January 5th, 2006 issue #0501
January 5th, 2006
Between jobs: Is unemployment Warner's ace?
PHOTOS BY JEN FARIELLO JEN@READTHEHOOK.COM In three weeks, Mark Warner will be back on the job market. Not that he'll be in any rush to find something– indeed, it's a safe bet that the Virginia Democrat will be more than willing to bide his time until the right opportunity comes along. Say, in 2008.read moreVirginia squeeze: 'Mother of Presidents' with child?
PHOTOS BY JEN FARIELLO JEN@READTHEHOOK.COM Few people would have pegged Mark Warner for a run at the White House after his much-publicized 2002 failure to convince voters in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads to support local tax increases for regional transportation projects. Count Warner himself among the doubters.read more
4Better Or Worse
The week in review
Most surprising finale to 24-year career: Dem Delegate Mitch Van Yahres faces a Republican-requested investigation into whether he violated a prohibition against raising mo...
The Dish
Madison's Main Street: Inn hopes to be more
Michael Riley says he never dreamed of opening a restaurant. Originally from Indiana, Riley lived and worked in Northern Virginia for 20 years before he and his wife, Susan...
Essays
Space patrol: Keeping the Beloved at arm's length
Can any relationship survive a broken foot? I think not. Love is based fundamentally on one's ability to walk away from the beloved and then return when the beloved has sto...
Question of the Week
Who'll be on the 2008 presidential ticket?
Priya Chalam: "I'll say Hillary Clinton, though I don't know if the country is ready for a female president. I haven't really considered the Republicans. I've given up on ...
Real Estate - $old
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ALBEMARLE 8/25 Hessian Hills LLC to Heather Taffe, unit in Hessian Hills condominiums, 2424 Barracks Place, $133,400. William P. Heron to Harold A. Coffey and Valer...Real Estate - Commercial Construction Permits
Commercial construction permits
ALBEMARLE 11/1-12/1 Endless Summer Aviation LLC, Broadway Court/Building #3 Warehouse Office Building, $300,000. C&L Partners, interior renovations for new offi...Real Estate - On the Block
IMBY: What difference will 11 condos make?
ADDRESS: 329 Parkway NEIGHBORHOOD: North Downtown ASKING: $745,000 CITY ASSESSMENT: $527,600 YEAR BUILT: 1921 SIZE: 3,559 fin. sq. ft., 175 unfin. LAND: 0.16 acres CURB APP...Real Estate - Update
REAL ESTATE UPDATE Still Available
APPEARED IN THE HOOK: July 28 in issue 0430 ADDRESS: 1840 Fendall Avenue ASKING PRICE: $524,900 LISTED BY: Rick Dreher Real Estate III 951-7002 cell 953-8582
Real Estate Property auctions
Property auctions
January 6 at 9am at the Albemarle County Courthouse Property: 402 Camelot Drive, Camelot Debtor: Kathie Ross Amount owing: $136,170 Bidder brings: $10,000 or 10 percent of...
DR. HooK
Sticking point: Insurance backs off vaccinations
Even though customer service is such a difficult job, every business seems to be raising the bar to keep their customers happy and allow their business to thrive. "This is ...
Movie Reviews
Not sheepish: Ledger, Gyllenhaal rise to roles
Brokeback Mountain is one of the year's most romantic films, and the romance happens to be between two men. Apparently Focus Features' focus groups determined that enough g...
Music Reviews
What a year: Preachers, funksters, Dumpsters
Before heading forward into the new year, I wanted to take a look back at some of the more meaningful prowls of 2005. American Dumpster: Lemme see... the lineup went someth...
News
Eyes open: Local man takes technology to <I>ER
Some huge companies compete for the privilege of paying millions of dollars for product placement on hit shows. But for one local company, a hit NBC television show came ca...Little children: Let them revitalize the city
I've been caught up in the daily toil of work and travel, but after a while it finally dawned on me that there is something critical missing in New Orleans– some esse...Nutty killer: Peanut policy perplexes parents
In Mary Esselman's world, a kid eating a peanut butter sandwich on a playground might as well have a "loaded gun" in his hand. Hers is a world where she must be ever-vigila...Retro infection: Toxic shock makes a return
In the late 1970s, before AIDS erupted into a pandemic, genital herpes was the fear-provoking disease. Also briefly notorious at that time: toxic shock syndrome. In 1980, 3...Sad end: Harvey rocked East Coast
The execution-style murder of a Richmond family on New Year's Day shocked not only the capital city but also the rest of Virginia and the music world. Bryan Harvey, slain w...On Architecture
Eye candy: Staunton cures visual blues
One of the guilty pleasures of architecture is simply looking at it. Recent projects like Norman Foster's Hearst Tower in New York City or Bernard Kohn's Meteor subway line...
The Brazen Careerist
A brazen 2006: How to get ahead of the pack
New ideas for career planning that didn't get much play in 2005, but they're good, and we should all keep them in mind for 2006: * Extreme financing. I first saw this phras...
Strange But True
Wheelies: Why no rolling rhinos?
DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR McCLINTOCK Q. Animal engineering: echo-ranging by bats, dams built by beavers, parabolic reflectors of limpets, infrared heat-seeking sensors in s...
Facetime
Scene masters: Perry, Beattie book it back to town
The light fades on a late November afternoon as writer Ann Beattie and her husband, painter Lincoln Perry, relax over a cup of tea. He tucks his legs under him on the livin...
Letters
Binge story is sickening
Thanks, Hook, for your contribution to glorifying binge drinking on college campuses [December 1 cover story: "4th and binge: tradition or insanity"] It was perfectly clear...If the Breedens had ACE...
Despite Supervisor Sally Thomas's defense of the tax subsidy [December 15: "Subsidy? Critics decry Breeden tax break"], the fact is neither she or anyone on the Board or Co...Webcam rocks Iraq
Thanks for the Hook Webcam. My family comes downtown to stand in front of it so I can see them while I'm here in Iraq. Happy Holidays! P.S. The Cam of the Cam is pathetic....
Full Stories List for January 5th, 2006 issue #0501
4Better Or Worse
Blind Date Challenge
Cartoons
Corrections
Cover Stories
Gimme Shelter
Movie Reviews
Music Reviews
News
On Architecture
Question of the Week
Real Estate - $old
Real Estate - Commercial Construction Permits
Real Estate - On the Block
Real Estate - Update
Real Estate Property auctions
Strange But True
The Brazen Careerist
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