddenly learn that the flight back to Reagan National has been canceled due to a severe weather system in the nation's capital. Even worse, the storm has knocked out the rest of the day's flights as well. As frequent travelers know, when weather grounds planes, there's no free ride and no free hotel–- just the prospect of lining up a set of hotel rooms (each of which can easily run $500/night in Gotham City) or scrambling to find a squad of large, luggage-ready rental cars and enough drivers willing to launch a five-hour (traffic-willing) trek to the DC area. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/fast-track-western-bypass-shifts-into-overdrive monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/782568bd-62da-4dd4-ac4f-ad80d3d5a415/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+1.08.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Fast track: Western Bypass shifts into overdrive - Fast track: Western Bypass shifts into overdrive It had been a long, politically charged night in Lane Auditorium. Inside this main room of the Albemarle County Office Building, there were accusations of "socialism" vs. "flat earth" in a standing-room-only environmental debate. Those of us who departed after five hours of that acrimony, however, missed the biggest news of the evening. Maybe the biggest news of the year.Twenty-one years after its route was plotted, the U.S. 29 Western Bypass roared back to life. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/double-recantation-is-an-innocent-man-in-jail-for-the-crozet-murders monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0c9191e6-96bd-4bdd-9960-2009e44dcaff/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+12.53.29%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Double recantation: Is an innocent man in jail for the Crozet murders? - Double recantation: Is an innocent man in jail for the Crozet murders? It was the crime that rocked Crozet: a mother found stabbed to death in bed, her three-year-old son dead from the smoke of a cover-up fire. Amid whispers of witchcraft, four neighborhood teens were arrested, and three are doing time today in state prisons. One of them, Rocky Fugett, now 27, admits he was there that night in 2003, for which he was convicted along with his sister and another neighborhood kid. Eight years later, Fugett says an innocent man is serving time for something he didn't do, and that man– Robert Davis– wasn't even there. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/extreme-makeover-rich-edition-state-program-benefits-those-who-need-it-least monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5f394a56-c43a-42e9-a903-f4ef3c3c8101/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+12.47.39%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Extreme makeover: rich edition-- State program benefits those who need it least - Extreme makeover: rich edition-- State program benefits those who need it least Ask most preservationists what they think of Virginia's Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program, and you'll hear them proudly say it's one of the most generous, if not the most generous, programs in the country, leading to the rehabilitation of thousands of historic properties. Indeed, since the program's inception in 1997, the state has awarded nearly $700 million in tax credits to homeowners and developers. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/trendless-summer-uncovering-fun-in-central-virginia monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/26b10918-92c6-41a4-a61e-b488a5087444/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+12.35.23%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Trendless summer: Uncovering fun in Central Virginia - Trendless summer: Uncovering fun in Central Virginia Every good townie knows his or her stuff when it comes to summer sunning and funning. Looking for live music? Stop by the nTelos Pavilion for the free Fridays After Five show. Craving a relaxing afternoon with friends? Head down to Scottsville's James River Runners to tube the day away. Want kid-friendly joy to include in your summer repertoire? The Downtown Mall's Discovery Museum always has an action-packed summer schedule. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/up-tick-why-you-should-be-worried-about-lyme-disease monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d7f45637-682d-4de0-a974-b3492a224190/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+12.28.57%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Up tick: Why you should be worried about Lyme disease - Up tick: Why you should be worried about Lyme disease Scuttle aside, cockroaches. You're losing your spot as the most feared insect in Virginia, and your competition doesn't even look that scary. So tiny it can scarcely be seen, the black-legged tick doesn't move fast, it doesn't have a nauseating shiny shell, it doesn't even have antennae to inspire revulsion. No matter. Its fear factor comes from its status as host to a disease that, if left untreated, can permanently disable. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/midnight-rider-how-jack-jouett-saved-virginia monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/59a9a903-4b93-4b5b-a4a1-343a03fdc457/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+12.23.59%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Midnight rider: How Jack Jouett saved Virginia - Midnight rider: How Jack Jouett saved Virginia It was the evening of June 3, 1781– a Sunday– and war was on its way to Charlottesville.Nearly forty miles to the east, at Cuckoo Tavern, John Jouett Jr. had finished dinner and gone outside to catch a few winks. Because of the oppressive late spring heat and the food and drink sitting heavily in his gut, “Jack,” as his friends called him, was soon fast asleep despite the revelry droning on in the background. Jouett was curled up under a great elm near the tavern’s picket fence, the only thing separating him from the county road. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/still-a-fighter-why-this-woman-is-suing-uva-for-50-million monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/299c3747-44fc-4192-a410-ed633af32663/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+12.19.42%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - 'Still a fighter': Why this woman is suing UVA for $50 million - 'Still a fighter': Why this woman is suing UVA for $50 million Five years ago, Barb Tocci was working as a real estate agent in downtown Scottsville, riding horses and motorcycles on the weekends. Today, the 54-year-old woman relies on a cane to walk. She's missing two toes and a finger, and she's lost the use of her right arm. In the Charlottesville area, widely recognized for outstanding health care– with cutting edge medical research and some of the country's leading physicians– how did this happen? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/on-the-road-again-local-bands-hit-the-festival-circuit monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/62d4044f-dc5c-41fe-811a-837191992c50/cover+2.jpg Issue Archive Blog - On the road again: Local bands hit the festival circuit - On the road again: Local bands hit the festival circuit Who hasn't begged Mom and Dad to let them take a roadtrip over a summer weekend to catch their favorite bands or been thrilled to see multiple artists performing on the same bill? And what great artist hasn't packed up the van and festival-hopped across the country, hitting Lollapalooza and Pitchfork in Chicago or Bonnaroo in Tennessee or Coachella in California? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/submission-guidelines-will-the-fallen-vqr-rise-again monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/043e9c34-60cb-4068-ad17-fd4f0b2ced33/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+11.38.31%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Submission guidelines: Will the fallen VQR rise again? - Submission guidelines: Will the fallen VQR rise again? For 86 years the Virginia Quarterly Review, UVA's award-winning literary journal, had appeared on bookstore shelves and in mailboxes each season. But that publishing streak was threatened last summer when the magazine's managing editor, 52-year-old Kevin Morrissey, took his own life. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/gag-me-does-censuring-the-censors-really-work monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/bb032484-3428-4407-aba3-8ecd0b31b3f5/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+11.33.51%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Gag me: Does censuring the censors really work? - Gag me: Does censuring the censors really work? It's not surprising that in Thomas Jefferson's hometown, the founding father's ideals are so vaunted that a Free Speech Monument stands in front of City Hall for citizens to express themselves. Individuals may erase each other’s messages; city government may not. So when a mother complained about a lewd drawing, and the Charlottesville city manager ordered it erased–- in violation of the terms of the slate wall's donor, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression–- the obvious question for TJ watchers was whether the city manager would get the equivalent of the free speech walk of shame: a Jefferson Muzzle award. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/broken-trust-sex-allegations-against-therapist-prompt-investigation monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0341c5f3-c02b-4df7-88f9-a610e19563ca/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+11.28.18%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Broken trust: Sex allegations against therapist prompt investigation - Broken trust: Sex allegations against therapist prompt investigation Patients came to him in their darkest hours, going through divorce, struggling with substance abuse, perhaps grieving over the loss of a loved one. But while some call Albemarle County social worker Howard Vidaver a therapist of rare talent and insight, court documents suggest he has been betraying one of the bedrock rules of his profession by engaging in sexual contact with patients. If true, the allegations suggest that he violated therapist/patient trust– and that it happened after he had already been disciplined by the state licensing board for similar behavior. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/equinoxer-to-activist-the-making-of-a-soldier-in-the-war-against-the-war-on-drugs monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/8b750fdb-073a-451f-bc62-504e5e767ccc/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+11.18.45%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Equinoxer to activist: The making of a soldier in the war against the war on drugs - Equinoxer to activist: The making of a soldier in the war against the war on drugs Jamie Graham did not say no. He said yes. In fact, he said yes many times. Yes to that bottle of champagne his friends were passing around in high school at a New Year's Eve party, yes to the guy who said "chug it." He said yes to trying marijuana on that very same night, though it never actually got him high the first few times. And, in the summer before college, Graham said yes to LSD. He'd been reading all about Ken Kesey and the Day-Glo acid trippers of the 1960s, and he'd gotten curious. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/long-gone-how-uva-lost-pat-collins monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ec3e5a6a-2f62-448c-9836-c2fcca60a2d7/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+11.13.37%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Long gone: How UVA lost Pat Collins - Long gone: How UVA lost Pat Collins Barbara Shannon was so nervous about flying overseas that she called her son in Charlottesville, where the 27-year-old had recently moved from California. "Pat's last words to me were, ‘Don't worry, Mom, everything's going to be all right. Nothing's going to happen to you.’” And indeed, 25 years later, his mother is still alive— but the same probably can’t be said for Patrick Collins. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/meet-the-authors-hooks-2011-fiction-contest monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/997bfaa2-4484-4024-8e81-3ed6759824dc/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+11.07.34%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Meet the Authors: Hook’s 2011 Fiction Contest - Plotting Along: Contest winners pack a punch with their fiction "I had the twist ending in mind about the teacher," explains 2011 Hook Short Story Contest winner and high school teacher Steven Turner. "Maybe in some Freudian way, this was a little insight on the idea of the powerlessness teachers feel sometimes." To win the acclaim of best-selling author John Grisham, Turner used unique elements of perspective and plot. So did the other two winners. "I like my stories to be about things that aren't quite as they seem," says third place winner Gary Kessler. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/books-in-the-time-of-twitter-hooks-hot-lit-picks-for-17th-festival monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/1ce74511-524e-4eba-83fb-801cefb8da54/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+11.01.32%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Books in the time of Twitter: Hook's hot lit picks for 17th festival - Books in the time of Twitter: Hook's hot lit picks for 17th festival The world has changed since the first celebration of the book here in 1995. Back then, no one seriously considered the feasibility of a computer replacing bound pages for one's reading pleasure. In 2010, however, Amazon sold more e-books than old-fashioned paper ones. Bookstores were struggling then, when big chains were seen as the major threat. Locally, the ones that survived the arrival of Barnes & Noble mostly are still around. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/scenic-treasure-how-conservation-lines-the-pockets-of-the-rich monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c7f1e323-f5d3-4481-8794-b10217ef8ecd/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+10.54.24%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Scenic treasure: How conservation lines the pockets of the rich - Scenic treasure: How conservation lines the pockets of the rich What if Biscuit Run were the tip of the iceberg, just the latest and largest in a litany of public payments to private citizens? What if the state gave away vast sums– some measuring in the millions of dollars– to induce millionaires to "conserve" luxurious estates that they may have had no intention of developing anyway? And what if Virginia, which forces the humblest homeowners to place their real estate transactions in public view, created a special law allowing the millionaires to shroud such deals– currently measured at $106.8 million a year in taxpayer money? Welcome to Virginia, where "conservation" makes it all possible. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/hook-tabloid-edition monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/298d1924-b374-4dde-ac0e-b32701271874/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+10.13.29%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Hook Tabloid Edition! - Free and defiant: Vampire assailant released from prison The man who donned a vampire mask one Halloween night and attacked his estranged wife as she slept has been set free after more than six years behind bars. In an exclusive interview with the Hook, Kurt Kroboth acknowledges "shameful and humiliating" behavior, but remains defiant about what he calls an "overreaching prosecution" that led to his 2006 conviction for attempted murder. "It was criminal behavior," says Kroboth, reached in Green Valley, Arizona, where he relocated after his February 1 release. However, the now-55-year-old former financier says the idea that he intended to kill his wife, Jane, is wrong. "There was an assault," says Kroboth. "If you think about it, there was no weapon. I came upon a sleeping person. Had I intended to kill someone, it would have been easy to do." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/where-theres-smoke-theres-ire-condo-conflict-lights-up-in-hessian-hills monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f4862177-3667-4d4d-8c9d-24825ec72e50/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+10.06.19%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Where there's smoke, there's ire: Condo conflict lights up in Hessian Hills - Where there's smoke, there's ire: Condo conflict lights up in Hessian Hills When Eileen Aiken bought a condominium at the Hessian Hills complex in 2005, it was the first time she'd ever owned her own home. Five years later, house pride has turned into a living hell, and she blames it on seeping cigarette smoke. Aiken, 59, shows a reporter to the closed door of her bathroom. When it's opened, the room smells like a delinquent teen has been sneaking puffs inside. The thing is, Aiken doesn't smoke. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/hes-still-here-and-other-revelations-in-the-harrington-case monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/66dd7091-b4fb-4bae-8f1c-058f6d53942c/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+9.58.56%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - 'He's still here.' And other revelations in the Harrington case - 'He's still here.' And other revelations in the Harrington case It was a Saturday night in October 2009. The air outside was chilly, and a light rain was falling as the visiting father finished dinner with his daughter at a Charlottesville restaurant and the two returned to his car. As the father drove his daughter back to her dormitory around 9:20pm, their path took them past John Paul Jones Arena, where a major event was underway. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/groupenomics-getting-schooled-on-the-daily-deal-craze monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ebfea125-2785-4c6b-89a6-d33f8f3037e5/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+9.54.07%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Groupenomics: Getting schooled on the daily deal craze - Groupenomics: Getting schooled on the daily deal craze They've got an offer you can't refuse. Yes, the so-called 'group buying' or 'social buying' craze spearheaded by websites like Groupon and LivingSocial has made its way to Charlottesville. While local consumers might have reason to rejoice about saving 50 to 90 percent on local purchases, and while some local businesses are embracing the concept, others are bracing themselves for a daily deal invasion. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/familial-pain-harringtons-press-police-for-controversial-dna-test monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/b8ce3402-f453-421f-825d-e77946547bf4/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+9.34.20%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Familial pain: Harringtons press police for controversial DNA test - Familial pain: Harringtons press police for controversial DNA test Dry grass snaps underfoot as Gil and Dan Harrington make their way across the winter-yellowed fields of Anchorage Farm, where one year ago a farmer checking fences discovered the badly decomposed remains of their daughter, Morgan Harrington. The discovery brought a tragic end to a three-month search for the 20-year-old blond beauty, who disappeared after leaving a Metallica concert at the John Paul Jones Arena. "This is not evil land," says the bereaved mother, kneeling on the spot her daughter's body lay and touching the earth. "But there was an evil man or men here who killed my daughter." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/reversal-of-fortune-albemarle-house-goes-on-the-block monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/daf7f751-2dbc-4a1c-91b1-5c47da0fa275/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+9.27.34%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Reversal of fortune: Albemarle House goes on the block - Reversal of fortune: Albemarle House goes on the block For former billionaire's wife Patricia Kluge, the auctions, the lawsuits, and the loss of the winery bearing her name combined to make 2010 seem to be a very bad year, an annus horribilis as the Queen of England once quipped. Unfortunately for Kluge, 2011 may be worse. Last year, Kluge put her jewelry, furnishings, and even her clothes up for auction in a bid to stave off creditors. Yet in December, she and her husband, a one-time state wine leader, lost their 960-acre winery to foreclosure, crushing the couple’s dream of bringing high-quality Virginia wine to the national market. Now, another auction looms. Albemarle House, the mansion where Patricia Kluge once entertained kings, princes, and U.S. presidents in haute grandeur, has been foreclosed upon. "That house was built at a time when an inkling of that style existed," says architect David Easton, who designed Albemarle House. "The issue in this day and age: It is not 1900." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/survive-and-thrive-the-do-it-yourself-charlottesville-snow-guide monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/87a91111-3368-4b66-980c-260b1a45a085/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+9.21.22%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Survive and thrive: The do-it-yourself Charlottesville snow guide - Survive and thrive: The do-it-yourself Charlottesville snow guide With snow moving east or on the ground by the time you read it, this guide may already be too late. But if the snow gets your attention, then maybe this will help you salvage some semblance of health, sanity, safety, and fun–- at least for next time. The Hook news team has over 100 years of combined experience living in Charlottesville, and we thought we'd share with you some of what we've learned. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/bad-men-new-numbers-show-spiraling-cost-of-biscuit-run monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/1f6b4c28-cadc-4a1d-874d-d2c1a8475765/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+9.16.57%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Bad men? New numbers show spiraling cost of Biscuit Run - Bad men? New numbers show spiraling cost of Biscuit Run A year ago, an outgoing governor hailed the purchase of a flailing subdivision called Biscuit Run as a "bargain" for Virginia taxpayers. Now, however, newly leaked documents show that taxpayers may end up paying more than twice the price promised for a new park by then governor Tim Kaine. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-year-in-review-the-best-and-the-worst-of-10 monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/68f20e6c-d94f-42cd-a185-107a55a3c8d2/Screenshot+2026-01-01+at+9.28.10%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The year in review: The best and the worst of '10 - The year in review: The best and the worst of '10 Heinous crime, extreme weather, an angry citizenry–- 2010 had a lot going on, along with marking the end of the millennium's first decade. Yet in some ways, it was just like any other year. The skeletal Landmark still marks the Downtown Mall, which seems a lot like 2008. The Meadowcreek Parkway still isn't (completely) built, which is a lot like 1980. And dwindling revenues mean local government budget shortfalls. But don't they always? Year 2010 was a lot like other years, only worse. Worse unemployment. Worse airport experiences. A staggeringly worse national debt. And hey, there's a war going on. How many years had that been? The recession is declared over, but when was the last time you saw a raise? How's the value of your home, assuming it isn't under foreclosure? A lot of us are working more while making less, and the cumulative effect is a national crankiness. What will we remember about Charlottesville in 2010? Snowpocalypse? Microbursts? The Tea Party? Tom Perriello? VQR? Where's Baldi? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/person-of-the-year-bad-boy-turned-brazen-brainiac-oliver-kuttner monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d990e627-6bf1-4d73-a3ce-cac8f50236f0/Screenshot+2026-01-01+at+9.12.41%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Person of the Year: Bad Boy turned Brazen Brainiac: Oliver Kuttner - Person of the Year: Bad Boy turned Brazen Brainiac: Oliver Kuttner "In my 1978 yearbook quote," says Oliver Kuttner. "I said, 'Try and you'll make it.' That's been my personality the whole time," The 49-year-old real estate and automobile developer, who won a $5 million prize in automobile innovation, has been chosen by the Hook's news team as the Person of the Year, the individual who most affected the news in 2010. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/down-and-out-controversy-erupts-over-panhandling-downtown monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/1a258975-8c80-444a-8da4-edc8247620a9/Screenshot+2026-01-01+at+9.03.44%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Down and out: Controversy erupts over panhandling downtown - Down and out: Controversy erupts over panhandling downtown Mark Brown doesn't like begging. The owner of what was long known as the Charlottesville Ice Park (now the Main Street Arena), Brown recently helped formulate an ad campaign to help the homeless and put the hurt on panhandling– and he ran straight into controversy. Brown says the concept was designed to steer dollars toward agencies and curtail panhandling, a practice widely seen as funding drug and alcohol abuse. He says the campaign was based on research the head of the area's new homeless shelter conducted on how other communities have creatively handled the issue. Some ideas have created panfuls of controversy. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/to-buy-or-not-to-buy-the-holiday-shopping-season-kicks-off monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/56abd611-be99-4da3-8fbe-7593364b5fee/Screenshot+2026-01-01+at+8.55.12%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - To buy or not to buy: The holiday shopping season kicks off - To buy or not to buy: The holiday shopping season kicks off Hours before the sun came up on Friday, November 26, parking lots at Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Toys 'R Us and K-Mart overflowed, and traffic streamed up and down 29N like some surreal middle-of-the-night rush hour. Those arriving late– after, say, 2am– shuffled across the parking lots to find lines so long, they might have thought Mick Jagger or Angelina Jolie was signing autographs at the front. Indeed, Black Friday seems to have taken root in the national consciousness and may now be as much a holiday as the day that precedes it. According to recently released retail figures from the Chamber of Commerce, the Charlottesville/Albemarle area has seen retail growth of just over one percent in the first three quarters of 2010. Will the holiday season push that figure higher? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/two-years-two-bags-how-she-makes-almost-no-trash monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/3e32c4d7-40dc-42a5-8185-bc34dfa95434/Screenshot+2026-01-01+at+8.50.02%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Two years, two bags: How she makes almost no trash - Two years, two bags: How she makes almost no trash When your day job is measuring the health of waterways, it's a given you're going to be more aware of just how much humans can resemble parasites, sucking the very life out of the host we call planet earth. That realization can result in eco-despair, depression, or even heavy drinking. Or you can do something about it. For one Charlottesville woman, the flash of insight came at the end of 2008, when she took her garbage can out and looked up and down the street lined with filled trash cans, including her own. "I couldn't pretend any more that my trash wasn't going to end up buried in someone's land or in the water," says Rose Brown. "There's not enough room on the planet for all the trash." The now 32-year-old decided not to produce any trash the next year. Talk about a New Year's resolution. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/coop-de-grass-charlottesville-eggsellent-adventure monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/690e3c26-4ccb-4c9e-95a6-a9fad68015b7/Screenshot+2026-01-01+at+8.44.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Coop de grass: Charlottesville eggsellent adventure - Coop de grass: Charlottesville eggsellent adventure In 1966, Chickenman, a radio short that satirized the television series "Batman" was created by Dick Orkin at WCFL-AM in Chicago. The introduction was "Chickenman, he's everywhere, he's everywhere." Chickenman is no more, but city chickens are proliferating. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/fight-for-justice-justine-swartz-abshires-family-wages-war-on-widower monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/7dc3177f-11fd-4784-854e-9b839480daa1/Screenshot+2026-01-01+at+8.38.03%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Fight for justice: Justine Swartz Abshire's family wages war on widower - Fight for justice: Justine Swartz Abshire's family wages war on widower Since their daughter's mysterious death on a winding country road, the parents of Justine Swartz Abshire have made no secret about who they believe is responsible. But four years after the lifeless body of the 27-year-old school-teacher was discovered following what was initially reported as a hit-and-run accident, there's been no arrest in the case. That hasn't stopped the woman's parents from suggesting she was more likely beaten to death than hit by a car–- and filing a $5 million civil suit alleging not only that Justine's husband Eric Abshire is a killer but that he didn't act alone. While Abshire has long maintained his innocence and vowed to help catch his wife's killer or killers, a bankruptcy filing shows that contrary to previous public statements that he wouldn't attempt to financially benefit from his wife's death, Eric Abshire did, in fact, go after some of the estimated $1.3 million in insurance money. "His version of events is implausible," says Justine's father Steve Swartz, vowing to avenge his daughter's death through any legal means available. "The battle lines are drawn," says Swartz. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/zombiesque-the-lighter-side-of-the-living-dead monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/6a52853e-df7b-4118-a83a-0d73d2a18d16/Screenshot+2026-01-01+at+8.32.52%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Zombiesque: The lighter side of the living dead - Zombiesque: The lighter side of the living dead Logic isn't always to be feared– but fear is often logical. At least, that's the dynamic local director Brian Wimer is tapping into with his genre of choice: horror. The past three films he's spearheaded have contained varying degrees of humor, absurdity, and horror, and two of them– 2009's Eat Me: The Zombie Musical and his most recent, Danger. Zombies. Run.– play off the long-standing fear of the living dead to present a larger social critique. "Zombies are something to be feared, and what we do is run from them," explains Wimer. "But zombies only chase you because you run from them." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/top-secret-did-taxpayers-get-burned-by-biscuit-run monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/80c9e398-f7fb-4f64-b50d-30d010ebb1cf/Screenshot+2026-01-01+at+8.20.03%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Top secret: Did taxpayers get burned by Biscuit Run? - Top secret: Did taxpayers get burned by Biscuit Run? It seems like a simple question: How much will taxpayers pay to make Biscuit Run a Virginia park? Nearly a year after the state's under-the-wire purchase of the 1,200-acre tract that had been slated to become Albemarle's biggest subdivision, the would-be developers and state officials appear to have successfully deflected inquiries about the value of tax credits that made the deal possible–- even as the Virginia state senator who penned the legislation establishing such tax credits now calls the secrecy "disturbing." Meanwhile, tranquility-quashing plans remain to build 100 houses within the new park's perimeter. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/conflicting-tales-the-unfolding-tragedy-at-the-vqr monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/eefbf1d0-7ece-44c9-b898-181be4f29cc2/Screenshot+2026-01-01+at+8.13.34%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Conflicting tales: The unfolding tragedy at the VQR - Conflicting tales: The unfolding tragedy at the VQR Nearly three months after Virginia Quarterly Review managing editor Kevin Morrissey took his own life, stories are still being penned about what the tragedy revealed about the troubled inner workings of the award-winning magazine: charges of favoritism, spiraling spending, poisonous tensions between staff members, and the hot-button suggestion that the magazine's editor, Ted Genoways, bullied the 52-year-old Morrissey in the last few weeks of his life. Documents recently made available to the Hook show that Genoways was burning through VQR's endowment, hiring an intern for a key office role without going through the usual state procedures, and–- perhaps most surprisingly–- planning to take advantage of the intern-turned-employee's million-dollar-plus donation to another program to save his own struggling enterprise. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/patented-medicine-trail-of-money-follows-trail-of-tears monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/46bf593a-2d1f-4a1a-bae4-d1a612ad740b/Screenshot+2026-01-01+at+8.07.44%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Patented medicine: Trail of money follows trail of tears - Patented medicine: Trail of money follows trail of tears Baseball legend Lou Gehrig immortalized himself in 1939 as "the luckiest man on the face of this earth." Over 70 years after Gehrig's heart-breaking speech, however, there's precious little luck for sufferers of the fatal disease often bearing his name. However, a local doctor's drug discovery– combined with the an entrepreneurial strategy by an up-and-coming office affiliated with the University of Virginia– may change the outlook for patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. As the drug, dexpramipexole, begins serving up good news for UVA in the form of millions of dollars in licensing and royalty fees, it comes with some painful baggage in the form of 15 ALS patients who saw their access unceremoniously snatched away. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/seeing-red-safety-measure-or-cash-grab monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/328b3e84-3321-4d3a-b806-f78bb3fb340c/Screenshot+2026-01-01+at+8.00.02%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Seeing Red: Safety measure or cash grab? - Seeing Red: Safety measure or cash grab? With the arrival of Charlottesville's first red light cameras comes the end of an honor system between drivers that has existed for decades, at least at one tricky intersection. Now it's come to this: tickets for red light running will be generated by machines, not cops. Welcome to the world of 21st Century law enforcement. But is this a legitimate effort to promote traffic safety? Or simply a cash grab by a private company and local government? More importantly, will the cameras actually stop red light running or simply have local drivers seeing red? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/going-south-but-wheres-the-lawn monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/83de02ba-c076-4488-8241-53e842dc7bba/Screenshot+2025-12-31+at+4.58.10%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Going South: But where's the Lawn? - Going South: But where's the Lawn? If the recently completed South Lawn project were a blockbuster movie, the promo might start like this: "In a world where UVA launches the most ambitious undertaking on the sacred ground of Jefferson's Academical Village in a century, attempting to reinterpret an enduring classic of American architecture, a band of architectural rebels mount a counter attack to preserve creative freedom in the Village." Indeed, the South Lawn project has been UVA's big production number. For nearly a decade, its been touted as a radical and much needed extension of Jefferson's Academical Village, and at a cost of $105 million it certainly has a blockbuster budget. But will the South Lawn project achieve success worthy of the considerable build-up? So far, the reviews have been mixed. In a recent statement on the project, architect for the University David Neuman seemed almost defensive, as if he were expecting another dose of criticism. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/kuttner-conquers-olivers-edison2-car-wins-5-million-x-prize monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/02049ff4-1e4e-4efc-9419-15e92d9ed596/Screenshot+2025-12-31+at+4.51.37%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Kuttner conquers: Oliver's Edison2 car wins $5 million X Prize - Kuttner conquers: Oliver's Edison2 car wins $5 million X Prize Oliver Kuttner, the Charlottesville real estate developer turned automotive developer, has won the $5 million top prize in the Progressive Automotive X Prize, it was announced Thursday morning, September 16. His Edison2 team's winning vehicle, a four-seater called the Very Light Car, reportedly gets 102 miles per gallon of fuel and could, Kuttner hopes, reshape the automotive industry. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/john-kluge-the-benevolent-billionaire-goes-out-in-style monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/41d242bf-2d92-441d-b061-c04ca2b2c037/Screenshot+2025-12-31+at+4.31.26%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - John Kluge: The benevolent billionaire goes out in style - John Kluge: The benevolent billionaire goes out in style n a life that continued for two and a half decades past his obituary interview with the New York Times, media-shy billionaire John Kluge would endure controversy in the form of a socialite ex-wife and an illegal hunting operation; and even his grandest business deal would incite some ire. But for the past 20 years, the biggest headlines John Werner Kluge made were the ones noting his eye-popping donations. The billionaire whose TV stations became the Fox network and whose money helped shape Albemarle County, died peacefully on the night of Tuesday, September 7, two weeks shy of his 96th birthday, sources say. At the time of his death, Forbes listed Kluge as the 35th-richest American, with a total fortune–- even after hundreds of millions in donations–- of $6.5 billion. "He was a wonderful man," says brother-in-law Ludwig Kuttner. "He had a great career. He was very charitable. He was great to the community and to education." Education would shape Kluge's life. That, and deal-making. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/fiction-issue monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/1646b310-f914-4f3a-87e2-e4dbd639a542/Screenshot+2025-12-31+at+4.22.06%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Fiction Issue - SHORT STORY- First Church A gun fits well in a big blazer pocket when kneeling to pray. The damp chill of the red clay seeps to my knees through the grass and the thin polyester/rayon dress pants I buy for $19.99 at J.C. Penney every other year or so. Little damp splotches of moisture will show on my knees, if I rise. I know the image I cut here in the quiet of the night, kneeling as I am before the small church sign in the little front lawn announcing the time of our Sunday service and yours truly, the Rev. Andrew Mitchell, as the pastor. I look pious. My head is bowed. My eyes are closed. I'm dressed in my cheap black pants and my cheap black blazer with the big pockets (Sears, $59.99, five years ago, now a bit too small to button around my late middle-aged belly) and my cheap black shoes ($24.99 from Wal-Mart, new this year). I look every bit the small-town pastor, perhaps praying for the church itself, perhaps praying for an ill church member. I don't brush back my hair when the breeze pushes it onto my forehead, where it sticks to the beading sweat, showing focus and concentration on prayer for the benefit of any witnesses, though I see none. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/unfriendly-skies-forest-lakes-the-miracle-on-the-hudson-and-canada-geese monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/1eb7477e-f074-455e-8503-7b008d3dd975/Screenshot+2025-12-31+at+4.09.17%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Unfriendly skies: Forest Lakes, the Miracle on the Hudson, and Canada Geese - Unfriendly skies: Forest Lakes, the Miracle on the Hudson, and Canada Geese The way that a pilot named Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger saved all 155 onboard his disabled commercial jetliner was the feel-good story of 2009. Locally, however, the "Miracle on the Hudson" helped launch some bad feelings in the Forest Lakes neighborhood. Since the incident and following a series of Congressional hearings and the release of previously confidential FAA data on bird strikes, thousands of the geese across the country have been rounded up and slaughtered as part of the airline industry's efforts to make flying safer. But the mass killing has outraged bird lovers and ruffled feathers at Forest Lakes where 90 Canada Geese were rounded up and killed in early July. Some Forest Lakes residents have come forward to say that despite their neighborhood's proximity to the airport, Forest Lakes geese actually pose little risk to planes. "It's hypocrisy, and it's all about money," says resident Arthur Epp, who lives in a house overlooking a lake where the geese once swam and raised their young. While federal officials say the geese killing will bolster the safety of the flying public, Epp says there's plenty of data to back up the claim that the airline industry is most concerned with making people think they're safer. Who is right? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/welcome-madame-president-uvas-wish-list-for-teresa-sullivan monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f74f195c-8a8c-47db-a5ff-e14c75d79fb3/Screenshot+2025-12-31+at+4.03.34%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Welcome Madame President: UVA's wish list for Teresa Sullivan - Welcome Madame President: UVA's wish list for Teresa Sullivan The Morgan Harrington and Yeardley Love tragedies. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's Climategate attack on a former UVA researcher. And now the crisis facing the Virginia Quarterly Review after the suicide of its managing editor. All that's on top of more fundamental challenges–- a billion dollars lost from UVA's long term investment pool in 2008. Statewide cuts to higher education, and professors and staff who haven't seen a raise in years. As new UVA president Teresa Sullivan takes the reins after the two-decade tenure of her predecessor John Casteen, there's no shortage of pressing matters for her to tackle–- many of them attracting national news coverage– and in her first weeks on the job, she's hit the ground running, first with a wide-ranging press conference addressing issues from how students are asked about their criminal histories to the University's finances. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/tale-of-woe-the-death-of-the-vqrs-kevin-morrissey monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/be6b009f-0445-42b6-bf96-264d3c91a6b5/Screenshot+2025-12-31+at+3.57.49%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Tale of Woe: The death of the VQR's Kevin Morrissey - Tale of Woe: The death of the VQR's Kevin Morrissey On John Casteen’s last official day in office as the president of the University of Virginia, a tragic story, one fit for the pages of the award-winning literary journal that he nurtured, began to unfold. That Friday, July 30, the managing editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, 52-year-old Kevin Morrissey, took his own life. Since then, UVA has shrouded VQR behind a wall of silence, changing the office locks, launching an audit, and even routing all incoming telephone calls to the University's public relations office. A Hook investigation reveals that behind the staid, Thomas Jefferson-designed exterior of VQR's headquarters swirl allegations of financial recklessness, conflicts of interest, and a bizarre pattern of management-by-email that drove a staffer to quit. Some say there was also a pattern of bullying that may have pushed a fragile man into tragic oblivion. What’s more, according to a former VQR employee, University officials have known about some of the personnel problems for at least five years. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/jefferson-school-giveaway-can-charlottesville-get-it-right-this-time monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/cc23f18d-e0c5-49ad-8a63-0eacfa2f1df8/Screenshot+2025-12-31+at+3.49.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Jefferson School giveaway: Can Charlottesville get it right this time? - Jefferson School giveaway: Can Charlottesville get it right this time? n the center of Charlottesville's most shameful acts from the 20th century sits the Jefferson School. Symbol of segregation? Check. Survivor of Vinegar Hill urban renewal that cleared out an African-American community in the 1960s? Yep. Reminder that Charlottesville closed its schools rather than admit black children during massive resistance in 1958? Right. Vintage school building falling silently into decrepitude while sitting on four acres of primo real estate, ripe for development? Yes. But that's where the city and a dozen volunteers say the story veers from historical precedent, that the sale of the property will not be an Omni 2, in which the city pumped over $11 million to private interests. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/annual-manual-4 monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/39f05995-70ce-4613-93d4-25ea132270e2/08052010-0931.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Annual Manual - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/blackandwhite-image-and-commentary monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/7d1daf03-5a6e-49e9-aa48-6e5f67a7c46d/Screenshot+2025-12-31+at+12.19.07%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - BlackandWhite - image and commentary - BlackandWhite - image and commentary Some people know him as a quiet man who walks his dog along East Market Street. Some people know him as a boisterous preservationist for the Woolen Mills neighborhood. Some know him for his recent service on the Charlottesville Planning Commission. And some haven't met him but have discovered his photo-driven blog which shows a keen eye for detail and amazing interplays of light. Thus the name: Black & White. Bill Emory has put the focus on little noticed corners of Charlottesville and other places, so this week we thought we'd put the focus on his work. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/hockey-hero-local-man-saves-the-ice-park monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/1662b16d-ed9b-4222-be85-49569a566a25/Screenshot+2025-12-31+at+12.07.43%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Hockey hero: Local man saves the Ice Park! - Hockey hero: Local man saves the Ice Park! Local ice skaters, meet your unlikely hero: 29-year-old businessman Mark Brown. On Friday, July 16, he purchased the struggling Charlottesville Ice Park to end months of fear and speculation that the massive building, widely seen as a Downtown nexus, might–- like the controversy-stained shell of a hotel nearby–- stand empty for years. The purchase comes two weeks after skating stopped and at a price of $3 million, more than a million less than the asking price and about a million below the 1996 development price. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/he-fought-the-law-and-the-law-lost-dont-call-steve-shifflett-a-cop-impersonator monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/dab48a42-4531-4646-a06c-98ea91bf75bf/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+11.55.34%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - He fought the law and the law lost: Don't call Steve Shifflett a cop impersonator - He fought the law and the law lost: Don't call Steve Shifflett a cop impersonator Steve Shifflett has been on both sides of the law. As a deputy for nearly three decades, he lived his boyhood dream of a career in law enforcement, only to have it derailed by what he claims is a police vendetta against him that continues to this day. Those who've been on the receiving end of his million-dollar lawsuits might see things differently. Has Shifflett been unfairly targeted, or has he– as many officers have alleged– actually done something wrong? This spring, he's in court as a defendant, and the first thing he tells the judge is, "I am not the Steve Shiflett who claimed he was shot." He's referring to former Albemarle deputy Stephen R. Shiflett who in 2003 reported– falsely, it turned out–- that he'd been shot by a mysterious African American man. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/restaurant-week-summer-2010-whats-in-your-fridge monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/286ab00b-0ecd-40e6-ae85-7a7207ff2b18/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+11.39.23%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Restaurant Week Summer 2010: What's in your fridge? - Restaurant Week Summer 2010: What's in your fridge? As a diner, we only get to see the end result: the perfectly sculpted steak tartare, the perfectionist plating of the local spinach salad with beets and raspberry vinaigrette, the local trout lovingly drenched in brown butter... but where did it all begin? No, we're not asking if the chicken or the egg came first. But all food has to come from somewhere– and the difference between freshly-picked spinach and refrigerated week-old spinach shows when you put fork to mouth. What better way to see the secrets behind the serving platter than to take a peek inside a chef's inner sanctum: his fridge? With twenty of Charlottesville's most daring restaurants taking the plunge for The Hook's annual Restaurant Week by creating delectable– and affordable!– three-course menus, we wondered: "What's in your fridge?" https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/powerless-how-a-three-minute-storm-put-the-hurt-on-charlottesville monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/cf269fab-9102-46ef-872f-520762674577/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+11.27.29%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Powerless: How a three minute storm put the hurt on Charlottesville - Powerless: How a three minute storm put the hurt on Charlottesville As the stormclouds rolled in late on Thursday afternoon, June 24, commuters finishing work for the day may have planned on a wet ride home. They got a lot more than that as an intense three-minute storm commonly known as a "microburst" turned what should have been short drives into harrowing hours-long affairs plagued by downed trees and power lines. Unlike the much smaller June 3 microburst, however, most commuters' nightmares didn't end at their driveways, as 45,000 Dominion Virginia customers were rendered powerless by the storm, with some homes in the dark for as long as four days. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/wise-guys-ayers-onuf-and-balogh-shed-robes-for-radio monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/2068386a-23a3-4e99-8452-95af407bdc03/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+11.17.24%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Wise guys: Ayers, Onuf and Balogh shed robes for radio - Wise guys: Ayers, Onuf and Balogh shed robes for radio If you'd asked historians Brian Balogh, Peter Onuf, and Ed Ayers six years ago how they'd feel about becoming popular radio personalities, they would have laughed it off as a joke. Well, in fact, someone did ask, and they did laugh. Heartily. At the time, all three were employed at the University of Virginia as accomplished colleagues who collectively had penned enough books to fill a small library and had garnered enough honors– academic and literary– to wallpaper any remaining walls in that library. But host a radio show? "I thought it was crazy," laughs Ayers, now president of the University of Richmond. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/can-this-car-save-the-world-oliver-kuttners-betting-on-it monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/bf83920f-c5d3-4b62-b53e-06f7ba8a4da5/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+11.03.55%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Can this car save the world? Oliver Kuttner's betting on it - Can this car save the world? Oliver Kuttner's betting on it The hulking white warehouse looks like any other industrial building in any other industrial town– there's no sign or marking, nothing to hint that a solution to America's oil dependency might lie just a few steps inside, where rough, weatherstained concrete suddenly gives way to a modern 22,000 square foot workshop with gleaming hardwood floors and a variety of high tech machines. Here, tucked away on Kemper Street in Lynchburg, nearly a dozen men– some of the world's top auto mechanics and engineers– are working furiously on an automobile prototype that they believe could avert the country's energy crisis and might even prevent another environmental catastrophe like the BP spill. Sleek and narrow with a bullet-shaped nose and tail and four wheels set apart from the chassis, the prototype they're building by hand is named the Very Light Car, and appropriately so. At less than 725 pounds, it's about one fourth the weight of a Mini Cooper. If these men achieve what they've set out to do, the Very Light Car will be the first of its kind: a car that gets 100 miles per gallon while meeting all federal and state safety and emission standards, and which can be mass produced and sold for less than $20,000. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/rooms-with-a-view-new-monticello-boss-opens-rarely-seen-rooms monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f9839d32-6efe-4856-833f-ab67a301520b/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+10.51.10%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Rooms with a View: New Monticello boss opens rarely seen rooms - Rooms with a View: New Monticello boss opens rarely seen rooms Monticello was designed for the pleasure and architectural curiosity of its owner, but as a new tour and exhibit will show, it was also designed for the enslaved workers who moved about the house relatively unseen, serving food, changing linens, and emptying chamber pots. On Tuesday, May 25, Monticello boss Leslie Greene Bowman and staff gave the press a sneak peek at rooms that have never been opened to the public. It’s all part of a new “behind the scenes” tour that will launch June 11, accompanied by a new exhibit in the cellar level called “Crossroads,” all to shed light on the intersections between Jefferson, his family and guests, and the enslaved workers. “We’re trying to make Monticello a more lively and entertaining experience,” says Susan Stein, Monticello's senior curator. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/cyberbullied-fluco-parent-angered-by-school-police-response monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/268d7b90-9237-49cd-b60d-b30f97c7e237/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+10.23.22%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Cyberbullied: Fluco parent angered by school, police response - Cyberbullied: Fluco parent angered by school, police response Threats on Facebook against a middle school student are testing how seriously officials take a pair of 2005 Virginia anti-bullying laws, and one Central Virginia mom says that school administrators and police have failed the test. Stephanie Whindleton couldn't believe it when her 12-year-old daughter– whom she describes as an avid reader and church-goer–- received profanity- and racial-epithet-laden threats on Facebook from a classmate at Fluvanna Middle School. But what turned shock to anger, she says, was that a school administrator and the Fluvanna Sheriff's Office members told her there was nothing they could do about it. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-hooks-summer-guyd-a-gentlemans-treasure-trove-of-summer-fun monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/34d83f1b-f63a-4c5e-ba3f-de6ed245e295/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+9.57.26%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The Hook's Summer Guy'd: A gentleman's treasure trove of summer fun - The Hook's Summer Guy'd: A gentleman's treasure trove of summer fun Okay, ladies, we admit it: it might seem counter-intuitive to ask a guy to make all the summer plans if you are at all hoping for a good time. At the risk of stereotyping the gentlemen in Charlottesville, men are from Mars, women are from Venus, right? And buying into that famous cliché means boys just don't seem to have the multi-tasking ability to plan a well-rounded, fully-executable day of fun in the sun. Don't men just like to play World of Warcraft, drink beer, or– horrors!– play golf? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/reading-the-tea-leaves-who-will-come-out-on-top-in-the-5th-district monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/97182622-3882-45a0-a75a-8bf6031b6226/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+9.50.13%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Reading the tea leaves: Who will come out on top in the 5th District? - Reading the tea leaves: Who will come out on top in the 5th District? On the websites of the Republican candidates itching to take on 5th District freshman Congressman Tom Perriello, it's pretty likely there will be a photo of the candidate with his lovely family. Throw in a picture of the wannabe U.S. representative talking to a farmer with green, John Deere-like equipment, and you've got two images that capture the conservative values of this largely rural district that stretches from Albemarle to the North Carolina border. Once dotted with tobacco fields and thriving textile mills, today the 5th District, particularly Southside, is the scene of painful unemployment that, at 14 percent in March, was nearly double the state average of 7.6 percent. Ivy-raised Perriello slid into office on Barack Obama's coattails, narrowly defeating once-untouchable Republican incumbent Virgil Goode by a mere 727 votes. Flash forward two years. A near-economic collapse and bailout and record government spending have given birth to the Tea Party movement and a white-hot rage throughout the country against government. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/murder-at-uva-george-huguely-yeardley-love-and-lacrosses-worst-case-scenario monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/7730425e-23b0-4fe7-9a62-489d45cde42a/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+9.37.04%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Murder at UVA: George Huguely, Yeardley Love, and Lacrosse's Worst Case Scenario - Murder at UVA: George Huguely, Yeardley Love, and Lacrosse's Worst Case Scenario Imagine the families. Chevy Chase, Maryland and Cockeysville, Maryland are only about an hour apart. George Huguely and Yeardley Love had been dating for some time. The families had to have met, right? Now, in the wake of Yeardley Love's death–- allegedly at the hands of her boyfriend, George Huguely–- imagine the interactions between the two families. If it hasn't happened already, at some point, it will. They'll cross paths, and familiar looks will be replaced with downward gazes, stifled emotions. Should they speak, think of the fumbled words, the tears, the heads shaking. The Huguely family would likely want to apologize, and the Love family might want to forgive. But truthfully, nobody could muster the courage or coherence for that conversation. What can you say? It's a tragedy of unspeakable proportions. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/devastated-uva-rocked-by-lacrosse-death-arrest monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/b23fed91-3a4b-44ec-be43-e88f2e4f72c9/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+9.07.05%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - 'Devastated': UVA rocked by lacrosse death, arrest - 'Devastated': UVA rocked by lacrosse death, arrest Police have arrested 22-year-old UVA men's lacrosse player George Huguely and charged him with first degree murder in the death of Yeardley Love, a fellow UVA fourth year and a member of the women's lacrosse team. Love was discovered in her apartment at 222 14th Street on May 3 at around 2:15am by one of her two roommates, who called 911. Speaking at a press conference Monday afternoon, Police Chief Tim Longo says that while emergency responders initially believed they would be dealing with an alcohol overdose, upon arrival they realized the situation was more serious. There was "obvious" trauma to Love's body, Longo says, and efforts to revive her failed. Longo says he doesn't believe a weapon was involved, and says a cause of death will be determined following an autopsy. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/fishing-pols-shad-planking-draws-big-names-bony-food monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/bec0ce2b-3cc5-498f-8b45-5dbef7fc5436/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+8.56.52%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Fishing pols: Shad Planking draws big names, bony food - Fishing pols: Shad Planking draws big names, bony food The 62nd annual Shad Planking was celebrated April 21 near Wakefield in southeastern Virginia. George Allen was there. So was I. This annual paean to politics, shad, and some favorite beverages is held on the third Wednesday of every April. Twenty dollars gets anyone in. The Shad Planking started as a yearly party of friends in the 1930s at Wrenn's Mill in Isle Of Wight County, celebrating the spring shad run up the James River by cooking the fish on oak planks. It slowly became an important Democratic political event back when the Democratic machine would choose gubernatorial candidates, who would routinely win elections. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/dog-gone-how-poison-killed-his-pet monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/4d6955f6-aaf9-4a8a-8fe3-02f6ba2f1e22/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+8.48.45%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Dog, gone: How poison killed his pet - Dog, gone: How poison killed his pet First there was one mouse, then another. Before long, Ande Schneider, a longtime vegetarian and animal lover, found herself purchasing humane traps and taking the captured critters outside. But after 25 such trips outdoors, she began wearying– and wondering if such a serious rodent infestation might pose a health risk to her four young children. "I decided," she says, "it might be beyond my ability." Hoping to have the situation handled safely, she decided to call the green-sounding company her landlord recommended. Before long, all the mice were dead. But, unfortunately, so was the family dog. This is what happened. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/behind-the-local-music-12-bands-to-watch-in-2010 monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/6477de2c-76e8-425c-8184-1f99bc732a48/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+7.50.58%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Behind the Local Music: 12 bands to watch in 2010 - Behind the Local Music: 12 bands to watch in 2010 We all know the stories. The legendary Dave Matthews, a lowly Miller's bartender turned international star. A rough 'n' tumble UVA band named Sparky's Flaw attracted the attention of local music mogul Coran Capshaw and transformed into iTune-toppers Parachute in a few short years. Thanks to the tenacity of local musicians in the '70s and '80s (remember Skip Castro? Or Johnny Sportcoat and the Casuals?) and the aggressive UVA music department (oh, hey, John D'Earth!), Charlottesville has been a hothouse for breeding musical talent for years. But with the addition of the John Paul Jones Arena to the Charlottesville Pavilion, Paramount, and occasionally UVA's Scott Stadium, C'ville has been so busy courting hot international talent–- from the Rolling Stones to U2, Taylor Swift to Heart, Jay-Z to Lady Gaga–- that local listeners might be at risk of overlooking the still-burgeoning local scene. Gone are the days of mega-rich labels scouring the country for the next big thing. Music these days has gone the DIY route–- venues crop up anywhere (garages, bookstores, porches), while bands are self-recording, self-promoting, self-managing machines. And with a pool of talent as large as Charlottesville's, who can keep up nowadays? Here's ten (with two to grow!) bands to watch in the next decade–- although let's hope it doesn't take that long for them to hit it big. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-jeff-reborn monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/83f1f926-7692-4ed3-9e26-e4627987f83d/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+7.46.27%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The Jeff: Reborn - The Jeff: Reborn I am a life-long Charlottesville resident, and while this town has nurtured my love of history, architecture, and entertainment, only one building merges my interest in all three– the Jefferson Theater, which has risen almost from ashes again. After almost three and a half years and a multi-million-dollar renovation, the building regained much if not all of its glory when it sprang back to life last November 27. It wasn't until just a few weeks ago, however, that the finishing touches– which bring it to whole new heights of entertainment-- were finally applied. This is my story and its story. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/toy-story-how-a-high-school-superstar-almost-lost-his-future monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0939544d-40c8-4fb7-b570-64710e4d309a/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+7.18.33%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Toy story: How a high school superstar almost lost his future - Toy story: How a high school superstar almost lost his future The 18-year-old senior wheeled his father's pick-up truck into the student parking lot at Fluvanna County High School. It was just before 8am on the morning of Friday, January 29, when the event occurred that turned him from a normal student to the latest casualty in the war on school violence. "I was just thinking about getting to class," recalls Justin Sexton. A member of Fluvanna High's football team, he'd been voted Homecoming King in the fall, and despite working three part-time jobs, Sexton somehow maintained a 3.2 GPA. His hard work had paid off as he was accepted early admission to his first choice school, Old Dominion University in Norfolk, and the Officer Candidate Program of the U.S. Coast Guard. But as he prepared to park his father's white 1999 Ford F-250 he sometimes drove to school, Sexton was flagged down by an administrator who noticed the absence of a necessary permit required for on-site parking. Sexton promised he'd stop by the school office to purchase the $20 sticker, and he started to pull out of the lot. "I wasn't worried," he says with a shrug. He should have been. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-chang-effect-wooing-palates-breaking-hearts-and-why-he-left monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/9adc46b4-751b-4096-a40b-3dfd39099409/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+7.07.38%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The Chang effect: Wooing palates, breaking hearts--- and why he left - The Chang effect: Wooing palates, breaking hearts--- and why he left Last fall, word that a famous Szechuan chef had quietly set up in Charlottesville had foodies salivating. There was a small newspaper mention and online chatter from groupies who track his every move, but after a March 1 story in the New Yorker, diners went into a feeding frenzy. “We were surprised that it became so popular so fast,”says restaurant co-owner John Rong during a lunch time interview last week. “We noticed business going up after the story in the Hook, too, but when that story in the New Yorker come out..." Indeed, sophisticated palates from Richmond and D.C. began making pilgrimages to Taste of China, where–- even on cold winter evenings–- lines could be seen snaking out onto the sidewalk of the north wing of Albemarle Square Shopping Center. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/fiction-fresh-faced-fiction-contest-winners-bring-raw-talent-to-the-table monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/b0084a04-f3ba-4485-8c8c-d04a0eca13ce/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+6.47.32%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - FICTION- Fresh-Faced Fiction: Contest winners bring raw talent to the table - FICTION- Fresh-Faced Fiction: Contest winners bring raw talent to the table Charlottesville has always boasted a healthy community of interested cultural connoisseurs and their events: the Virginia Festival of the Book, the Virginia Film Festival, numerous art galleries, the University's arts programs. But this year, a curious thing happened: The Hook's ninth annual short story contest saw an increase in entries– from approximately 80 entries in past years to 150 stories submitted in 2010, to be exact. Perhaps literary interest has been re-kindled in the new decade by the surge of electronic readers on the market? Perhaps the economic recession sparked a flooding of aspiring novelists to enter the growing fiction business? Perhaps the life of a writer still has romantic allure? But despite the upped ante, the winners of the Hook's 2010 short story contest weren't old hats at the art of fiction. In fact, two of the top three used the contest as their very first attempt at writing for an audience, just to see if they had what it takes. Apparently local literary star and contest judge John Grisham thought they did. "I'm just really grateful that somebody at that talent level had read two words I put together," says second-place winner John Davidson. While 2009's round-up of winners all credited a close-knit writing community as instrumental to their writing, this year's finalists were refreshingly untapped in the literary scene. All brought previously unheard voices to the table and were rewarded with the confidence to plunge unhindered into the fray. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/sweet-16-16th-book-fest-16-lit-picks monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/86d3774c-89ab-4e8e-bf36-a30b1ce5af08/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+6.42.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Sweet 16: 16th Book Fest; 16 lit picks - Sweet 16: 16th Book Fest; 16 lit picks Every time we turn around, someone else has a Kindle, and although they don't always know how to use it, the emergence of the e-reader— iPad, anyone?— continues to raise the question, is the book defunct? And every year in March, the Virginia Festival of the Book comes along to dispel the notion that reading books has gone the way of the eight-track tape. Last year's attendance, despite the wobbly economy, was the most yet at 20,675. Maybe it helps that most of the events are free; maybe people are just craving the simpler pleasures that a book affords. This year's 16th book fest, March 17 to 21, is a cram-packed 206 events spread over five days and has 353 participants. Whether your taste is history, mystery, or porn, there's literally something for everyone. Well, except maybe for the porn, although often there are erotic options. This year, there's less sex and more religion, perhaps a sign the Virginia Festival of the Book is prayin' that the funding of its parent, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, doesn't get obliterated in by cost-cutters in Richmond. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/pod-in-the-quad-how-albemarle-students-became-palm-readers monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/16aa3431-850a-4575-8d68-eb76f9c1cbfc/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+6.37.43%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Pod in the quad: How Albemarle students became palm readers - Pod in the quad: How Albemarle students became palm readers To Albemarle Public Schools technology chief Luvelle Brown, the iPod Touchs he introduced in classrooms two years ago aren't just music players. They're textbooks, notebooks, tape recorders, video screens, and neatly self-contained digital classrooms– all in the palms of student hands.The "aha" moment literally snuck up on IdaMae Craddock. It crept quietly as she allowed a seemingly harmless Trojan horse through the gates of her advanced English class at Monticello High School. It arrived in the form of a few dozen 4-inch-by-2-inch, black-and-silver electronic boxes: iPods. "I was blown away," Craddock says, recalling the lesson a few months ago when Homer's famous story the world's most famous sneak attack came to life on tiny screens of her students' school-issued iPod Touchs. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/60-shots-authorities-duck-as-colby-eppards-parents-seek-answers monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f45901d7-d0a5-43cf-a55a-fcc699505b70/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+6.27.50%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - 60+ shots: Authorities duck as Colby Eppard's parents seek answers - 60+ shots: Authorities duck as Colby Eppard's parents seek answers These are the approximate numbers Tracy Foster knows about the New Year's Day death of her son, Colby Eppard, after he stole a cop car and led police on a three-county chase: at least 64 holes in the car and 22 bullet holes in his body (plus buckshot). It was hard for her to count the holes in the car because of all the broken glass, and she couldn't bear to count the holes in her son, who had a closed-casket funeral, but it was one in the head, three in the neck, and two in the chest that killed him– at least that's what the funeral director reportedly told Colby's stepfather, Todd Foster. The Fosters don't know exactly how many times Colby was shot because police have not released those numbers. Commonwealth's Attorney Denise Lunsford won't either, but her eight-page report detailing her decision not to prosecute the police officers who fired on Eppard provides more numbers: 14 law enforcement vehicles present at the final showdown on Route 20 near Carter's Bridge, with seven officers from three agencies discharging their weapons. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/gone-south-by-southwest monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d3cf6ea1-142c-4189-a972-7d06f98b88e7/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+4.45.07%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Gone South (by Southwest) - Gone South (by Southwest) What do a class of sweet-faced fourth graders and a bunch of gritty parking lot attendants have in common? Well, to start, each is the subject of a Charlottesville film that will premiere at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin in March. But those shared accomplishments aren't their only commonality; both films find philosophers in unexpected places. And the director of one of the films, World Peace and other Fourth Grade Achievements, also happens to be a star of the other, The Parking Lot Movie. A longtime filmmaker whose friends describe him as either "the nicest guy ever" or "so nice it's not even funny," Chris Farina says his head is spinning over the success of both films. "The fact that we've gone to a national stage is really wonderful," he says with his nearly ever-present grin, noting that without festival exposure, independent films have little chance of finding distribution and reaching broader audiences. "It's really impressive," says Barry Sisson, producer of the indie smash hit The Station Agent, adding he was "shocked" to hear that two Charlottesville films had been accepted into South By Southwest, "an up-and-coming, respectable festival that's hard to get into." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/corks-curls-how-did-the-death-of-a-119-year-old-uva-tradition-go-unnoticed monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/2a4df367-466d-4873-a7c6-a6571622e63f/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+4.37.12%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Corks $ Curls: How did the death of a 119-year old UVA tradition go unnoticed? - Corks $ Curls: How did the death of a 119-year old UVA tradition go unnoticed? After a 119-year run, Corks & Curls, the student yearbook first published in 1888, disappeared without anyone really noticing. On Thursday, January 21, following up on rumor that the storied yearbook had been nixed, the Hook asked UVA Dean of Students Allen Groves if it were true. Groves passed the inquiry on to Karen Shaffer, UVA’s director of Student Activities. “The Corks & Curls yearbook is traditionally published by UVA students, but the group is currently not active,” said Shaffer. “While they may choose to regroup and publish a yearbook in the future, there is no plan to do so in the 2009-10 academic year.” Yikes! How could a University steeped in history allow one of its oldest traditions to perish? Was it a funding issue? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/on-the-trail-harringtons-body-creates-new-mysteries-angles monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/71a465d0-4c04-4794-b02e-0a24dc39b171/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+4.24.33%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - On the trail: Harrington's body creates new mysteries, angles - On the trail: Harrington's body creates new mysteries, angles "There may be something like horse hair on the body, which would mean that she got there by horseback," offered a private investigator on a recent episode of TV crime show Nancy Grace . "Perhaps," he then suggested, "the body was even dropped out of [a] plane into this remote area." Such wild speculation brought immediate jeers from Grace, but the remoteness of the location of the remains of 20-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington is leading to flights of fancy and incessant speculation. "I'm mystified," says Dave Bass, owner of 742-acre Anchorage Farm in southern Albemarle County and the man who discovered the skeletonized remains as he checked fences on his property on Tuesday, January 26. The mystery of Morgan's final resting place isn't just about who put her there; it's about how anyone could have reached such a remote location in the first place. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/search-ends-as-devastated-parents-grieve-hunt-for-killer-intensifies monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f1fd0266-a9e1-45e9-a97f-5a98d291a9f5/Screenshot+2025-12-29+at+11.34.32%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Search ends: As devastated parents grieve, hunt for killer intensifies - Search ends: As devastated parents grieve, hunt for killer intensifies After all the rain and high winds in recent days, 68-year-old North Garden area cattle farmer Dave Bass says he went out Tuesday morning, January 26, to check his fences. Around 8:30am, in an area he describes as far from Route 29 South, which fronts his farm, he spotted what he initially thought might be a deer carcass. "I was on my tractor feeding cows on a remote part of the farm I don't normally go to," says Bass, who quickly realized he had spotted a body. "It's a shock," says Bass. State Police Colonel W. Steven Flaherty convened a press conference in Charlottesville at 5 o'clock that evening where he said that, due to "significant items of evidence," investigators believe the body was indeed Morgan Dana Harrington, the 20-year-old who disappeared October 17 from a Metallica concert in Charlottesville. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/prime-real-estate-what-will-10-million-buy monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/43e3c31e-a51e-4471-abcf-976b751c4857/Screenshot+2025-12-29+at+11.05.42%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Prime real estate: What will $10 million buy? - Prime real estate: What will $10 million buy? The rich are different from you and me. So are their houses, and how their houses are bought and sold. Even in a stagnant real estate market where the most action is in the under-$300K range, 10 houses in Albemarle County are listed for sale for $10 million or more. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/waste-works-lawsuit-for-dumb-dumbs-or-a-busy-citizens-guide-to-the-local-waste-war monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/50bf7faa-086a-4f12-ab89-d1e2afc620c8/Screenshot+2025-12-29+at+10.53.49%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Waste Works lawsuit for dumb-dumbs: or a busy citizens guide to the local waste war - Waste Works lawsuit for dumb-dumbs: or a busy citizens guide to the local waste war It appeared to be a trash match made in heaven... In December 2008, as the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority, formed in 1990 to manage the disposal of Charlottesville and Albemarle trash, began seriously struggling financially to fulfill its duties and promote recycling in our area, dumpster king Peter Van der Linde opened an $11 million state-of-the-art Materials Recovery Facility [MRF] now capable of recycling both construction/demolition debris and household trash. Problem solved, right? With the RSWA's expertise, and Van der Linde's new facility, surely we could create one of the greenest waste disposal and recycling models in the State. If only that were so. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/snowpocalypse-storm-of-the-new-century-and-what-went-wrong monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ffb9bbbf-4ec5-47d2-9ee8-f082eaba0294/Screenshot+2025-12-29+at+10.45.38%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Snowpocalypse: Storm of the new century and what went wrong - Snowpocalypse: Storm of the new century and what went wrong If you were not already safe at home around 5pm December 18, odds are pretty good you were stuck in traffic somewhere– or stuck in a ditch. The worst snowstorm to hit the record books in December— 20.5 inches officially, but routinely described as two feet—paralyzed the region in the days leading up to Christmas. Route 53 past Monticello and U.S. 29 south would be closed for more than 24 hours. But also practically impassable were Route 20 south and U.S. 29 north, U.S. 250 west, and just about any major artery in the region. Harder to understand is why, one week after the snow stopped falling and four days after the Virginia Department of Transportation said all secondary roads had been cleared, Ivy Depot Road resident Jack Dougherty had yet to see a plow on his road or nearby Morgantown Road. "I'm like Mrs. Kravitz on Bewitched," says the public affairs consultant who works from home on Sunday, December 27. "I see the trains and the cars go by. Not one plow." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/year-in-review-the-good-the-bad-the-horrible monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/39fcbfeb-51ce-4020-b248-f310a680e7d7/Screenshot+2025-12-29+at+10.26.14%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Year in review: The good, the bad, the horrible - Year in review: The good, the bad, the horrible Have we bottomed out yet? Bankers say yay; job seekers say nay. For the most part, Charlottesville escaped the massive layoffs faced in places like neighboring Waynesboro, but then, we didn't really have much of an industrial base to begin with. National economic unease has changed us. And locally, the October 17 disappearance of Morgan Harrington has changed how we see ourselves and where we live. In best-place-to-live Charlottesville, a cruel truth is that it's not unusual for young women to get raped. But for them to disappear off the face of the earth, that simply doesn't happen here. We like to think Katie Worsky's 1988 disappearance an anomaly, but Harrington's vanishing has burst the security bubble of this community. Hundreds turned out to search for her, and two months later, we're left to come to grips with a gaping wound of the sort found in other, less desirable places to live. Harrington is the most tragic example of missing this year, but there were other disappearances. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/person-of-the-year-joel-salatins-salad-days monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/67df76ba-c6bd-4882-b2e8-0a60997ce0da/Screenshot+2025-12-29+at+10.18.12%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Person of the Year: Joel Salatin's salad days - Person of the Year: Joel Salatin's salad days It’s been quite a year for Joel Salatin. The Shenandoah Valley farmer starred as himself in two popular food documentary films and received a $100,000 award from the Heinz Family Foundation for his creative, eco-friendly practices. “The big corporate farms can no longer tell us that pollution will always come with farming,” said Foundation leader Teresa Heinz. “Mr. Salatin’s work shows us that is not true, because on his lands, farming is no longer part of the problem; it is part of the solution to a better environment.” While Salatin's solutions have long been known in Central Virginia, he received a bumper crop of publicity in Michael Pollan’s 2006 best seller, The Omnivore’s Dilemma. In turn, the producers of the documentaries Food, Inc. and Fresh helped make him America’s most famous farmer since George Washington Carver. "I first experienced him in the 1980s when he premiered his idea of an 'eggmobile' at the first [Virginia Association for Biological Farming] conference," says Tanya Denckla Cobb, associate director of UVA's Institute for Environmental Negotiation. "He was a firebrand and electrified the crowd, receiving a standing ovation. Nobody had ever seen the likes of him. Now the rest of the world is starting to catch up." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/perriellos-place-when-free-speech-collides-with-private-property monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/01d2b564-27b2-4ee3-9557-f8df61875560/Screenshot+2025-12-29+at+9.55.34%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Perriello's place: When free speech collides with private property - Perriello's place: When free speech collides with private property Victoria Snapp, owner of Three Esthetics, a downtown salon, was growing concerned when some of her regular customers started skipping appointments, and it became apparent politics were causing trouble for her upscale hair coiffery. "It was turning into a nightmare," says Snapp. "Last week," she says in mid-November, "we had three different assemblies, and the smallest was 17 to 20 people." It seems that the pro-business protesters who regularly swarm the parking lot to give an earful to Congressman Tom Perriello, Snapp's neighbor in the Glass Building, were putting the hurt on her business. "We're a full service spa," she explains. "You want to get a massage to step away from the world. The last thing you want to do is go through a screaming crowd while trying to relax." It wasn't just screaming. On November 10, a bus with a public address system was blaring music that could be heard inside Snapp's treatment room, as health-care reform protesters and counter-protesters tried to outdo each other. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/tipping-point-is-van-der-linde-laying-waste-to-waste-authority monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/9eb9e93f-1d0b-4317-98df-17c6d7c293e0/Screenshot+2025-12-29+at+9.48.19%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Tipping Point: Is Van der Linde laying waste to Waste Authority? - Tipping Point: Is Van der Linde laying waste to Waste Authority? Last week, trash hauler and recycling entrepreneur Peter Van der Linde may have quietly destroyed the hold that his nemesis, the government-run Rivanna Solid Waste Authority, has had on area trash for nearly 20 years. In the past, Authority director Tom Frederick, when responding to the drop in Authority revenues caused by the opening of Van der Linde's MRF, Materials Recovery Facility, has always defended the Authority's viability by pointing out that the RSWA-sponsored transfer stations accepted household trash, while Van der Linde's facility did not. But all that changed last week. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/halsey-minor-is-misunderstood-everything-youve-heard-is-wrong monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/a1e1ca48-88c0-43fd-be25-8b0185ff704b/Screenshot+2025-12-29+at+9.35.31%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Halsey Minor is misunderstood... Everything you've heard is wrong - Halsey Minor is misunderstood... Everything you've heard is wrong He has just lost another lawsuit–- this time a $21.6 million judgment for Merrill Lynch–- but Halsey Minor vows that legal setbacks won't deter his quest to complete the Landmark Hotel, an incomplete eyesore that holds the promise of topping the Omni as the most luxurious lodging on the Downtown Mall. In a recent series of telephone interviews, the man who founded internet giant CNet and whose riches soared to $355 million around the turn of the century alleges that everything the public has been told about him in recent days is wrong. Minor says he's not to blame for the Landmark mess, he's not broke, and he's not going to let go of the hotel without a fight–- even if it means millions in legal bills. "I'm going to finish that damn hotel," says Minor, "because I started it." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/missing-pieces-witnesses-share-their-tales-of-morgan-sightings monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ca0f2329-06c5-4d90-b5f4-aaba9fcf41d1/Screenshot+2025-12-29+at+9.27.02%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Missing pieces: Witnesses share their tales of Morgan sightings - Missing pieces: Witnesses share their tales of Morgan sightings Amid a new police report that the woman who disappeared during the October 17 Metallica concert was seen hitchhiking shortly before she vanished, various witnesses in and around John Paul Jones Arena say a young, blond woman was causing concern before they ever heard that 20-year-old Morgan Harrington was missing. Among the several witnesses who reported seeing Morgan injured both inside and outside the Arena, one Metallica fan inside says she seemed "upset" with blood on her chin but declined his offer to help. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/hot-pursuit-dashcam-video-fuels-rugby-road-chase-debate monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/caa78c78-b1ad-4484-84a0-625344cccba2/Screenshot+2025-12-29+at+9.17.31%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Hot pursuit: Dashcam video fuels Rugby Road chase debate - Hot pursuit: Dashcam video fuels Rugby Road chase debate There has been an arrest in the infamous case of a chase that resulted in a stolen car going around 85mph on Rugby Road and causing over $100,000 in damage by scalping an occupied house. About two months after the August 7 incident, which captured widespread attention after the car's driver somehow disappeared from a seemingly fatal wreck, a 17-year-old city student was arrested in mid-October, according to Charlottesville spokesperson Ric Barrick, who–- in response to a reporter's request–- released a tape of the chase, a 112-second video in which even the police car hits 85mph on the residential road. The video has touched off a whole new controversy because the chase appears to have violated a policy and, contrary to an initial media report, didn't appear to have been called off. And the pursuing officer, according to the police chief, wasn't even aware that he was chasing a stolen car. "It was just senseless," says former Charlottesville Deputy Sheriff Steven W. Shifflett. "No car is worth a human life." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/still-filthy-still-fun-the-respectable-john-waters monthly 0.5 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0cb26abb-5467-4c94-8c4a-1f4092a2e454/Screenshot+2025-12-29+at+4.58.15%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Still filthy, still fun: The respectable John Waters - Still filthy, still fun: The respectable John Waters In the 1970s, John Waters was the bad boy of fringe filmmaking with his cult-classic, X-rated Pink Flamingos. Flash forward more than 30 years, and he's the guest of honor at Mr. Jefferson's U, and the Virginia Film Festival is showing the now NC-17-rated picture that still you don't recommend for your mama– unless she's one of those who fell under the sway of Waters' magical filth so many decades ago. Waters moved from extreme film to mainstream in 1988 with Hairspray, which is also being screened at this year's film fest. He's made 16 movies, including Serial Mom and Cry-Baby, written five books, published collections of his photographs, released music compilations such as A John Waters Christmas, and staged art exhibits. And over the years, he's crossed paths with some of the most memorable characters of the late 20th century: Divine, Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, kidnaped heiress Patty Hearst, and Johnny Depp. Baltimore, his hometown, has been the setting for most of his movies. Some people see Baltimore through the lens of The Wire; our Charm City has always been Waters tinged. But we catch up with him recently by phone in New York. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/off-the-face-of-the-earth-the-hunt-for-morgan-harrington monthly 0.5 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d4cf41ab-f82e-4fc7-87ae-79e3d677096d/Screenshot+2025-12-29+at+4.48.46%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - 'Off the face of the earth': the hunt for Morgan Harrington - 'Off the face of the earth': the hunt for Morgan Harrington It's the kind of national attention no town wants. A beautiful college student goes to a rock concert, somehow becomes separated from her friends, and ends up outside, alone. Unable to reenter UVA's John Paul Jones Arena because policy prohibits it, she calls her friends and tells them not to worry– that she'll somehow find her way back to Harrisonburg, an hour away, on her own and without a vehicle or friends to accompany her. And then she vanishes. Her terrified parents desperately want the answer to a question no parent should ever have to ask: where is my child? For State Police investigating her disappearance, the clues, though sparse, paint a grim picture. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/launched-new-businesses-leave-economic-ruins-behind monthly 0.5 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/8c03914c-0d03-4b49-9011-ffb58c7140df/Screenshot+2025-12-29+at+4.44.23%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Launched: New businesses leave economic ruins behind - Launched: New businesses leave economic ruins behind It's only fitting that Abby Arnold consulted an astrologer when planning which day to open her new business, Ananda Community Center for Conscious Living. "If you're going to do this kind of work, you have to live by it," says Arnold, who took her own astrologer's advice and opened the doors to Ananda on May 5. Three months later, she resigned her post teaching writing at UVA to commit herself full-time to her new wellness business which offers alternative treatments and classes. And they are, indeed, alternative. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/eat-fresh-vote-local-pick-your-own-pols-in-2009 monthly 0.5 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/cd9a4996-e2c4-4b60-8485-ed1599f6b2ae/Screenshot+2025-12-29+at+4.32.30%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Eat fresh, vote local: Pick your own pols in 2009 - Eat fresh, vote local: Pick your own pols in 2009 Those who just turn out for the presidential elections every four years are sort of like the church goers who only show up at Christmas and Easter. It's easy to get election fatigue in Virginia, which has some kind of voting action every year. Barely a year after the massive 2008 presidential election, it's time to vote again for local and state representation. And this is that one that gives you a say about who represents you on City Council, on the Albemarle Board of Supervisors, and in the General Assembly. The governor's race between the area's own State Senator Creigh Deeds and former attorney general Bob McDonnell is being closely watched on the national level as a possible harbinger of mid-term elections to come. And the local elections are a harbinger of what this area will look like in the years to come. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/alone-on-a-mountain-the-true-story-of-flight-349 monthly 0.5 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/91a127bb-0073-4f2c-9834-65efcc3b641e/Screenshot+2025-12-29+at+4.21.33%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Alone on a mountain: the true story of Flight 349 - Alone on a mountain: the true story of Flight 349 It was the fall of 1959, and Scarsdale, New York teenager Janet Silberman had been planning to accompany her parents, a top cigar company executive and an avid photographer, on their trip to Virginia. Her younger brother had just begun his freshman year at Staunton Military Academy, and the Silbermans envisioned a getaway to see him as autumn foliage erupted in the Shenandoah Valley. But when a handsome Yale student invited the 16-year-old Janet to a football game, her plans for the weekend changed. She was in the stands in New Haven on Saturday, October 31, when a close family friend, who was also the family lawyer, suddenly appeared. "I didn't realize you went to Yale," she wisecracked. "I'm sorry, Janet," replied her grim-faced friend. "But the game is over for you. The plane your parents were on is missing." Fifty years ago this month, near the Blue Ridge in Western Albemarle County, a commercial airliner disappeared while carrying a crew of three and 24 passengers. Only one survived. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/welcome-to-town-but-watch-the-traffic-u2-concert monthly 0.5 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/4baa0e85-fe61-47e8-bb7b-318d26b0fd19/Screenshot+2025-12-29+at+4.05.14%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Welcome to town, but watch the traffic (U2 Concert) - Welcome to town, but watch the traffic U2 is playing just 20 times in North America. Populous states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan got bypassed, and gigantic California got limited to a single show at the Rose Bowl. But what may be the most popular band in the world did, however, pick Charlottesville. Or was it the other way around? The promoter for Live Nation, Tres Thomas, lives in Ivy. We haven't heard back from him by press time, but, like that time in 2005 when he brought the Rolling Stones here, you can be sure he's arguing for business necessity– not his own convenience. After all, this is a man who commutes weekly to his office in Toronto. Hey, isn't Toronto a two-night-stand for the boys from Dublin? Indeed it was. Well, anyway, Charlottesville is ready. As Stephanie Garcia reports, concert general manager Larry Wilson has a traffic copter flying to ensure there's no repeat of the ginormous jam that accompanied the Stones gig. After all, some cynics believe it was a stuck motorist unhappy about missing Jumping Jack Flash who called in the bomb scare. (All the police would confirm was that the call did come from Pantops.) Anyway, in the name of love... read on! https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-husband-the-wife-and-the-hitman-who-wouldnt monthly 0.5 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c54f7592-79c0-47cd-b375-c68525ba4517/Screenshot+2025-12-28+at+7.15.38%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The husband, the wife and the hitman... who wouldn't - The husband, the wife and the hitman... who wouldn't It sounds like the plotline of a Lifetime television drama. A young married couple's relationship hits the rocks, they split up bitterly, the husband hires a hitman to kill his former beloved. Don't check your TV Guide just yet, and put that popcorn away; it's the story of Patrick S. Shemorry, a Charlottesville realtor who–- to the shock of those who knew him–- pleaded guilty to murder-for-hire on September 22 in federal court. "He was personable, charming, witty," says Ellen Pratt, who worked with Shemorry at Keller Williams Realty, where the 28-year-old Shemorry was employed for a year in 2008. "I can't make it fit with the Patrick I knew," says Pratt, recalling a workplace sense of humor that once led Shemorry to enter his fluffy cat into an office "cutest dog" competition. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/jade-junkie-the-unlikeliest-first-amendment-warrior monthly 0.5 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ac0cf5da-0465-4133-ab7f-104da1d987ed/Screenshot+2025-12-28+at+7.06.58%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - JADE junkie: the unlikeliest First Amendment warrior - JADE junkie: the unlikeliest First Amendment warrior Elisha Strom admits she's interested in cops– but not just any cops. The officers who stirred her interest to the extent that she staked them out over eight months, photographing and following them and posting the results on a blog all work in a multi-jurisdictional group called the Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement Task Force. Now she's facing a felony charge as a result of those efforts for publishing the address of an officer on the blog she created called I HeArTE JADE. Strom argues that her interest in JADE is a hobby, much like others pursue basketball or basket-weaving, and that she's merely an "information junkie" investigating what these cops do to satisfy her own curiosity. The 11 men in JADE might disagree. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/over-a-barrel-as-economy-worsens-so-do-the-scams monthly 0.5 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/3a9db293-359f-4ac1-8e68-126970f6f3e8/Screenshot+2025-12-28+at+6.58.58%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Over a barrel: As economy worsens, so do the scams - Over a barrel: As economy worsens, so do the scams In 1934, during one of his bank robberies, Chicago gangster John Dillinger famously refused to take a one wad of cash because it was still in the hands of the customer. Now, a Virginia man wants the same respect. The man, John M. Cheatwood, 52, says that a huge bank robbery has occurred at BB&T but that because all the money was yanked from his account in a wire transfer, he's the one stuck with the bill. It's quite a bill– nearly $329,000– and he's suing the alleged robber and the bank. "I kept thinking the bank would figure it out and pay me back," says John M. Cheatwood of Warrenton. "But they're not helping; they're obfuscating." The bank, however, doesn't see it that way. In a response filed in late July, BB&T blames Cheatwood's company for "its own acts and/or admissions." "They think I compromised my information," says Cheatwood. "They think I wasn't careful with my password." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/off-campus-and-at-risk-the-hidden-fire-danger-for-students monthly 0.5 2025-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ca56457d-d02b-4e01-afc2-cdb55c1880ba/Screenshot+2025-12-28+at+6.54.05%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Off-campus and at risk: The hidden fire danger for students - Off-campus and at risk: The hidden fire danger for students Doug Turnbull remembers the day he took his daughter Julie back to college to move into an off-campus house. After the heavy lifting was done, he paused to ensure she'd be able to escape if a fire broke out. "I checked the windows to make sure they weren't painted shut," he says. "I reached up and tested the smoke detector to make sure it was working." It's a ritual repeated by parents all over the country thousands of times each year, as they help their almost-grown children settle into college dwellings. "You wander around and see where they're going to live," he explains. "It's mostly curiosity. You're pushing buttons, checking around." Figuratively, he says, "It's your last parental act." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/undaunted-mystery-new-push-for-answers-200-years-after-death-of-meriwether-lewis monthly 0.5 2025-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e9ad0816-6286-4704-a49e-99ed072f3a77/Screenshot+2025-12-28+at+5.24.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Undaunted mystery: New push for answers 200 years after death of Meriwether Lewis - Undaunted mystery: New push for answers 200 years after death of Meriwether Lewis Buried alone in a small park located 75 miles southwest of Nashville is the body of Meriwether Lewis, a Charlottesville-area native and leader of the fabled Lewis and Clark expedition. His remains could answer a question that has vexed scientists and historians and has been considered one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in American history: How did he die? "It's the ultimate cold case," says Howell Bowen, Lewis' great-great-great-great nephew who lives in Albemarle County. Bowen and other Lewis descendants have taken up the case, and after being denied the opportunity to exhume the explorer's body for more than a decade by the National Park Service, a new push may be a breakthrough in the search for answers 200 years in the making. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/cataclysmic-camille-after-40-years-nelson-countys-wounds-still-fresh monthly 0.5 2025-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/248c1cf4-6414-4d2d-a84b-12347983a84d/Screenshot+2025-12-28+at+4.35.06%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Cataclysmic Camille: After 40 years, Nelson County's wounds still fresh - Cataclysmic Camille: After 40 years, Nelson County's wounds still fresh t was as bright as day the night Warren Raines was orphaned. "If it wasn't for the lightning..." he pauses. "I didn't know what move I'd have to make next. You had to watch your back. Whole houses were floating by... cars, cows..." Raines, 54, sits on a rail of the bridge over the Tye River in the village of Massies Mill. Forty years ago, the warehouse where his father worked sat atop that bridge, washed 50 yards downstream by the cataclysmic flood that swept away Raines' parents, two sisters, and a brother. That Tuesday in 1969– still known as "the 19th" in Nelson County– dawned a dog day of August, far removed from the cultural watershed known as Woodstock winding down to the north, far removed from the carnage known as Hurricane Camille that had just killed 174 people as it steamrolled through the Gulf Coast. No one knew that Camille's fury wasn't quite spent. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/survival-of-the-fittest-adapting-evolving-thriving-in-a-rough-housing-market monthly 0.5 2025-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/fed3ada8-4dcf-4cd3-b9bd-3843559f226d/Screenshot+2025-12-28+at+4.28.48%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Survival of the fittest: Adapting, evolving, thriving in a rough housing market - Survival of the fittest: Adapting, evolving, thriving in a rough housing market The past 18 months haven't been pretty in the housing market. The mortgage crisis spawned ballooning listings, foreclosures, bank collapses, job losses– in a word, it's been rough. Rough for homeowners, rough for builders, rough for realtors. But as the dust clears– as a few signs emerge of better times ahead– the owners of these local businesses say they believe they're in prime position to help themselves and others take advantage of the new environment. From a builder who was forced to lay off all his employees and almost closed his doors to a group of realtors determined to shake up the status quo to a UVA grad who's found a way to squeeze some cash-flow from empty houses and burdensome mortgages, there's a lesson here for everyone: if you adapt, you can survive, even thrive. If you don't, well, you know that old Darwin theory... https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/annual-manual-3 monthly 0.5 2025-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/693b5a22-94a8-45a3-a784-acd6630d9414/08062009-0831.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Annual manual - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-fast-and-the-furious-new-gym-says-slashing-your-workout-time-can-make-you-fitter monthly 0.5 2025-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/6ae8a458-9f3c-4059-92f8-0e6bf0685a74/Screenshot+2025-12-28+at+4.15.16%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The Fast and the furious: New gym says slashing your workout time can make you fitter - The Fast and the furious: New gym says slashing your workout time can make you fitter When Kwame Burroughs opened Quick Gym on Water Street in 2007, some people laughed at his claims of fitness in just four minutes a day using his specialized equipment, a machine called the ROM that combines elements of rowing and pedaling. After all, anyone with any sense knows that fitness claims that sound too good to be true probably are too good to be true– "Ab Energizer," anyone? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/save-mcintire-from-what monthly 0.5 2025-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/fcb6ba7e-e286-453d-ac81-0e6981d98231/Screenshot+2025-12-28+at+4.08.11%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - SAVE McIntire... from what? - SAVE McIntire... from what? Drive almost anywhere near McIntire Park– on Park Street, on Rose Hill Drive– even on Cherry Avenue– and you'll spot the yard signs: "SAVE MCINTIRE PARK." Peppering neighborhoods more boldly than most autumn election placards, the signs say something about the town's most disputed land, its central park. But what exactly does "saving" McIntire mean? In a succession of recent moves, the City has ignited controversy by handing public land over to the local YMCA, attempting to exile softball and a longstanding wading pool, and encouraging backers of a planned botanical garden to supplant a nearly 70-year-old golf course–- all while inviting a parkway to lop off the Park's eastern edge. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/tainted-love-behind-the-morris-murder-trial monthly 0.5 2025-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/82801ba0-957b-444f-9b28-46cc9af8afad/Screenshot+2025-12-28+at+3.48.07%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Tainted love: Behind the Morris Murder Trial - Tainted love: Behind the Morris Murder Trial By his own admission to police, the Alvin Lee "Butch" Morris of 20 years ago was an alcoholic, a womanizer, and a liar– a man who left his first wife and kids for a recently widowed woman. Does that make him a murderer? That's what a jury had to decide after five days of testimony in an Albemarle County Circuit Court trial that started July 6, when Butch Morris was tried for the 1988 murder of Roger Lee Shifflett, the husband of Barbara, the woman with whom Morris was smitten and whom he married a year after Shifflett's death. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/stepping-up-to-the-plate-local-chefs-take-on-the-challenge-of-restaurant-week monthly 0.5 2025-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/104f12bc-ce2a-4e03-b4c8-520ae45e635d/Screenshot+2025-12-28+at+3.31.14%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Stepping up to the plate: Local chefs take on the challenge of Restaurant Week - Stepping up to the plate: Local chefs take on the challenge of Restaurant Week My lovely wife and I slipped out of town for a romantic getaway to New York in late January. Our first night, we sat down in the restaurant on the ground floor of our charming little hotel in SoHo, and a waiter approached our table. "Are you here for Restaurant Week?" he inquired. "Ah, Restaurant Week," I replied, using a mock-serious voice that let him know I had no idea what he was talking about. "Of course, we're here for Restaurant Week," I said, quickly assuming a faux impertinent tone. "Why, we would never even think about missing Restaurant Week." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/dog-wars-does-bark-law-need-more-bite monthly 0.5 2025-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/55731fcb-45e8-4400-a79e-d77393f710cf/Screenshot+2025-12-28+at+3.24.49%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Dog wars: Does bark law need more bite? - Dog wars: Does bark law need more bite? Peavine Hollow Road is quintessential 21st-century Albemarle. Although unpaved, the Free Union-area road is home to exotic animal farms, a pick-your-own berry patch, and generous lots that seem tailored to boutique farms and providing plenty of breathing room between neighbors. Lately, however, the bucolic setting has become the eye of a storm over dog barking, something the county tried to remedy last year by banning unneighborly canine noise, an ordinance that ran afoul of the state's highest court and may get rewritten and tightened in the coming days. In the outlying parts of the county, some already decry any barking restriction as an assault on property rights and an attack on the Albemarle's vaunted rural character. Others, however, hail the ordinance for offering protection of their property rights, such as quiet enjoyment of– you guessed it– the county's rural character. And some simply wonder why a dispute over the sounds emanating from man's best friend should escalate to cops and courtrooms. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/limbaugh-hannity-schilling-is-the-former-councilor-the-next-radio-talk-star monthly 0.5 2025-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c09c31c2-f993-46aa-ac9c-7e94e2d18a5c/Screenshot+2025-12-28+at+3.17.35%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Limbaugh, Hannity... Schilling? Is the former councilor the next radio talk star? - Limbaugh, Hannity... Schilling? Is the former councilor the next radio talk star? On Friday, June 19, he opened his noon radio show by dubbing Congressman Tom Perriello (D-Ivy) "a boy doing a man's job" and a "lapdog" of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). He decried the closure of the U.S. prison at Cuba's Guantanamo Bay "a disgrace," and blasted City Hall for an alleged "attack on local media." And that's just in the first segment. To read such statements in black and white, it might seem that Rob Schilling is a stereotypical right-wing talk radio loudmouth. Yes, he is a pull-no-punches conservative, but the easy charm of his Schilling Show is that such lines are delivered with such calm that he sounds more like a courteous next-door neighbor than a microphone-equipped agitator. But is the incendiary nature of such comments merely flying under a blanket of mild-mannered cloud cover? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/accd-a-coup-for-creigh-deeds-how-deeds-got-it-done-dirt-cheap monthly 0.5 2025-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/aa7c9eac-c4dc-4ba8-8531-0619e17d0290/Screenshot+2025-12-28+at+3.05.06%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - AC/CD (A Coup for Creigh Deeds): How Deeds got it done dirt cheap - AC/CD (A Coup for Creigh Deeds): How Deeds got it done dirt cheap Less than an hour after the polls closed, it was clear to at least one person inside the ballroom of the Omni Hotel who had won. At around 7:30pm, veteran political reporter turned political center director Bob Gibson leaned over the shoulder of a Deeds campaign staffer to have a look at the election returns on his laptop. "You're winning Arlington?" asked Gibson, incredulously. Sure enough with 33 percent of precincts reporting, the soft-spoken country lawyer from Bath County was beating two political heavyweights from Northern Virginia in their own backyard. Gibson, now the executive director of UVA's Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, shook his head. "It's over." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-tao-of-poo-can-worrells-green-sewage-system-save-water-and-planet monthly 0.5 2025-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/4d6ca45c-cf02-49c0-8baa-7922b7d5e46b/Screenshot+2025-12-28+at+3.01.17%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The Tao of poo: Can Worrell's green sewage system save water and planet? - The Tao of poo: Can Worrell's green sewage system save water and planet? Since 2003, around 100 million gallons of untreated sewage have flowed from this RWSA facility into Moore's Creek, a tributary of the Rivanna River. Local water users and state taxpayers will split the cost of the $40.3-million upgrade. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/no-option-possible-death-pact-tied-to-financial-losses monthly 0.5 2025-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/8ed49fca-1491-4e7a-913d-f9e392330bf0/Screenshot+2025-12-28+at+2.46.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - No option? Possible death pact tied to financial losses - No option? Possible death pact tied to financial losses It was a bitterly cold January night when Charles Keiningham went over to check on his friends, Donald and Valerie Slater. He was already worried about the Slaters and he became even more uneasy when he reached the couple's northeastern Albemarle farm. The gate was locked, and no lights were visible in the mansion, set a half mile from the road. There was mail in the mailbox. Worse, Keiningham recalls thinking, he and his wife would talk to the Slaters nearly every day, but the Keininghams hadn't heard from them in two days. Valerie's son in California had called, concerned when his mother didn't return text messages. Keiningham arrived at Foxport Farm on Wednesday night, January 21. He called the police at 11:10pm and waited at the locked gate. "If I break it," he recalls thinking, "Don's going to have my ass." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/summer-reading-issue monthly 0.5 2025-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/72613bc6-de07-4ec2-8d52-55620792030b/Screenshot+2025-12-27+at+8.34.11%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Summer reading issue - SHORT STORY- Just like family Money buys secrets. Go down to the neighborhood where I grew up, where money's tight and everybody lives on top of everybody else– it's impossible to keep a secret. Somebody's always watching. Secrets are just another thing poor folks can't afford. But rich folks, their closets are stuffed full of secrets. Cleaning houses, I see it all the time. Hiding girly magazines behind toilets, bottles of vodka in underwear drawers, cigarettes in laundry bins. Just last Tuesday, I found nudie pictures shoved up under the Harlows' mattress. Nudie pictures with Mrs. Harlow and another woman. Talk about secrets. But it's not my business to get anybody busted. I just leave things where they are and keep on doing my job. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/some-off-the-beaten-path-roadtrips monthly 0.5 2025-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/eea342c4-a23e-42bd-8815-afe112ba94a4/Screenshot+2025-12-27+at+10.34.42%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Some off the beaten path roadtrips - Some off the beaten path roadtrips Imagine a miniature golf course on steroids, with one hole that looks like a baseball field, a 25-foot waterfall at the edge of a green, and hole so long it takes six shots to make par. That would be Meadows Farms Golf Course in Locust Grove, just outside of Fredericksburg, and just 45 minutes from Charlottesville. The 180-acre course, which features 27 holes, is home to the longest hole in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, a 841-yard par six. But don't worry, the design gives every kind of golfer, from the duffer to the pro, an option on how to play it. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/under-the-radar-and-dreaming-whos-next-to-break-out-of-the-charlottesville-scene monthly 0.5 2025-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/a5d75323-0b33-456f-ba0d-cd1552a21431/Screenshot+2025-12-27+at+10.23.40%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Under the radar and dreaming: Who's next to break out of the Charlottesville scene? - Under the radar and dreaming: Who's next to break out of the Charlottesville scene? It's been more than 14 years since Charlottesville began its upward trajectory in the music world from sleepy college town to music industry hot spot. That's when Dave Matthews Band became Charlottesville's most famous musical export since Thomas Jefferson's violin with the release of the band's major label debut Under the Table and Dreaming on September 27, 1994. Since then, DMB's manager Coran Capshaw has built a music business empire with Red Light Management, MusicToday (now destined for Ticketmaster ownership), and ATO Records. Meanwhile, his Charlottesville Pavilion and UVA's John Paul Jones Arena have attracted the biggest names in rock 'n roll to town, and even the Rolling Stones and soon U2 will become the first and second acts to play Scott Stadium since DMB's big homecoming in 2001. And yet, we're still trying to find the next big homegrown act to follow in Dave and company's path up into the musical stratosphere. For the last three years, the Hook has tried to identify that next big thing, and we've picked up on some promising leads. Both Parachute and Sons Of Bill have graced our annual music issue's pages, and now both will have their new albums in record stores across the country this summer. So who's next? We asked six local experts with their ear to the ground to tell us what rumblings they're hearing on the horizon. Keep your ears and eyes open, folks. Otherwise, you just might miss them on their rise to the top. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/racing-for-richmond-three-dems-are-neck-and-neck-but-can-they-run-all-the-way-to-the-governors-mansion monthly 0.5 2025-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/6817f097-7659-4112-b6bb-2f8a76b58670/Screenshot+2025-12-23+at+4.50.11%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Racing for Richmond: Three Dems are neck-and-neck, but can they run all the way to the governor's mansion? - Racing for Richmond: Three Dems are neck-and-neck, but can they run all the way to the governor's mansion? At first it was supposed to be a two-horse race between Delegate Brian Moran of Alexandria and State Senator Creigh Deeds. Then in January came a last minute addition to the running, former Democratic National Committee chair Terry McAuliffe, fresh off placing in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, leading the hard-charging campaign of then-Senator Hillary Clinton. In the first turn, McAuliffe jumps out to an early lead with a multi-million dollar campaign effort, and appears to still be going strong. The latest SurveyUSA poll of likely primary voters found McAuliffe up 16 points over Deeds and Moran, but there were still 18 percent undecided! https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/now-what-as-the-landmark-lies-dormant-whats-next monthly 0.5 2025-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/9a0d22bd-54e7-4728-a32c-7a261652a24d/Screenshot+2025-12-22+at+4.54.43%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Now what? As the Landmark lies dormant, what's next? - Now what? As the Landmark lies dormant, what's next? "We will treat it as we do any abandoned structure and keep an eye on it for any code issues," Charlottesville planning chief Jim Tolbert said when asked if the city had any safety concerns about the unfinished Landmark hotel. "We've also asked that it be boarded up." Indeed, just like an abandoned building, workers began boarding up the side of the hotel with plywood in late March leaving many to wonder what will happen to the building if it remains abandoned for years. Workers were spotted at the Landmark off and on several weeks ago, but a Clancy & Theys Construction Company official tells the Hook it was only to secure the site. Indeed, as Tolbert confirms, making sure the unfinished tower is made safe before it's abandoned is Clancy & Theys' responsibility. "We've met with the City of Charlottesville building officials on the procedures to secure the site and are currently implementing these procedures," Clancy & Theys vice president James Tollenaere said in early April, adding that all leased equipment has been removed from the site, including the large crane and the scaffolding along the side walk on Second Street, while safety barricades, handrails, and fire safety equipment, will remain in place. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/invasion-of-the-doggy-snatchers-uptick-in-area-coyote-sightings-has-residents-nervous monthly 0.5 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/bcf88262-05ac-48dc-9269-2986f242df06/Screenshot+2025-12-18+at+10.49.48%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Invasion of the doggy snatchers? Uptick in area coyote sightings has residents nervous - Invasion of the doggy snatchers? Uptick in area coyote sightings has residents nervous An animal known for eating domestic pets has arrived in Albemarle, and reports from around the country suggest it's moving up the food chain. A Minnesota woman watched helplessly last month as coyotes killed Callie, her miniature Pinscher, in her backyard. That same week in Broomfield, Colorado, Amy Archibald let her four tiny Papillons out in her backyard. Thirty seconds later, one named Ollie was gone. In early March, a farmer in Winston-Salem claims his cow was killed and eaten by a coyote. And in Colorado, a state no stranger to coyotes, five attacks on people were reported over the winter in the Denver metropolitan area. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/torpedoed-pork-politics-and-the-undoing-of-an-obama-nominee monthly 0.5 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/25716678-05f4-444e-915c-1017adf580c4/Screenshot+2025-12-18+at+10.42.38%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Torpedoed: Pork politics and the undoing of an Obama nominee - Torpedoed: Pork politics and the undoing of an Obama nominee The sudden withdrawal of would-be Obama Administration member Jon Cannon, a UVA law professor and Albemarle Planning Commissioner, has left colleagues stunned and left the Environmental Protection Agency without the services of a "straight arrow" in its #2 spot. How did it happen that mere weeks after President Obama had heralded him as a "distinguished American," Cannon withdrew, citing "scrutiny" from the EPA Inspector General. It turns out the scrutiny wasn't on Cannon per se, but on a foundation on whose board he had served as a volunteer and which, coincidentally, was chaired by another prominent Central Virginian. Cannon's sudden exit has reignited a debate about whether the best and brightest public servants get unfairly sabotaged by the misdeeds of others–- and what it means for the rest of us, the public they aim to serve. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/near-death-experience-how-a-20-device-averted-a-downtown-tragedy monthly 0.5 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/67a4dbd6-5bb3-4c99-8a08-997ec9f15bae/Screenshot+2025-12-18+at+10.33.06%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Near-death experience: How a $20 device averted a downtown tragedy - Near-death experience: How a $20 device averted a downtown tragedy It was just after 5 o'clock one March morning when a shrill beeping sounded in Cathryn Stauffer's apartment. Located above a trendy wine bar on the Downtown Mall, the apartment is the kind popular among 20-somethings for its proximity to dining, live music, and shopping; it wasn't supposed to be the site of a calamity that could have killed as many as eleven young downtowners. Stauffer, a dietician at UVA Medical Center, awakened and quickly determined the source of the racket: a detector she'd purchased just a year earlier. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/what-a-waste-is-the-trash-authority-going-obsolete monthly 0.5 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/df6bb8f9-0272-43d5-9e36-44f987b91813/Screenshot+2025-12-18+at+9.58.07%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - What a Waste: Is the trash Authority going obsolete? - What a Waste: Is the trash Authority going obsolete? "The landfill of the future just came to town," says Peter Van der Linde, who recently opened a $11 million recycling facility near Zion Crossroad that could solve our waste woes. But first he'll have to battle our own Waste Authority, which is suing him for $3.5 million. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/march-26th-2009-issue-0812 monthly 0.5 2025-12-19 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/leitao-resigns-cavs-coach-out-after-10-18-season monthly 0.5 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/65cc6396-ad46-47d1-b04f-3b1056555972/Screenshot+2025-12-18+at+9.04.12%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Leitao resigns: Cavs coach out after 10-18 season - Leitao resigns: Cavs coach out after 10-18 season After helming the UVA men's basketball program's worst season since 1967, and a loss in the opening round of this year's ACC Tournament, Dave Leitao announced Monday, March 16, that he is resigning his post as head men's basketball coach. UVA has reached a financial agreement with Leitao which will see the four-year coach receive $2.1 million in severance pay. Says athletic director Craig Littlepage in a press release, "Dave has been a respected colleague and a fine University representative in the local community during his tenure here. He brought a great deal of leadership, discipline and integrity to his coaching responsibilities." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/joie-de-livre-15th-book-fest-15-hot-lit-picks monthly 0.5 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/dd013aa3-8195-486e-8eba-fd34bbcd86b3/Screenshot+2025-12-18+at+8.55.06%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Joie de livre: 15th Book Fest, 15 hot lit picks - Joie de livre: 15th Book Fest, 15 hot lit picks Seems like only yesterday that the Virginia Festival of the Book was an infant, and now, at 15– it's an adolescent– a very mature adolescent. With the tougher economic diet, the four-day March 18-22 event lost its baby fat and is a bit trimmer this year– down from 171 programs last year to 131, although still with far too many choices for book lovers, most of them free. Like a precocious teen, the book fest keeps trying new things. Last year, it showed a pubescent interest in sex (tantric!). This year the Festival of the Book offers a more sophisticated wine-and-cheese interlude with David Baldacci and Adriana Trigiani– although that sold out long ago. Hiphop makes the scene, and another music and poetry event– Rita Dove and Boyd Tinsley at the Paramount– is such a good idea that you wonder why no one thought of it sooner. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/hard-row-to-hoe-can-local-food-movement-save-farmers monthly 0.5 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0348942e-eb0c-4b4c-b4e8-f8dccd609ead/Screenshot+2025-12-18+at+8.46.15%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Hard row to hoe: Can local food movement save farmers? - Hard row to hoe: Can local food movement save farmers? Forget Pop Tarts and Cocoa Krispies. These days, some children are more likely to beg for "Toaster Pastries" or "Koala Crisp," the organic versions of the popular Kellogg's treats. Locally grown food, too, has exploded out of its niche at the City Market and at stores like Rebecca's Natural Foods and is now popping up on shelves in places such as Reid's Super Save Market, where it once would have seemed as out of place as Donald Trump at a flea market. The increase in supply and the ease with which shoppers can now fill their baskets with locally grown and raised veggies and meats is thanks to growing consumer awareness of the benefits such local food provides not only for health but also for the environment and for our now tanking economy. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/we-just-want-the-truth-connie-heveners-family-wants-to-know-why-a-cop-allegedly-hid-her-killer-for-40-years monthly 0.5 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/37c01f8b-ac36-4250-b3ac-b6ccaecb40f1/Screenshot+2025-12-18+at+8.36.11%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - 'We just want the truth': Connie Hevener's family wants to know why a cop allegedly hid her killer for 40 years - 'We just want the truth': Connie Hevener's family wants to know why a cop allegedly hid her killer for 40 years MOUNT SIDNEY– On April 30, 1947, Virgil and LaVerne Smootz became parents to twins: a girl Connie, and a boy Carroll. "From the very beginning," says LaVerne of her inseparable twins, "they were peas in a pod." "I needed her, too," says Carroll, "she was always the one keeping me out of trouble." If Carroll missed class, Connie lent him her homework. If Connie joined the high school cheerleading squad, Carroll joined the football team. If one developed a crush, the other would give a thumbs up or thumbs down. It might have been this way for 62 years. But as the family sits around LaVerne's living room, thumbing through a family photo album, in the Shenandoah Valley town of Mount Sidney, the family consists only of LaVerne (now LaVerne Sowers) and Carroll. Virgil died 28 years ago. Connie died much earlier and much younger, in a crime that continues to plague the Valley. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/death-defying-stories-love-loss-and-rushing-to-the-hospital monthly 0.5 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/29ad587c-9900-4cf1-930f-f5eedfa8627e/Screenshot+2025-12-18+at+8.29.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Death defying stories: love, loss, and rushing to the hospital - Death defying stories: love, loss, and rushing to the hospital Is there life after death? Forget the philosophical or religious debate: with organ donation, the answer is yes. At UVA Medical Center, thousands of transplants have taken place since the first– a kidney transplant– was performed there in the 1967, and Dr. Tim Pruett, head of the transplant surgery department, hopes that number will grow exponentially in the future. "It should be really, really routine," says Pruett, who'll address UVA basketball fans at the February 26 game at John Paul Jones Arena as part of the national "Get Game–Give Life" program, which aims to increase organ donation among college students and sports fans. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/surviving-the-depression-true-tales-of-the-1930s monthly 0.5 2025-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/2def674b-c6b3-4c71-b521-4646777913e4/Screenshot+2025-12-18+at+4.31.02%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Surviving the Depression: True tales of the 1930s - Surviving the Depression: True tales of the 1930s The economy has crashed and millions of Americans have lost jobs, lost their homes, aren't sure where their next meal is coming from and basically are in Despair Central. It may seem to the softest generations– Baby Boomers and younger– things are about as bad as we've seen. But hard times are nothing new. Those who lived through the Great Depression remember an irrationally exuberant stock market that came crashing down and the grim aftermath. They weren't mortgaged to the hilt. They didn't have credit cards. They weren't aflood in consumer goods they believed they were entitled to have, even if their bank accounts didn't support the acquisition. Then they fought overseas or sustained the home front in World War II. Tom Brokaw calls them Greatest Generation. These 80- and 90-somethings haven't forgotten the past, although they do appear destined to live through two depressions in one lifetime. They already know that life is unfair, and they're certainly better poised to endure the ongoing pain than many of us are. What can we learn from those who lived through the toughest times of the past century? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/king-of-the-road-the-unstoppable-wendell-wood monthly 0.5 2025-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ca9c8b82-43fb-42d5-9e6b-eb8a3fba8f8e/Screenshot+2025-12-18+at+4.05.57%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - King of the Road: The unstoppable Wendell Wood - King of the Road: The unstoppable Wendell Wood A few weeks ago, we contacted developer Wendell Wood to ask if he would respond to rumors that he was building a palatial mansion in Southern Albemarle County. When he called back, he didn't want to talk about his house, though he neither confirmed nor denied the rumors. He just changed the subject. "Why would you want to write about some house I'm building?" he said. "The real story is the expansion around NGIC and how it's going to bring 1,500 new jobs to the area. Now that's a story." Wood offered instead to show us his new 122,000-square-foot high-security office building adjacent to NGIC, the National Ground Intelligence Center, on Route 29, which he plans to lease to the federal government when the new structure is completed in March. As is often the case with big developments, getting approval on the project was not easy. As is also often the case, Wood got his way. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/wahoo-where-whats-your-favorite-cavalier-sports-legend-doing-now monthly 0.5 2025-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c1905f97-47f8-4299-acd4-16de346200ca/Screenshot+2025-12-18+at+3.57.54%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Wahoo where? What's your favorite Cavalier sports legend doing now? - Wahoo where? What's your favorite Cavalier sports legend doing now? For four years, they rise to celebrity status with Charlottesville sports fans. For that moment in time, every orange-and-blue-blooded Wahoo follows every move of these individuals in the athletic arena, and instantly recognizes them out of uniform walking around Grounds. But then, their moment in the spotlight comes to a close with graduation. Though some go on to successful careers as professional athletes, they all eventually slip into the recesses of Cavalier memory. Until now. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-detector-why-it-couldnt-save-a-firefighter-in-his-own-house monthly 0.5 2025-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/3e9cf573-9791-4029-957b-845b6d230366/Screenshot+2025-12-18+at+3.45.23%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The detector: Why it couldn't save a firefighter in his own house - The detector: Why it couldn't save a firefighter in his own house Few people could have been more familiar with the terrifying danger of a house fire than 60-year-old Kenneth Watson. In his nearly three decades of service as a firefighter for the Roanoke Fire Department, Watson battled countless blazes, saved victims from burning homes, and consoled grieving relatives of those who'd perished in fires. He also, according to his colleagues and family, tirelessly advocated for smoke detectors, promoting the devices to the public through his work and, on his own time, lovingly pestering his friends and relatives to check their detector batteries. It's no surprise then, that when a fire broke out in Watson's own home in Vinton, Virginia in the evening hours of December 13, his own smoke detectors functioned as designed, sounding an alarm so loud that the next door neighbors heard it. Inside the house, however, the detectors were less helpful. The retired firefighter died in his recliner, a victim of smoke inhalation. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/road-warrior-but-warner-would-rather-be-seen-as-green monthly 0.5 2025-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e908be79-6f57-4016-bf45-56df81b8a5aa/Screenshot+2025-12-18+at+3.38.01%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Road warrior: But Warner would rather be seen as green - Road warrior: But Warner would rather be seen as green After winning $29.5 million in federal earmarks in 2005 for a highway intersection, the man who may soon be immortalized in Charlottesville with a road linking downtown to the northern suburbs tried to halt the speeds on American highways, a greening effort that turned out less sustainable than he has been.–editor The recent greening of Senator John W. Warner was seeded more than a half-century ago in the scenic panhandle of northern Idaho. The year was 1943, and the restless 16-year-old– temporarily thwarted in his zeal to join the battle against fascism– followed his father's urging to take a summer job out West, fighting fires with the U.S. Forest Service. "I remember that experience to this day and the magnificent forests we worked in. They were pristine. The streams flowed, and we could drink out of 'em," the now nearly-retired lawmaker said last summer on the eve of a debate over climate security that he hoped would crown his three decades of Senate service. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/getting-away-with-murder-former-cop-has-serious-questions-about-why-stauntons-most-infamous-killer-almost-got-away monthly 0.5 2025-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/4f50412e-ce60-40fa-af6a-385f6caa3cb3/Screenshot+2025-12-18+at+3.30.25%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Getting away with murder? Former cop has serious questions about why Staunton's most infamous killer almost got away - Getting away with murder? Former cop has serious questions about why Staunton's most infamous killer almost got away Two bullets was all it took to change Staunton forever. The double murder of sisters-in-law Constance "Connie" Hevener, 19, and Carolyn Perry, 20, as they closed up shop at the High's Ice Cream Store one April night in 1967 shook the otherwise sleepy Shenandoah Valley town to its core. More than 41 years later, Staunton's crime of the century may appear on it way to getting solved with the November arrest of 60-year-old former High's employee Sharron Diane Crawford Smith on two charges of first degree murder. At an early December press conference, a somber but satisfied-sounding Staunton police chief JamesWilliams announced, "This effectively closes the case." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/unprecedented-behind-the-08-ball monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/89e0f85a-64e1-43eb-a5e4-6cbf372806d1/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+11.35.11%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Unprecedented: Behind the '08 ball - Unprecedented: Behind the '08 ball This has not been our best decade. The Hook, born only months after 9-11, has grown up in a grimmer time than those giddy, fin de siècle days when the biggest worry for the new year was how Y2K would affect computers. Remember? It's not like we haven't seen some doozy years already this millennium: war, drought, and Hurricane Katrina. But in a downer decade, 2008 really takes the cake with the three unprecedented Es: economy, energy, and elections. We're in uncharted territory here, and our heads are still spinning as we watch the economy crumble, taking down venerable institutions like Wachovia and Lehman Brothers– and the UVA endowment– as well as our own retirement funds, if we had them. Haven't we always heard what's good for GM is good for the country? We don't want to say Depression, but that's what we're thinking. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/person-of-the-year-gary-oconnell-the-ceo-of-charlottesville monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e50794fa-5875-4a13-b0d7-ec1764c35310/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+11.30.26%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Person of the Year: Gary O'Connell- The CEO of Charlottesville - Person of the Year: Gary O'Connell- The CEO of Charlottesville He's the CEO of one of Central Virginia's biggest companies, administering a $162 million annual budget and supervising over 900 employees. Like any CEO, he has a board that stakes out policy positions, but he's the one who makes things happen. Those facts in and of themselves are enough to make Gary O'Connell a contender for "Person of the Year" any year. However, this year, perhaps more than any other in his 14-year tenure as Charlottesville City Manager, has found O'Connell at the center of several larger-than-usual controversies. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/horror-in-mumbai-inside-a-terrorist-attack-and-the-mind-of-synchronicity monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d7b193c8-3642-4064-99a7-8538eca44a28/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+11.25.53%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Horror in Mumbai: Inside a terrorist attack and the mind of Synchronicity - Horror in Mumbai: Inside a terrorist attack and the mind of Synchronicity "Loud gunshots." That was the first sign of trouble for Charles Cannon, the spiritual leader of the Nelson County-based Synchronicity Foundation who had traveled to the luxurious Oberoi Hotel in downtown Mumbai, India with two dozen fellow peace-seekers. Their late November spiritual journey of meditation and enlightenment was on a collision course with an international terrorism incident that left more than 150 dead, including two of their own. As Cannon and several followers huddled in his 12th floor hotel suite, explosions and gunshots rang out below. Downstairs, Synchronicity vice president Alan Scherr, 58, and his 13-year-old daughter, Naomi, were caught in the gunfire that erupted while they dined in the restaurant adjacent to the soaring hotel atrium. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/cop-out-what-have-police-learned-after-last-falls-crosswalk-incidents monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e3628409-87c5-4b28-9e4b-45fc5a45cdf4/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+11.18.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Cop out? What have police learned after last fall's crosswalk incidents? - Cop out? What have police learned after last fall's crosswalk incidents? Last fall, in the space of six weeks, a pair of incidents between pedestrians in crosswalks and police shook Charlottesville and sparked protests and petitions demanding police accountability and greater emphasis on pedestrian rights and safety. One year later, in the wake of those incidents, the city is spending $700,000 on pedestrian safety improvements while Police Chief Tim Longo has formed a citizen police advisory panel and boldly claims the department is a "leading advocate for pedestrian safety." Critics, however, say these efforts are nothing more than a "band-aid" on a broken system. They blast the advisory panel as "toothless" and "meaningless," and say improved crosswalks and sidewalks are welcome– but that they don't address the police cover-up they say they witnessed last fall. "Nothing has changed," charges Jim McKinley-Oakes, a licensed clinical social worker, who says his faith in the Charlottesville police force was shattered by what happened to his friend, Gerry Mitchell. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/minor-mishaps-he-built-an-internet-giant-so-why-is-halsey-hurting monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/3a3ef9d2-8400-4721-ad84-06d50ecc8114/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+11.09.54%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Minor mishaps: He built an Internet giant, so why is Halsey hurting? - Minor mishaps: He built an Internet giant, so why is Halsey hurting? Halsey Minor is the greatest character Charles Dickens never created. But if he had, the 19th century author with the penchant for giving characters descriptively accurate monikers might have given Minor a different last name. Major was the ambition when Minor founded news company CNet in 1992 with the intent of becoming the top media mogul of the new medium called the Internet. Major was his wealth when CNet became the go-to site for tech industry news and when advertising dollars began to pour into the company. Major was his foresight in March of 2000 when he walked away from CNet with hundreds of millions at the peak of its success, just weeks before the dot-com bubble burst and scores of other young entrepreneurs lost their fortunes. Now, less than a decade later, at age 43, major are Minor's losing gambles and unpaid bills. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/missing-billion-how-uvas-investment-strategy-worked-until-it-didnt monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/199739b9-fd60-4e46-85a9-7f1e833fe75c/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+11.00.41%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Missing billion: how UVA's investment strategy worked... until it didn't - Missing billion: how UVA's investment strategy worked... until it didn't The University of Virginia has long been distinguished as a "public Ivy" comparable to pricey private colleges of the Northeast. Now, in this era of financial meltdown, UVA is being lumped with the Ivy League in a less flattering way: for using an aggressive investment strategy called the "Yale model" that veers away from traditional investments like bonds into the more profitable– and riskier– world of private equity and hedge funds. And, unfortunately, nearly a billion dollars just disappeared. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/out-of-nowhere-how-tom-perriellos-450-mile-election-day-made-the-difference-in-the-race-for-congress monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ababe8c7-03a3-4853-b985-7cb271b5c6aa/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+10.53.52%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Out of nowhere: How Tom Perriello's 450 mile Election Day made the difference in the race for Congress - Out of nowhere: How Tom Perriello's 450 mile Election Day made the difference in the race for Congress Tom Perriello doesn't look like a rock star, but when the Democratic congressional candidate took the stage at Gravity Lounge on Tuesday, November 4 just before midnight, he got as loud and wild a reception as anybody with a guitar has ever gotten at this downtown music venue. Hundreds of local Democrats, having already bounced up and down with giddy joy when MSNBC declared that Barack Obama had won enough electoral votes to be the next President of the United States, let loose a euphoric roar when their own conquering hero took the stage to share a bit of news: "As I understand it," he said, "CNN has just called this race for us!" https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/encore-did-a-violence-free-jay-z-show-just-save-local-hip-hop monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/4c5e2b3b-dfdb-44b2-b23d-3b4fe0e34319/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+10.48.05%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Encore? Did a violence-free Jay-Z show just save local hip-hop? - Encore? Did a violence-free Jay-Z show just save local hip-hop? It may not have been obvious to those in attendance, but the Jay-Z concert at John Paul Jones Arena on October 25 made history. For the first time, JPJ officials had booked the University of Virginia's plush $130 million arena for a hip-hop show. Not only that, the 11,000 people in attendance composed the largest audience ever assembled for an African-American entertainer in Charlottesville. In a town where officials shut down the public schools rather than integrate them 50 years ago, a show with mostly white UVA students coming together with mostly African-American Jay-Z fans from outside the university had the potential to be a momentous event in Charlottesville's sometimes troubled racial history. There was just one problem. Given last year's two incidents of gunplay following hip-hop concerts, the event also had the potential to be a night that could end in violence. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/and-the-nominees-are-nine-people-wed-like-to-see-run-the-virginia-film-festival monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/70205064-130c-4256-a8ca-b70f8744f331/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+10.41.01%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - And the nominees are...: Nine people we'd like to see run the Virginia Film Festival - And the nominees are...: Nine people we'd like to see run the Virginia Film Festival With Virginia Film Festival director Richard Herskowitz ending his 14-year tenure and riding off into the Oregon sunset at the conclusion of this year's festival, all of Charlottesville's cinemaphiles wait with bated breath to find out who will lead the venerable institution into the future. As it turns out, this town has connections to some of the best and brightest in the movie-making business, any one of whom would make a great successor to Herskowitz. So, to the Virginia Film Festival board, we humbly submit the following slate of nine nominees to fill the director's chair and keep our annual flick fest hopping with lights, cameras, and action. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/lien-on-me-how-one-high-rolling-firms-troubles-trickle-down monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/aaa45928-80fc-43d4-be28-3fb68d01f6b0/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+10.34.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Lien on me: How one high rolling firm's troubles trickle down - Lien on me: How one high rolling firm's troubles trickle down In September, Church Hill Homes announced that a Richmond-based firm was swooping in to purchase nearly a dozen of its properties in the massive green development off Rio Road called Belvedere. A month later, more than a dozen of Church Hill's other properties fell into foreclosure. Even with that evidence that Church Hill has been struggling for months, the amount of economic pain that has trickled down from its failure comes as a rude shock: over a dozen subcontractors– many of them small, locally owned businesses– claim they are owed hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's money that they say they desperately need, but which they believe they will never see. "You build trust up, and all of a sudden, they take that trust and misuse it, abuse it," says Ricky Shifflett, who recently dipped into savings to keep his employees from getting pink slips after Church Hill failed to pay the $35,000 he was expecting for laying tile. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/attack-of-the-clones-have-freedom-and-tradition-taken-a-back-seat-to-fan-uniformity-at-uva monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c8148b3f-b822-442c-b9b5-bf5eb65703cc/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+10.22.13%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Attack of the clones? Have freedom and tradition taken a back seat to fan uniformity at UVA? - Attack of the clones? Have freedom and tradition taken a back seat to fan uniformity at UVA? While a stadium packed with nearly 65,000 howling 'Hoos certainly can be an intimidating setting for a visiting team, would it be any less positive if those fans were waving signs? Would Saturday afternoons at Scott Stadium be any less exciting with a soundtrack provided by the UVA Pep Band rather than, or perhaps in addition to, the UVA Marching Band? Would that student cheering section be a less formidable "12th Man" wearing jackets and ties than they would be wearing "Power of Orange" t-shirts? As the team attempts to bounce back from three embarrassingly lopsided losses early in the season, some are wondering if the recent changes in the Scott Stadium experience are really for the better. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/segregations-storytellers-history-emerges-from-those-who-lived-it monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/b6d98ab6-e0aa-4c4f-b406-5e05dfc1e41e/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+10.11.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Segregation's storytellers: History emerges from those who lived it - Segregation's storytellers: History emerges from those who lived it In 1958, if you'd said a black man would be running for president of the United States of America in 50 years– and might have a good chance at winning the job– you'd be greeted with knee-slappin' guffaws. Heck, an African American couldn't go to school with white children then, much less run for president. And as crazy as that notion would have seemed, flip the mirror back from 2008 and chew on another seemingly insane idea: A majority of Virginia legislators would rather close the public schools than accept the enrollment of what were then called Negro children. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/uncle-and-maestro-remembering-george-garrett monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/050eda2f-992b-4f07-bcfa-0e74c221565c/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+9.59.02%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - 'Uncle and maestro': Remembering George Garrett - 'Uncle and maestro': Remembering George Garrett At a memorial service last week for writer and UVA professor George Garrett, who died on May 25 after an 18-month battle with bladder cancer, UVA president John Casteen called him a "great man of letters" and a "reader and teacher without peer" and credited him with conceiving of and shaping the University's program in Creative Writing, which is consistently ranked among the best in the Country. "He took his work seriously," Casteen said to a packed house at the UVA Chapel, "but never took himself seriously." Indeed, most of the hundred or so people who had come to remember Garrett, all wearing the "Friends of George" buttons that were handed out, smiled and nodded. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/ripped-apart-how-homeland-security-broke-up-this-family monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/59da586a-3a86-44e2-a9e6-3d91e605b63c/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+9.36.39%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Ripped apart: How Homeland Security broke up this family - Ripped apart: How Homeland Security broke up this family It was the moment Gennady and Melinda Denisenko had prayed would finally come. Nearly a decade after they met, and just weeks shy of their sixth wedding anniversary, Gennady, a man who had fled Soviet Russia to find the freedom for which he had advocated in his home country, and Melinda, a woman who had fallen in love with his big smile and gentle demeanor, were now sitting in the Fairfax office of a federal agency called Citizenship and Immigration Services, about to be legally recognized by the government as a married couple, paving the way for Gennady to at last realize his dream of becoming an American citizen. At least, that's what they thought. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/big-steps-will-martha-jeffersons-leap-bring-a-footbridge monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0ca1dab9-964d-496d-8cc5-70be03ab8899/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+9.26.12%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Big steps: Will Martha Jefferson's leap bring a footbridge? - Big steps: Will Martha Jefferson's leap bring a footbridge? Martha Jefferson Hospital is planning to complete its move to a new site on Pantops Mountain in 2012, and bicyclist Randy Salzman is very, very worried. Armed with a county road survey, the freelance transportation planner believes traffic on nearby Free Bridge, which already carries over 50,000 vehicles a day, is about to become gridlock central. While hospital officials downplay that possibility, Salzman, decked out this day in a bright yellow biking shirt, has a vision for a yellow brick road of sorts– a road that that would move people, not cars, over the Rivanna River. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/madison-for-resident-montpelier-gets-extreme-makeover monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f62f7898-2dee-4451-9882-834cd030ae0e/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+9.16.40%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Madison for resident: Montpelier gets extreme makeover - Madison for resident: Montpelier gets extreme makeover Like a delicate butterfly emerging out of a bloated pink pupa, Montpelier has metamorphasized back into its original self, circa 1820. The change is dramatic, the stuccoed mansion expanded by William and Annie duPont is no more, and historians say that's a good thing. "Spectacular," says Dan Jordan, director of Monticello. "It was done with great care and a high degree of professionalism." Visitors to the house, which opened to the public in 1987, saw a grand mansion but couldn't determine what was Madison and what was duPont. "People knew it wasn't the original Madison," says Michael Quinn, president of the Montpelier Foundation, the organization that oversees the National Trust-owned estate. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/vive-leroi-1961-2008 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/cf300525-8295-436e-b85f-e7243b40b8f9/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+9.09.23%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Vive LeRoi: 1961-2008 - Vive LeRoi: 1961-2008 As a soft but steady rain– the first in more than a month– fell on his hometown, friends and family of LeRoi Moore filed into Charlottesville's biggest church to remember the late Dave Matthews Band saxophonist on the morning of Wednesday, August 27. Moore died August 19 in Los Angeles, seven weeks after sustaining serious injuries in a all-terrain vehicle accident on his farm outside town. He would have celebrated his 47th birthday this Sunday, September 7. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-diplomat-piecing-together-casteens-longevity monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/18ab84be-572e-4f80-9a73-a56a66432003/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+8.45.27%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The diplomat: Piecing together Casteen's longevity - The diplomat: Piecing together Casteen's longevity It's a wonder the offices of college presidents aren't outfitted with revolving doors. Among U.S. News and World Report's top 50 universities, the average president has been in the top seat for just six years– only long enough to see three classes of undergraduates move from matriculation to commencement. In that top 50, no president has served longer than John Casteen. This month marks his 18th year at the helm of the University of Virginia. Yet, unlike some high-profile college presidents who encounter controversy, Casteen appears never to have had to fight to keep his job– but it's not as though he hasn't had his share of controversies: https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/obscene-sort-of-staunton-porn-trial-bizarre-from-start-to-finish monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/95f2b095-f721-4e61-9db3-e1cd020c1c44/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+8.37.10%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Obscene! (sort of)- Staunton porn trial bizarre from start to finish - Obscene! (sort of)- Staunton porn trial bizarre from start to finish It was a scene straight out of The Andy Griffith Show's fictitious town of Mayberry. On Tuesday, August 12, just before the judge gaveled Staunton Circuit Court into session, smiling citizens reporting for jury duty waved hello to each other, some exchanging familiar back-slapping greetings with sheriffs, and the city prosecutor inquired about a potential juror's recent fishing trip. It was just another day in the small Southern town of Staunton. That is, until jury selection in the town's first obscenity trial in recent memory got underway. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/painful-puzzle-abshire-talks-about-the-fatal-night monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/98a2f813-2c71-411d-97f4-07be6e926db9/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+4.47.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Painful puzzle: Abshire talks about the fatal night - Painful puzzle: Abshire talks about the fatal night It was first considered a tragic but straight-forward incident of hit and run on a winding, moonlit country road in Barboursville. But the 2006 death of Justine Swartz Abshire, a 27-year-old kindergarten teacher, continues to vex investigators, as a series of discrepancies surround the late woman's husband, who insists on his innocence. Last month, the tragedy found a national audience when ABC Primetime Crime, capping a year-long investigation by the network, aired an hour-long episode on Justine's death that revealed some startling new clues. But despite the new information– including phone records and a battery of injuries inconsistent with the original story– questions remain: How did Justine spend her final hours? Why did it take her husband as long as 18 minutes to call 911 after he discovered his wife's body? And how did Justine really die? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/annual-manual-i-heart-charlottesville-has-our-town-become-the-little-apple monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ff10ec50-69dc-48bd-a3c9-25513315da00/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+4.41.06%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - ANNUAL MANUAL- I heart Charlottesville: Has our town become the Little Apple? - ANNUAL MANUAL- I heart Charlottesville: Has our town become the Little Apple? Dine at Ten, catch Wilco at the Charlottesville Pavillion, and cap the night at X-Lounge with a $10 martini or two. The next morning, take a class in Bikram Yoga, visit the Miller Center for a talk by Senator Ted Kennedy or George McGovern, finish up with dinner at one of the area's four-star restaurants. Culture, culture, culture, fine dining, and diversity. Some say it's the best of times for Charlottesville. But then there's the ceaseless development, high real estate prices, and what many consider the loss of our small town appeal. Maybe it's the worst of times... It certainly was a bad time recently for a Republican Senator who used to represent Albemarle in the General Asseembly and Congress. Is Charlottesville New Yorkifying? Can it be long before we call ourselves the "Little Apple?" Any way you slice it, the issue is ripe for debate. A few signs... https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/seven-wonders-charlottesville-athletes-go-from-rt-29-to-the-29th-olympiad monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/9d89f790-688e-4018-9af0-f469e3274cef/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+4.27.38%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Seven wonders: Charlottesville athletes go from Rt. 29 to the 29th Olympiad - Seven wonders: Charlottesville athletes go from Rt. 29 to the 29th Olympiad Though they may look like ordinary Charlottesville citizens and UVA students, seven of the world's greatest athletes are either presently or currently walking among us. Soon, like Clark Kent emerging from the telephone booth, they will leave our little town to stand before the world as the supermen and superwomen they are at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Since all have UVA ties, athletic director Craig Littlepage couldn't be more pleased. "The fact that we do have a number of competitors in different sports as well as from different countries demonstrates the diversity of our successful and broad-based athletic program," says Littlepage. "It's an affirmation that UVA attracts persons with athletic as well as academic prowess not only from all over the country, but from all over the world." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/not-by-passed-living-in-limbo-in-targeted-squirrel-ridge monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/b75b53bd-5892-4390-9653-d26bf844a6a6/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+4.16.16%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Not by-passed: Living in limbo in targeted Squirrel Ridge - Not by-passed: Living in limbo in targeted Squirrel Ridge A few months after Bill Massie moved to 312 Squirrel Path in the 1980s, he picked up the daily newspaper and was stunned by what he saw: a four-lane highway was planned to roll right through his house. Now, 20 years later, the Western 29 Bypass still has not been built, and Massie's Squirrel Ridge neighborhood continues under a cloud. But as the Bypass seems less and less likely to materialize, the little neighborhood– that once even pleaded to be destroyed– may have the last laugh. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/single-streamin-comminglin-whatever-its-called-its-tasty-less-land-filling monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/335b8693-1123-40fd-af58-cc89ab46fdae/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+4.10.40%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Single streamin', comminglin': Whatever it's called, it's tasty, less (land) filling - Single streamin', comminglin': Whatever it's called, it's tasty, less (land) filling The desire to recycle is powerful in many of us– especially when it's easy. That's why Charlottesville's quiet switch to single-stream recycling– obviating the tedious separation of glass and paper– is such a godsend to those who want to save the earth without getting their hands too dirty. Last year, the city's recycling hauler, Allied Waste, saw an opportunity to expand its services and pick up plastics and cardboard without having to separate the materials on the street. "We talked to the city and said we'd put it all together," says Allied's Tad Phillips. The change was possible thanks to Tidewater Fiber in Chester, a recycling sorter with facilities in Richmond, Chesapeake, and North Carolina. "We were able to piggy back on them," Phillips says. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/alarming-most-smoke-detectors-dont-detect-deadly-smoke monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ebb096de-fe6f-4879-bff6-ae9663576879/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+4.04.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Alarming: Most smoke detectors don't detect deadly smoke - Alarming: Most smoke detectors don't detect deadly smoke Imagine a room filling with smoke billowing from a smoldering couch. Visibility becomes increasingly compromised, but not enough to fully obscure a round white device affixed to the ceiling. It's a smoke detector. In fact, it's a brand new one with a brand new battery. But despite a haze now thick and acrid enough to disorient an adult, as smoke and carbon monoxide build toward deadly levels, the detector remains silent. The Hook doesn't have to imagine this scenario: we created it. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/strike-three-has-mcintire-softball-been-benched monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/30f9955b-a0fc-4130-8328-63a7b5fd9dd6/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+3.58.54%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Strike three? Has McIntire softball been benched? - Strike three? Has McIntire softball been benched? It takes three hours to play softball– one to play, two to talk," chuckles catcher Alan Hughes as his team– representing Beck Cohen heating and air– gathers around an open tailgate one Sunday in June. Teammates toss Gatorade bottles back and forth, children gather bats and gloves for dads, and wives cheerfully snap pictures. But even as the team huddles in the bright sun to discuss game strategy, a dark cloud looms in the background: a plan to push players off the turf they've enjoyed for decades. "It's hard to understand," Hughes says. "These fields have been used for 15 to 20 years. I grew up here. It brings people together in the community– kids and adults." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/downtown-showdown-councilors-planners-in-mall-square-off monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/babfeaa5-d5af-4d78-8368-077ba4476394/Screenshot+2025-12-15+at+3.44.18%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Downtown showdown: Councilors, planners in Mall square off - Downtown showdown: Councilors, planners in Mall square off Fans of the Downtown Mall have one last chance to weigh in on its planned $7.5 million renovation, scheduled to begin next January. The final public meeting on the project– announced suddenly on June 9– will be held June 30 at City Space above Bashir's on the Mall, just two weeks before City Council will decide whether to approve $4.5 million to jump-start the project. "The drop-dead date is the second Council meeting in July," chief planner Jim Tolbert told City Councilors on June 16. "That's when Council needs to decide, or the project won't get done." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/im-incredibly-competitive-how-a-once-obscure-law-gave-local-women-their-turn monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/84fab63d-8207-4194-8361-7c03a8105a68/Screenshot+2025-12-07+at+11.29.13%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - 'I'm incredibly competitive': How a once obscure law gave local women their turn - 'I'm incredibly competitive': How a once obscure law gave local women their turn "Player of the Week!" Hofstra University online news congratulated Maizie Osteen, a lacrosse player from Charlottesville, during this spring's season. The gushing continued game after game: "Osteen made seven saves." "Osteen had a spectacular 4.15 goals against average." "Led by Osteen's strong play in net, Hofstra held William & Mary to just 2-10 shooting." Later this month, after graduation caps this standout collegiate athletic career, the Charlottesville High School graduate heads across the ocean to join the Welsh national lacrosse team. A year from now, she will play in the World Cup in Prague. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-war-comes-home-iraq-afghanistan-and-charlottesville-connect monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/069207ce-5bff-45d6-8ed0-0a28a05f8c9c/Screenshot+2025-12-07+at+11.20.50%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The war comes home: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Charlottesville connect - The war comes home: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Charlottesville connect If war breaks out in the Middle East, and nobody's there to hear it, does it make a noise? According to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center during the week of May 26-June 1, the news stories Americans are following most closely are the presidential election, the earthquake in China, the tornados in the midwest, the collapsing housing market, the new tell-all book by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan, and the NASA Mars landing. Nowhere on the list were the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet for some locals, places like Fallujah and Kabul are as familiar as Crozet or Lovingston. As skirmishes erupt among the rocky cliffs and dusty streets halfway around the world, Charlottesvillians wonder if loved ones are safe and how long it will be before the sectarian violence can be peacefully resolved. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/red-state-blue-warner-takes-radical-centrist-campaign-statewide monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/cca30ba5-3a37-4be6-af66-1b7668bdf8e4/Screenshot+2025-12-07+at+11.13.13%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Red state blue: Warner takes 'radical centrist' campaign statewide - Red state blue: Warner takes 'radical centrist' campaign statewide Landmark Aviation's wood-paneled terminal at Dulles Airport is everything a traditional airport terminal gate isn't. Its lobby scattered with comfortable, overstuffed chairs and evenly tanned beautiful people in expensive casual wear, Landmark caters to a class of privileged travelers. Like CNN's Larry King, for example. Dour-faced, he lopes with a long gait toward the door to the tarmac. King's tan has the look of a moments-ago chemical peel, almost perfectly matching his fire engine-red Members Only jacket. An airport worker follows, pushing two full luggage carts. King and his lady friend — who looks like a Carly Simon body-double— do not travel light. The same cannot be said of the next face that appears. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/what-happened-to-buzzy-a-sister-wants-answers-about-her-brothers-death monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/df33a8f5-2cb8-40e4-b5e8-bc2b80be0942/Screenshot+2025-12-07+at+11.06.13%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - What happened to Buzzy? A sister wants answers about her brother's death - What happened to Buzzy? A sister wants answers about her brother's death He was a quiet tenant who paid his rent on time. He smiled and waved to his landlord every day as he left his tiny apartment at the back of Spangler's Farm Supply store on Route 20 just over the Buckingham County line. In fact, so reliable was the daily sight of Marion "Buzzy" Ennis hopping on his beloved red Vespa scooter to ride into Scottsville that when Sam Spangler realized he hadn't seen his tenant– or the scooter– for several days, he quickly became concerned. So on Tuesday afternoon, May 16, 2006, at least three days after he'd last seen Ennis, Spangler and one of his employees knocked on the door of the apartment Ennis had occupied for nearly seven months. When no one answered, Spangler used his key to open the door and called Ennis' name as he entered. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/summer-savings-cutting-cost-without-cutting-the-fun monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/380fa0a7-516c-4972-8450-c5c46ffad25a/Screenshot+2025-12-07+at+10.46.07%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Summer savings! Cutting cost without cutting the fun - Summer savings! Cutting cost without cutting the fun We had high-flying plans for this year's summer issue. We were going to shell out big bucks to jet Dave Matthews to Charlottesville to show us his favorite summer spots. Bearing in mind the rocker's green preoccupations, we were also planning to buy a bunch of carbon credits to offset adverse environmental effects of the trip. That wasn't all! We were going to have Annie Liebowitz shoot a glossy 3-D hologram cover, and we planned a huge party at John Paul Jones Arena with an open bar and a free DMB concert. But in view of the declining economy, our accountant, H. Poindexter Pennypincher, said no. Okay, we said, we'll make it a cash bar. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/tornado-monium-weather-scare-rocks-town monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/8309a7f2-aaf9-4d4f-9823-e7d738bd8ebf/05152008-0720.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Tornado-monium! Weather scare rocks town - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/under-the-radar-and-dreaming-whos-the-next-big-band-from-charlottesville monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/28ec308d-8dae-458a-9edc-430f161d13c2/Screenshot+2025-12-07+at+10.31.05%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Under the radar and dreaming: Who's the next big band from Charlottesville? - Under the radar and dreaming: Who's the next big band from Charlottesville? In March 2007, the Hook asked a few veterans of the local music scene to predict which up-and-coming artists might break into the big time and become the next famous band from Charlottesville. A little more than a year later, some of those upstarts have done just that. Since gracing last year's cover, popsters Sparky's Flaw inked a deal with Mercury Records and have been jetting from Charlottesville to Minneapolis and Los Angeles to put the final touches on their soon-to-be-released debut album. All the while, they've closely followed the model of fellow Red Light Management artists Dave Matthews Band by playing every college bar and club from Miami to Hoboken, winning an increasing legion of fans, including enough MySpace friends to fill John Paul Jones Arena. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/virginia-is-for-puritans-the-fight-over-sex-nudity-and-the-first-amendment monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/bb5770ba-2a14-4f36-bd00-6a802e252e3d/Screenshot+2025-12-07+at+10.23.47%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Virginia is for... puritans: The fight over sex, nudity, and the First Amendment - Virginia is for... puritans: The fight over sex, nudity, and the First Amendment All over Virginia, there are women hanging around government buildings brazenly baring their breasts. In libraries, assembly halls, even inside the DMV, the naked bosoms are downright unavoidable. The ubiquitous nudity can even be found in the schools, out in the open, in front of children as young as six years old. And there's one woman behind it all. She is known simply as Virtue, and while she may not be a household name, hers is clearly the Commonwealth's most memorable mammary. She's the triumphant woman on the state flag, her left foot atop an anonymous king's dead body, her left hand clutching a sword, and her left breast fully exposed. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/look-busy-the-boss-is-coming-bruce-springsteen-at-jpj monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/b22e2bda-f768-46a8-892e-02c4aad1ae65/04242008-0717.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Look busy, the Boss is coming: Bruce Springsteen at JPJ - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/smoldering-truth-ashley-mauters-fight-and-a-shocking-fact-about-smoke-detectors monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5d5c9cd6-68fd-4885-846e-421acf25a991/Screenshot+2025-12-07+at+10.04.33%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Smoldering truth: Ashley Mauter's fight and a shocking fact about smoke detectors - Smoldering truth: Ashley Mauter's fight and a shocking fact about smoke detectors A year after a fatal blaze on Lewis Mountain Road killed a young man and critically injured his girlfriend, the fire's other survivor has dropped a bombshell. Contrary to news reports immediately following the blaze, the man insists that a smoke detector in his apartment was working that night and awakened him– it just didn't awaken him in time to give his sleeping friends enough time to escape. This new information contradicts the conventional wisdom that a working smoke detector could have saved everyone, and one fire official has a theory why. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-norfolk-four-clemency-petition-sits-on-kaines-desk monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/52bee3ef-5744-41ff-8a1d-7763018f95ca/Screenshot+2025-12-07+at+9.55.59%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The Norfolk Four: Clemency petition sits on Kaine's desk - The Norfolk Four: Clemency petition sits on Kaine's desk It was a curious time for Danial Williams to commit murder. On that fateful Tuesday, the 25-year-old Norfolk sailor had been married to his longtime girlfriend for less than two weeks, and she was recuperating from surgery for ovarian cancer. His parents had just arrived for a visit from Michigan and were staying at a nearby campground. The foursome was heading for dinner that July evening when police, investigating the shocking discovery of a neighbor's dead body earlier in the day, interrupted the plans. Just a few questions. Shouldn't take long. If Danial drove his truck downtown, he might be able to join the rest before they'd finished eating. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/failures-brink-how-mlk-snatched-success-in-charlottesville monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c301c5c4-9427-4c8f-aede-daca1cdc59e9/Screenshot+2025-12-07+at+9.49.59%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Failure's brink: How MLK snatched success in Charlottesville - Failure's brink: How MLK snatched success in Charlottesville Forty-five years ago last month, a young preacher and activist named Martin Luther King Jr. came to Charlottesville to speak at the University of Virginia. He and his hosts– a professor and his wife and an engineering undergrad– decided on a late-night stroll. It was a pleasant spring evening, and after sightseeing and making their way over the Lawn, they headed back across a little road behind Newcomb Hall toward the motel on Emmet Street where King was staying. In 1963, an interracial group was something of an anomaly in Charlottesville, even on University Grounds. Having grown up in the South, the foursome knew that just being together could be viewed with suspicion, and King's notoriety didn't help. Suddenly a sound like a rifle shot rang out. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/unhappy-grandpa-the-rough-retirement-of-thomas-jefferson monthly 0.5 2025-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/086266e3-ce9b-4aa8-85ba-aee17096b923/Screenshot+2025-12-06+at+1.34.53%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Unhappy grandpa: the rough retirement of Thomas Jefferson - Unhappy grandpa: the rough retirement of Thomas Jefferson It was March of 1809 when the third president, then 65 years old, was leaving Washington. "Within two or three days," he wrote, "I retire from scenes of difficulty, anxiety & of contending passions to the elysium of domestic affections & the irresponsible direction of my own affairs." Yet for the Sage of Monticello, peace at his mountaintop home would be shattered by incapacitating disease, financial ruin, and domestic violence that literally brought him to his knees. A stunning revision of the popular modern image of Jefferson's retirement is the subject of Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson, a new book by Alan Pell Crawford. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/bringing-sexy-back-the-hooks-hot-lit-picks-at-the-book-fest monthly 0.5 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/7f5991f2-e427-4a21-9bd5-374e0c8ae00d/Screenshot+2025-12-04+at+10.30.03%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Bringing sexy back: The Hook's hot lit picks at the Book Fest - Bringing sexy back: The Hook's hot lit picks at the Book Fest The Virginia Festival of the Book has always been a ground breaker, and this year it ups the ante with a Tantric sex workshop. "We've had sex several years in a row," says Festival organizer Nancy Damon, referring, one hopes, to Festival readings and speeches. She notes that the Festival has also sponsored workshops– writing workshops. But a Tantric practices workshop? "Did you know the U.S. poet laureate is coming?" responds a sidestepping Damon. It's very exciting that the country's top poet, Charles Simic, will be here (8pm March 28), of course, but back to Tantric sex at the 14th Virginia Festival of the Book. Patricia Johnson and Mark Michaels lead the March 29 workshop, which costs $50, at Studio 206. Start with the free "Intro to Tantra" at 8pm March 28. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/trickling-away-a-dam-develops-amid-missed-chances monthly 0.5 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/65b19a42-f2f2-4885-8327-53e8bc75610a/Screenshot+2025-12-04+at+10.23.17%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Trickling away: A dam develops amid missed chances - Trickling away: A dam develops amid missed chances With not a penny budgeted for dredging, the complete siltation of the Rivanna Reservoir is no longer a matter of "if" but "when." And information is starting to emerge that our local waterworks officials, having paid (and still paying) millions to an engineering firm that may have overestimated the cost of dredging, have already missed several opportunities to fix a broken dam and solve our future supply problems. Now, water customers are looking at buying a hotly debated reservoir straddling an Interstate highway and spending millions for the power to pump water nearly 10 miles across the county. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/stacking-the-decks-will-new-parking-decks-cure-parking-woes monthly 0.5 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/7629aa0b-b939-4024-a5cc-53382e3de20f/Screenshot+2025-12-04+at+10.14.41%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Stacking the decks: Will new parking decks cure parking woes? - Stacking the decks: Will new parking decks cure parking woes? As urban structures, parking decks have always been hard to warm up to: massive and nondescript on the outsides, they are often as dark and bewildering as caves inside. In countless films and TV shows, they're presented as sinister labyrinths, settings for illicit rendezvous, murders, violent car chases, shoot-outs, stalkings (heroine walking, hears noise, looks around to see nothing, walks faster– can she unlock the door in time?). An entire episode of Seinfeld takes place in a parking deck at a shopping center when the foursome can't remember where they parked Kramer's car. However, as Charlottesville continues its cityfication, we might be wise to warm up to these facts of urban life, as they appear to be popping up (in large construction-project years, anyway) like mushrooms. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/reservoir-dogged-a-142-million-boondoggle monthly 0.5 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/8740aa95-078d-4fda-ae46-4bb14943d524/Screenshot+2025-12-04+at+10.01.54%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Reservoir dogged: A $142 million boondoggle? - Reservoir dogged: A $142 million boondoggle? Every day, a little more sediment seeps into the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir, reducing its capacity to quench the thirst of our growing population. Dredging it, however, will cost millions, mostly for trucking away the dirt. Meanwhile, just a couple of miles away lies the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport, which wants to expand its runway and plans to spend $15 million of its $50 million budget to... truck in dirt. Why can't these two quasi-governmental bodies get together to save each other millions of dollars while solving the local water crisis? A Hook investigation finds they haven't really tried– that no serious studies have been conducted to discover if dirt-swapping might be a viable solution to both their problems. And dredging supporters allege the company that told the local waterworks to dam its way out of disaster might have a conflict of interest. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/kathleens-crusade monthly 0.5 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/04895d39-259b-4d68-adbb-cab3b28be292/Screenshot+2025-12-04+at+9.51.45%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Kathleen's crusade - Kathleen's crusade There are times when your life plays out as though you're stuck in a dream. But you're awake; you can hear your heartbeat. You're watching yourself. Kathleen Willey knows the feeling. Last month, in a dingy theater at the edge of Georgetown, she's watching her face projected about eight feet tall and talking about something that happened 10 years ago. Her memories remain vivid, and they play before her at 24 frames a second, eliciting soft gasps from the audience. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/stupid-legislative-tricks-2900-bills-flood-general-assembly monthly 0.5 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/75689d93-90d6-47fd-b82a-147cc33ea4ec/02142008-0707.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Stupid legislative tricks? 2,900 bills flood General Assembly - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/cued-up-local-show-goes-viral monthly 0.5 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/fed96d07-506e-4e09-9544-a035107343ad/Screenshot+2025-12-04+at+9.33.53%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - 'Cued up: Local show goes viral - 'Cued up: Local show goes viral It's a typical taping night for the Midnight Barbecue. Guests are offered a beer and ushered into the green room, and the producer checks camera angles while the hosts chat with a guest who was beaten raw by a dominatrix on last week's show. In the tradition of do-it-yourself talk shows pioneered by Wayne's World, the "studio" is the spare bedroom in the hosts' apartment. Unlike its cable-access predecessor, however, this apartment is courtesy one of the show's sponsors, the massive GrandMarc at the Corner. So are the electronics (thank you, Crutchfield). And the beer in the green room's kegerator? That would be from Starr Hill, yet another sponsor. This is the Midnight Barbecue. Wayne Campbell, eat your heart out. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-perfect-storm-family-tragedy-plays-out-in-court monthly 0.5 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/228f40c7-b920-4b5d-aaef-40fa97938fb8/Screenshot+2025-12-04+at+9.25.29%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The perfect storm: Family tragedy plays out in court - The perfect storm: Family tragedy plays out in court "Everyone in this courtroom agrees Raelyn Balfour killed Bryce Balfour," said prosecutor Elizabeth Killeen when the three-day trial began January 23. "This little boy's life did not have to end this way on a hospital gurney. That constitutes criminal negligence." And so began one of Charlottesville's most painful trials– asking whether a mother who makes a fatal mistake has already paid the highest price– or should pay with her freedom. The prosecution and defense agreed on one thing: the death of nine-month-old Bryce Balfour was not intentional. Where they disagreed was whether his mother, Raelyn Alene Balfour, 36, was guilty of criminal neglect resulting in involuntary manslaughter, which carries up to 10 years in prison. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/suing-the-president-ten-years-later-john-whitehead-looks-back-at-jones-v-clinton monthly 0.5 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/fecc927d-bec5-4027-b652-a93483602336/Screenshot+2025-12-04+at+9.17.19%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Suing the president: Ten years later, John Whitehead looks back at Jones v. Clinton - Suing the president: Ten years later, John Whitehead looks back at Jones v. Clinton On a winter day ten years ago, as he was leaving his Charlottesville home to run weekend errands, John Whitehead suspected something was amiss. "There were these guys in skinny ties and white shirts in a black van, looking me right in the eye," he says. It had been three months since Whitehead had agreed to take the case of Paula Jones, an Arkansas woman who was suing President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment, and in that time the world's media had been watching Whitehead and his office at the Rutherford Institute, his Charlottesville-based civil liberties law organization. But now he realized a more clandestine adversary was following his every move. The following Monday, he hired a former National Security Agency surveillance expert to inspect his office and confirm what he had already guessed. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/west-main-street-then-and-now monthly 0.5 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5f4ff50f-64b7-4b34-962e-82224fcfb645/01172008-0703.jpg Issue Archive Blog - West Main Street: Then and now - West Main Street: Then and now In 1979, Chicago resident Duncan Brown was a UVA first-year taking his first photography class. His assignment: take a walk down West Main Street. "I was definitely out of my element," he recalls. "Nobody ever went down West Main back then." Brown never became a professional photographer. He dropped out of UVA in 1982 to open a restaurant and arcade over on JPA called Professor Fethers (a reference to Poe's story, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether), worked at GE Fanuc for a time, then left for Chicago to work for a company that, appropriately enough, made pinball machines. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/high-hopes-locals-pump-up-barack-hillary-mitt-and-more-with-money-time-and-sometimes-helium monthly 0.5 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ca0c3009-94ca-4b85-81d5-2a84bc246511/Screenshot+2025-12-04+at+8.53.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - High hopes: Locals pump up Barack, Hillary, Mitt, and more with money, time (and sometimes helium) - High hopes: Locals pump up Barack, Hillary, Mitt, and more with money, time (and sometimes helium) Although it's been 87 years since a Virginian has resided at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, make no mistake that the Mother of Presidents is as important as ever in deciding who will become the next Chief Executive of the United States. While she doesn't have a child in this year's race (see p. 35 to find out why not) she's a sugar mama to anyone seeking to move into the White House in 2009. The Hook examined federal disclosure forms and found that candidates have raised over $290,000 through fiscal year 2007 in the Charlottesville area alone. But locals aren't just opening their wallets for their favorite presidential contenders. They're donating time, star power, and, yes, helium. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/make-mine-virginia-shine-backwoods-brew-becomes-big-and-now-legal-business monthly 0.5 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/6675b662-ac9e-488d-85b7-d8231921a7f5/Screenshot+2025-12-04+at+8.46.03%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Make mine Virginia shine: Backwoods brew becomes big (and now legal) business - Make mine Virginia shine: Backwoods brew becomes big (and now legal) business Known variously as "white lightning," "mountain dew," or just plain "firewater," there's no denying that moonshine has been a part of Virginia history for almost as long as there has been a Virginia. No less an august personage than George Washington operated a still at Mount Vernon. When Pennsylvania tried to impose a tax on the brew in the late 18th century, Scots-Irish farmers fled to the Blue Ridge hills to continue making their corn-based liquor unmolested. And during the era of Prohibition, it was the backwoods moonshiners who kept Virginia's whistle wet with their cheap, easy-to-make brand of booze. Now, even as the clear, syrupy contraband continues to run down mountainsides throughout Appalachia, moonshine has seeped its way into places it's never been before: local ABC stores. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/tough-times-the-best-and-mostly-worst-of-2007 monthly 0.5 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/27f0c2e1-1066-4e41-a536-1b628e33b233/Screenshot+2025-12-03+at+11.14.08%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Tough times: The best and (mostly) worst of 2007 - Tough times: The best and (mostly) worst of 2007 Something about 2007 makes us uneasy. Maybe it was an unfortunate spring, when April 16 became a day that, in Virginia, will live in infamy after armed student Seung-Hui Cho kills 32 people at Virginia Tech. Maybe it's the recession, fueled by the crashing housing market, the ripple effects of which have even best-place-to-live Charlottesville wincing in pain. Locally, the subprime mortgage collapse closes the doors of American Home Mortgage. Venerable builder R.D. Wade closes shop. New houses go unsold, builders scale back, and subcontractors moan. The glutted housing inventory sits at 3,500 houses– nearly three times the number available three years ago. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/making-an-exxxample-staunton-porn-shop-sparks-crackdown monthly 0.5 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e4374715-0241-4e88-b2f1-473daf70309d/Screenshot+2025-12-03+at+11.08.19%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Making an eXXXample: Staunton porn shop sparks crackdown - Making an eXXXample: Staunton porn shop sparks crackdown In his 1776 manifesto, The Wealth of Nations, economist Adam Smith promoted a marketplace unregulated by government, largely based on the belief that when consumers are free to buy things they want from merchants, the relationship is mutually beneficial because "We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love." Over 230 years later, government, in the form of a prosecutor in Staunton, is cracking down on a merchant who sells a product the Commonwealth's Attorney finds "cheap, animalistic, and wrong." However, this time, a different sort of "self-love" is at issue. A new adult video store has set off a powder keg of outrage that has divided the town, and resulted in the indictment of the store's owner on eight felony obscenity counts that could net a total of 80 years in prison. Is pornography protected under the First Amendment? The law doesn't say, but soon 12 Valley residents could decide the future of a billion-dollar industry. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/this-man-was-hit-by-a-police-cruiser-in-this-crosswalk-then-given-a-ticket monthly 0.5 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/03bf919b-28dd-4182-9af6-ecdba55e2089/Screenshot+2025-12-03+at+11.01.42%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - This man: was hit by a police cruiser in this crosswalk-- then given a ticket - This man: was hit by a police cruiser in this crosswalk-- then given a ticket Heading home from a trip to Reid's supermarket on Preston Avenue about a month ago, Charlottesville artist Gerry Mitchell stopped his motorized wheelchair on the sidewalk along West Main Street and waited to cross. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/wheres-the-pork-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-hogwaller-name monthly 0.5 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/17b0e841-de40-442a-aca1-45d188541ab2/Screenshot+2025-12-03+at+10.56.50%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Where's the pork? The rise and fall of the Hogwaller name - Where's the pork? The rise and fall of the Hogwaller name "Fifty-five dollars, 55, 55," the auctioneer barks, "54, 53, 52, 51– do I have 50?" Pipe smoke occasionally drifts through the thick air, momentarily disguising the unmistakable odor of livestock. From the faded blue wooden bleachers and the sea of mostly middle-aged men, a single tan hand rises. "51, 51, 52, 53"– the bidding slowly rises on a calf in a dusty pit, and the regular cadence of quick numbers is broken only by the occasional mooing of other cows waiting their turn. When bidding stalls at $64, the auctioneer's voice falls slient, and the calf heads to its destiny through a large door at the back. This is how the Charlottesville Livestock Market has operated for more than 60 years, and this is the heart of Hogwaller. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/builder-bows-out-3000-houses-later-wade-ends-an-era monthly 0.5 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/45a7b494-4746-48e4-b5d2-a9dc431f6f55/Screenshot+2025-12-03+at+10.48.42%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Builder bows out: 3,000 houses later, Wade ends an era - Builder bows out: 3,000 houses later, Wade ends an era With the real estate slump and glut of new houses on the market, it probably comes as no surprise that one of Charlottesville's many builders has decided to get out of the biz. But few in the home building community could have predicted the first to go would be one of Charlottesville's most prominent. In late October, after 42 years and nearly 3,000 houses built around the area, Randy Wade, founder and owner of R.D. Wade Builder, announced, "We have informed our employees that we will discontinue homebuilding as of January 31, 2008." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/questions-despite-tuesdays-arrests-in-home-murder-has-town-reeling monthly 0.5 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/39a0ae3d-5c32-4808-82eb-c74174ab419d/Screenshot+2025-12-03+at+10.41.22%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Questions: Despite Tuesdays arrests, in-home murder has town reeling - Questions: Despite Tuesdays arrests, in-home murder has town reeling By 3pm on November 9, it was clear something was terribly wrong at 807 St. Clair Avenue. Numerous police vehicles– including a foreboding “forensics van”– were parked on the street in front of the modest white cottage set approximately 200 feet back from the street that parallels Locust Avenue. Yellow police tape crossed the driveway, and at least a half dozen officers could be seen on the property and along the road. A few hours later, parents attending a student dance performance at Burnley Moran Elementary School two blocks away nervously discussed the reason for the massive police presence: murder. The news quickly spread through town. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/doa-who-killed-the-ruckersville-parkway monthly 0.5 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/a19d4502-a61a-4e73-903d-07d7a4fbe86a/11082007-0645.jpg Issue Archive Blog - DOA? Who killed the Ruckersville Parkway? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/back-story-20-years-of-stars-screenings-and-survival-at-the-virginia-film-festival monthly 0.5 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/14559a3f-2195-4679-a15d-31c289dddc6a/11012007-0644.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Back story: 20 years of stars, screenings and survival at the Virginia Film Festival - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/entertainment-overload-can-so-many-music-venues-make-it monthly 0.5 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/6eae53d6-abb7-4501-94a0-5a1ddad1cf75/10252007-0643.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Entertainment overload: Can so many music venues make it? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/hot-races-all-politics-is-personal monthly 0.5 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/8b95b4df-dde4-4af1-8254-fa38dfb267ca/10182007-0642.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Hot races: All politics is personal - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/sound-of-silence-dick-mountjoy-on-radio-cancer-and-life-without-both monthly 0.5 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/84a29d1e-f8cf-4129-8eac-e24a84d9c33b/Screenshot+2025-12-03+at+9.58.51%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Sound of silence: Dick Mountjoy on radio, cancer, and life without both - Sound of silence: Dick Mountjoy on radio, cancer, and life without both "Aaall riiight now, baybee, it's aaall riiight now!" For a moment, Dick Mountjoy is back in his element. Surrounded by walls of vinyl records, he grins as he strums an air guitar, and the signature riff by British rock band Free takes him back to 1970, when the song was a hit and Mountjoy was a 24-year-old disc jockey and radio station music director. But it's 37 years later. The song has come on during a commercial break from a football game, and the voice that will be back after these words from the sponsor will not be his. Instead, Mountjoy picks up a pen and continues to jot down a story about his radio heydays. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/fatal-roll-1982-fraternity-crash-still-affecting-lives monthly 0.5 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/25e25dbb-e50c-486e-8b7e-b569c229e121/Screenshot+2025-12-03+at+9.50.58%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Fatal roll: 1982 fraternity crash still affecting lives - Fatal roll: 1982 fraternity crash still affecting lives The tension was rising in the cab of the lumbering U-Haul. "I was aware of the turn," said the driver. "I was cutting the wheel." Back in the cargo hold, spirits were high; and although some of the 64 passengers felt braking and downshifting, they had no way of knowing what was about to happen. Crowded into the windowless space, they sang and drank, ignorant of the drama unfolding up front, where their driver was fighting to maintain control of the overloaded truck on a sharp curve. Suddenly, a flash of headlights in the opposite lane closed off the option of swinging wide. "I knew I had to stay in my lane," said the driver. "I had to hold on to my lane." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/autumn-of-love-locals-look-back-on-the-summer-of-67 monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ab2a30b8-12ba-4977-94df-2950f6d6fccf/09272007-0639.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Autumn of love: Locals look back on the summer of '67 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/unapologetic-prosecutor-defends-record-while-critics-take-aim monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/fd678904-5ee4-423f-9098-4b13a20dd9a1/09202007-0638.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Unapologetic: Prosecutor defends record while critics take aim - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/sold-clear-channel-stations-change-hands monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e03b3b00-74eb-4460-bf77-4611c6685cb8/09132007-0637.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Sold! Clear Channel stations change hands - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/first-and-long-as-football-kicks-off-emotions-run-high-at-virginia-tech monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/44c1ce1e-42c7-47ea-88f1-4de137eb03af/Screenshot+2025-12-01+at+11.37.43%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - First and long: As football kicks off, emotions run high at Virginia Tech - First and long: As football kicks off, emotions run high at Virginia Tech Normally, college students are not well acquainted with the hour of 7:30am. But this is not just any 7:30am. It's Saturday, September 1, the morning of the first Virginia Tech football game of 2007. ESPN has chosen the Blacksburg campus as the site for College GameDay, the network's weekly college football preview show. So hundreds of Hokies are up unusually early, lined up at the soccer field adjacent to Lane Stadium. They stand behind a chain link fence, peering in at the set they've seen on TV, waiting for a prime spot in front of the cameras. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/august-30th-2007-issue-0635 monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5d7ed418-a4b4-432d-b774-23f02538158c/08302007-0635.jpg Issue Archive Blog - August 30th, 2007 issue #0635 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/savages-beast-how-the-corner-took-a-bite-of-local-radio monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5b30ee38-4c82-43ba-8ce1-8abbdb2a601f/Screenshot+2025-12-01+at+11.22.24%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Savage's beast: How 'The Corner' took a bite of local radio - Savage's beast: How 'The Corner' took a bite of local radio Although it launched less than a year ago and hired its DJs only 10 months ago, a new Charlottesville radio station has already become nothing short of an airwaves-eating behemoth. Spinning current college rock hits and favorites of the recent past, stitched together by the mantra "different is good," the station– calling itself The Corner– has blasted from startup to #4 in the coveted 25-54 demographic. WCNR 106.1-FM has grabbed the attention of the national radio industry, too, with a "Station of the Year" nomination from trade publication Radio and Records. And naturally, with such a rapid rise, questions abound about this new beast on the block. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/arrested-a-decade-after-first-known-attack-serial-rape-suspect-in-custody monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d275ab69-40ee-4825-95a5-1a9f4a79b32f/Screenshot+2025-12-01+at+11.16.12%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Arrested! A decade after first known attack, serial rape suspect in custody - Arrested! A decade after first known attack, serial rape suspect in custody His M.O. is terrifying: first he stalks his female victim, watching her coming and going, learning her habits. When he's ready, he slips inside her house and waits. And then a "blitz" attack– often a blunt blow to the head or face as she enters the door– stuns his victim, who he then brutally rapes before fleeing. And yet one victim who speaks out in this story describes a remorseful attacker, a man who said he was sorry he "had to hurt her." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/an-uncommon-past-time-the-hardships-of-the-simple-life monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/1a39cdf5-c865-4783-8307-f126e355c04a/08092007-0632.jpg Issue Archive Blog - An uncommon past time: The hardships of the simple life - An uncommon past time: The hardships of the simple life Logan and Heather Ward were having a tough time brewing their coffee. Logan split firewood for the wood stove as Heather ground beans with a cast iron grinder. But after an hour or more of futile flailings at flaps and dampers just to get the stove to draw so the water could boil, the Shenandoah Valley couple were still soldiering on with empty mugs. Why didn't they just zip out to a coffee shop? The Wards, Vanderbilt graduates, recent New Yorkers, technology-savvy and cosmopolitan, couldn't go to Starbucks because they were living in an experiment of self-imposed time travel. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/annual-manual-our-town-community-low-down monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/61958afa-3f5d-4387-917c-61ff612bbb57/Screenshot+2025-12-01+at+10.38.14%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - ANNUAL MANUAL: Our Town- Community low-down - ANNUAL MANUAL: Our Town- Community low-down What's this area like? Well, according to demographic firm called ClaritasExpress, the 22901 and 22902 zip codes consist of the following human types: Boomtown Singles, Country Squires, Gray Power, Young Influentials, Bedrock America, Family Thrifts, Hometown Retired, Mobility Blues, Suburban Pioneers and Suburban Sprawl (as if we needed Claritas to tell us that!). According to the census, which is summarized by many folks, women constitute over 53 percent of the local population. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-peoples-park-kings-dominion-always-takes-you-back monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/82403864-acab-41f7-8659-069c555fa44b/Screenshot+2025-12-01+at+10.27.11%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The people's park: Kings Dominion always takes you back - The people's park: Kings Dominion always takes you back A familiar, childlike anticipation hits me when I glimpse the Kings Dominion sign perched high above I-95, beckoning cars to exit for small-town Doswell, 20 minutes north of Richmond. I've been visiting this amusement park since I was a kid in the mid-'70s, back when it wasn't much more than the Lion Country Safari and a few other attractions. I still recall stumbling across the crooked floor of Yogi Bear's cave, my first ride on a serious roller coaster, hanging on for dear life as my skinny teenage frame nearly flew out of the wooden Grizzly. Or the time Huckleberry Hound almost mauled me. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/glenn-barker-serial-killer-or-convenient-scapegoat monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5054fee9-a955-46d7-adf0-fd2fbe32f810/Screenshot+2025-12-01+at+10.11.45%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Glenn Barker: Serial killer or convenient scapegoat? - Glenn Barker: Serial killer or convenient scapegoat? In last week's cover story, we remembered Katie Worsky, a 12-year-old girl abducted from a sleep-over and presumed dead. The case rocked Charlottesville, and after a lengthy investigation and trial, Glenn Haslam Barker was convicted of second-degree murder in her death, only the second murder conviction without a body in Virginia. Among the evidence: bloody wet men's clothes between the mattresses of Barker's bed and bloodstained girls' panties hidden in his sock drawer. Despite the conviction, Barker has never hinted at where Worsky's body might be found. And that's because, Barker says, he is an innocent man unfairly linked to various unsolved cases. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/little-girl-lost-remembering-katie-worsky-after-25-years monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/940d6037-0884-4a9e-ae8b-2195b757d797/Screenshot+2025-12-01+at+9.48.44%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Little girl lost: Remembering Katie Worsky after 25 years - Little girl lost: Remembering Katie Worsky after 25 years Polly Klaas. Samantha Runnion. Jessica Lunsford. Their names and faces are familiar– exhaustive national news coverage of their abduction and death has burned them into the national consciousness. The contrast between photos of their shining eyes, wide grins, and dimpled cheeks and the incessantly replayed videos of their anguished parents begging futilely for their children's safe return has made the missing child– especially a missing girl– almost a symbol of society's dark side in the last decade. But before Amber Alerts and 24-hour cable news cycles etched the faces of the lost children and the plight of their parents in the national psyche, a little Charlottesville girl went on a sleep-over and never came home. At a time when children rode their bikes alone and residents left their doors unlocked, the disappearance of Katie Worsky on July 12, 1982 rocked this sleepy college town and launched an investigation that seasoned law enforcement officers called "once in a lifetime" for its poignancy and complexity. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/jack-amp-anna-remembering-the-czar-of-charlottesville-eccentrics monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/66974a1f-08bf-43ae-b393-ccc805c496df/Screenshot+2025-12-01+at+9.36.49%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Jack & Anna: Remembering the czar of Charlottesville eccentrics - Jack & Anna: Remembering the czar of Charlottesville eccentrics "I've been waiting since the day Jack Manahan died," began the letter published May 10, 1990 in the Charlottesville Observer, "to see either an article or a letter. Perhaps the New York Times had a piece. He certainly deserved it. He was, after all, royalty. Not because he was married to Anastasia, but because he was the king of us Charlottesville eccentrics. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/when-giants-roamed-camp-wahoo-put-hooville-on-the-basketball-map-and-its-back monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ece99a1e-78d9-4629-b006-a047a4c8569f/Screenshot+2025-12-01+at+9.21.05%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - When giants roamed: Camp Wahoo put Hooville on the basketball map-- and it's back! - When giants roamed: Camp Wahoo put Hooville on the basketball map-- and it's back! Fifty years ago, Gene Corrigan, then an assistant basketball coach at Washington and Lee University, decided he was too restless to take a three-month break. "None of us had anything to do during the summer," says the man who was to become UVA athletic director and Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner. "So a few coaches and I had been talking about starting up a camp, and then Billy McCann [the basketball coach at UVA] called us all up and said we had the chance to do it out at Miller School." So, in 1957, with head basketball coaches from UVA, VMI, and W&L, Corrigan founded Camp Wahoo, a two-week camp devoted to traditional camp activities like snipe hunts, singing songs, and all manner of athletics. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/summer-reading-issue-fiction monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/204ef1a5-9d5d-4d67-b1ce-9810da87e827/Screenshot+2025-12-01+at+9.04.47%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Summer reading issue: fiction - 20 Minutes' Clarity This story took second place in the Hook's short story contest earlier this year, judged by John Grisham. "I laughed with the first sentence and almost cried with the last," said Grisham of "20 Minutes of Clarity." In their first conjugal visit, Ray couldn't get it up, so they talked, uneasily at first, for most of the hour granted them. The privacy unnerved him, and he said so. He hadn't been alone or unobserved for three months, since the day of his sentencing. The trailer had no windows and just the one door from which the lock mechanism had been removed, the hole stuffed with a soft rust-colored rag. On the dresser beside the bed was a clock radio that clicked the next minute into being, and across from it, a sink with a mirror. Beside the sink sat the smallest toilet either of them had ever seen. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/27-months-jailing-the-party-parents-makes-international-news monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0fbc2de4-86cd-4b0e-854a-bf8e8d307fb9/Screenshot+2025-12-01+at+8.35.52%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - 27 months: Jailing the party parents makes international news - 27 months: Jailing the party parents makes international news Paris Hilton's teary return to jail made the front page of the June 9 Washington Post. So did another case involving alcohol and jail, but this story is based in Charlottesville. The tale of George Robinson and ex-wife Elisa Kelly's 27-month jail sentence for serving booze to teens is building steam across America, and it has even jumped oceans to England and Australia. "They wanted to make sure no one drank and drove, so they held their teenage son's party at home. Now they are going to jail," reads a headline in the Times of London June 11– the same day the local duo began serving their sentence at Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/justice-for-justine-investigation-very-active-in-hit-and-run monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/b9741016-0c6f-431e-ac9e-e0835b4df395/Screenshot+2025-12-01+at+8.18.36%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Justice for Justine: Investigation 'very active' in hit and run - Justice for Justine: Investigation 'very active' in hit and run From Charlottesville, the path to Barboursville is picturesque. Along Route 20 North, leading into the small town best known for its ruins and eponymous winery, white split rail fences run for miles beside verdant fields backed by rolling mountains. Secondary roads meander past horses, ponds, and century-old houses. But though the roads can be a driver's delight during the day, they are also narrow, winding, and, in the middle of the night, dark and lonely. Taylorsville Road is such a place. Taylorsville Road curves west through woods for less than a mile, past a sprinkling of modest houses and trailers in various states of repair, before reaching the Greene County line. On November 3, 2006, sometime close to 1:40am, the body of a young woman was discovered along the Orange County portion of this road, the apparent victim of a hit and run. Her husband– the closest thing to a witness so far– says her car had broken down and she'd called him to come pick her up. When he arrived, he says, he discovered her body in the road and called 911. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/i-want-to-ride-my-bicycle monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/93a4820d-4b6f-4e4d-bc9c-54c811f2686a/Screenshot+2025-12-01+at+8.03.30%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - I want to ride my bicycle - I want to ride my bicycle Hackett and UVA biologist Robert Kretsinger– who bikes the same general route before dawn– are likely the only two regular cyclists who brave 6,000-pound vehicles and six-ounce cell phones to maintain their health, spare the city some congestion, and save the nation's oil supply and the planet's atmosphere by commuting by bike over the twists and turns of two-lane– and no bike lane– Stony Point Road. The vast majority of Charlottesville's other county-to-city commuters– 78 percent, according to the 2000 census– come alone in a car, spewing exhaust, carbon dioxide, and American foreign policy issues in their wake. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/murder-in-the-park-rice-release-revives-memories monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/a54530ea-f1cd-4bde-8ad0-63dac118d84a/Screenshot+2025-12-01+at+7.49.42%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Murder in the Park: Rice release revives memories - Murder in the Park: Rice release revives memories The search had been on for nearly two days, and it was almost dark when the rangers, moving down a wooded slope, glimpsed a yellow tent through the trees. The scene they saw as they stepped into a small clearing looked like the campers had been unpacking their gear and setting up camp. There was a dog leash tied around a tree, but the collar at the end was empty. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/cold-case-alicia-showalter-reynolds-amp-the-fall-and-rise-of-darrell-rice monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/1b3e5547-c760-498c-b7c1-6eddfc65656f/Screenshot+2025-12-01+at+7.42.13%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Cold Case? Alicia Showalter Reynolds & the fall and rise of Darrell Rice - Cold Case? Alicia Showalter Reynolds & the fall and rise of Darrell Rice This week's story is mostly about the terrors on Route 29, a series of illicit pull-overs that culminated in the 1996 disappearance and murder of Alicia Showalter Reynolds. Next week: the Shenandoah National Park murders. The white wooden cross has broken free of the guardrail and lies on the shoulder as cars rush past; its red bow and artificial greenery, buffeted by blustery spring winds, have flipped over and come to rest in the gravel and dust. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/picture-this-festival-of-the-photograph-comes-into-focus monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f569e4f2-127a-4177-8fe4-0c8b0a148679/Screenshot+2025-12-01+at+7.16.30%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Picture this!: Festival of the photograph comes into focus - Picture this!: Festival of the photograph comes into focus When the Hook last left photographer Michael "Nick" Nichols, in 2004, he was relaxing in a camp chair by the Moorman's River, discussing an elaborate book project documenting his trans-Africa trek with ecologist J. Michael Fay, and describing his next National Geographic assignment to the Grand Canyon. As he looked across the water, Nichols also mused that someday he'd like to start a festival of the photograph in Charlottesville. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/horsing-around-p-buckley-moss-and-not-folk-art monthly 0.5 2025-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/eab27c53-8dcf-45f8-b42e-a3a8d5f618aa/Screenshot+2025-11-30+at+11.58.05%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Horsing around: P. Buckley Moss and not-folk art - Horsing around: P. Buckley Moss and not-folk art Pat Moss comes to the door of the Barn– her house in Waynesboro– and wonders who the heck is standing on her doorstep. She's forgotten that she has an interview scheduled this morning, but she quickly takes the interruption in stride and seats her visitors in her huge living room in a former apple packing barn. "You'd never build a barn like this today," says Moss. "It wouldn't pass code." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/moving-forward-grieving-rebuilding-preventing-after-the-vt-tragedy monthly 0.5 2025-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/bb9f9f2e-897d-4fce-b425-1e00154f16e0/Screenshot+2025-11-30+at+11.35.55%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Moving Forward: grieving, rebuilding, preventing after the VT Tragedy - Handling grief: Prognosis good for recovery In the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting, UVA announced that it was offering extra group meetings and prepared its counselors for a wave of psychological appointments. Yet the wave hasn't come, and Russ Federman, director of counseling services at UVA's Elson Student Health Center, says that's actually a positive sign. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/hokie-low-blacksburg-campus-fills-with-somber-throngs monthly 0.5 2025-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/57c2cb99-d43c-4224-a6c6-1f7c39b5b9cb/Screenshot+2025-11-30+at+11.29.34%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Hokie low: Blacksburg campus fills with somber throngs - Hokie low: Blacksburg campus fills with somber throngs Other than state troopers stationed at each intersection and television trucks weighted down with satellite dishes, the entrances of Virginia Tech on Tuesday gave little sign of the previous morning's catastrophic events. But upon walking deeper into campus, it became immediately apparent this was not a day like every other. By 11am, students were already lined up by the thousands to enter Cassell Coliseum, site of the Convocation that Tech president Charles Steger hoped would "begin the healing process" following the massacre of 32 of their classmates. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/under-the-radar-and-dreaming-music-experts-pick-our-next-big-thing monthly 0.5 2025-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/2f3b4065-49f9-42b3-8356-209f0b7e3652/Screenshot+2025-11-30+at+11.21.02%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Under the radar and dreaming: Music experts pick our next big thing - Under the radar and dreaming: Music experts pick our next big thing Nearly 13 years ago, Dave Matthews Band released its major label debut Under the Table and Dreaming and suddenly put Charlottesville on America's musical map. Some of the youthful musicians featured in this, the Hook's annual music issue, may not even remember that moment. In the fall of 1994, Eli Cook, Helen Horal, and all the members of Sparky's Flaw and Sons of Bill could have formed the greatest-ever band consisting entirely of preschoolers and kindergartners. Now they're all grown up, and our experts say they're the ones to watch, because they have the stuff to take them from under the radar to the top of the charts. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/tectonic-shift-eugene-williams-loosens-his-tie monthly 0.5 2025-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/2655e43e-03cd-4909-b39d-4066d1b8edee/Screenshot+2025-11-30+at+11.02.37%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Tectonic shift: Eugene Williams loosens his tie - Tectonic shift: Eugene Williams loosens his tie As a youngster growing up in Charlottesville during the Depression, Eugene Williams lived a block from one of Charlottesville's best neighborhoods. His father was a gardener, and their house had a beautifully landscaped yard. But unlike the fine houses owned by white people on Ridge Street, the Williams home on Dice Street did not have indoor plumbing. Disparity in real estate has been a recurring theme in Eugene Williams' life. In 1980, he decided to do something about it. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/march-29th-2007-issue-0613 monthly 0.5 2025-12-01 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/is-america-ready-for-moore-trevor-sure-hopes-so monthly 0.5 2025-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/080ce38b-1227-4868-bb53-d4b2644496ce/Screenshot+2025-11-30+at+10.42.28%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Is America ready for Moore? Trevor sure hopes so - Is America ready for Moore? Trevor sure hopes so For a second, it looks like a typical rap music video: spinning chrome rims on a sleek sports car, beautiful women fawning over a rapper sporting "bling" and sipping Cristal. The only difference is this rapper also happens to be one of the worst mass murderers of all time. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/lit-a-palooza-top-picks-in-the-other-march-madness monthly 0.5 2025-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0ff805e0-ed0b-4e36-8df0-85b79e1fc89f/Screenshot+2025-11-30+at+10.36.10%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Lit-a-palooza: Top picks in the other March Madness - Lit-a-palooza: Top picks in the other March Madness n Charlottesville, March Madness has a slightly different meaning from the rest of the basketball-crazed universe. Sure, we keep one eye on the NCAA playoffs, but in a town where you can hardly spit without hitting an author or two, the big game for lit lovers is the annual Virginia Festival of the Book March 21-25. In its 12th year, the Book Fest has swollen from an humble affair of 50 events in 1995 to more than three times that number this year– most of them free. Last year over 26,000 people attended the Festival, and there's no reason to think those numbers will decline this year. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/600-pound-black-bear-it-sounded-like-it-was-tearing-my-arm-off monthly 0.5 2025-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/4ef3673b-428d-40cc-8832-8dd5060f4222/Screenshot+2025-11-30+at+10.18.12%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - 600-pound black bear: 'It sounded like it was tearing my arm off' - 600-pound black bear: 'It sounded like it was tearing my arm off' It was just before dawn on Friday, November 17, and Thurman Hensley's life was about to change. Making his way over the rocky terrain and thick patches of mountain laurel of his 250-acre property bordering the Shenandoah National Park, the seasoned hunter and expert marksman tracked his prey. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/dilemma-zone-are-red-light-cameras-the-answer monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/a5be24d2-5883-4b54-8364-870852a24258/Screenshot+2025-11-26+at+1.45.59%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Dilemma zone: Are red-light cameras the answer? - Dilemma zone: Are red-light cameras the answer? You know you've experienced it– that anxious moment when a green light turns yellow just as you reach the intersection. Is there enough time to make it through? Should you slam on the brakes? Is there a cop around? According to traffic engineers, you've just entered the "dilemma zone." Now imagine the intersection is equipped with a single-shot camera ready to snap your picture the second the light turns red, or with a video camera recording your every move from approach to stop (or dash). According to critics of automated enforcement technology, now you've entered the twilight zone. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/capital-offense-jury-sends-a-message monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/a5abd1bf-974d-47ad-84b8-1bd05f50940c/Screenshot+2025-11-26+at+1.38.06%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Capital offense: Jury sends a message - Capital offense: Jury sends a message Did Sarah Louise Crawford still love her estranged husband on the late November day when she died? Did she lie to her family, friends, and coworkers, telling them she was finished with an abusive relationship, when she was secretly planning a reconciliation? Did the seemingly responsible Manassas office manager decide to skip work and appointments without notice, leave her beloved cat with no food or water, and miss a date with a new suitor to instead join the man against whom she had a protective order for a spontaneous weekend getaway to Charlottesville? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/all-the-way-beer-serving-robinsons-appeal monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/recycle-of-life-we-want-to-believe monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/8c16e221-13ab-4820-88dd-a40a58879caf/Screenshot+2025-11-26+at+1.22.48%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - (Re)Cycle of life: We want to believe - (Re)Cycle of life: We want to believe We love to recycle. We feel soooo virtuous recycling and saving the planet– even when it doesn't make economic (or perhaps even environmental) sense. Consider: – At the Ivy Landfill, glass bottles dutifully collected by trying-to-be-helpful citizens lie in a heap waiting to be crushed and used as a substitute for gravel in roads at the site. The bottom has dropped out of the glass market, and even road-fill is preferable to just straight-out burying it. – Charlottesville citizens can now add cardboard and plastic to their curbside recycling bins. Cardboard is a moneymaker, but you have to pay to get rid of plastic, so the city coughs up $1,800 a month to have those two-liter Coke bottles hauled away– in the name of environmental stewardship. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/prism-reborn-new-group-rises-from-the-ashes monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/08faa9ce-1331-47e5-b985-d04503a52c59/Screenshot+2025-11-26+at+1.14.39%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Prism reborn? New group rises from the ashes - Prism reborn? New group rises from the ashes "You've got me under your spell again," sang country crooner Buck Owens. And while the late singer may never have made a local appearance, his words seem to sum up the appeal of a beloved UVA-area music establishment that closed amid controversy last year. Now the venue has reopened– although possibly mired in a new controversy. For 40 years, the Prism Coffeehouse earned a reputation as a premier folk and traditional music venue, playing host to musicians including Emmylou Harris, Doc Watson, and Philip Glass. But after a rift between board members, volunteers, and one mercurial artistic director led to the Prism's 2006 closing, the fate of the historic smoke- and alcohol-free nonprofit venue seemed uncertain. Now, a new coalition of music lovers has formed to bring the music and the masses back to 214 Rugby Road. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/love-is-a-mix-tape-rolling-stone-writer-on-love-and-loss-in-charlottesville monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/249b5443-91a0-44fe-8817-ca6ed09ed888/Screenshot+2025-11-26+at+12.43.07%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Love Is a Mix Tape: Rolling Stone writer on love and loss in Charlottesville - Love Is a Mix Tape: Rolling Stone writer on love and loss in Charlottesville The two nationally known, Charlottesville-based rock critics were so inseparable that someone thought they were one person. But May will mark 10 years since the two were separated by death. Now a new memoir by the survivor, Rolling Stone rock critic Rob Sheffield, remembers the mysteries of love, life, and music in Charlottesville in the 1990s. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/radioheads-locals-succumb-to-the-call-of-the-airwaves monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/ye-olde-school-crafty-like-its-1799 monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/youve-got-male-new-school-says-boys-will-be-separate monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/2bbd95c7-5f15-4bdd-aa96-3de485d30130/Screenshot+2025-11-26+at+12.23.40%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - You've got male: New school says boys will be... separate - You've got male: New school says boys will be... separate Name some Little Rascals. Alfalfa, Spanky, Buckwheat. If Darla or Mary didn't make your list, that may be because the boys– rowdy, hyper, messy– took center stage. But a new school aims to show that boys, since they're different from girls, can thrive in an environment that caters to them. And to them only. "Something is happening where boys are getting the message 'School is not for you,'" says Todd Barnett, founder of Field School of Charlottesville, an all-boys middle school set to launch this fall. Barnett acknowledges that boys can be rambunctious, but he says forcing them to sit for seven hours at a desk, and prohibiting horseplay– even at recess, as some schools do– is counterproductive. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/stuck-in-the-midterm-with-you-the-best-and-worst-of-2006 monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/af05d584-a32a-4cc5-9ea1-d3cf87c13a7d/Screenshot+2025-11-26+at+12.15.49%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Stuck in the midterm with you: The best and worst of 2006 - Stuck in the midterm with you: The best and worst of 2006 Typically, the tide shifts during a two-term presidency, so 2006 was the year of the Republican rebuke. Americans went to the polls in November and showed their displeasure with the war in Iraq that's lasted longer than World War II and has American casualties pushing 3,000. Democrats took control of Congress for the first time– well, since the last presidential rebuke, when a chastened (but perhaps not quite chaste) Bill Clinton faced a Republican majority. This year, Virginia went from solid red-state status to purple with a new balancing act between blue NOVA and the red rural rest of the Commonwealth, according to political reporter Bob Gibson. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/never-mind-the-itunes-heres-snocap monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c69187ce-ccfb-4359-97af-5a9d250d9a88/Screenshot+2025-11-26+at+12.09.05%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Never mind the iTunes, here's Snocap - Never mind the iTunes, here's Snocap Shawn Fanning looked into the eyes of his trusted friends and asked where he had gone wrong. The date was June 4, 2002, and the previous day, the 21-year-old and his music industry-shaking company, Napster, had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, buckling under the weight of nearly three years of litigation. Forced to vacate the company offices elsewhere in the city, he had called his four closest Napster associates to meet in a borrowed San Francisco conference room. "The mood was definitely somber," recalls Ali Aydar, Napster's senior director of technology and the first employee Fanning hired. "When a company files for bankruptcy, you don't have anything left. I can speak for Shawn and myself and say we had a couple hundred dollars." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/why-are-we-here-a-literal-look-at-an-abstract-question monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/riddled-what-happens-after-police-shootings monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/7247bd00-eeee-44de-93bf-e85d8ce40bb0/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+11.53.26%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Riddled: What happens after police shootings? - Riddled: What happens after police shootings? New York– where three police officers fired 50 bullets at three unarmed men early Saturday, November 25– isn't the only community wrestling with the issue of shootings by law enforcement officers. Just two weeks ago, an Albemarle jury awarded the relatives of 26-year-old Frederick Gray $4.5 million for the 1997 fatal shooting of Gray after he allegedly went berserk in a Rio Road apartment. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/hook-for-the-holidays-our-guide-to-local-holiday-tradition monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/44319200-d4d1-4817-ae39-5f6d96b154fc/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+11.46.58%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Hook for the Holidays!- Our guide to local holiday tradition - Hook for the Holidays!- Our guide to local holiday tradition Each November and December, an ever-growing chorus sings the same refrain: "The holidays have gotten too commercial!" Yes, spending on gifts is higher than ever, and yes, it's easy to lose focus on what's important about this time of year. But luckily for us, we live in a town rich in holiday traditions that, by and large, don't require spending a dime. So flex your vocal cords for singing, sharpen your saw for cutting a tree, and check out all the wonders our area has to offer at this "most wonderful time of the year." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/i-heart-charlottesville-is-our-town-the-new-little-apple monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c262f346-54de-41c7-acf2-90369c8a6b96/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+11.25.38%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - I [heart] Charlottesville: Is our town the new Little Apple? - I [heart] Charlottesville: Is our town the new Little Apple? Dine at Ten, catch Whoopi Goldberg at the Paramount, and cap the night at a trendy new martini bar called the X-Lounge. The next morning, take a class in Bikram Yoga, visit the Miller Center for a talk by Senator Ted Kennedy or George McGovern, finish up with dinner at one of the area's four-star restaurants. Culture, culture, culture, fine dining, and diversity. Some say it's the best of times for Charlottesville. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/seeing-trouble-reniers-mind-for-murder monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/6752a864-9fcb-4aad-81e5-bb8cc2ed438a/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+11.09.18%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Seeing trouble: Renier's 'mind for murder' - Seeing trouble: Renier's 'mind for murder' Norman Lewis disappeared from Williston, Florida in April 1994, leaving no trace for worried family and friends, who contacted the authorities the moment they realized that his medication had been left at home. "It's like he fell off the edge of the earth," said the local police chief. Two years into the investigation, every rational lead the Williston police had in hand had been exhausted. In a frantic last-ditch effort, lead detective Brian Hewitt called in a team of Navy Seals to help search an abandoned rock quarry. After two days of searching and coming up empty-handed, the divers were ready to call it quits, but Hewitt begged for one more day, determined to pursue his last lead to completion. The next day, they found Lewis 20 feet underwater, still behind the wheel in the cab of his red pickup truck. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/life-of-larry-how-sabato-faces-the-election monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/b8c99242-8f67-4a31-ad8e-b39cd23acd31/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+10.58.37%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Life of Larry: How Sabato faces the election - Life of Larry: How Sabato faces the election One by one they line up to ask him to peer into the future. Who's going to control the Senate after Election Day? The seer speaks: "The best Republicans can hope for is 52 seats. They're going to lose seats in Montana, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Rhode Island. The fact that Virginia is close tells you everything. I still think George Allen's going to win, but Senator 'Macaca' is not going to be President of the United States." Eight or nine deep, they wait patiently to tap into one of the most famously prophetic minds in politics. If the Democrats win the House, what kind of Speaker will Nancy Pelosi be? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-19th-coming-the-virginia-film-festival-revealed monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/bd340154-d681-4b86-8834-82446b187673/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+10.51.25%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The 19th coming: The Virginia Film Festival revealed - The 19th coming: The Virginia Film Festival revealed Can it, Cannes. Spare us, Sundance. The bright lights of marquees will blaze your names again soon enough. This week, the return of the Virginia Film Festival puts Charlottesville in the spotlight. And this year, festival officials could run the projectors on star power alone. With hundreds of screen credits to their names, legendary actors Robert Duvall and Morgan Freeman are two of the best known faces in the movie industry, and they'll both be on hand to discuss their work. (Their appearances are already sold out.) But don't forget to check out potential legends-in-the-making like actor and director Liev Schreiber, Chronicles of Narnia's young star William Moseley, or pioneering punk preacher Jay Bakker (yes, that Bakker family). https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/mad-about-you-archie-and-amlies-albemarle monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/dade4a2f-516e-4e43-a446-70d8915ef253/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+10.42.57%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Mad about you: Archie and Amlie's Albemarle - Mad about you: Archie and Amlie's Albemarle They were the Scott and Zelda of the Gilded Age. She was a scandalous author from a pedigreed Albemarle family. He was a rich-as-sin Astor, who escaped from a New York insane asylum. Albemarle at the turn of the 19th century was no stranger to the national spotlight. It was the era that produced the beautiful Langhorne sisters, one of whom achieved worldwide fame as the "Gibson Girl," as well as the sensational case of former Charlottesville mayor Sam McCue, hanged for murdering his wife. Yet Amélie Rives and John Armstrong Chaloner really gave Virginia– and America– something to talk about. "It has everything: sex, money, celebrity, and tangled psychological states," says Donna Lucey, whose book, Archie and Amélie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age, came out this summer. Better yet, much of the story is set in Keswick. And yes, there's a dead body. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/wiki-ville-how-the-world-sees-charlottesville monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/cba1f347-b573-4954-8a67-b3973f376c64/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+10.37.04%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Wiki-ville: How the world sees Charlottesville - Wiki-ville: How the world sees Charlottesville Right now, the upstart online encyclopedia Wikipedia reports that Archie Hahn died in Charlottesville in 1955. He did, but he also lived here, coached here, took the Cavaliers to 12 state championships in 13 years, and in 1991 was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. But none of that is in Wikipedia– not yet, but there's a good chance it probably will be soon. Charlottesville's cast of characters and institutions already shows up at least 2,500 times in Wikipedia, and the articles about us grow every day. There are entries on Howie Long and McCormick Observatory– and nearly 2,700 words on Anna "Anastasia" Anderson Manahan. But no one's penned a piece on the Downtown Mall. Yet. But if energetic Hook readers get busy posting, that will probably change in about two days. Confused? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/boar-war-pig-slaughter-raises-questions monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/8ef97803-4bc0-443b-a271-6ab71d5d7071/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+10.30.05%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Boar war: Pig slaughter raises questions - Boar war: Pig slaughter raises questions As the 12 shotgun blasts rang out from the special pen that Cindi Henshaw reserved for her favorite pets, she sat in her living room and realized, "They just shot Cupid and Valentine." Three weeks later, tears still well up when she tells about the pair of Russian boars she raised from infancy and that followed her around like dogs. Cupid and Valentine were in their pen September 14 when government agents shot them, wrapped chains around their 500-pound bodies and dragged them off, leaving behind a trail of blood. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/jpj-rocks-but-what-about-ol-uhall monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/07b79bf5-0d6b-4c4a-9d7c-ac4e033ba3eb/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+10.24.07%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - JPJ rocks: But what about ol' UHall? - JPJ rocks: But what about ol' UHall? Jim Connelly remembers everything about the first game played in University Hall. It was a December 4, 1965 contest against Kentucky that the Wildcats, on their way to the NCAA title and immortality in the Disney film Glory Road, won by 99-73. Connelly, a 6-3 guard, was overshadowed only by Kentucky forward Pat Riley, later the coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks, and this year's NBA champion Miami Heat. He remembers everything– "the game situations, who I guarded, who guarded me, all of those kinds of details." He also remembers what University Hall meant to UVA's basketball program. "Building University Hall was obviously a significant step up," Connelly says. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/flooded-with-memories-nelson-county-37-years-after-camille monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5dade2b4-63ab-4fc5-9e2a-f2cc55b87eaa/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+10.17.38%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Flooded with memories: Nelson County 37 years after Camille - Flooded with memories: Nelson County 37 years after Camille It was as bright as day the night Warren Raines was orphaned. "The lightning was so intense that it was like now," says Raines, comparing that night to the daylight of a drizzly September 8 afternoon, the day that would have been his mother, Shirley's, 80th birthday. "If it wasn't for the lightning..." he pauses. "I didn't know what move I'd have to make next. You had to watch your back. Whole houses were floating by... cars, cows..." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/my-pet-virus-decker-finds-humor-in-his-life-with-hiv monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/12a6bbbe-d5f9-475c-a2e5-90248ce112a9/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+10.11.30%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - My 'Pet Virus': Decker finds humor in his life with HIV - My 'Pet Virus': Decker finds humor in his life with HIV When Shawn Decker started circulating his memoir to agents, he figured he'd get the response most first-time authors get: silence– or at best, a few "No, thanks." Instead, Decker beat the odds. Not only did 10 of the 20 agents he contacted respond favorably, but he went on to land a contract and a five-figure advance with a top publisher. His book, My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure, hits bookstore shelves next week, and Decker hits the road for a nine-city book tour. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/bearing-witness-local-couple-lived-911-up-close monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/6e74bab4-5350-4a20-81cb-4063a4534a71/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+10.04.49%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Bearing witness: Local couple lived 9/11 up close - Bearing witness: Local couple lived 9/11 up close On the morning of September 11, 2001, Cheryl Sanborn boarded the N Train from her home in Astoria, Queens at 8:15am, earlier than usual. An administrative assistant at a lower Manhattan law firm, she intended to make a detour on her way to work. "Every Tuesday and Thursday in the summer," she explains, "they used to set up a green market in the World Trade Center parking lot. So I'd usually cut through there for a big pumpkin muffin and a cup of apple cider." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/lethal-wreckage-embattled-towing-company-files-for-a-name-change-after-20-million-suit monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/26f4cf3c-3eba-4de5-afa6-f4a3ae978a5e/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+9.55.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Lethal Wreckage: Embattled towing company files for a name change after $20 million suit - Lethal Wreckage: Embattled towing company files for a name change after $20 million suit When Lethal Wrecker's lawyer announced in a Charlottesville court on July 21 that his client didn't have the assets to pay a total of $1,100 to 21 citizens who'd been overcharged, it seemed the towing company might be nearing bankruptcy– bad news for those aggrieved towing victims. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-family-issue monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/bf077611-94d1-47ce-b545-0179d4578877/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+9.12.46%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - THE FAMILY ISSUE - THE FAMILY ISSUE "Kids these days." It's the phrase generations of adults have always muttered in exasperation about the young whippersnappers who frustrate them. And while the refrain remains the same, kids these days aren't your father's "kids these days." In and out of the classroom, they're busier and more proactive than ever. Right here in Charlottesville, they're changing the face of religious education, breaking boundaries in the sports world, and even making award-winning movies. Move over, Generation Y. Here comes Generation "Why Not?" https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/rockumentary-spotlights-dance-rock-legends monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/df38678e-f82e-4f92-ab8c-87c4a04aca35/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+9.06.06%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Rockumentary spotlights dance-rock legends - Rockumentary spotlights dance-rock legends The rockumentary has a long and storied history as the sublime art form created by symbiosis of the two most glamorous forms of modern media. Soon, Charlottesville will have its own place between the stage antics of the Talking Heads in Stop Making Sense and the bumbling British metalheads from This Is Spinal Tap. Scheduled to premiere at the Virginia Film Festival this fall is Live from... the Hook, a film documentary chronicling the vibrant Charlottesville music scene of years gone by, and focusing on... well, you know... Guess again, smartypants. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/mayorsville-here-everybodys-a-mayor monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/750fb454-2687-4234-b3e1-473281fcced1/08102006-0532.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Mayorsville: Here, everybody's a mayor - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/peace-u-uva-corps-vets-tell-tales monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f52ff764-f2f1-4808-ad6d-3caa9936a33d/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+8.44.58%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Peace U.: UVA Corps vets tell tales - Peace U.: UVA Corps vets tell tales "I was feeling really negative about being in America, the war and the presidency, so I wanted to get out and see an alternative," says John Teschner. So the 2003 UVA grad did what UVA students have done more than any other comparable University graduates in the past five years: join the Peace Corps. The foreign service organization, which turns 45 years old this year, was created by John F. Kennedy as a way of combating anti-American sentiment during the Cold War. In the 21st-century, the volunteers face a whole different set of world problems. Teschner, for instance, found himself in Kenya, asked to serve as an AIDS educator in a country where the destruction caused by the disease had been officially declared a national disaster four years earlier. "A lot of money goes into Kenya to fight things like HIV, and a lot of it is wasted," he says, "Education and awareness are cheap." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/pr-emergency-uva-med-center-struggles-with-probation monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/9ab70dfb-b1f8-43b9-a178-350fd174aa1f/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+8.31.16%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - PR emergency: UVA Med Center struggles with probation - PR emergency: UVA Med Center struggles with probation When Christopher Reeve broke his neck in a 1995 riding accident in Culpeper, UVA Medical Center basked in international acclaim as the hospital that saved Superman. More than a decade later, however, the lauded institution may be facing the hospital version of Kryptonite. In April, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education– the national body that certifies all American teaching hospitals– placed UVA on probation for violations in the operation of its medical residency program. The designation could threaten the Center's ability to attract top applicants and, perhaps, to retain some of the world renowned experts who teach them. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/on-the-download-can-our-indie-stores-survive monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/92db7ac4-1ad0-4826-bc09-ef88d642b877/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+8.17.57%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - On the download: Can our indie stores survive? - On the download: Can our indie stores survive? After 20 years as a commercial pilot, Cal Glattfelder chose to brave a new kind of turbulence when he entered a music industry buffeted by illegal downloads. Glattfelder purchased a music store that he named Sidetracks from Spencer Lathrop, who had founded the place as "Spencer's 206" 10 years earlier. "I was tired of the corporate world," Glattfelder explains. "I love music and wanted to be my own boss. I initially looked at the place back in 2001 and decided not to do it for a while. But two years later, I decided to make the jump." During that time, Glattfelder determined that even the dire predictions of the imminent demise of music retail couldn't derail the John-Cusack-in-High Fidelity coolness of owning a record shop in a happening little arts haven. "It was before the iPod," he sighs. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/its-wendels-world-we-just-work-out-in-it monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/3d70f055-2731-4377-9e26-9fdcc069796c/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+8.11.08%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - It's Wendel's world: We just work out in it - It's Wendel's world: We just work out in it There are 12,000 members walking among us. Their charismatic leader has a plan for their lives, but the gospel he preaches isn't fire and brimstone; it's life everlasting– or almost. Health and happiness, he says, are available to anyone who joins him, but he's not demanding that his followers drink the Kool-Aid– in fact, he'd much rather they drink water... and lots of it. On a recent afternoon in his tucked away, light-filled office behind the Carmike Cinema on 29 North, that leader, Phil Wendel, expounds on his vision– and his dreams of even more conversions. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/some-general-assembly-required monthly 0.5 2025-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e98967c5-1552-462e-bee1-0ccad5374449/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+1.06.32%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Some General Assembly Required - Some General Assembly Required Once upon a time, the Virginia General Assembly met for 60 days to pass a two-year state budget, and then the legislators went back home. And once upon a time, Democrats dominated the legislature. In 2004, the Republican-controlled Assembly took an extra 106 days to pass a two-year budget before Dem Governor Mark Warner got the tax increases he wanted to fund education and state employees. His successor, Tim Kaine, was not so successful in his first try at getting the budget he wanted. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/living-large-r-little-house-on-little-high-gets-lift monthly 0.5 2025-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/4c30d69a-7178-4f6b-80ce-917e7844e5a7/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+12.56.32%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Living large-r: Little house on Little High gets lift - Living large-r: Little house on Little High gets lift "From the very beginning I didn't really like it," says Suellen Schnyer of the Little High Street house she and her husband, Jonathan, then newlyweds, purchased in 1988 for $67,500. "We've never had enough room to have company over," says Schnyer, lamenting the cramped kitchen and lack of a dining room, which forced the family of five to eat in the living room. "There were certain things I always wanted in a house," she says, " but I never thought this house could be transformed into what I wanted." She thought wrong. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/drive-by-history-gps-marks-the-spot monthly 0.5 2025-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/181ac33c-071b-4bb9-b2c7-19700ab7a684/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+12.49.14%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Drive-by history: GPS marks the spot - Drive-by history: GPS marks the spot In a town with colonial origins like Charlottesville, you can barely spit without hitting a historical marker. And driving through Albemarle County and the Old Dominion, it's obvious lots of important things happened here, even if you can't actually read the markers when you're zooming by at 55 miles per hour. Local history has just entered the 21st century. Up until recently, the only resource for tracking down and touring Virginia's more than 2,000 markers was A Guidebook to Virginia's Historical Markers, published in 1994 and available for $18.95. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/invasion-they-live-among-us monthly 0.5 2025-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0161a5b4-d46b-4e62-bfb2-db5812f10104/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+12.38.35%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Invasion: They live among us - Invasion: They live among us They're beautiful– sometimes even a little seductive. But they replicate– quickly– and they're poised to choke the life out of some Central Virginia natives. They're invasive plant species, and the threat is considered so serious that federal officials are studying the problem and the Virginia General Assembly has created an Invasive Species Council. Even Charlottesville is ready to launch a formal study of every park to formulate a plan to deal with weeds gone wild– although some people will quibble with the very idea of calling them "weeds." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/9-dreams-invasion-of-the-super-towers monthly 0.5 2025-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/87f68aa4-fc52-4a35-89a3-6a45bbe470c5/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+12.29.12%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - #9 dreams: Invasion of the super towers - #9 dreams: Invasion of the super towers What will downtown Charlottesville look like in 20 years? If proposed nine-story building projects like Waterhouse and First & Main– not to mention a half-dozen other multi-story towers in the pipeline– are any indication, the answer is tall. Like giant spaceships landing on the Downtown Mall, these visions of the future have people both fascinated and worried. Are they visitors from a friendly planet, or are they coming to destroy our way of life? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/tjs-guide-to-the-best-summer-ever monthly 0.5 2025-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/bd9dbc68-b67d-4c66-8cae-b3f21a00695b/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+12.20.33%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - TJ's guide to the best summer ever - TJ's guide to the best summer ever There are many lessons to be learned from the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson. A visionary whose ideas and ideals still apply today, his words have been pored over, catalogued, recatalogued, analyzed, published, and in every other way intellectually masticated. Yet nearly 200 years after his death, there's always something fresh to be gleaned from his writings, though his true meaning may not always be immediately apparent. Applying the CIA-worthy decrypting skills we developed while reading the Da Vinci Code, we have discovered that not only did Jefferson have a vision for building our great nation, he also had a vision for how you should spend your summer. Heed his words, please, or face charges of treason. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/claws-and-effect-cat-killing-shocks-bentivar monthly 0.5 2025-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/88a4d814-3fa0-40de-b556-e6eaba3d7a40/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+12.14.02%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Claws and effect: Cat killing shocks Bentivar - Claws and effect: Cat killing shocks Bentivar Her name was Carmen, but the family called her a "ragdoll" because she'd put up with anything. A big black cat, Carmen patiently allowed children to roughhouse with her, served as a frequent guest at a local elementary school's "show and tell" days, and followed neighbors around, rubbing up against their legs, purring and begging for a pat. But one neighbor wasn't charmed by the three-year-old pet. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/get-caught-let-our-prize-winners-captivate-you monthly 0.5 2025-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/1e2e5570-2c3d-4e0b-8c2d-d0defd54ad40/Screenshot+2025-11-25+at+12.06.32%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Get caught: Let our prize winners captivate you! - Get caught: Let our prize winners captivate you! If Alicia Keys and First Lady Laura Bush get together this month, they just might get "caught" reading. After all, May is "Get Caught Reading" month, and you might wanna get caught, too. You can start right here, as we present, for your reading pleasure, two winning short stories: "Small Bodies of Water" by Lincoln Michel, and "My Visions" by Mark Lindensmith The two stories were runners-up in this year's Hook Fiction Contest. (The grand prize-winner ran in late March.) Before you read these stories, though, read about the talented individuals behind the words: https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/has-charlottesville-jumped-the-shark monthly 0.5 2025-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/6d01c9bc-3da4-4475-bf95-12e7aa63ffde/05042006-0518.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Has Charlottesville jumped the shark? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/free-elections-hopefuls-jockey-for-board-seats monthly 0.5 2025-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/6600006a-bf62-4b71-9295-37c1fed9af07/04272006-0517.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Free elections: Hopefuls jockey for Board seats - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/tuneville monthly 0.5 2025-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/bc4bd58f-2767-41a1-bc95-4b1af4238481/Screenshot+2025-11-23+at+11.00.48%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Tuneville - Tuneville As a way of reviewing the year in music, The Hook invited a small horde of experts to get together and appraise some of the more intriguing record releases. Drunk with power, they agreed, and delivered a combination of biting invective and gushing praise that we then took to the musicians, who got to fire back with a bit of experimental meta-criticism. You know you're sick of Dave Matthews anyway. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/pedal-power-can-robert-randolph-steel-success monthly 0.5 2025-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/59840974-3f5f-4169-bb89-6037693fed7a/Screenshot+2025-11-23+at+10.50.00%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Pedal power: Can Robert Randolph 'steel' success? - Pedal power: Can Robert Randolph 'steel' success? Charlottesville is, in some ways, a surrogate home for Randolph, a relatively new client of Coran Capshaw's Red Light Management. After getting his start playing in church in New Jersey in the 1990s, Randolph began making a name for himself when the Family Band began playing club dates in New York City. That attracted the attention of perennial rock savior Eric Clapton, but it was when the Dave Matthews Band took him under its collective wing four years ago that things really began to take off. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/cool-running-the-health-and-fitness-issue monthly 0.5 2025-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/061f3721-f7ad-47ed-b029-f7de8b5d7acf/04062006-0514.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Cool Running: The health and fitness issue - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/unsolved-murder-on-the-constitution-route monthly 0.5 2025-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/22c26530-50d4-4a10-9eb6-efce16ddd9b9/03302006-0513.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Unsolved: Murder on the Constitution route - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/fiction-winners-winners-2006-hometown-favorites monthly 0.5 2025-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/2c503ac1-ddd9-41b6-9511-aa249ec1e962/03232006-0512.jpg Issue Archive Blog - FICTION WINNERS- Winners 2006: Hometown favorites... - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/blowin-in-the-wind-tilting-with-windmills-in-highland-county monthly 0.5 2025-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/82c8bcc1-649b-4c41-b8f0-672e9642d444/Screenshot+2025-11-23+at+9.34.32%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Blowin in the wind: Tilting with windmills in Highland County - Blowin in the wind: Tilting with windmills in Highland County Virginia homeowners may not be ready for a windmill on every roof, but what about a string of electricity-generating turbines on a distant hilltop and the option to buy green power at affordable prices? With a controversial wind farm planned for Highland County, 2006 promises to be a year of boom or bust for a power source that the Department of Energy calls today's "most viable renewable energy." The extension of a federal tax credit and the jump in the cost of petroleum have given the industry a boost, but growth has also kicked up a funnel cloud of opposition to the energy source that critics deride for blighting bluffs and butchering birds and bats. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/schoolhouse-rocked-debate-rumbles-on-montessoris-mountain monthly 0.5 2025-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/9259b4c0-7610-46d9-a1b7-45d84f47d838/03092006-0510.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Schoolhouse rocked: Debate rumbles on Montessori's mountain - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-young-and-the-restless-local-youths-share-their-world monthly 0.5 2025-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/3288b7df-f3d0-439b-a92b-bec49441e3d3/03022006-0509.jpg Issue Archive Blog - The young and the restless: Local youths share their world - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/hd-radio-high-definition-or-hype monthly 0.5 2025-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/281d60f1-a49a-4907-87d9-01065c0833b6/02232006-0508-1.jpg Issue Archive Blog - HD radio: High definition or hype? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/horror-in-the-hallway-masked-assailant-faces-sentencing monthly 0.5 2025-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/2eddfecb-9c6c-44a3-aa9c-af3278a99156/Screenshot+2025-11-23+at+3.02.09%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Horror in the hallway: Masked assailant faces sentencing - Horror in the hallway: Masked assailant faces sentencing When Kurt Kroboth went to the Charlottesville Wal-Mart in the fall of 2004 and bought a vampire mask, his purchase probably didn't raise any eyebrows. After all, it was October 26– five days before Halloween– and Kroboth, a well-heeled financial consultant and film buff, was hardly the only shopper preparing for the holiday. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/heartbreak-could-a-simple-device-have-saved-a-life monthly 0.5 2025-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/9f891392-4ce6-4126-9ee0-d3aa8dba17f7/Screenshot+2025-11-23+at+2.43.00%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Heartbreak: Could a simple device have saved a life? - Heartbreak: Could a simple device have saved a life? On January 10, Madison resident Susan DeJarnette called the Hook to urge a reporter to write an article about what she described as a "critical health matter": the need for automated external defibrillators to be available in all health clubs. The equipment– which delivers an electrical shock to an irregularly beating heart– can increase a cardiac arrest victim's survival rate by as much as 85 percent, DeJarnette said. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/saving-sambo-targeting-racism-and-reclaiming-an-icon monthly 0.5 2025-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/6d12ddf4-4d27-44c3-a074-168acc1fcbe2/Screenshot+2025-11-23+at+2.09.27%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Saving Sambo: Targeting racism and reclaiming an icon - Saving Sambo: Targeting racism and reclaiming an icon Shelves filled with her colorfully painted ceramics line the walls and a well-worn sofa beckons, while the artist herself, dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt, greets studio visitors with a warm smile. Rose Hill's basement studio in the McGuffey Art Center is a study in comfort. Her work, however, makes many people decidedly uncomfortable. And on February 3, some say, she'll be opening more than just her very first gallery show, "Black February." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/getting-hitched-the-hooks-guide-to-conjugal-conundrums-nuptial-nostalgia-and-that-utter-rarity-the-naked-bride monthly 0.5 2025-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/13aad753-d739-4aeb-bcdf-0d502517eb67/Screenshot+2025-11-23+at+1.57.42%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Getting hitched: The Hook's guide to conjugal conundrums, nuptial nostalgia, and that utter rarity: the NAKED bride" - Getting hitched: The Hook's guide to conjugal conundrums, nuptial nostalgia, and that utter rarity: the NAKED bride" Few things bring out the best and worstin people like a wedding. Pulling together the detailsfrom flowers to dress to guestscan strain even the most compatible couples, and that's before adding in the requisite meddling mother-in-law. Yikes. But when the big day comes– as the newlyweds on the following pages attestthe hard work pays off. Family is together, love is in the air, and even the most embittered, thrice-divorced guest can appreciate an open bar! https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/wrong-haul-group-wants-i-81-truckway-derailed monthly 0.5 2025-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/4532624a-0315-45e2-9d59-8ef8eb7c11ee/Screenshot+2025-11-23+at+1.23.25%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Wrong haul? Group wants I-81 truckway derailed - Wrong haul? Group wants I-81 truckway derailed Not too far in the future, in some hotspots, Interstate 81 might swell to eight to ten lanes. And in a few areas, the roadway could widen to 12 lanes– six in each direction, a vast Valley viaduct. The expansion– at a cost of about $13 billion– would gobble up houses, businesses, and maybe even a Civil War battlefield or two. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/i-harmed-you-21-years-12-steps-later-rape-apology-backfires monthly 0.5 2025-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f1c24c47-3629-4223-8024-1d34942297f5/Screenshot+2025-11-23+at+1.13.50%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - 'I harmed you': 21 years, 12 steps later, rape apology backfires - 'I harmed you': 21 years, 12 steps later, rape apology backfires Step Nine of the famous 12 steps in Alcoholics Anonymous requires the member to "make amends" to those he had harmed through his addiction. Former UVA student William Nottingham Beebe may wish he'd stopped at Step Eight. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/between-jobs-is-unemployment-warners-ace monthly 0.5 2025-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/1d91c77e-a526-47c4-8c35-21dae718e215/Screenshot+2025-11-23+at+1.06.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Between jobs: Is unemployment Warner's ace? - Between jobs: Is unemployment Warner's ace? In three weeks, Mark Warner will be back on the job market. Not that he'll be in any rush to find something– indeed, it's a safe bet that the Virginia Democrat will be more than willing to bide his time until the right opportunity comes along. Say, in 2008. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/year-of-living-disastrously-the-best-and-worst-of-2005 monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d62c5656-2f84-4e2f-8de1-92f77fd00640/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+10.31.16%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Year of living disastrously: The best and worst of 2005 - Year of living disastrously: The best and worst of 2005 Religion and politics have never been suitable topics for dinner parties– and that didn't change in 2005. But the most innocuous of topics, the weather, took a nasty turn, as if it was tired of not being taken seriously all these years. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/choosing-their-religion-thats-them-in-the-corner-two-converts-find-new-faith monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/efc1ebe4-0fed-41e7-8ce6-d4ace573e738/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+10.22.47%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Choosing their religion: That's them in the corner: two converts find new faith - Choosing their religion: That's them in the corner: two converts find new faith It's one of the most significant changes people can make– to leave a religion in which they've been raised and embrace a new faith. Family and friends can feel left behind, and let's face it a life of piety is not for the faint of heart. (Three hours of prayer a day, anyone?) Yet for Drew Alexander, who left Christianity behind for orthodox Judaism and for Lauren Winner, who first became an orthodox Jew and then converted to evangelical Christianity, keeping the faith has big rewards. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/for-god-and-country-sir-while-they-fought-for-our-freedom-who-was-fighting-for-theirs monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e70db0f6-4f8d-4b8e-a149-bb624a5ce2c5/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+10.17.07%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - For God and country, sir! While they fought for our freedom, who was fighting for theirs? - For God and country, sir! While they fought for our freedom, who was fighting for theirs? Even now, 59 years after he was mustered out of the U.S. Army, Howard "Hank" Allen still bristles when he remembers his experience during World War II. It wasn't the danger– even though he was in the fiercest war zones in Normandy and other parts of France, where, as he says, "We were getting our butts kicked by the Germans." It was the insult. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/high-spirits-wahoos-tackle-fourth-year-fifth monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/7ef6a547-a3c7-4c25-b990-8a89ebbcdf0b/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+10.10.57%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - High spirits: Wahoos tackle fourth-year fifth - High spirits: Wahoos tackle fourth-year fifth The traditions at Mr. Jefferson's University can seem strange to an outsider. Some have students running naked down the Lawn, keeping mum about secretive chants and societies, or drinking... a lot. For the students who claim to "work hard and play hard," the University of Virginia provides ample opportunities for both. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/school-daze-charter-school-stumped-by-regs monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/745b0f99-1f78-4778-92a9-8500ca943195/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+10.03.43%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - School daze: Charter school stumped by regs - School daze: Charter school stumped by regs Educators Bobbi Snow and Sandy Richardson thought their proposal for a charter school stood a fighting chance. After all, it was designed for at-risk students at an at-risk age in an at-risk school division. And since the federal government thought enough of their proposal to hand over $450,000, they figured the Charlottesville school board would smile on it, too. Instead, the city school system has spent nearly a year pointing out what's wrong with their plan. Could a new public charter school for the system's most vulnerable students be an answer– or one more problem for a troubled district? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/election-2005-how-much-do-you-know monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/3f0cea91-d727-4fd9-a7d9-c529aa73a948/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+9.55.18%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Election 2005: How much do you know? - Election 2005: How much do you know? 1) Which Republican candidate went door-to-door asking for votes– unlike his opponent who hardly bothered– but still suffered a dramatic loss? 2) Which former Charlottesville City Councilor will now represent the 57th district in the General Assembly? 3) Was voter turn-out higher in Charlottesville or Albemarle? 4) Which candidate for Albemarle's Board of Supervisors once worked in the Clinton administration? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/aprs-le-dluge-the-relief-goes-on monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c95f1f2a-37f9-4930-9d5e-686f24923715/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+9.21.41%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Après le déluge: The relief goes on - Après le déluge: The relief goes on After Hurricane Katrina rocketed ashore, Charlottesvillians, 900 miles away, watched in horror– and sprang into action. Within days of the August 29 deluge, locals were on their way to the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast, and they're still doing damage control for this nation's worst natural disaster. Not everyone could write a $5-million check, as John and Renee Grisham did to prime the pump for their Rebuild the Coast Fund. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/tattoo-you-locals-show-their-ink monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/be68d8c6-6f0c-4f3b-ac83-202d007ae963/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+9.12.04%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Tattoo you: Locals show their ink - Tattoo you: Locals show their ink Forget tiny butterflies hidden from sight. When it comes to tattoos, Charlottesvillians are going bigger and brighter than ever before, says local tattoo artist Ben Miller of Capital Tattoo. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/20-flicks-film-fest-hot-picks monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/356ddcc8-01da-4f93-aa93-b3e7645c7968/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+9.01.31%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - 20 flicks: Film Fest hot picks - 20 flicks: Film Fest hot picks "Movies and books attempt to find justice when the legal system fails," observes Richard Herskowitz, director of the Virginia Film Festival, as he segues into the theme of the 2005 Film Fest. "In/Justice" lends a certain gravitas to this year's festival, as do names like Vanessa Redgrave, who will be here October 27 for the U.S. premiere of her son Carlo Nero's film, The Fever, and John Grisham, who will speak at Culbreth October 28. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/drive-by-shooting-swedish-auto-drives-into-town monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/52305213-1589-4b45-bc17-18966997d13b/10202005-0442.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Drive-by shooting: 'Swedish Auto' drives into town - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/bath-county-creigh-deeds-sense-of-place monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e7f99fdd-83c4-4b38-bacf-80eb82fd3bdc/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+8.44.09%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Bath County: Creigh Deeds' sense of place - Bath County: Creigh Deeds' sense of place Four-wheel drive is recommended to get up the driveway. The front yard around the 1917 farmhouse needs mowing, and if the lawn looks a tad untidy, that's because state Senator Creigh Deeds hasn't been home to Millboro Springs for the past 12 days. Cats keep popping up to greet him as he strolls to the barn, and 10 equines graze in a field on his 13-acre farm that looks up at Rough Mountain across the road. This is the first summer Deeds hasn't had time to plant a garden. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/school-of-rock-tripping-down-uvas-memory-lane monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/20cf3fcc-9d9c-4cc9-80eb-5c4f1f191c0c/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+8.35.04%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - School of rock: Tripping down UVA's memory lane - School of rock: Tripping down UVA's memory lane When the Rolling Stones turn up their amps in Scott Stadium, their loud, live sounds will mark a significant change in tune for the University of Virginia. As any nearby resident can attest, idle chatter at an iTunes-generated beat is the usual din emanating from Rugby Road– nothing like the sonic volcano that's sure to erupt when Keith Richards strums the first chord of Thursday's show. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/guide-to-rolling-stones-concert monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/41c01cc4-84f0-484e-8ed7-8aab1854e708/09292005-0439.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Guide to Rolling Stones Concert - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/road-warriors-keene-read-between-the-lines monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5ea2e681-87aa-487e-a7da-59ed1f43771f/09222005-0438.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Road warriors: Keene read between the lines - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/no-child-who-will-be-left-behind monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/04a5b8aa-0ca3-465c-8968-68fe7d7cc049/09152005-0437.jpg Issue Archive Blog - No Child? Who will be left behind? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/home-front-charlottesville-steps-up-to-help-katrina-victims monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/7bf4af68-59dc-4065-8314-f9b585788cb9/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+8.04.13%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Home front: Charlottesville steps up to help Katrina victims - Home front: Charlottesville steps up to help Katrina victims The United States has never seen a disaster like Hurricane Katrina. And Charlottesville has never seen a relief effort like the one that started almost immediately following the August 29 maelstrom. People wanted to do something– anything– to help fellow citizens in distress. Grassroots efforts sprouted like mushrooms in a soggy pasture. From rich-as-Croesus rock stars and best-selling authors to kids baking cookies or collecting pennies, here's how Charlottesville is pitching in. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/house-that-roared-crystalphonic-digitized-not-downsized monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e152a202-cb25-4776-b3be-89719f269efa/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+7.57.43%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - House that roared: Crystalphonic digitized, not downsized - House that roared: Crystalphonic digitized, not downsized Earlier this year, the unexpected closings of legendary facilities like Cello Studios in Los Angeles and The Hit Factory in New York sent shockwaves through the recording industry. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/her-day-in-court-uva-rape-case-goes-to-trial monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c54694a9-82ca-4c98-990c-8468dcdc7683/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+7.49.27%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Her day in court: UVA rape case goes to trial - Her day in court: UVA rape case goes to trial On August 29, nearly four years after UVA student Annie Hylton accused a fellow student of raping her at his fraternity house, her $1.85 million civil suit against him is slated to begin in Charlottesville Circuit Court. "I'm excited to get my day in court, but you never know what's going to happen," says Hylton, whose case touched off a debate because the alleged attacker, Matthew Hamilton, remained a student– while the alleged victim, under threat of expulsion, wasn't even allowed to discuss the case. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/family-issue monthly 0.5 2025-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/2c0e3faa-db6d-4a1a-b9b9-c43a8ac6058d/Screenshot+2025-11-18+at+4.17.07%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Family Issue - Working woe: Sick kids, few options Working parents may recognize the scenario: it's the morning of an important meeting, and you're racing to get everyone out the door on time, when suddenly little Johnny comes into the kitchen looking green. "Mooooom," he moans, "I don't feel we...." Suddenly you're trying to keep your head above a giant lagoon of complications. The only thing bigger than this quagmire is the one you'll be in when you don't show up for work. What to do? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/runner-down-the-life-and-death-of-kelly-watt monthly 0.5 2025-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/70278bdb-68bc-48dc-8a42-64d6fcaa2f2f/Screenshot+2025-11-18+at+4.05.46%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Runner down: The life and death of Kelly Watt - Runner down: The life and death of Kelly Watt Paul Watt was heading to northern Virginia on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 26 for his job selling websites for lawyers. He planned to visit several D. C. area firms and had just registered at his hotel when he got a telephone call from his wife. Their son Kelly, a hard-charging runner and budding journalist, hadn't returned from his daily run. He'd missed dinner and hadn't called. "That doesn't sound good," Watt thought, as he began dialing his son and heading back to Charlottesville. What started as a missing person case turned out to be a medical emergency that stunned a community and ultimately robbed it of a distinctive young man whose iron will and love of sports may ultimately have cost him his life. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/annual-manual-2 monthly 0.5 2025-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e1937fd7-07dc-4bf4-8c9e-aababe13c6c7/08042005-0431.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Annual Manual - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/no-malice-alston-juror-cites-drunkenness monthly 0.5 2025-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/9910ebbb-bba0-4e01-b790-8da90612ad46/Screenshot+2025-11-18+at+3.36.03%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - No malice: Alston juror cites drunkenness - No malice: Alston juror cites drunkenness Since November, when former UVA student Andrew Alston was sentenced to three years in jail for stabbing 22-year-old firefighter Walker Sisk 18 times, many in Charlottesville have wondered what that jury was thinking. Now they know. In the 3,000-word cover story of the June edition of the Swarthmore College Bulletin, "Seek Justice, Love Mercy," juror Liz Kutchai describes how the jury rendered its verdict– and how emotionally devastating the experience was, not only for the families of the two young men, but for the jurors as well. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/home-shopping-network-these-companies-come-to-you monthly 0.5 2025-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/b7e43191-6080-4dfc-98d5-7aa9f225a618/07212005-0429.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Home shopping network: These companies come to you - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/gas-by-the-glass-north-gardens-contaminated-water monthly 0.5 2025-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/9e77f92e-9a76-4f35-a27d-f651c3cd30fb/07142005-0428.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Gas by the glass: North Garden's contaminated water - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/pop-viticulture-albemarle-is-wine-country monthly 0.5 2025-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5b9c90af-9fa4-40e9-9f01-b149e4ab95ce/Screenshot+2025-11-18+at+3.14.51%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - POP vitiCulture: Albemarle is wine country - POP vitiCulture: Albemarle is wine country Didja hear? Napa's passé. Bordeaux? Fuhgeddabout it. But Albemarle County? Now you're talking! With 21 vineyards on the Monticello trail, a new wine-tasting bar gearing up to offer hundreds of Virginia wines Downtown, and amateur sommeliers lurking on nearly every street corner, it's clear: Albemarle is wine country. Don't believe it? Pick up the latest issue of Life Magazine, which recently named Charlottesville the "Best New Place to Drink Wine" thanks to our city's "lack of snooty angst." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/to-work-to-excellence-doing-your-job monthly 0.5 2025-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e3b95313-8e98-408b-9126-07729a9c85a2/06302005-0426.jpg Issue Archive Blog - To work, to excellence. Doing your job - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/writing-on-the-wall-what-the-chalkboard-will-really-do monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d67bf2b7-b2b8-41e1-a7cc-89f4240cfccb/06232005-0425.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Writing on the wall: What the chalkboard will really do - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/burn-baby-burn-fire-sparks-dump-controversy monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/6cf99b00-f2db-4768-89a9-11341ec0e766/06162005-0424.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Burn baby burn: fire sparks dump controversy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/loud-amp-clear-2005-local-music-issue monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0b26df20-4d3f-40be-9848-cf5e648739cb/Screenshot+2025-11-13+at+10.39.10%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Loud & Clear: 2005 Local Music Issue - Interview: Boyd Tinsley In New York, the day after covering the May 10 release party for Stand Up, the sixth studio album by the Dave Matthews Band, reporter Vijith Assar caught up with violinist Boyd Tinsley. In a wide-ranging interview, the two talked about the new album, where to play in Charlottesville, and bringing DMB to African-American audiences. Do you ever think about moving out of town and doing the L.A. rock star thing? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/57th-varieties-who-will-get-mitchs-seat monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/99132e1d-733f-4955-b633-e755bbe166bf/06022005-0422.jpg Issue Archive Blog - 57th varieties: Who will get Mitch's seat? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/fairs-and-balanced-local-fests-offer-summer-fun monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/72409803-8b49-4b6d-9e2b-3dfa3f7be7e6/Screenshot+2025-11-13+at+10.16.59%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Fairs and balanced: Local fests offer summer fun - Fairs and balanced: Local fests offer summer fun Summer in central Virginia means swimming at Sugar Hollow, tubing down the James, climbing Humpback Rocks, and Saturday mornings at the City Market. But the options multiply when festival season begins... Ash Lawn Opera Festival https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/dmb-in-nyc-everythings-coming-up-roseland-a-roadtrip-exclusivethe-rolling-who-will-dmb-surpass-the-masters monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/11ca2be0-d0f9-41cb-87e2-aa24256f5a04/Screenshot+2025-11-13+at+10.11.48%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - DMB in NYC: Everything's coming up Roseland (a roadtrip exclusive)//The Rolling Who: Will DMB surpass the masters? - DMB in NYC: Everything's coming up Roseland (a roadtrip exclusive)//The Rolling Who: Will DMB surpass the masters? Suzanne Meukow, the Dave Matthews Band's travel coordinator, is sitting in the Charlottesville airport awaiting her departure to catch the Band's CD release show in New York. "I've worked with them since day one," she says, indistinguishably proud and sentimental. She may be marveling at the contrast between the days when tour accommodations consisted of a cluttered Ford van and today, a sweet world in which no venue is too large. Or too small. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/solar-coaster-the-ups-and-downs-of-sun-energy monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/4f8190b8-66e6-4eaa-be88-d61c9ae84af9/Screenshot+2025-11-13+at+10.05.18%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Solar coaster: The ups and downs of sun energy - Solar coaster: The ups and downs of sun energy If you wore bell-bottom pants and platform shoes in the 1970s, you were groovy. If you placed a few solar panels atop your home or business, your cool factor went through the roof– literally. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/dont-stand-so-close-to-me-when-does-a-popular-professors-friendliness-become-inappropriate monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/a1b952f4-cfc9-49d3-a4fc-c5be2df58569/05052005-0418.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Don't stand so close to me: When does a popular professor's friendliness become inappropriate? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-cost-of-livingwell-ltigtla-dolce-vitaltigt-in-charlottesville monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c036b1f3-8126-41de-b68a-54c846c42294/04282005-0417.jpg Issue Archive Blog - The cost of living...well: <I>La dolce vita</I> in Charlottesville - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/friend-or-foe-wnrn-battles-the-word-of-god monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d0de0591-4fc2-4121-9be8-ecc543af66ef/Screenshot+2025-11-13+at+9.33.44%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Friend or foe?: WNRN battles the word of God - Friend or foe?: WNRN battles the word of God Why have some WNRN broadcasts been coming out of just the left side of your car stereo? A notice on the local radio station's website has the answer: 91.9 WNRN in Charlottesville has been engaged in a heated battle with DC's 91.9 WGTS for the same space on the radio spectrum. Mono broadcasts, it turns out, are more resistant to interference from rival stations. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/bubble-proof monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/1cd84609-d709-42a7-bea9-132be926aaf6/Screenshot+2025-11-13+at+9.22.07%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Bubble-proof? - Bubble-proof? Could it happen here? Could the area's astronomical housing prices plummet with a sickening thud like the stock market in 2000? "No, we definitely don't see any bubble bursting here," says Dave Phillips, Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors CEO. It's Econ 101: high demand, low supply. "If your price range is $300,000," explains Phillips, "there may be 10 houses in the entire market and 40 people looking." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/cooperation-church-offers-jewish-school-a-home monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c16305d9-7185-4ed0-82e1-11c25020d198/Screenshot+2025-11-13+at+9.11.08%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Cooperation: Church offers Jewish school a home - Cooperation: Church offers Jewish school a home Seven years after Congregation Beth Israel opened its preschool, local members of the Jewish community will take education to the next level: kindergarten and first grade. And although the 2005-06 school year won't start for another five months, all the details for the Charlottesville Community Jewish Day School are falling into place– including a somewhat surprising location: Christ Episcopal church, downtown on Jefferson Street. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/this-mold-house-family-devastated-by-spore-war monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5bc567b6-64ec-4f07-a5e2-5894961f3bb1/Screenshot+2025-11-13+at+8.53.47%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - This mold house: Family devastated by spore war - This mold house: Family devastated by spore war After 12 years of renting, Larry Butler and his wife, Judit Szaloki, were finally ready to make the leap into home ownership. They found a house they liked, arranged financing, and sealed the deal, thinking their dream had come true. Their euphoria was short-lived. On a visit two days after the closing, they discovered the house was infested with mold. Two of their daughters have asthma, and one ended up in the emergency room. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/tally-no-matthews-bans-the-hunt monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e89b13a5-776b-44b9-b482-b6bbdaa1a5ca/Screenshot+2025-11-13+at+8.45.35%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Tally no! Matthews bans the hunt - Tally no! Matthews bans the hunt To many of us, "Fox Hunt" is the name of a new subdivision. Or was that "Fox Run" or "Fox Ridge"? While the allegedly sly mammal helps sell thousands of acres of real estate, very few Americans actually "fox chase" over the countryside. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/fiction-issue-tj-must-be-proud monthly 0.5 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/9b093ba7-710e-4217-8ae2-1fdc265bde83/Screenshot+2025-11-13+at+12.28.06%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Fiction Issue - TJ must be proud - Fiction Issue - TJ must be proud From gun-toting grannies to death and divorce to a family who can't say "I love you," this year's winning stories pack a wallop. And there's a strange coincidence as well: the first and second place winners are tour guides at TJ's Monticello, while our third place winner attends his university. We had no idea our celebrity ghost judge had so much pull! https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-f-stops-her-digital-kills-barracks-biz-but-threatens-magic-moments monthly 0.5 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/eacc2dea-c304-42e5-8242-5c632cf082c4/Screenshot+2025-11-13+at+12.19.33%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - The F-stops her: Digital kills Barracks biz, but threatens magic moments - The F-stops her: Digital kills Barracks biz, but threatens magic moments Instant gratification. That's why one-hour film processing was just the ticket for those who couldn't wait a week to get their vacation prints back. Now film photography and processing are tottering down the eight-track path to obsolescence. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/buried-treasure-uvas-special-collections-get-a-new-home monthly 0.5 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/42d3edc6-b22a-4a56-8a9f-1d59fb6ceb99/03032005-0409.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Buried treasure: UVA's Special Collections get a new home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/shes-dying-his-drug-could-save-her monthly 0.5 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/188e964b-883c-41bf-9b3f-4318c995b25a/Screenshot+2025-11-12+at+11.56.21%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - She's dying: His drug could save her - She's dying: His drug could save her Mary Jane Gentry is going to die, and the UVA Health Sciences Center, which has saved countless lives, has pulled away the experimental drug that might save her. "It was a ray of hope," she says, "and then they stopped it." When she was diagnosed 18 months ago with an aggressive case of "Lou Gehrig's disease," Gentry knew it was a death sentence. Doctors told her she had less than three years to live. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/saturday-night-drive-keeping-the-peace-with-cp99 monthly 0.5 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5469514e-7d18-467b-b152-ff780c23db5b/Screenshot+2025-11-12+at+11.49.10%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Saturday night drive: Keeping the peace with CP99 - Saturday night drive: Keeping the peace with CP99 If we'd been driving straight, we'd probably have made Philadelphia by the time the shift ended. But Charlottesville Police Officer Web Stokes took a more circuitous route. He spends the hours between 4pm and midnight weaving through District One– Forest Hills to Cherry, over to Orangedale, Fry's Spring and Johnson Village. Jefferson Park Avenue. Up and down Prospect. And then back again. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/love-stinks-yeah-yeah-love-stinks monthly 0.5 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e9c0ff74-9252-454a-b60c-5dafb790fd19/Screenshot+2025-11-12+at+11.41.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Love stinks-- yeah, yeah-- love stinks - Love stinks-- yeah, yeah-- love stinks Sure, "love" is all around us at Valentine's day: The goo-goo faces couples make at each other over candlelit dinners, the red boxes of chocolates, the plastic roses, those ridiculous white stuffed bears holding satin hearts stitched with inane messages like "You're Cute!" Gag! How 'bout the heartbreak that's inevitably around the corner? We've all lived through that once or twice! https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/no-more-mr-bad-boy-kuttner-bows-out-of-downtown-development monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/66e357fe-a769-48c2-8d55-fda5e917ed17/Screenshot+2025-11-12+at+11.36.25%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - No more Mr. Bad Boy: Kuttner bows out of downtown development - No more Mr. Bad Boy: Kuttner bows out of downtown development The titles on the bookshelf in Oliver Kuttner's office tell us everything we need to know about the man. Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre and Maserati 3011 are inches apart, while on a second shelf Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus and Living with Contradiction, a book on the "controversies of feminist ethics," round out the collection. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/getting-hitched-the-hooks-guide-to-conjugal-conundrums-nuptial-nostalgia-and-that-utter-rarity-the-blissful-bride monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c9a64257-6a71-464c-b34b-50f17832a054/Screenshot+2025-11-12+at+12.42.17%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Getting hitched: The Hook's guide to conjugal conundrums, nuptial nostalgia, and that utter rarity: the blissful bride - Getting hitched: The Hook's guide to conjugal conundrums, nuptial nostalgia, and that utter rarity: the blissful bride There's nothing like a wedding to bring out the best– and worst– in people. If you get along with your folks, planning a wedding can be a bonding experience. If you don't? Well, didn't Dante write something about nine circles? In the Hook's third annual wedding issue, we've captured a little bit of everything: magic moments, tried-and-true tips, and worst-case scenarios. If you're getting married, ever have, or think you ever will, there's something inside for you! https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/a-call-for-health-care-intervention-from-an-unlikely-source-charlottesvilles-top-libertarian monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/6611367d-b2c1-44f6-9671-43933fcb20d9/Screenshot+2025-11-12+at+12.35.22%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - A call for health care intervention from an unlikely source: Charlottesville's top libertarian - A call for health care intervention from an unlikely source: Charlottesville'stop libertarian In a year-ago ABC News/Washington Post poll, 62 percent of the respondents favored a universal, government-run medical insurance program. Such surveys reflect a widespread frustration with a health care system that is too expensive, too uncertain, and too complicated. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/yates-evidence-former-uva-psych-slip-voids-murder-conviction monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/48544db3-dd0c-4d55-8fbd-d15f22e844f4/Screenshot+2025-11-12+at+12.26.24%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Yates evidence: Former UVA psych slip voids murder conviction - Yates evidence: Former UVA psych slip voids murder conviction For two decades, his track record as an expert witness won forensic psychiatrist and former UVA law professor Park Dietz acclaim– and plenty of high-profile cases. The convictions of would-be Reagan assassin John Hinckley Jr., serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the Unibomber Ted Kaczynski, and South Carolina killer mom Susan Smith all came with Dietz as a witness to the prosecution. But some pundits claim the recent reversal of quintuple kid-killer Andrea Yates' conviction based on a Dietz error may spell an end to his courtroom career. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/extreme-makeover-paramount-edition-tarting-up-a-tattered-theater monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5cd35666-d656-4f92-8108-9b5c8701b404/Screenshot+2025-11-12+at+12.14.53%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Extreme makeover-- Paramount edition: Tarting up a tattered theater - Extreme makeover-- Paramount edition: Tarting up a tattered theater The night before glittering diamonds and tailor-made tuxedos flooded the lobby of the Paramount and less than 24 hours before Tony Bennett crooned, "I left my heart in San Francisco," under the theater's newly restored chandeliers, a gold brocade couch occupied center stage. It was 11pm. Workmen milled about taking care of last-minute details, as Paramount executive director Chad Hershner and board members Alison Dickie and Michael Gaffney stood mulling how to transport the sofa to an upstairs lounge. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/passion-and-fear-2004-review-of-the-year monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/837f3c62-e62f-4af9-be80-6e260e93df02/12232004-0351.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Passion and fear: 2004 review of the year - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/blenheim-brouhaha-she-sherwood-like-her-name-back monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/cd4e52a4-d94b-472b-9493-be60dffb6171/12162004-0350.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Blenheim brouhaha: She Sherwood like her name back - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/slashed-presleys-razor-wire-claims-collateral-damage monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/b8fb6720-d8bb-4613-9fb7-2ee4a5be1826/Screenshot+2025-11-11+at+11.50.39%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Slashed: Presley's razor wire claims collateral damage - Slashed: Presley's razor wire claims collateral damage Injured trail-goers speak out Two months after the City's stunning courtroom defeat in the long-running razor-wire case, the controversy is far from over. City police have undertaken surveillance to nab trespassers. And after months of rumors, evidence has emerged that at least two trail-goers– including one of the four-legged variety– have been slashed by the wire in the yard of widow Shirley Presley. Is Presley headed for another showdown with the City? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/puppy-love-matthews-film-career-finally-takes-off monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0d3e1f86-9bd3-486e-a002-16d36c188608/Screenshot+2025-11-11+at+11.43.17%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Puppy love: Matthews' film career finally takes off - Puppy love: Matthews' film career finally takes off Dave Matthews will soon launch his film career with a supporting role in an earnest puppy-dog tale set in a small town. But the musical superstar's big-screen debut isn't in the production-troubled remake of Where the Red Fern Goes. That film is going straight to DVD. Instead, Matthews' theatrical debut arrives– complete with a new Dave song– in Because of Winn-Dixie, slated for release in February. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/seven-society-the-fighting-cason-brothers-and-wwii monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f7922800-6a9e-44a9-8c99-378ced06a88f/Screenshot+2025-11-11+at+11.33.09%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Seven society: The Fighting Cason brothers and WWII - Seven society: The Fighting Cason brothers and WWII World War II veterans are said to be dying at the rate of 1,000 a day. But there's one local family that sent seven sons into the armed forces– and not only did all seven survive the conflict, but six of them are still alive today to tell their tales. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-verdict-sisks-family-speaks-out monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d091ba36-22d0-44eb-b00c-ce821e4a2069/Screenshot+2025-11-11+at+3.59.53%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The verdict: Sisk's family speaks out - The verdict: Sisk's family speaks out In the same court on the same day that a cocaine dealer was sentenced to nine years in jail, a former UVA student who stabbed a local firefighter to death received a sentence of just three years– less than a third of the allowable maximum for a voluntary manslaughter conviction. Almost no one is satisfied. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/how-uva-turns-its-back-on-rape monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/558839c3-f625-4a95-b5a3-df2f4b7678dc/Screenshot+2025-11-11+at+3.48.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - How UVA turns its back on rape - How UVA turns its back on rape UVA has a system to deal with rape among students. A group meets, takes testimony, and issues rulings– all in secret. This clandestine process, combined with what one victim brands a "slap on the wrist" for rapists, has left several victims wondering who the policy was designed to protect. Among those wondering is 21-year-old Annie Hylton. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/dodgeball-a-true-real-estate-story-and-a-tax-break-for-the-rich-and-famous monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5bab1fdd-b9a9-46f6-ae79-9ff47820add9/Screenshot+2025-11-11+at+3.40.53%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Dodgeball: A true (real estate) story: and a tax break for the rich and famous - Dodgeball: A true (real estate) story: and a tax break for the rich and famous Nearly four years ago, when former Tyco CFO Mark Swartz paid $17 million for historic Enniscorthy, the most expensive real estate purchase in Albemarle County history, he took advantage of a tax break that kept both the price and his identity secret– and saved a couple of rich guys close to $50,000 in recordation taxes. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/frenetic-the-hooks-film-fest-guide-o-rama monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/82b874e3-d978-4156-b3a0-aa1d2fcb2b9f/Screenshot+2025-11-11+at+3.25.37%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Frenetic: The Hook's Film Fest Guide-O-Rama - Frenetic: The Hook's Film Fest Guide-O-Rama Wasn't it just yesterday that Patricia Kluge started a little film festival in Charlottesville? Nope, that was 17 years ago, and if past years' Southern or film noir fests still seem fresh in your mind, that's an example of how time flies. Which segues nicely into this year's Virginia Film Festival theme, "Speed." And we're not just talking fast cars or methamphetamines– although both certainly have a place in this festival. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/road-to-wellville-many-a-bump-along-the-way monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/4309a4d4-b6dc-4a8a-be58-c94fe99c5b66/Screenshot+2025-11-11+at+3.18.53%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Road to Wellville: Many a bump along the way - Road to Wellville: Many a bump along the way A year ago, a Charlottesville woman between jobs contracted a bone infection. Because she was unemployed, Alice (not her real name) wasn't eligible to be seen at the Charlottesville Free Clinic. Nor did she go to either of the local hospitals– she did not know they have programs for indigent citizens. She felt hopeless. "But there's nothing you can do about it," says Alice, 46. "There's no way to pay for medical treatment." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/no-way-out-how-the-state-helped-kill-a-convict monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/98e261dd-827a-4781-b6d6-bea4283b125f/Screenshot+2025-11-11+at+3.04.21%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - No way out: How the state helped kill a convict - No way out: How the state helped kill a convict By JENS SOERING. Brunswick Correctional Center On the night of January 13, 2004, an acquaintance of mine was murdered. His roommate strangled him to death. This happened in Sussex I State Prison in Waverly. My acquaintance's name was Richard Alvin Ausley, and he was a child molester. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/airborne-wardrivers-find-free-internet monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/856fe89e-b0f0-463d-a2fe-da7e6ea49bc9/Screenshot+2025-11-11+at+12.58.57%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Airborne: wardrivers find free internet - Airborne: wardrivers find free internet Philadelphia mayor John F. Street is either completely out of his mind or a visionary who is completely out of his mind. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/why-they-kill-male-bonding-religion-disaster monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/37e8040a-4fc1-4303-b59b-2bd8f209ecda/Screenshot+2025-11-11+at+12.52.42%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Why they kill: Male bonding + religion = disaster - Why they kill: Male bonding + religion = disaster Religion kills. From the ancient Egyptians to the Roman emperors who declared themselves gods, to the death of Christ to al Qaeda to Beslan to beheadings, religion has been a catalyst or an excuse for killing. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/they-want-you-activists-pound-the-streets-for-voters monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/bfde6d6c-e1db-4680-8c1e-ec73de383772/Screenshot+2025-11-11+at+12.46.04%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - They want you: activists pound the streets for voters - They want you: activists pound the streets for voters If it seems like every time you turn around there's a table with someone eager to register voters, you're not imagining things. "I got seven calls today from groups wanting to do voter registration," says Sheri Iachetta, Charlottesville registrar. "That's unheard of. We're running out of forms." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/dave-fame-and-haines-celebrity-suicide-and-the-etiquette-of-envy monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/7cf66575-5050-4e39-a738-e33263446f26/Screenshot+2025-11-11+at+12.38.00%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Dave, fame, and Haines: Celebrity, suicide, and the etiquette of envy - Dave, fame, and Haines: Celebrity, suicide, and the etiquette of envy Dave Matthews took a careful sip of his coffee. He'd just been to the dentist, and the right side of his face was noticeably swollen. "The guy's standing there prying open my mouth, scrapping the crap off my teeth and making my gums bleed and telling me about what a fan his daughter is– and could I sign a t-shirt for him after my cavity was filled," Matthews said. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/no-mercy-new-dui-laws-even-tougher monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/4f311981-64ca-483b-ac13-47ccfc5d01d2/09092004-0336.jpg Issue Archive Blog - No mercy: New DUI laws even tougher - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/speed-queens-local-women-go-the-distance monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e4dfc0e3-1533-42b9-a69f-8a0aeb75cdad/Screenshot+2025-11-11+at+12.25.59%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Speed queens: Local women go the distance - Speed queens: Local women go the distance Notice all the women running around in Charlottesville? Early morning, lunch breaks, after work, evening hours? Young and old, fat and fit, they're putting on their tank tops, shorts, and shoes and taking to the paths and pavement. Chalk it up to the summer's preeminent athletic event, the Labor Day weekend Women's Four-Miler. This Saturday, 1,850 women will run the four-mile course on Garth Road, starting and ending at Foxfield, beginning at 8am. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/changing-channels-will-locals-ditch-cable monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/08c6fab5-d057-4174-8e66-66ef10ca5e8d/Screenshot+2025-11-11+at+12.17.40%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Changing channels: Will locals ditch cable? - Changing channels: Will locals ditch cable? With three new local stations launching, Adelphia cable customers will certainly notice some subtle changes in programming– most notably in news, which by October will be available not just on NBC29, but also on the new CBS and ABC stations. Could this sudden increase in local options cause current Adelphia subscribers to replace their cable bill with rabbit ears? Mike Meadows is going to. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/boomtown-flats-downtowns-building-frenzy monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/7123bc8d-28bb-4b88-94cd-a7c0d9b572ec/08192004-0333-1.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Boomtown flats: Downtown's building frenzy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/sullivans-pave-whose-road-is-it-anyway monthly 0.5 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/2fff29dd-6ca6-485d-aa58-167ff187cdda/08122004-0332.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Sullivan's pave: Whose road is it anyway? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/housing-kappa-sig-headquarters-for-controversy monthly 0.5 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/466c0940-cce2-4063-87a9-394cdd673b8b/07292004-0330.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Housing Kappa Sig: Headquarters for controversy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/dino-might-professor-cline-revives-the-roadside monthly 0.5 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/78a793d4-9b57-4dc4-8b44-57c34f445699/Screenshot+2025-11-10+at+12.46.24%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Dino-might: 'Professor' Cline revives the roadside - Dino-might: 'Professor' Cline revives the roadside Remember American highways in the 1960s, before the Interstate system stole their thunder? Remember speeding by– maybe stopping at– magic castles, haunted houses, and enchanted forests stalked by goblins? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/comin-at-ya-the-new-laws-and-u monthly 0.5 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/fc08ecd9-94df-430c-bdc1-31de9a37cad9/Screenshot+2025-11-10+at+12.38.50%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Comin' at ya: The new laws and U - Comin' at ya: The new laws and U Legislators didn't just wrangle over the budget during the protracted General Assembly session this year. They passed laws that directly affect you if you fall into one of these categories. - Driver over 80: Mandatory eye test required, and renewals must be done in person at the DMV. - Road racer: Off the track, cause an injury and you face a class six felony, plus seizure of your wheels and license for one to three years. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/river-bluff-how-to-save-a-park-sort-of monthly 0.5 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/413f752c-1740-4af7-85d8-bc9df84a1fed/Screenshot+2025-11-10+at+12.32.26%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - River bluff: How to save a park-- sort of - River bluff: How to save a park-- sort of Less than a week after Charlottesville City Council voted to quash the developer's plans, victorious members of the Locust Grove Neighborhood Association met for a champagne celebration. They had defeated the dreaded "Tatum land swap" that would have taken three wooded acres of City parkland for a dozen houses. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/hujavision-the-urban-turban-plans-his-escape monthly 0.5 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d3143b6b-0d49-4597-98d6-2b54dad0959b/07012004-0326.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Hujavision: The 'urban turban' plans... his escape - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/interviewed-a-tale-of-two-bookers monthly 0.5 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/36d0bcb3-a900-4071-8d3b-f5cabd78a36f/Screenshot+2025-11-10+at+12.12.41%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Interviewed: A tale of two bookers - Interviewed: A tale of two bookers In an effort to shed some light on the mysterious underworld of booking (haven't you ever wondered how those bands get from the farm– er, basement– to your plate– er, sight?) the Hook asked two members of this small group some getting-to -know-you type questions. Venue: Tokyo Rose Name: Mike Parisi What type of music do you book? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/busted-stuff-some-broken-things-in-town monthly 0.5 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/606d5ed9-ed19-4765-9d04-184f33909361/06172004-0324.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Busted stuff: Some broken things in town - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/tripping-hillbillies-hackensaws-take-on-the-world monthly 0.5 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/2edb5734-c861-4fae-b2ca-48202726017f/06102004-0323.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Tripping hillbillies: Hackensaws take on the world - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/demo-days-uva-remakes-west-main monthly 0.5 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d6a47175-e7d0-4b8c-a3dd-9ecd2fd86bb5/06032004-0322.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Demo days: UVA remakes West Main - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/bible-schools-how-waynesboro-students-get-religion monthly 0.5 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c3bf9ce6-fa1c-4d97-be75-256219410bae/Screenshot+2025-11-09+at+11.28.02%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Bible schools: How Waynesboro students get religion - Bible schools: How Waynesboro students get religion Mollie Bryan expected some culture shock when she moved from Washington, D.C., to Waynesboro. In the heart of the Shenandoah Valley, Augusta County is God's country: more rural, more small town, more P. Buckley Moss. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/summer-2004-21-hot-things-to-do monthly 0.5 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5e982400-98df-41b3-97cb-9ddb73a5ee53/05202004-0320.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Summer 2004 - 21 Hot things to do - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/shorting-the-campo-is-this-any-way-to-run-a-railroad monthly 0.5 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/35d2a56c-37e6-4b31-8da3-468bd4b0802c/Screenshot+2025-11-09+at+11.09.27%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Shorting the C&O: Is this any way to run a railroad? - Shorting the C&O: Is this any way to run a railroad? News that railroad behemoth CSX might hand over the historic Chesapeake & Ohio main line between Richmond and Clifton Forge to a mom-and-pop short-line has transit officials and rail fans hoping for a new golden era of training– including the revival of that 1993 sensation, the Autumn Glory steam train. But for the men who fix the rails, there's another kind of steam. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/browns-birthday-the-road-to-equality-in-charlottesville monthly 0.5 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/70c91303-c3b0-45f7-b399-6862e739028e/Screenshot+2025-11-09+at+11.00.14%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Brown's birthday: The road to equality in Charlottesville - Brown's birthday: The road to equality in Charlottesville Being able to use a bathroom is a basic human right– or at least, a basic decency one human extends to another, right? Not under segregation, the degradations of which touched every aspect of life, even the right to use a public restroom or water fountain. And sometimes, "colored" bathrooms weren't even provided, as African Americans traveling through the Jim Crow South knew all too well. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/time-of-the-signs-how-many-is-too-many monthly 0.5 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/7288a6bb-a3fe-4ec6-8470-08811ae2f100/Screenshot+2025-11-09+at+10.44.01%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Time of the signs: How many is too many? - Time of the signs: How many is too many? Big sprouts in townsville April showers bring May flowers, but some man-made symbols of spring are just as predictable in Central Virginia: real estate signs. And although it's natural that anyone selling a home wants to get the word out, some signs cross a legal line– particularly when they're placed blocks– sometime even miles– from the property they're promoting. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/dig-it-this-jem-wants-to-shine monthly 0.5 2025-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e2b335af-4bea-4a58-ad82-a35be7fcde20/Screenshot+2025-11-09+at+3.49.41%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Dig it! This Jem wants to shine - Dig it! This Jem wants to shine As reigning king of rock, Dave Matthews has often knighted unknown princes. The Gin Blossoms, Ben Harper, and David Gray all benefited from Dave's magic touch. Now, an unknown Welsh woman– and at 28, nobody's calling her a girl– will test whether Dave's magic can work for women, too. Was it signing with Matthews' label, ATO Records, that propelled Jem's freshman effort, Finally Woken, into the hands of critics across the country? Or her own talent and drive? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/recent-passed-will-groovy-structures-be-landmarks monthly 0.5 2025-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/35e364fe-a202-40a7-99b4-6e0c88738c65/Screenshot+2025-11-09+at+3.35.31%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Recent passed: Will groovy structures be landmarks? - Recent passed: Will groovy structures be landmarks? When Best Buy came to town last summer and demolished the Mount Vernon Motor Lodge and the adjacent Aunt Sarah's Pancake House, Charlottesville resident Christine Madrid French realized her town was losing more than just a few pancakes and a heart-shaped swimming pool. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/on-browns-50th-why-charlottesville-schools-were-closed monthly 0.5 2025-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/3f7ba060-5296-4188-9e9e-d68fd09cff2f/Screenshot+2025-11-09+at+3.27.47%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - On Brown's 50th: Why Charlottesville schools were closed - On Brown's 50th: Why Charlottesville schools were closed The yellowed newspaper clippings at the Albemarle County Historical Society show two African-American brothers arriving for the first day of school on September 8, 1959. Missing in the photos is the bustle of other students heading to class. The two boys are followed by photographers. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/dischord-prism-coffeehouse-seeks-harmony monthly 0.5 2025-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/4b7bce2c-6c3c-4a3a-842c-2b7c6cd81e11/Screenshot+2025-11-09+at+3.19.31%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Dischord: Prism Coffeehouse seeks harmony - Dischord: Prism Coffeehouse seeks harmony For the past four decades, the Prism Coffeehouse has been a leading Charlottesville music venue, attracting big name acts and serving as an anchor for the folk music community. But in the past month, a mighty wind of discord has begun to gust behind the scenes, threatening to shake the Coffeehouse to its very foundations. "It's like a third-world country," charges Jim Quarles, a recently resigned Prism board member. "It's analogous to a dictatorship." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/winners-2004-slow-and-steady-wins monthly 0.5 2025-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/3e710d57-384d-4bc7-a3cb-04442e0bd359/Screenshot+2025-11-09+at+3.11.04%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Fiction Winners 2004: Slow and steady wins... - Fiction Winners 2004: Slow and steady wins... If you haven't had Lasik yet, grab your reading glasses: It's time to read the 2004 winner of The Hook's annual fiction contest! As in past years, the contest garnered well over 100 entries. And while choosing a winner was no easy task, our able judges– George Garrett, Stephen Boykewich, and Deborah Prum– were up to the challenge. Their top pick? Sarah Honenberger's "Waltzing Cowboys," published for your reading pleasure this week; runners-up will see their stories in print by the end of May. So, without further ado, meet the winning scribblers: https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/nickel-and-dimed-barbara-ehrenreich-and-tap-dancing-on-the-edge monthly 0.5 2025-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/db66b4dd-4345-4b5d-9c2b-7e6c1f93277f/03112004-0310.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Nickel and dimed: Barbara Ehrenreich and tap-dancing on the edge - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/after-rice-new-questions-in-park-murders monthly 0.5 2025-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/fb3dcb21-b1fa-4358-80e9-66dff7a2ed9f/Screenshot+2025-11-09+at+2.58.52%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - After Rice: New questions in Park murders - After Rice: New questions in Park murders When Tom Williams arrived at the place where his daughter had been murdered, he could not have known that eight years later he would still not know who had gagged her mouth, bound her hands, and slit her throat. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-comeback-kidney-in-the-vest-family-organs-come-full-circle monthly 0.5 2025-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/64654b14-5e5f-4273-9a0e-e17875a165c8/03042004-0309.jpg Issue Archive Blog - The Comeback Kidney: In the Vest family, organs come full circle - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/black-widow-a-native-sons-death-rattles-somerset monthly 0.5 2025-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5821f897-9438-4ab7-9a3c-3abe74199e17/Screenshot+2025-11-08+at+11.58.24%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Black widow? A native son's death rattles Somerset - Black widow? A native son's death rattles Somerset In the mannered society governing flowing valleys and tree-covered hills of Orange County, phrases such as "blood tells'' and "pretty is as pretty does'' resonate. Gentility is paramount. Breeding is preferred. There are certain things just not done in this part of the South. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/city-on-a-hill-is-staunton-the-next-charlottesville monthly 0.5 2025-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/2c1c50cb-2f97-4886-a000-9fd95992b3b4/02192004-0307.jpg Issue Archive Blog - City on a hill: Is Staunton the next Charlottesville? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/wedding-issue monthly 0.5 2025-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ef0c914a-1e8f-4926-837b-9fa350e23d0a/02122004-0306.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Wedding Issue - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/moving-a-mountain-how-monticello-got-montalto-back monthly 0.5 2025-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5d0d20a2-0868-470d-9a3a-c9398b715900/02052004-0305.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Moving a mountain: How Monticello got Montalto back - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/this-boys-lawsuit-alan-newsoms-150000-t-shirt monthly 0.5 2025-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e414d411-3098-4447-9ac8-792d5952d9c0/Screenshot+2025-11-08+at+11.11.32%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - This boy's lawsuit: Alan Newsom's $150,000 t-shirt - This boy's lawsuit: Alan Newsom's $150,000 t-shirt Alan Newsom looks like a pretty typical 13-year-old. He wears standard eighth-grade garb– the backwards baseball cap, baggy, low-slung jeans, and a t-shirt. It's the latter item of apparel that propelled Newsom into court and provoked a precedent-setting decision on school policy and the First Amendment. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/extreme-makeover-ordinance-offers-city-a-new-look monthly 0.5 2025-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0b853e7e-21a5-405a-a1d3-9167b0128e91/Screenshot+2025-11-08+at+11.03.54%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Extreme makeover: Ordinance offers city a new look - Extreme makeover: Ordinance offers city a new look On ABC's reality show Extreme Makeover, contestants who've never had to worry about winning beauty contests retreat for a six-week ultimate makeover, generally including liposuction, implants of every stripe, and porcelain veneers to disguise yellowed, jagged chompers. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/tobacco-town-smokers-sellers-defy-healthville-docs monthly 0.5 2025-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f94d3953-e585-4712-9415-faa04bd89f91/Screenshot+2025-11-08+at+10.55.51%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Tobacco town: Smokers, sellers defy Healthville docs - Tobacco town: Smokers, sellers defy Healthville docs "Crops may fail, commerce stagnate, wars devastate the country, banks suspend specie payment, and wives fret and scold, yet our people will chew and spit, smoke and puff, snuff and sneeze."– C.L. Thonpson, 19th century Albemarle citizen https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/linked-up-museum-adds-sparkle-to-star-city monthly 0.5 2025-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/07b146f9-4f76-4e33-b4e5-14327799bfe2/Screenshot+2025-11-08+at+10.49.19%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Linked up: Museum adds sparkle to Star City - Linked up: Museum adds sparkle to Star City The Star City is about to get a jewel. On January 10, Roanoke officials will join railroad buffs in cutting the opening ribbon for a new museum showcasing the stunning photographic achievements of the late O. Winston Link. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-year-in-review monthly 0.5 2025-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/7baac97d-683e-4717-a8ba-b88e233ef9c0/12252003-0251.jpg Issue Archive Blog - The year in review - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/home-for-the-holidays-and-every-other-day-too monthly 0.5 2025-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/2291443b-b6de-4cb0-9179-7e9f7ab4f222/12182003-0250.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Home for the holidays: And every other day, too - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/art-in-face-are-they-artsy-or-just-plain-fartsy monthly 0.5 2025-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ac4efc73-aa58-4cff-b3ee-ead23a6637d5/12112003-0249.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Art in face: Are they artsy or just plain fartsy? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/park-dietz-the-killing-expert-who-knows-too-much monthly 0.5 2025-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f46f72d1-6264-4484-aa46-3e80ad8de8d2/12042003-0248.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Park Dietz: The killing expert who knows too much - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/male-call-wheres-the-manly-shopping monthly 0.5 2025-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/43c3cfd6-ec4a-42ac-9767-190367bc5fa6/Screenshot+2025-11-07+at+7.59.17%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Male call: Where's the manly shopping? - Male call: Where's the manly shopping? As the sun rises on Friday, November 28, a certain scenario– admittedly a rank stereotype and potentially sexist to boot– is likely to play out all over Charlottesville and Albemarle. Perhaps it is best expressed in traditional couplet form: From her bed she arises, a glow in her eyes… https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/pre-dawn-terror-clifton-fire-kills-two-women monthly 0.5 2025-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/82a10386-fd82-43f6-8a30-31846751948d/Screenshot+2025-11-07+at+7.50.00%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Pre-dawn terror: Clifton fire kills two women - Pre-dawn terror: Clifton fire kills two women Long before it made headlines with the profound tragedy of last week's fire, Clifton had earned worldwide accolades for its hospitality. The property's storied history, however, goes back to Thomas Jefferson. When his 17-year-old daughter, Martha– "Patsy" as Jefferson called her– married the son of his best friend in February 1790, the future president bestowed 1,000 acres on the young couple. Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. and Patsy began their family of eight children on that farm, called Edgehill. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/pulp-friction-uncle-sam-threatens-to-stop-the-presses monthly 0.5 2025-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f2ad621a-a73b-4eff-928e-51aa3d724ab1/Screenshot+2025-11-07+at+7.30.46%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Pulp friction: Uncle Sam threatens to stop the presses - Pulp friction: Uncle Sam threatens to stop the presses Leon Sheets didn't plan on leaving the apple industry. "I was born into it," says Sheets, who operates a cider press in Augusta County. "My father started our press 75 years ago." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/what-next-weighing-in-on-winter-weather monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/8aed0797-19ae-472a-aa1a-bc01753de65c/11062003-0244.jpg Issue Archive Blog - What next? Weighing in on winter weather - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/halloween-mystery-99-years-later-the-mccue-murder monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/87f495c4-4496-43f5-a9c1-d567e899957a/Screenshot+2025-11-07+at+12.01.21%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Halloween mystery: 99 years later, the McCue murder - Halloween mystery: 99 years later, the McCue murder The 1904 murder of the wife of ex-mayor J. Samuel McCue is more than a Halloween mystery. For 99 years, the killing and its sensational trial have become the stuff of legend. Last weekend, the annual "Spirit Walk" re-created part of the trial, and three years ago a local collector paid $70for the rope that hanged the man who supposedly did the deed. But reporter Paul Jones has studied the case of Charlottesville's most celebrated murder and thinks an injustice was done. While jurors and contemporary news accounts rapidly convicted McCue, Jones went back to the facts– still preserved in the Charlottesville Circuit Court– to uncover an alternate history.–editor https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/pay-off-the-hooks-guide-o-rama-to-the-film-fest monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/9a29c049-927f-4e54-8a28-0018204b27af/10232003-0242.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Pay off: The Hook's Guide-O-Rama to the $ Film Fest - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/saving-sarah-satan-worship-sex-abuse-and-dr-martin-stein monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/cf778957-abf4-44eb-bf6e-ceb1ee293c35/Screenshot+2025-11-06+at+11.31.35%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Saving Sarah: Satan worship, sex abuse, and Dr. Martin Stein - Saving Sarah: Satan worship, sex abuse, and Dr. Martin Stein The little girl's memories were vivid and horrifying: being raped by her father at age two, watching her father and stepmother bury animals alive in satanic rituals, and seeing babies boiling in a cauldron while adults stirred the pot. But were they true? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/egads-the-road-greens-like-which-way-will-it-go monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0f962481-2fea-484c-8d27-0906bb91bd45/10092003-0240.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Egads! The road Greens like: Which way will it go? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/holding-on-markets-still-booming-in-belmont-despite-hold-ups-and-kluge-competition monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0b07213d-c8e7-41f9-9e97-521ec2bb23f4/10022003-0239.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Holding on: Markets still booming in Belmont, despite hold-ups and Kluge competition - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/roll-of-dice-fifeville-gets-a-makeover monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0044f138-09ec-4c8f-87dd-d648e392e3f5/Screenshot+2025-11-06+at+11.00.28%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Roll of Dice: Fifeville gets a makeover - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/hot-races-15-candidates-7-seats-14-questions monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/2752158b-c546-4825-9b80-512278c6f0af/09182003-0237.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Hot races: 15 candidates, 7 seats, 14 questions - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/horrors-how-george-garrett-met-his-space-monster monthly 0.5 2025-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/206e43a6-c0de-4df6-9ee9-b93f701b98d3/09112003-0236.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Horrors: How George Garrett met his Space Monster - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/ali-baba-very-bad-a-week-in-post-conflict-baghdad monthly 0.5 2025-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/253dfd21-c142-4489-9d04-211cc96655d1/09042003-0235.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Ali Baba very bad: A week in 'post-conflict' Baghdad - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/beware-caveat-emptor-makes-buyers-vulnerable monthly 0.5 2025-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/a12b715d-133a-4709-8c87-a5b1f29b03d6/08282003-0234.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Beware: Caveat emptor makes buyers vulnerable - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/where-oh-where-good-places-around-town-to-hook-up monthly 0.5 2025-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/63434dc4-a199-4495-9b72-b07b10516f1d/08212003-0233.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Where, oh where?: Good places around town to hook up - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/uvas-lost-pond monthly 0.5 2025-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/1d68d6be-4129-4dc9-856b-9fb3ee9941f6/08142003-0232.jpg Issue Archive Blog - UVA's lost pond - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/annual-manual-1 monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c9b18994-4340-4409-aa0c-d0e72ba41213/08072003-0231.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Annual Manual - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/survivors-three-lives-rebound-from-crumpled-cars monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/51315224-69d7-4224-80b3-1fd6a0e754e7/07312003-0230.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Survivors: Three lives rebound from crumpled cars - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/kayleys-constellations monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/22ddd314-a030-4ce6-b416-fc2729d1c2e7/07242003-0229.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Kayley's Constellations - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/their-words-women-at-uva monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/33cf4e77-2733-4ba9-bf32-85ff682f79a7/07172003-0228.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Their words: Women at UVA - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/ready-or-not-here-it-comes monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/5afc2993-f49a-4a0f-82b8-b04ff029e9c1/07102003-0227-1.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Ready or not: Here it comes - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/sonic-boom-ii-short-interviews monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d1aa7634-6a0f-4d19-b2ac-afa8947063c8/07032003-0226.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Sonic Boom II- Short Interviews - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/small-potatoes-dowdell-could-be-looking-at-life monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/11c9793d-1ff7-4029-a568-4eb7b475c612/Screenshot+2025-11-04+at+11.53.40%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Small potatoes? Dowdell could be looking at life - Small potatoes? Dowdell could be looking at life Don Corleone, aka the Godfather, famously said, "A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns." He's no lawyer, and briefcases aren't allowed in jail, but federal prosecutors say that 56-year-old Terrence Lee Dowdell has stolen about a hundred million dollars. And he did it using one of the oldest financial swindles: a Ponzi scheme. Dowdell's lawyers, meanwhile, claim that the incarcerated Albemarlean really thought he could find a way to pay back those millions– and provide hefty returns. More on that later. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/box-car-willies-modern-hobos-defy-age-stereotypes-but-little-else monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/a43eac76-b749-4aaa-92f7-578f2d751985/06192003-0224.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Box-car willies: Modern hobos defy age stereotypes... but little else - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/a-changed-man-lisa-hartley-looks-back-on-life monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/b883289b-607b-401d-8c63-81fce1c8564f/06122003-0223.jpg Issue Archive Blog - A changed man: Lisa Hartley looks back on life - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/no-apology-how-nbc29-got-spanked monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/a303ec9f-a9e0-44ae-aa5c-03ae5272aac3/06052003-0222.jpg Issue Archive Blog - No apology: How NBC29 got spanked - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/unhappy-camper-hiker-takes-a-walk-in-the-courts monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/8c23ef8e-9920-4aad-858a-af8862f9bbb6/Screenshot+2025-11-04+at+10.54.35%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Unhappy camper: Hiker takes a walk in the courts - Unhappy camper: Hiker takes a walk in the courts By early May, Margaret Jackson figured she'd be hiking somewhere in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, photographing blooming rhododendrons and mountain laurel along the Appalachian Trail. Instead, she found herself sitting on a hardwood bench in Charlottesville's General District Court, waiting for a man who she says took her money, her trust, and nearly destroyed her dream. Life has been anything but happy trails for Jackson these past few months. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/summer-issue monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/475837a1-b59d-4c0e-bbc3-f1600102f834/05222003-0220-1.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Summer Issue - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/earls-world-almost-like-being-in-a-real-place monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/aa8d1231-f76d-4c02-8e75-097e3ea9e2fe/Screenshot+2025-11-04+at+10.24.12%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Earl's world: Almost like being in a real place - Earl's world: Almost like being in a real place Normally the Hot Seat is an 800- or 900-word affair, affording a glimpse into the lives– and refrigerators– of local newsmakers. But when we asked raconteur Earl Hamner to sit on the Hot Seat, the answers he provided were too engaging to be chopped down to normal Hot Seat size. Thus was born the Extra Hot Seat– because, as Hamner himself would say, "Sometimes you ask the time, and you learn how a watch is made. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/cheater-local-author-charges-professor-edlich monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ef95c64b-e198-4834-81bf-ba392e0f3bd6/Screenshot+2025-11-04+at+10.08.45%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Cheater? Local author charges Professor Edlich - Cheater? Local author charges Professor Edlich Tales of plagiarism are all the same. Mid-article, mid-book, mid-paper, or mid-sentence, something goes wrong: A writer– overcome by forgetfulness, laziness, or sheer dishonesty– lifts a few phrases or passages from another writer– and eventually pays the price. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/getting-hitched-everybody-vera-wang-chung-tonight monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/31b38447-2145-45cb-92f0-b33c02d8fe0c/05012003-0217.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Getting hitched: Everybody Vera Wang Chung tonight - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/post-war-locals-reflect-ponder monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f3d2b358-5989-4dfd-b59d-169c506b6b26/04242003-0216.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Post-war: Locals reflect, ponder - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/real-makeovers-zippy-transformations-of-movers-and-shakers monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c22f3673-d4bd-4962-8736-5ca6466c6d7b/04172003-0215.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Real makeovers: Zippy transformations of movers and shakers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/land-use-farmers-friend-or-tax-break-for-the-rich monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/dbb11ff5-c74a-4bd0-af57-13ae7a9dd5c9/Screenshot+2025-11-04+at+7.36.16%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Land use: Farmers' friend or tax break for the rich? - Land use: Farmers' friend or tax break for the rich? Behind lavish eagle-topped gates on Woodlands Road, former Value America mogul Craig Winn lives in a mansion that Albemarle County has assessed at $3.45 million. Fifty acres of rolling Albemarle countryside surround the 8,900-square-foot palace. But because Winn's land is enrolled in a program designed to help farmers, he pays just $976 in taxes on those 50 acres about as much as the owner of a one-acre lot in Forest Lakes pays. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-pits-dogfightings-bloody-aftermath monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/17400dd6-144c-4417-9568-81dd4f4e0c07/Screenshot+2025-11-04+at+7.28.35%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - The pits: Dogfighting's bloody aftermath - The pits: Dogfighting's bloody aftermath The pictures on the walls of Carolyn Foreman's SPCA office are cutesy images of puppies, kittens, and ducks. The photos in her hand, however, are not so endearing. They show the battered bodies of dead dogs. "You can see the bite marks on this one," she says. In another photo, a pit bull is lying on top of the black garbage bag its body was tossed into like yesterday's trash. "A year ago, if you'd asked me if dogfighting was a problem in our bucolic little 'burb, I'd have said no, everyone loves dogs here," says Foreman. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/my-house-as-a-life-when-architects-design-for-themselves monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c6a203e9-3a3a-46ff-9282-f274b93e1f35/Screenshot+2025-11-04+at+7.13.48%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - My house as a life: When architects design for themselves - My house as a life: When architects design for themselves Driving around town, you've probably seen them: the louvered orange house with the terraces down by Riverview Park; the machine-like structure with the big green "V" over on Farish; or the three-story wall of glass brick gleaming in the woods above Meadowbrook Road. With luck, you didn't swerve off the road. What do these eye-poppingly modern buildings have in common? They're all houses architects have built for themselves, places where the wildest theories of structural design are put into practice for the architects' own personal pleasure. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/crowded-house-it-may-be-cozy-but-should-it-be-illegal monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/a70724c9-4ed5-4e76-b0dd-1eb0689a8859/Screenshot+2025-11-04+at+7.07.43%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Crowded house: It may be cozy, but should it be illegal? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/fiction-contest-the-winners monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e268146f-82bc-45f6-88e2-bff2f604b21e/03132003-0210.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Fiction contest: The Winners - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/shes-got-bette-davis-eyes-bd-hyman-goes-from-mommie-dearest-to-jesus-dearest monthly 0.5 2025-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/add58e1c-f58e-4500-a012-8363135bfb2d/Screenshot+2025-11-04+at+12.16.03%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - She's got Bette Davis Eyes: B.D. Hyman goes from Mommie Dearest to Jesus Dearest - She's got Bette Davis Eyes: B.D. Hyman goes from Mommie Dearest to Jesus Dearest How do you get from Hollywood to the Angel Network? Ask B.D. Hyman, local televangelist and daughter of legendary film star Bette Davis. She's happy to recount the trip. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/icons-or-eyesores-vdot-vows-to-replace-roadside-memorials monthly 0.5 2025-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/cb54f0f7-bdef-443d-80c7-28e49aab1b1a/Screenshot+2025-11-04+at+12.05.44%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - Icons or eyesores? VDOT vows to replace roadside memorials - Icons or eyesores? VDOT vows to replace roadside memorials The small white cross surrounded by a wreath of faded flowers stands on the shoulder of the road. At another spot, someone has used black electrical tape to fasten a second cross to a tree, but that inconspicuous cross, its wood rotting, escapes the casual glance. Some roadside memorials, like that one, exist almost anonymously. Only friends and family of the victims notice them. Other memorials grab your attention like neon signs. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/eight-years-for-a-minor-offense monthly 0.5 2025-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f4e53cd1-2297-4692-9d4a-5d476c572f0a/Screenshot+2025-11-03+at+11.46.40%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Eight years: for a 'minor' offense - Eight years: for a 'minor' offense All over Albemarle County there are women like Lisa Robinson. They volunteer at their children's elementary school. They haul the kids to extracurricular events. They yell at their teenagers to pick up their clothes. One thing separates her peers from Lisa Robinson. They haven't been seen by TV cameras making a perp walk in shackles after being sentenced to eight years in jail. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/cosmic-degrees-out-of-body-at-the-monroe-institute monthly 0.5 2025-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/444a5b38-c4ab-496a-96a9-7fe2415ab3bc/Screenshot+2025-11-03+at+11.37.26%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Cosmic degrees: Out of body at the Monroe Institute - Cosmic degrees: Out of body at the Monroe Institute I couldn't have been more than 12 years old. Sitting on my bed with uncommon determination, my gaze fixed on the aerial antenna jutting crudely from my pre-remote-control TV, I attempted to master the art of telekinesis. Concentrate. Concentrate. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/when-war-hits-home-bush-push-changing-lives monthly 0.5 2025-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/09a7d2ac-05ee-4b8e-940d-9d08b18568d6/02062003-0205.jpg Issue Archive Blog - When war hits home: Bush push changing lives - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/going-public-andrews-talks-and-the-governor-listens monthly 0.5 2025-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/83b9ad9a-c510-48e3-96d8-2d210501a9dc/Screenshot+2025-11-03+at+11.15.36%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Going public: Andrews talks, and the governor listens - Going public: Andrews talks, and the governor listens For nearly 30 years, Martin Andrews kept silent about a hideous crime that happened to him in Tidewater. But last year he learned that the man who repeatedly raped him and kept him imprisoned in an underground box is scheduled to be released from prison in April. The 43-year-old Andrews swung into action. Now a computer technician living North Miami, Florida, Andrews collected his vacation time and began making frequent trips to Virginia to lobby top state officials and tell his story to the media– all in an effort to prevent the scheduled release of his attacker. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/taken-for-a-ride-loopholes-for-lemons-and-the-secret-history-of-salvaged-cars monthly 0.5 2025-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e9220025-b07a-4c13-8ea8-417e3a985eed/Screenshot+2025-11-03+at+11.06.16%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Taken for a ride: loopholes for lemons and the secret history of salvaged cars - Taken for a ride: loopholes for lemons and the secret history of salvaged cars It sounds like something from the Twilight Zone. A Scottsville woman goes into a local auto dealership and shells out nearly $20,000 for a late-model used car. Within a year, she discovers the car has a secret past: Before she bought it, it had been totaled in a tangle with a tractor-trailer. But the dealer won't give her more than $8,000 to take it back. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/on-guard-women-brace-against-serial-rapist monthly 0.5 2025-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/89c6794b-028d-4bf4-9959-64964fe424fa/Screenshot+2025-11-03+at+9.47.18%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - On guard: Women brace against serial rapist - On guard: Women brace against serial rapist He's already picked his next victim. In fact, police believe the serial rapist currently terrorizing women in Charlottesville may have identified as many as a dozen or more targets. Police Chief Tim Longo calls this man's effect on the community "devastating." Even a simple pleasure like taking a child to the park in the middle of the afternoon has been violated. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/river-city-scottsvilles-awash-in-cash monthly 0.5 2025-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/90fdca2a-e93d-4565-8614-a6f46a4df04e/Screenshot+2025-11-03+at+9.40.39%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - River city: Scottsville's awash... in cash - River city: Scottsville's awash... in cash It's Friday night in Scottsville. As a small crowd gathers at the Dew Drop Inn to cheer on a local band, one bar patron proudly announces her connection to the musicians. "They rehearse in my basement," she tells me. "They're excellent." "In your basement?" her husband calls out. "The house is yours, but– damn it– the basement is mine. They rehearse in my basement." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-year-in-review-the-best-the-worst-and-more monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e1f9ba32-8a3d-4af7-8fa5-611879984be1/Screenshot+2025-11-03+at+12.15.58%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - The Year in Review, the best, the worst, and more - The Year in Review, the best, the worst, and more Remember the heady, irrational exuberance of New Year's 2000, when Y2K computer snafus were our biggest fear? Yeah, baby, those were the days. And how quickly that little party ended, as 2002 ushered in a whole new era: life after September 11. The year began in a subdued fashion as the nation continued to mourn the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and adjusted to life in the age of fear and the "war on terror." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/madd-v-foxfield-liquor-license-in-limbo-thanks-to-boozin-wahoos monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f4b1dae9-3e04-4279-95d7-979cc32f3377/Screenshot+2025-11-03+at+12.07.19%E2%80%AFAM.png Issue Archive Blog - MADD v. Foxfield: Liquor license in limbo thanks to boozin' Wahoos - MADD v. Foxfield: Liquor license in limbo thanks to boozin' Wahoos It's become a University of Virginia rite of spring: Young gentlemen don a tie, ladies put on a spring frock and hat, then they head to Foxfield and get trashed. That tradition of properly attired drunkenness in a steeplechase setting has outraged some members of the community and left Foxfield fighting desperately to save its ABC license and perhaps its very existence. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/fancy-footwork-meandering-to-monticello monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/3b36e476-fce3-4755-96f5-a7b1a28cb293/12122002-0145.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Fancy Footwork: Meandering to Monticello - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/hot-dam-should-it-stay-or-should-it-go monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c817214f-ceaf-4b1b-b6ea-838e221f0bb9/12052002-0144.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Hot dam: Should it stay or should it go? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/holiday-survival-handbook monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/577f7ba9-071a-4b30-921a-25578b5c0c95/11282002-0143.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Holiday Survival Handbook - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/aint-no-mountain-wide-enough-to-keep-crozet-from-tunneling-a-new-attraction monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/17f3b958-b9bf-40f4-8454-0d26bf8fecfe/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+11.31.21%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Ain't no mountain wide enough: To keep Crozet from tunneling a new attraction - Ain't no mountain wide enough: To keep Crozet from tunneling a new attraction Claudius Crozet is more than a name on a neighborhood park or a tiny town. Although he's been dead for 138 years, he's a hero in engineering circles. "He was ahead of his time," says Howard Newlon, a civil engineer and UVA faculty member. "We need more of those." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/hounded-whats-so-wrong-with-fox-hunting monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/922adb58-5fd0-4706-aa33-a194188428d7/11142002-0141-1.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Hounded: What's so wrong with fox hunting? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/its-easy-being-green-a-fossil-fuel-story monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e1324b52-1280-44bb-bc33-1f4fda78f288/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+11.07.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - It's easy being green: a fossil fuel story - It's easy being green: a fossil fuel story The more I surveyed my new car, the happier I got. "New car" is one of those phrases that make Americans unreasonably happy to begin with. And this one well, it was a particularly shiny metallic blue. Better yet, it was the first Honda Civic hybrid electric sold in my state. I'd traded in my old Civic (40 miles to the gallon), and now the little screen behind the steering wheel was telling me that I was getting 50, 51, 52 miles to the gallon. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/farewell-in-salem-legendary-statler-brothers-call-it-quits monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e26750c8-8642-4f95-ac90-edadd4d8c768/10312002-0139.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Farewell in Salem: Legendary Statler Brothers call it quits - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/all-wet-the-hooks-guide-o-rama-to-the-film-festival monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/3784eb11-4b5e-4558-84c2-23b50a1f63f6/10242002-0138.jpg Issue Archive Blog - All Wet: The Hook's guide-o-rama to the Film Festival - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/killer-course-a-school-for-civilian-snipers monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/7addb4ab-88d4-4aff-b8fc-b3a1bd479812/10172002-0137-1.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Killer course: a school for civilian snipers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/cross-to-bear-southern-pride-or-prejudice monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/80cf29eb-7bd1-4e35-af97-a358cadfa79c/10102002-0136.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Cross to bear: Southern pride-- or prejudice? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/fan-fare-collectors-treasure-local-mementos monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/60d2ec75-1fae-4456-8cb8-63d181a49b76/10032002-0135.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Fan fare: Collectors treasure local mementos - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/dry-days-dealing-with-the-drought-is-serious-business monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/60c1add6-76f6-400e-a45f-b12ed971265b/09262002-0134.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Dry days: Dealing with the drought is serious business - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/missing-movies monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0fafc07a-9f50-4949-96e4-3b0f3bf2263b/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+8.49.54%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Missing Movies - Dave's debut: Disasters stymie Matthews' move into movies Charlottesville's most famous singer has suffered a strange setback to his fledgling film career. For over two years, footage of his first feature film has been stuck in film cans, and a tug-of-war may soon erupt over the movie's ownership. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/hes-baaack-the-marshall-plan-2002-shut-the-door-to-albemarle-asap monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/eb480ab3-44db-4b17-b950-910254a0f9ec/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+8.32.38%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - He's baaack: The Marshall Plan 2002: Shut the door to Albemarle, ASAP - He's baaack: The Marshall Plan 2002: Shut the door to Albemarle, ASAP Developers have always claimed that those who object to big boxes and subdivisions are against growth, period. A new organization is out to prove those developers right. Led by anti-growth guru Jack Marshall, Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle– ASAP– say forget slow growth. Marshall even scoffs at "smart growth." Taking a harder line, ASAP is preaching that "no growth" is the only way to save the Albemarle County that its residents many of them transplants like Marshall– know and love. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/where-were-you-9eleven-remembered monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/98c75969-6eb5-4594-8500-aaf57c79c92e/09052002-0131.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Where were you? 9Eleven remembered - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/toaster-museum-kitchen-nostalgia-pops-up-everywhere monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e266859e-899a-4b5f-9e06-82970b1857f7/08292002-0130.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Toaster museum? Kitchen nostalgia pops up everywhere - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/home-on-the-range-georgetown-farms-where-the-buffalo-roam monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/2300196f-42f2-4e2a-bd7f-0b03acd215bc/08222002-0129.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Home on the range: Georgetown Farm's where the buffalo roam - Home on the range: Georgetown Farm's where the buffalo roam Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/annual-manual monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/toy-story-new-adult-shop-has-town-buzzing monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/2fc07952-4507-4289-9530-4a2e827f2aa0/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+6.34.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Toy story: New adult shop has town buzzing - Toy story: New adult shop has town buzzing Once upon a time, Charlottesville had an X-rated adult store called the Pleasure Chest. In a town that doesn't go in for flesh peddling in topless bars, the Pleasure Chest didn't survive the 1980s. In fact, one local video-store owner calls the Pleasure Chest a "study in how to do it wrong" because of its bold advertising and open-door policies. Today's key word in selling adult items? Discreet. It is possible in Charlottesville to get a blow-up doll, nipple clamps, or a video of Dirty Debutantes– but you have to know where to look. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/a-few-bad-men-where-are-they monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/c7cd7299-0e2f-451e-abc1-d73be2ad1b6f/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+6.34.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - A few bad men: Where are they? - A few bad men: Where are they? It's been many months since school shootings splashed headlines across the front pages of major newspapers, but in place of such horrors has come another terrifying– if less visible– crime trend: pedophilia. Tales of priests victimizing innocent members of their flock have vied for headlines with a flurry of stunningly brazen kidnappings. Perpetrators have sneaked into homes to steal sleeping children from their beds, or have ripped them screaming in broad daylight from their own front yards. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/sonic-boom-local-sound-scene-doesnt-just-rock monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/8c4b23df-1fda-4bd1-9c49-c3d1ebd413c5/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+6.13.26%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Sonic boom: Local sound scene doesn't just rock - Sonic boom: Local sound scene doesn't just rock By Mark Grabowski. You want a piece of me? Come and get it. Yeah, I compiled the first annual Hook music issue. I chose the bands and decided who got featured and who did not. And I did the incredibly scientific musical categorizations and style comparisons. Over the next few pages you will find things that will inform you, please you, and no-doubt infuriate you. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/poison-ivy-if-you-build-it-they-will-scream monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/8f741735-7160-4c43-b609-858f1e1b86b6/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+5.47.02%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Poison Ivy: If you build it, they will scream - Poison Ivy: If you build it, they will scream "Growth may be inevitable, but ugliness is not."From the Scenic Virginia preamble. Ivy cherishes the notion that it's a rural community. The scenery along Route 250 west is mostly white-fenced fields and woods. Its subdivisions are hidden from 250, unlike the more obvious sprawl attacking Crozet, its designated-growth neighbor to the west. The village of Ivy is nothing more than a post office, a nursery, a couple of gas stations and Duner's, a pricey, culinary oasis for affluent country folk. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/on-display-does-the-public-really-want-public-art monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/be1f7600-9d38-4f50-ab2f-069346db9f33/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+5.35.09%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - On display: Does the public really want public art? - On display: Does the public really want public art? Another man's trash... Part of why ArtInPlace can work, president Elizabeth Breeden says, is its website (artinplace.com). None of the pieces on view around town is signed– only a mysterious sign with the web address and the city seal stands near each installation. To find our more about the art, the artists, and the program, anyone can go online. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/trail-nix-rivanna-neighbor-just-says-no-to-hikers monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ca017dae-c2c6-4d98-b8e4-95457bd6ef07/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+5.29.46%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Trail nix: Rivanna neighbor just says no to hikers - Trail nix: Rivanna neighbor just says no to hikers When landscape designer Jon Dreher went walking on the Rivanna Trail with his dog, Chester, on June 20, he expected a leisurely stroll through the woods. What he got instead was a confrontation– and a case study in community amenities vs. the property rights of an angry citizen. About a half-mile from the trailhead near the VFW Lodge on River Road, Dreher came upon a woman and a man constructing a barrier– in the middle of the popular pathway. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/trouble-on-waltons-mountain monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/eb9b32f1-29d7-4afd-941f-c89e762c7297/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+5.13.29%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Trouble on Walton's Mountain - Trouble on Walton's Mountain Fans converge...But not on Walton's Mountain Carolyn Grinnell, president of the Waltons International Fan Club, was there in Schuyler the day the museum opened in 1992. She loves coming up from North Carolina every fall to the quaint little town where the club has had reunions with fans and cast members at the museum. This year, however, the fan club will hold its July 13 reunion at the Doubletree not in Schuyler but 45 minutes away in Charlottesville. As with so much in this story, explanations vary. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-write-stuff-why-peter-taylor-rocks monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ee7c3a43-47a1-49ea-8e8d-06900e1356c2/06202002-0120.jpg Issue Archive Blog - The write stuff: Why Peter Taylor rocks! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/babes-in-boyland-local-women-mean-business monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/e4bf058b-acb5-488e-99e5-9d83fd7f6e5e/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+4.49.16%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Babes in boyland: Local women mean business - Babes in boyland: Local women mean business You’ve come a long way, baby– at least since Virginia Slims built an ad campaign around the notion that having their own brand of cigarettes gave women a step toward equality with men. True, only six Fortune 500 companies have women CEOs. And women’s earning power still is not even 75 percent of men’s, according to 1999 U.S. Department of Labor figures. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/whos-watching-the-kids monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f3070134-4c0b-4c11-8f2b-db52e81f4d26/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+4.39.49%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Who's watching the kids? - Who's watching the kids? The blonde, blue-eyed middle school student arrives home from school, says hi to her mom, and then disappears in front of the computer.She seems like a typical 14-year-old who likes ‘N Sync and 98 Degrees, except that this girl has been sexually molested by three different people, and two of those incidents occurred on the premises of a licensed daycare provider.While one assault resulted in an arrest and conviction, an outraged mother still wants to know how the state could allow the daycare provider to maintain her license.Abandoned baby https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/lie-down-expert-reluctantly-offers-safety-tip monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/468cbfaa-88b0-4d90-be8b-9e4ac60a4c59/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+4.27.46%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Track marks: These lines change lives - Track marks: These lines change lives By Wesley Hottot It is an atypically warm spring afternoon on Water Street downtown. Noise hums from the C&O Restaurant in front of the old C&O line, now part of the CSX train empire. For the moment, the tracks are completely silent, but East Water Street and the buses on Water Street are not. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/rocky-road-in-the-valley-of-the-bomb-pop monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/a5af1552-473c-487a-a851-3a225266b751/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+4.20.30%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Rocky road in the valley of the bomb pop - Rocky road in the valley of the bomb pop By Eddie Dean I was coughing up dust, and so was my truck as we climbed the long gravel driveway to the sturdy white frame house high on a hill in Greene County. We had traveled many miles to get here, and the people were expecting us. My truck was actually a converted ‘71 GMC van weighed down by a trio of lead-lined coffin-sized freezers. Above the rearview mirror I’d stuck a photo of a stoned Sly Stone, patron saint of hot-fun-in-the-summertime. On the truck’s filthy battered exterior, a painted tin sign promised "Happy Time Ice Cream," but everyone knew it as the “Big Lik,” the words emblazoned on the license plate. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/surprise-indeed monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/435ab9ae-fa13-4c2d-a670-eeb4a417336f/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+3.57.17%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Surprise indeed - Surprise indeed On election day, Republican Rob Schilling found himself getting support from unexpected quarters.As he worked the polls, a 60-something male supporter came up to him and stuffed a check in his hand, apologizing for not getting it to him sooner. And dozens of Democrats told him he was the only Republican they’d ever voted for.What is it about this longhaired, nouveau Charlottesvillean that sparked a veritable love-fest with enough City residents to earn him an upset win and make him the savior of the City’s long-whipped Republicans? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/labor-of-love-a-moms-eye-view-of-children-with-disabilities monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/107c896e-f6c6-4fde-90e7-7eec81d59d9e/05092002-0114.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Labor of love: A mom's eye view of children with disabilities - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/crazy-stories-issue monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/8704f784-3eea-41c1-9eb5-7c400d0f825c/05022002-0113.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Crazy stories issue - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/new-leash-on-life monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/00e6a319-9cb3-4594-95df-128fb97ceb5e/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+2.47.36%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - New leash on life - New leash on life The issue was almost too hot for local authorities to handle, pitting neighbor against neighbor and drawing throngs of angry citizens to City Council meetings. What had people so fired up? Taxes? Pollution of our drinking water? Cuts in education?Nope. The issue was dogs— specifically, whether man’s best friend should be leashed while in city parks. Adding to the chaos at the meetings were the dogs themselves, brought by some owners who wanted to display their animals’ superior training. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/explosive-words monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/d85f563a-e8c2-4b87-ae68-49b6666b1159/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+2.39.55%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Explosive words - Explosive words By Hawes Spencer and Barbara Nordin When the indictment was handed down last week by a Charlottesville grand jury in the 1996 murders of two women in Shenandoah National Park, a fearful period in Park history may have ended, and the families of Julie Williams and Lollie Winans may have found some small measure of relief. But for the families of other young women murdered in Central Virginia, the anguish of uncertainty continues. Still, clues from the court files of 34-year-old Darrell David Rice of Columbia, Maryland, reveal that even if he's not responsible for a wide range of crimes, he has, in his own words, occasionally "exploded." https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/spinning-trouble monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/370c8ca6-f16d-4c90-b0a8-88412d318b52/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+2.34.09%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Spinning trouble - Spinning trouble By Bill Ramsey Try to remember a time when commercial radio stations didn’t sound the same, from town to town, up and down the dial. If you long for the days when deejays played requests and when playlists at least pretended to reflect local listener demand, forget it. Those days are long gone. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/spring-issue monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/ae9c4475-0431-460e-bae9-5fe42eb9a41b/04042002-0109.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Spring issue - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/waiting-for-bodo monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/3a5bda21-5929-46c6-96fd-d2ed2173da0a/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+2.08.21%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Waiting for Bodo - Waiting for Bodo 1995 was a big year for Charlottesville. Emily Couric won her first State Senate election. Christopher Reeve became UVA Hospital’s star patient. Our beloved Wahoos toppled #2 Florida State in an epic 33-28 gridiron upset. And local entrepreneur Brian Fox signed the lease for a piece of property that would keep the town talking for the next seven years.Nestled between the venerable Lucky Seven and the glossy Starbucks on University Avenue, the infamously unopened third Bodo’s, without doing any business, has nonetheless become a Charlottesville landmark. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/fiction-winner-neighbors monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/19af590f-d2e0-4192-9e94-de5ce91f8d19/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+1.36.52%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - FICTION WINNER- 'Neighbors' - FICTION WINNER- 'Neighbors' By Murray Dunlap The apartment door clicking shut wakes me. Charlotte walks in, smoking. She drops her cigarette into a beer bottle on the nightstand and lifts her gray sweater up and over her head. Feeling safe in the darkness, she unhooks her bra, exposing small, well-shaped breasts, eggshell white within the triangles of a bathing suit tan. I watch her surreptitiously, my eyes fully adjusted to the night. Charlotte pulls one of my t-shirts from the dresser, struggling to find the appropriate holes. She kicks off leather boots and stomps out of her jeans. The trademark logo of Havana 59, the restaurant where Charlotte works, is stitched into her panties. She crawls into bed as if her bones are made of rubber. I smell tequila, smoke, perfume, and sex when she presses against me, spooning beneath linen sheets…. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/hard-times monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/a12b0571-6359-4646-b19a-737ab16f71b2/03142002-0106.jpg Issue Archive Blog - Hard Times - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/work-at-home monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/042206ca-de91-410b-bbc4-03e8a3c0e07e/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+1.55.48%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Work at home - Work at home Who hasn’t seen those signs? At 29 North and Hydraulic one tantalizingly offers: “Work at home. Part time $1,500, full time $5,000.” The bait is even tastier over near Foods of All Nations, this one promising up to $6,500 a month. But, probably to no one’s surprise, “Most work-at-home jobs are not jobs at all, but outright scams,” according to J. Steven Niznik, an expert in employment-related issues. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/mark-linkous-sparkles-the-life-and-short-death-of-a-legend monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/47e4d8c0-b05f-431d-9816-2356d70178b7/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+1.52.35%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Mark Linkous sparkles: The life (and short death) of a legend - Mark Linkous sparkles: The life (and short death) of a legend Mark Linkous is somewhere in the darkened recording booth, but the only thing I can see in the blackness is my own shadow, cast by the light streaming in the entrance. “Could you shut the door?” Linkous pleads in a gravelly tone immediately recognizable from his albums. Acoustic foam must be hard to clean, as there’s a distinct dusty smell— although our whispers are sonically perfect. https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/6-democrats-2-city-council-seats monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/fc99f038-35ef-43c3-9c59-2770fd99bbc2/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+1.48.50%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - 6 Democrats, 2 City Council Seats - 6 Democrats, 2 City Council Seats The Democratic Nominating Convention meets on Saturday, February 23, to elect two candidates to run for City Council in May. Who are the men and women who have thrown their hats into the ring, and what exactly do they stand for? https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/the-new-new-cabell-polshek-partnership-to-tackle-south-lawn-project monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/8eb42e56-bd0c-43a2-9c8e-353d3fc283d0/02142002-0102.jpg Issue Archive Blog - The new New Cabell: Polshek Partnership to tackle south Lawn project - The new New Cabell: Polshek Partnership to tackle south Lawn project More to come… https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchiveblog/unloaded-what-a-long-strange-trip-its-been monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/0930869f-9bda-4ca0-bcfb-8902b52da3df/Screenshot+2025-11-02+at+1.44.07%E2%80%AFPM.png Issue Archive Blog - Unloaded: What a long strange trip it's been - Unloaded: What a long strange trip it's been If we told you that not too far from here, in a typical Albemarle County farmhouse on a typical small-town street, with a wife and two kids, four dogs, a spreadwing American eagle over the garage door and a basketball hoop in the driveway, there lives a guy who introduced the U. S. to Colombian gold and smuggled nearly a million pounds of it into the country from the mid-'70s to the mid-'80s, would you believe us? Read on. February 7th, 2002 issue #0101 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/about daily 1.0 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/4a56895e-7695-4302-8b6b-eedfa33cca01/Screenshot+2026-01-03+at+3.44.47%E2%80%AFPM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/f3f4d2f8-88b8-419a-a154-8cee4f2bb57b/Screenshot+2026-01-03+at+3.44.11%E2%80%AFPM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68efd5e911cfa80a89e61787/1b4a6a30-4a40-4ba7-9874-ed9abfa521a3/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+7.20.05%E2%80%AFPM.png https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/new-page daily 0.75 2026-01-03 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/hooknewspaperarchives daily 0.75 2026-01-09 https://www.hooknewsarchive.com/12-years-covering-charlottesville daily 0.75 2026-01-03