July 11th, 2013 issue #1228
July 11th, 2013
Silent Grace
By Carolyn O'Neal My cousins are beautiful. Dark eyes, shiny black hair, and cheeks as full as the sunset. When I look at their photographs, I pretend I’m looking in a mirror. I pretend I have a face that people want to see and a body that will fit into white dresses with pink ribbons and matching shoes. I run my fingers across the images of my beautiful cousins and I don’t feel like I’m living at the bottom of a well where every sound echoes off barren walls, cuts my skin, and hurts my ears.read moreStarfire
By Daniel Seth Kislekread moreSummer reading: Runners up in the Hook's short story contest
A young girl suffers consequences from life near the tar sands in Alberta, Cananda, the point of origin for the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline. A young man finds a way to help his dying brother reach for the stars. These poignant tales are the Hook's second- and third-place short story contest winners, as chosen by contest judge and best-selling author John Grisham.read more
4Better Or Worse
The week in review
Least surprising aftermath of the June 26 SCOTUS gay marriage ruling: The ACLU of Virginia says it will file a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Virginia...
The Dish
Crack-enade: Gourmet spread could be habit-forming
Warning: The product described below could be highly addictive. Dish was hooked from the first taste of Joan Maute's parmesan tapenade at the Crozet Farmers Market and imme...
Real Estate - $old
Real Estate Property auctions
Property auctions
July 11 at 2:15pm at Albemarle Courthouse Property: 1225 Orchard Drive, Crozet Debtor: Kevin Andrew Waggett Robinson Original amount owing: $141,500 Bidder brings: ...
Movie Reviews
Oh no, Silver: Stay away from 'Lone Ranger'
By Richard Roeper In the unholy mess that is The Lone Ranger, we finally have a movie that combines the slapstick antics of a live-action Road Runner cartoon with...
Contents
Table of contents
COVERSummer readingA young girl born and raised near the tar pits of Alberta, Canada, suffers as a result and a man finds a way to help his dying brother see the stars. Her...
News
14th Street bridge eats another truck
Related stuck trucks Another stuck truck at the 14th Street bridge Snap o' the day: Stuck truck o' the day Truck wedged under Corner bridgeA nation of immigrants: Dave Matthews speaks at Monticello
Like ants marching, hundreds suffered slow and crowded shuttle rides up and down Monticello mountain to attend the 51st Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Cere...Botch-athon: Legislators question ABC procedures
Two weeks after felony charges were dropped against a sparkling-water-buying 20-year-old, who was totally wigged out when a phalanx of seven plainclothes Virginia Alcoholic...Dave Matthews at Monticello
Musician Dave Matthews, sitting beside the president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Leslie Greene Bowman, was the speaker at the annual Monticello Independence Day Cel...Kroger takes Teeter: Merger announced
Charlottesville is a hot grocery market, and according to Food World magazine, Kroger is the grocery alpha dog in the competitive local pack. Apparently, the top dog is hun...Stand down: Mysterious threat shuts farm market
There's one less place to buy locally grown organic beef, pork, poultry and produce. In a cryptic Facebook post and email to their customers on the morning of July 3, the o...Letters
Cop questions ABC op at Harris Teeter
Just wanted to thank you for the article ["Terror at Harris Teeter: Indignation rises over ABC underage drinking op"]. I read the story with special interest because I reti...
Black and White
Amphibian
The true frogs have moist, smooth skin with or without a ridge (dorsolateral fold) extending from the ear drum (tympanum) along the side of the back to the hip or groin a...
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