April 11th, 2002 issue #0110

April 11th, 2002

4Better Or Worse

  • The week in review

    Best item from St. Anne-Belfield’s auction catalog: A week in Mustique in a five-bedroom villa designed for Britain’s Princess Margaret, including roundtrip private jet...

Essays

Real Estate - On the Block

  • No swinging cats

    If you want to buy a house in Charlottesville on a shoestring budget, there’s really not much out there. Things are so bad that realtors are writing solicitation letters ...

Movie Reviews

Music Reviews

News

  • Closing the door

    Here’s what Greg Smith knows about going into detox for alcohol and cocaine addictions: if an addict is down and out and ready to enter a program, he has a better chance ...

  • Prof presses wine suit

    Daniel Ortiz’s wine-loving friends were having a problem getting their boutique wines in from out-of-state.“You can’t bring it in from California or D.C.— only four...

  • The pied Baker

    In 1998, Tom Baker made a commercial touting Charlottesville’s Guaranty Bank, of which he was president. In a cozy living room setting, Baker said community was as import...

  • Time for dish?

    It hadn’t been a good week for Adelphia Communications.    First, Adelphia Business Solutions, which was just spun off from Adelphia Communications in Janu...

Strange But True

  • Hot on your tail

    Q. I read somewhere once that every human has a “plume,” a sort of invisible trail that follows you. Is this true, and if so, what’s it made of? –Not a peacock ...

Letters

  • No value in greed

    In The Hook No. 1 [February 7, 2002], there was an article about an upcoming book-signing by Craig Winn and others. The book was about the birth, life, and death of Value A...

Cultural preview

  • Better all the time

    Face the facts: men are still working their way out of the cave emotionally. From Adam in the Garden of Eden to Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners to Al Bundy of Married Wit...

  • Cold comfort

    In a free-speech nation (as we want to believe ours is), there are many ways for radical thinkers to make a point. Letters to the editor, calls to dial-in radio or TV shows...

  • Divine orders?

    Lea Ann Douglas has spent more than a year writing and researching her new play, The Neophyte, which opens next weekend at the Helms Theater. An M.F.A. student in UVA’s D...

  • In the middle of Mayberry

    I have a friend from Northern Virginia who teases me about living in the sleepy television town of “Mayberry” where friends and neighbors love to pull up a chair on She...

  • Lean in close

    In lieu of the typically prolix, and not-always-helpful statements of intent which artists like to hang alongside their work, Adam O’Neal substitutes a dictionary definit...

  • Professional rockers

    By Mark Grabowski

  • This old tree

    Former president Ronald Reagan’s uttered one of his more laughable statements on the campaign trail in 1980. Obviously not much of a nature man despite all those pix of h...

Full Stories List for April 11th, 2002 issue #0110

4Better Or Worse

News

Cultural preview

Real Estate - On the Block

Cover Stories

Restaurant Reviews

Essays

The Fearless Consumer

Letters

Movie Reviews

Music Reviews

Photophile

Strange But True