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Brennan's 223: County planner turns historic image-finder
Published on Mar 14th, 2012
0 comments At 34, historical preservationist and UVA grad Eryn Brennan knows Charlottesville almost as intimately as a decades-long resident. As co-author of Images of America: Charlottesville, Brennan’s...
eSuccess: How Jenny Gardiner bypassed the publishers
Published on Mar 14th, 2012
0 comments When we wrote about Jenny Gardiner back in 2008, she'd just published her first book, Sleeping with Ward Cleaver, a chick-lit title that she marketed like mad. For all her efforts, and despite a pair...
Bar talk: Happily-divorced relationship cartoonist tells all
Published on Mar 14th, 2012
0 comments In the middle of a phone interview, Nick Galifianakis suddenly tells a reporter to hold on, and he starts speaking in Greek— to his mom, who's visiting from Greece. Family is ever-present with this...
Best o' the book fest: May we suggest...?
Published on Mar 13th, 2012
1 comments 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...
Convicted Huguely: What's next for 'Georgie'?
Published on Feb 28th, 2012
106 comments 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 *** •...
Missing Huguelys: And other damaging would-be witnesses
Published on Feb 24th, 2012
47 comments Recent stories • Huguely convicted: Jury gives him 26 years in killing • Final day? Huguely arrives for judgment • The charges: What Huguely's jury must decide • Closing arguments: Intent and...
Huguely convicted: Jury gives him 26 years in killing
Published on Feb 22nd, 2012
428 comments Recent stories • Final day? Huguely arrives for judgment • The charges: What Huguely's jury must decide • Closing arguments: Intent and malice debated in Love's death *** • Countdown to death: An...
The charges: What Huguely's jury must decide
Published on Feb 20th, 2012
113 comments George Wesley Huguely V faces six charges in the death of Yeardley Love, including first-degree murder and its possible life sentence. The verdict will be determined after this issue of the Hook goes...
Closing arguments: Intent and malice debated in Love's death
Published on Feb 18th, 2012
120 comments 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...
Not blunt force: Defense continues theme, as email angers judge
Published on Feb 18th, 2012
68 comments Later on Saturday: • Closing arguments: Intent and malice debated in Love's death More Huguely stories: • Friday defense: Former high-schoolers tell of Love purse-smacking Huguely • Chasing Any:...
Friday defense: Former high-schoolers tell of Love purse-smacking Huguely
Published on Feb 17th, 2012
159 comments More Huguely stories • Chasing Any: Three women rebuff Huguely meet-ups • Forensic litany: Lots of exhibits, less DNA evidence • Tuesday testimony: Huguely jurors get lesson in brain bleeding •...
Not trauma: Brain doc says CPR did the damage
Published on Feb 15th, 2012
28 comments More Huguely stories • Chasing any: Three women rebuff Huguely meet-ups • Forensic litany: Lots of exhibits, less DNA evidence • Tuesday testimony: Huguely jurors get lesson in brain bleeding •...
Chasing Any: Three women rebuff Huguely meet-ups; five laxers smash planned alibi
Published on Feb 15th, 2012
164 comments More Huguely stories • Forensic litany: Lots of exhibits, less DNA evidence • Tuesday testimony: Huguely jurors get lesson in brain bleeding • Brutal force? Love's injuries conjure visions of...
Follow the Huguely case online too
Published on Feb 15th, 2012
0 comments Some fresh Huguely stories • Forensic litany: Lots of exhibits, less DNA evidence • Tuesday testimony: Huguely jurors get lesson in brain bleeding • Brutal force? Love's injuries conjure visions of...
Forensic litany: Lots of exhibits, less DNA evidence
Published on Feb 14th, 2012
38 comments More Huguely stories • Tuesday testimony: Huguely jurors get lesson in brain bleeding • Brutal force? Love's injuries conjure visions of strangulation, smothering • Bombshells away: Huguely...
Tuesday testimony: Huguely jurors get lesson in brain bleeding
Published on Feb 14th, 2012
83 comments Day Five Tuesday, February 14 Jurors became students Tuesday morning as Medical College of Virginia-based brain doctor Christine Fuller testified about the various cuts and blood she found in the...
Brutal force? Love's injuries conjure visions of strangulation, smothering
Published on Feb 13th, 2012
50 comments Day Four Monday, February 13 - PM From a hemorrhage in her neck suggestive of strangulation to facial injuries consistent with smothering to signs of blunt force trauma on nearly every part of her...
Countdown to death: An action timeline of George Huguely V
Published on Feb 12th, 2012
47 comments Huguely suited up for lacrosse action. Fall 2006 - Having excelled as both a lacrosse player (and as the starting football quarterback) at the Landon School, Huguely enrolls in the University of...
Huguely: 'How the f*** is she dead?'
Published on Feb 10th, 2012
131 comments Day Three Friday, February 10 A police interrogation videotape began with a groggy George W. Huguely V recounting copious amounts of alcohol he began consuming that fateful Sunday morning and...
Off steroids? Slimmer Huguely prompts chem speculation
Published on Feb 10th, 2012
77 comments The dramatically different look of the on-trial George Huguely could stem from a lack of steroids behind bars, says Hook legal analyst David Heilberg, who cautions that his theory about the...
'Out of control': Witnesses say Huguely's drinking escalated
Published on Feb 9th, 2012
64 comments   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...
Tough morning: Photos bring tears at Huguely trial
Published on Feb 9th, 2012
12 comments Day Two Thursday, February 9 - morning Jurors responded stoically as they got their first painful glimpse of a deceased Yeardley Love on Thursday morning, as the prosecution in the trial of accused...
Analyst says: Huguely still heading for a conviction
Published on Feb 9th, 2012
37 comments 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...
Hook turns 10: A decade of digging
Published on Feb 9th, 2012
7 comments The tale of the Hook's sudden founding ten years ago has oft been told, so I won't rehash it here. What I will repeat are a few exciting highlights. My personal favorite is the fact that the first...
Crib death? Defense insists Huguely merely 'contributed'
Published on Feb 8th, 2012
54 comments After getting taunted as a less-talented sex partner than a rival lacrosse player, George W. Huguely V sent on-again/off-again girlfriend Yeardley Love an email that he may live to regret: "I should...
Big scrap: Artists fight for their right to pick
Published on Feb 6th, 2012
7 comments 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...
Bloody Sunday? Repeal of hunting ban thrills-- and chills
Published on Jan 31st, 2012
55 comments 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...
Life behind bars: it's more than just pouring drinks
Published on Jan 25th, 2012
23 comments 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? Well, many...
Final days: Emails show VQR's 'awkward workplace scenario'
Published on Jan 20th, 2012
21 comments "At this point, frankly, I feel I have little protection offered by the University, and I see little or no evidence of any oversight of Ted [Genoways] by the University." – Kevin Morrissey in...
Meadow Creek Parkway: Rubber hits road
Published on Jan 12th, 2012
18 comments 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...