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Happy horse: Teaching <I>les etudiants </I>with photos
Published on Nov 25th, 2004
0 comments Karine Nguyen-Tuong has noticed a trend in the children who have come through her French classroom over the past 15 years. "They're so concrete," says the middle-school teacher at St. Anne's Belfield...
Tyler Boles: Outstanding in his fields
Published on Nov 18th, 2004
0 comments "When I was 11, I kind of ran into that brick wall that everyone seems to run into– you know, how to make money at that age..." Michael "Tyler" Boles, now 18, is explaining how he got started...
Breaking up ...Without breaking kids' hearts
Published on Nov 11th, 2004
0 comments If you must get a divorce, you might as well make it a good one. That's the message from Robert E. Emery, whose new book, The Truth About Children and Divorce, is getting national attention. Divorce...
Swanson's song: Sports fiction eases grief
Published on Nov 4th, 2004
0 comments It's the summer before her senior year in high school, and Leah Weicznkowski has just made the regional Olympic development team in the under-18 division soccer. She's blistered, sunburned, tired...
On the fly: Ad man jumps into filming
Published on Oct 28th, 2004
0 comments "I'm sort of water obsessed, I guess," admits Jamie Howard, whose five-year plan includes tarpon fishing, examining the erosion of the Mississippi delta in Louisiana, and studying a massive, stagnant...
Unseparated <I>Woodsman</I>: Will Bacon sizzle as pedophile?
Published on Oct 28th, 2004
0 comments Legend has it that anybody can be connected to Hollywood icon Kevin Bacon within six degrees of separation. Those who knew Nicole Kassell during her days at St. Anne's-Belfield School, however, need...
Blade runners: Williamsons and icy synchronicity
Published on Oct 21st, 2004
0 comments In the business of winter sports, stagnation will land your company in the penalty box– or in the red. Fifty-two-year-old Bruce Williamson and his wife, Roberta, needn't worry about that...
Mosby's mom: Dog's slaying inspires a crusade
Published on Oct 14th, 2004
0 comments The letters and cards and phone calls were a big part of what pulled Carole Adams through. One letter from Maine had been addressed simply to "Mosby's Mom, Staunton, Va." "Somehow, some way, that...
Miss America? Burps can't stop her victory
Published on Oct 7th, 2004
0 comments Even though we all prance around in front of the mirror every once in a while, most of us feel sort of ridiculous doing it. Erika Uhlig, however, has managed to parlay her prances into a thousand...
Do the right coast: Ross scripts a local life
Published on Sep 30th, 2004
0 comments Monty Ross relaxes on the steps of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library downtown, casual in a baseball cap and a t-shirt. He laughs that if he were in Los Angeles, his cap would be more fitted,...
Foodzone: Connor serves meals, not politics
Published on Sep 23rd, 2004
0 comments "It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." Somewhere in that clever bumper sticker, twisted up amid the cupcakes...
Caplin's corner: He's making Venable affordable
Published on Sep 16th, 2004
0 comments Jeremy Caplin might just be the Mother Teresa of Charlottesville real estate. That may seem a bit extreme, but given that local property values appear to be soaring completely out of control, could...
Dr. near-death: Greyson's heart-stopping study
Published on Sep 9th, 2004
0 comments A woman hovers above her own lifeless body, detached and at peace, before moving through a dark tunnel toward a dazzling light. Whether a believer or a skeptic, chances are you recognize the standard...
Confronting taboos: The low-down on the down low
Published on Sep 2nd, 2004
0 comments Last April 16, it was business as usual at Kenneth Coles' Market Street hair salon. While customers waited on the cream leather couch for their turns under Coles' sought-after scissors, they watched...
Reston bound: Little Miss angles for state crown
Published on Aug 26th, 2004
0 comments LeiLani Steddum has her sights set on a national title. If the chips fall in her favor, she'll end up winning a free trip to Disneyland and maybe even land a coveted modeling contract. That's one...
Election nay: Anti-Bush vendor shirts the issue
Published on Aug 19th, 2004
0 comments "Damn straight, buddy!" says a voice from across the Downtown Mall. Mac Schrader's ears perk up, and he smiles, greeting the approaching pedestrian as both a political comrade and a potential sale. "...
Horsey set... To win some in Athens?
Published on Aug 12th, 2004
0 comments Charlottesville has an Olympian. His name is Winsome Adante, and he's 11 years old. He can jump four feet off the ground and can hit speeds of over 22 miles per hour, and thus has hoofed it to Athens...
No whimpers: Rubin orchestrates Phish exit
Published on Aug 12th, 2004
0 comments The revolution will not be televised. It will, however, be broadcast live over XM satellite radio to over 2.1 million subscribers. August 15 will mark the end of an era, and Nick Rubin gets to write...
Must-seed TV: Frischkorn + Rainey = flower power
Published on Jul 29th, 2004
0 comments Every time you turn on the TV, something new has sprouted. From BBC's Ground Force to PBS's The Victory Garden, garden shows are spreading like crabgrass, rife with advice about how to transform your...
Shiny dancer: Gals choose pole power
Published on Jul 29th, 2004
0 comments Their sweat pants, jumpers, and shifts are modest, even ho-hum. But once Joe Cocker's insinuating "You Can Leave Your Hat On," begins throbbing from the overhead speakers, the ladies begin to move,...
High places: Monticello Road's busy summer
Published on Jul 22nd, 2004
0 comments Copies of their debut album This Scripted Show may still be warm from the presses after last year's release, but the boys of Charlottesville-based rock outfit Monticello Road are already back in the...
Power ranger: Parker looks to alternatives
Published on Jul 15th, 2004
0 comments Imagine the offspring of Marilyn Vos Savant and fictional surfer boy Jeff Spicolo. That kid would be, like, totally smart. In fact, that kid might be kind of like Anson Parker, a 26-year-old...
Ramblers man: Jamie Dyer goes way back
Published on Jul 8th, 2004
0 comments Talking to Jamie Dyer is an experience rather akin to being inside a Jose Luis Borges story: You recognize some of the names and places as real, but some of the conversation belongs almost in the...
Good sport: Svetz puts it in Parks
Published on Jul 1st, 2004
0 comments As new director of Charlottesville's newly formed Parks and Recreation Department, Mike Svetz faces a juggling act. Among his diverse goals: to improve the city's recreational programs, to increase...
Consumers' union: Gallik's not on his own
Published on Jun 24th, 2004
0 comments Friday afternoons at the small bright yellow house on Fourth Street are usually a pleasant affair. Most days find people congregating and visiting on the front porch, but on Fridays the house is...
Mountain man: Holden leads store to new heights
Published on Jun 17th, 2004
0 comments If a movie's ever made about a man who's stranded in unforgiving, isolated territory, who's forced to live off the land while fighting off rabid coyotes and insane drifters, but who leaves no doubt...
No gloss: Mommy mag lives to sell
Published on Jun 10th, 2004
0 comments "We didn't set out to be experts at all," Stephanie Wilkinson says. On the contrary, four years ago when Wilkinson and her friend Jennifer Niesslein created a new magazine for mothers, they were...
Pamela's barkery: Snacks go big time
Published on Jun 3rd, 2004
0 comments When Pamela Peterson started making dog treats in her kitchen three and a half years ago, she was simply trying to find a way for her beloved Labrador, Sam, to get his chocolate chip cookie fix...
The gleaners: Hunter's students produce <I>Jewels
Published on May 27th, 2004
0 comments FACETIME- The gleaners: Hunter's students produce Jewels John Hunter started teaching 30 years ago when the field of gifted education was wide open. So wide open, in fact, that his first supervisor...
Sex repeal: Steve Rhoads draws gender lines
Published on May 20th, 2004
0 comments If the term weren't so loaded and the connotation so derogatory, there would be no danger in calling Steven Rhoads a sexist. A political scientist who has spent a decade amassing statistical evidence...