Snap o' the Day
Snap o' the Day: Rugby Road morning
Published on Apr 8th, 2009
4 comments We realize that this photo, shot Tuesday morning from a car (well, a Jeep actually), is nothing too special. But we just got tired of seeing that knife-wielding PETA chicken as our "Snap o' the Day...
Snap o' the day: Knife-wielding chicken seeks revenge
Published on Mar 30th, 2009
5 comments People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have some of the more memorable protests around– we still haven't forgotten the naked protester from 2006. On March 30, chicken-suited Kristina...
Snap o' the Day: House of hope
Published on Mar 27th, 2009
0 comments Celebrating a March 26 groundbreaking are architect Fred Wolf, film director/project creator Tom Shadyac, and two prospective visitors of the First Street Church Project, Willie Cox and Freddie...
Snap o' the Day: Who's on third?
Published on Mar 26th, 2009
0 comments With lows in the 30s and highs in the 40s, it may not yet feel like spring, but Little League games have begun, including this one between the orange-shirted Hobbytown USA (formerly sponsored by...
Snap o' the day: Smoke on Sixth Street
Published on Mar 24th, 2009
0 comments Smoke billowed into the sky late in the afternoon of Monday, March 23, after a taxicab parked behind Premo Auto Body and the Yellow Cab dispatch station on the 1500 block of Sixth Street S.E. caught...
Snap o' the day: Wheels of misfortune
Published on Mar 23rd, 2009
15 comments An unlucky resident on a quiet city cul-de-sac awoke on Saturday morning to a shocking sight: all four of her wheels had been stolen overnight, and her Honda Civic had been left perched atop two...
Snap o' the Day: Norfolk's light rail
Published on Mar 21st, 2009
3 comments Construction of Norfolk's 7.4-mile, $232 million (or $288 million) light rail system advances as seen here in this March 20 view of its elevated tracks near Norfolk State University (which just...
Snap o' the day: New AG
Published on Mar 20th, 2009
2 comments No, this isn't Bob McDonnell, who resigned February 20 to run for governor. Bill Mims now has the attorney general job until January 16, 2010, and he was in town March 20 to spur lawyers to a Legal...
Snap o' the day: Letters still being written
Published on Mar 18th, 2009
0 comments Buford Middle School student Charlotte Keeley, right, is one of three Virginia winners in the Letters about Literature national writing contest, in which students write to their favorite author. The...
They've been workin' on the railroad
Published on Mar 14th, 2009
8 comments A pair of heavy machines, including a ballast tamper, works near Old Ivy Road March 12, thanks to an $8.59 million, six-year state grant to the Buckingham Branch Railroad, which leases the CSX...
Snap o' the Day: Free parking
Published on Mar 12th, 2009
15 comments An NBC29 news-gathering vehicle finds a new use for pedestrian space on the Downtown Mall in this 5:30pm image shot by Kevin Cox. (Can Hook reporters start parking this way?)
Snap o' the Day: Workers on the Landmark
Published on Mar 11th, 2009
6 comments  Workers were on the top of the Landmark Hotel this morning, but according to a Clancy & Theys Construction Company official it was only to secure the site. As recent reports suggest, the...
Snap o' the night: Full moon with weird tail
Published on Mar 11th, 2009
0 comments The Hook caught the moon in western Albemarle last night pretending it was a comet– as the result of some dubious camera work.
Snap o' the Day: Mall protest
Published on Mar 10th, 2009
3 comments In an apparent protest of the waves of dust wafting across the Downtown Mall as workers cut bricks, a prankster has placed a breathing mask on the face of a human sculpture near Miller's restaurant...
Snap o' the Day: golfin' time
Published on Mar 9th, 2009
1 comments Saturday, March 7, with its calm breezes and above-70-degree temperatures, brought out dozens of golfers to the City's McIntire Park golf course. A day-earlier article in the Progress suggests that...
Snap o' the Day: thrifty toilet
Published on Mar 8th, 2009
8 comments Besides exotic food, including its signature chicken pastry, Al Hamraa, the recently-opened Moroccan restaurant in the Ix building, has something few, if any, other restaurants offer: a dual-flush...
Snap o' the Day: Pothole fillin' at Amtrak
Published on Mar 6th, 2009
3 comments "All we're doing is filling potholes and grading," says real estate broker Charlie Kabbash of this heavy machine-powered activity, seen here around 9am March 6, at the oft-dusty Amtrak station...
Snap o' the Day: Cancer hospital rises
Published on Mar 5th, 2009
0 comments The skeleton of the new Emily Couric Cancer Center rises, as seen in this view from the sixth floor of Jordan Hall and shot by Kevin Cox.
Snap o' the Day: Lady Liberty tax
Published on Mar 4th, 2009
1 comments How do you know tax time is approaching? Lady Liberty waves to you on your way to work! Plugged into her Ipod, Christina Scott waves to traffic along Long Street (Route 250) this morning, promoting...
Snap o' the Day: Drippy snowman
Published on Mar 4th, 2009
1 comments A snowman outside the downtown restaurant Fellini's #9 gathers a patina, as seen here Wednesday morning, two days after a school-halting snowfall. (Charlottesville and Albemarle publics are both...
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