http://www.readthehook.com/blog From the Hook newsroom Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:16:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A cache of leaked emails that show some leading global warming theory proponents acting less than nobly has caught the attention not only of the New York Times but also of the Charlottesville-based scientist often slammed by the errant emailers. “This is not a smoking gun; this is a mushroom ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/21/pat-michaels-leaked-emails-a-mushroom-cloud/ The Ingles Ferry Farm, site of a a ferry operated by Mary Draper Ingles, the pioneer woman whose incredible trek back from her kidnapping by Shawnee warriors inspired Follow the River, the 1981 best-seller (that just happens to be the favorite book of late banking icon Hovey Dabney), will be ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/21/a-follow-the-river-farm-gets-protected/ BY DON BERARD In October, three alleged cocaine dealers snared by the Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement task force picked up another felony charge for allegedly hawking their wares within one-fifth of a mile of a school. Virginia state law makes it illegal to sell drugs within 1,000 feet of a ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/21/1000-foot-felony-charges-dropped-in-2-drug-cases/ Sara Watkins performs to a sold-out crowd Thursday, November 19. PHOTO BY STEPHANIE GARCIA The day after, remnants of The Southern's sold-out show. PHOTO BY STEPHANIE GARCIA 1 of 2 It's a tough time to open an independent music venue. Within a one-block radius stand two charitably-endowed non-profit halls (The Paramount and the ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/21/in-jeffs-shadow-watkins-music-thrive-at-the-southern/ Police have received reports about a man in a wheelchair who has allegedly harassed women at UVA, the Cavalier Daily reports. "We were alerted he was harassing females near Alderman Library," says Lieutenant Melissa Fielding with University Police. "He was issued a trespassing warning that bars him from university property." ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/20/wheelchair-man-disconcerts-coeds/ A year after its release, Familiar Strangers, the Charlottesville-produced and Staunton-filmed movie that won festival and audience acclaim--- and even briefly bounced James Bond from the top spot at a few theaters--- has just been released on DVD and download. http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/20/familiar-strangers-now-on-dvd-and-download/ "It was not a 100 percent victory," says Danielson's attorney, Connor Crook. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER "The truth is out there," said the lawyer fighting for a right to re-file the high-profile hotel collusion lawsuit by internet millionaire Halsey Minor against developer Lee Danielson. "Well, whatever the truth is," responded Judge Edward Hogshire, ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/20/fraud-dismissed-but-halsey-minor-wins-refiling-right/ DJ Melissa McKenna and Program director Brad Savage hand out free CDs containing new tracks by artists popular on their radio station, 106.1 The Corner, Wednesday night, November 18 on the Downtown Mall. The station is showcasing two of the on-disc artists at a Saturday night concert at V. ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/20/snap-giving-up-the-discs/ Goodbye O'Neill's, hello Trinity. The upscale Irish pub on The Corner opened in October and it's already making a name for itself. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER After months of renovation, the former O'Neill's Pub space on The Corner has finally been transformed into Trinity Irish Pub. Apparently, it was worth the wait. ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/20/trinity%e2%80%99s-trinity-location-atmosphere-and-an-infamous-chef/ Mike and Natalia Bost say they can't afford to pay a $100 water/sewer bill at Autumn Hill apartments. PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE When Natalia and Michael Bost moved into Autumn Hill apartments with their new baby in July, they thought the $827 a month rent for a two-bedroom apartment was a pretty ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/20/cloudy-water-murky-billing-soaks-autumn-hill-residents/ Minor and Danielson during happier times at the groundbreaking of the Landmark. FILE PHOTO BY JAY KUHLMANN Lawyers for formerly entwined hotel-makers Halsey Minor and Lee Danielson will be in court Friday in a case that puts the troubled Landmark Hotel project back in the spotlight. In a follow-up to a recent ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/19/lawsuits-galore-minor-v-danielson-hearing-friday/ Mike Dillard of UVA's Facilities Management unclogs a leaf-choked storm drain at 8:50am on University Avenue. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER The rush-hour lake on University Avenue didn't slow everyone down. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER With over five inches having already fallen and more still on the way, the National Weather Service issued a ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/19/flood-warning-weather-service-predicts-more-rain/ The Southern's Andy Gems and Lauren McRaven hope the music hall will also be known for its cuisine. FILE PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE Back in 2005, when Lauren McRaven opened The Flat on Water Street, she quipped that she might not have opened the little crêperie if she’d known beforehand how difficult ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/19/the-southern-not-just-another-music-hall/ Jimmy in 2008. PHOTO BY MICHAEL W. PENDERGRASS I think my wife and I don't get out enough. We won two free tickets to the November 17 Jimmy Buffett concert in Charlottesville from a local newspaper's contest. It was wonderful.  We walked in from the law school smugly watching what appeared to ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/19/booze-in-the-blender-jimmy-buffett-rocks-charlottesvill/ A Charlottesville Police officer has been charged with “failure to yield” in an accident that occurred while responding to yesterday’s Wachovia Bank robbery. According to Albemarle County Officer Lt. Todd Hopwood, an accident investigation revealed that Charlottesville Police officer Kyle Boynton, along with his passenger, Officer Otis Collier, tried to ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/18/officer-charged-in-wreck-on-way-to-robbery-scene/ 4:11pm update: "This is extremely rare," says Game Department spokesperson Julia Dixon, in response to a reporter's question. "There are no records of a non-participant ever being killed in a hunting-related incident in Virginia." 1:57pm update: The fatally-injured Ferrum student has been identified by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/18/after-hunt-killing-a-blaze-orange-warning/ The Woodbrook neighborhood is not happy. Their community association has launched a letter-writing campaign to protest the Albemarle County Supervisors' approval of the proposed 212-unit Arden Place apartment complex. On November 4, according to Charlottesville Tomorrow, the developers of the near Rio Road complex won a gated vehicular connection to ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/18/arden-place-wins-connections-controversy/ Remember those old television fishing shows--- the ones that aired on weekend mornings with long droning music and scant narration? Charlottesville filmmaker Jamie Howard does, and he's trying to reinvent the genre with a more cinematic perspective. He recently returned from the California premiere of his latest film, Bass: The ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/18/howard-debuts-bass-the-movie-in-california/ Crews are putting the finishing touches on the 1912 Jefferson Theater in anticipation of its long-awaited re-opening as a four-level music hall. In this November 17 photo, the 1915 plasterwork by French sculptor Victor Pierret (he had to re-do his work after a devastating fire three years after the ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/17/jefferson-theater-almost-finished/ Two Charlottesville police officers responding to today’s Wachovia Bank robbery on 10th Street were involved in a car wreck. Police say the officers were in an unmarked car and were broadsided when they turned into traffic on Route 29 in front of Seminole Square Shopping Center. City spokesperson Ric Barrick ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/17/police-wreck-on-way-to-robbery-scene/ At around 12:00pm today the little Wachovia Bank on 10th Street, across from Martha Jefferson Hospital, was robbed. City spokesperson Ric Barrick says that a 6-foot tall white male with “scruffy” facial hair, and wearing jeans, a white T-shirt, and a red and black stocking cap, demanded money from a ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/17/wachovia-bank-robbery-today/ The appearance of the holiday tree on the Downtown Mall more than a week before Thanksgiving means the season is upon us, and the official grand illumination is Friday, November 20. Christmas lights-- snowflakes, courtesy of the Downtown Business Association-- started going up November 2, an apparent record for early ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/17/snap-o-the-day-looking-a-lot-like-christmas/ Dish’s foodie spys tell him that Taste of China, which recently opened in the Albemarle Square Shopping Center, is the real deal. Apparently, a very itinerant but renowned Szechuan chef named Peter Chang is currently biding his time there until his next big gig. Indeed, fans of Chang have been ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/17/chang-lands-at-taste-of-china/ Zynodoa, Staunton’s stylish contribution to southern cuisine, the local food movement, and big city chic, raised the bar recently by hiring chef Michael Lund, who comes to the restaurant after six years at The Inn at Little Washington, where he trained with culinary icon Patrick O'Connell. This is a real ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/17/stauntons-culinary-coup/ Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray: a little grease and grit doesn't hurt in rockabilly. PUBLICITY PHOTO Sometimes it takes an artist a lifetime to perfect a sound -- just ask Jon Spencer of the rockabilly duo Heavy Trash. Spencer, who admits he came to music "quite late," has been heavily involved ... http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/17/interview-trashy-but-not-garbage-jon-spencer-still-force-to-reckon-with/