November 24th, 2005 issue #0447

November 24th, 2005

4Better Or Worse

  • The week in review

    Most shocking death: UVA student Michelle E. Collier, 20, is found dead in her city apartment November 18. Authorities report no obvious sign of trauma, and a toxicology re...

The Dish

Essays

  • Say what? What we mean when we talk

    "American women don't wear knickers­ they're not in style." I was standing on a sidewalk in London, outside our apartment, chatting with my English neighbor. Her eyes open...

Question of the Week

  • Where are you going for the holidays?

    Greg Horridge: "Houston for Thanksgiving to see my relatives-in-law." Lela Graham: "Probably somewhere really warm– either Savannah, Georgia or Key West." Jim Cole...

Real Estate - $old

  • $old

    ALBEMARLE 7/28  Joseph P. and Rebecca J. Pannazzo to Kevin J. and Danielle L. Kennedy, 0.058 acres at 4770 Blue Jay Way, Briarwood, $248,000. Bruce A. and Mary C. Wi...

Real Estate - On the Block

  • Look inside: Dull exterior hides gem

    ADDRESS: 217 Ninth Street NW NEIGHBORHOOD: 10th Street/West Main ASKING: $279,900 CITY ASSESSMENT: $109,100 YEAR BUILT: 1925 SIZE: 2201 fin. sq. ft. LAND: 0.15 acres CURB ...

Real Estate - Update

  • Off the Block!

    APPEARED IN THE HOOK: July 7, 2005 in issue 0427 ADDRESS: 1331 Oxford Place ASKING: $259,000 SELLING PRICE: $232,000 CITY ASSESSMENT: $133,800 DAYS TO CONTRACT: 70 SELLER'S...

Real Estate Property auctions

  • Property auctions

    November 30 at 1:15pm at the Fluvanna County Courthouse Property: 74 Laguna Road, Knollwood, Lake Monticello Debtor: Lisa M. Bloxsom and Darrell R. Byers Amount owing: $108...

DR. HooK

  • Let it bleed: Seeing red over blood woes

    Some people faint at the sight of blood, which I don't quite understand because we all bleed– some more than others (especially drama queens). Remember the Saturday N...

Movie Reviews

  • Harry's back: But magic's getting old

    In addition to facing the three tasks of the Triwizard Tournament, the revived Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), and a gossipy tabloid reporter (Miranda Richardson) who keeps...

Music Reviews

News

  • Bitter fruit: Contaminated soil removed

    With streets named Cling, York, and Winesap, Orchard Acres bears witness to Crozet's illustrious peach- and apple-growing history. A less savory reminder of the neighborhoo...

  • Fallujah: One year later, uneasy calm

    FALLUJAH, IRAQ– Mixed emotions are written on Iraqi faces, as Sgt. Mindo Estrella leads a dusty foot patrol of US Marines in Fallujah. Smiles and furtive waves–...

  • FOIA: Richmond bloggers score award

    A conversation about what's wrong with the Richmond music scene evolved into a weblog/watchdog group called Save Richmond– and netted a freedom of information award f...

  • Hard times: Family stories tell the tale

    Normally a Charlottesville-based home inspector, Peter Drenan is on special assignment as a FEMA leader and a Hook stringer. This is the fourth in a series of dispatches fr...

  • Short tort: One less lawsuit in Greene

    Attorney George Dygert has dropped his $750,000 libel suit against Dogwood Valley resident Grant Colby– for now. Dygert non-suited his claim that a letter by Colby ca...

On Architecture

The Brazen Careerist

  • Bad advice: Don't let it stop you

    Entrepreneurship used to be an inclination that festered until a midlife crisis. But the entrepreneurship bug isn't something that hits only in middle age, so why wait that...

Strange But True

  • Up and down: Plankton check out the surface

    DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR McCLINTOCK Q. It was World War II, and the sonar-operating submarine searchers detected a "false bottom" of the sea that rose toward the surface e...

Facetime

Hotseat

  • Designing woman: Katie Swenson's big ideas

    Katie Swenson wanted to be a dancer. She spent six years auditioning (and waitressing) in the Big Apple, where she collaborated with the Blue Man Group and Twyla Tharp's da...

Letters

  • Writer ignored facts

    In response to Judy Coughlin McDavid's letter [November 10: "Peace requires responsibility"] regarding the October 27 story, "Slap happy: Lawsuits bloom in Dogwood Valley,"...

Cultural preview

Uncategorized

  • Let there be light! Norford's vision realized

    If the Perkins are Ruckersville royalty when it comes to holiday lights, then Jeff Norford is their Charlottesville equivalent: he's a driven man, a man with a vision, a ma...

  • Light your way safely

    You have the giant Santa, Rudolph, and 400 strings of lights. But before you go transforming your house into a winter wonderland, take a minute to make sure you set it abla...