http://www.readthehook.com/music Music News and Events for Charlottesville, Virginia Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:07:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In a first for a key official in Albemarle, Supervisor-elect Rodney Thomas--- who refused to sign a campaign-time pledge to support the controversial $200 million water plan propounded by the Nature Conservancy--- indicated on Coy Barefoot's WINA radio show Friday that he's willing to modify or kill the plan due ... http://www.readthehook.com/music/index.php/supe-elect-thomas-eyes-water-plan-for-ax/ The new faces of the GOP on the Albemarle Board of Supervisors are area old-timers Duane Snow and Rodney Thomas. PHOTOS BY WILL WALKER Four years ago, Creigh Deeds lost a statewide race to Bob McDonnell by one of the smallest margins-- 360 votes-- in recent history. In glaring contrast, his 18-point ... http://www.readthehook.com/music/index.php/republican-resurrection-margin-stuns-dems-and-the-gop/ The downtown Bodo's has recently joined Charlottesville Radio Group as a business embracing the no-water urinal from Sloan, as this photo of the overhauled men's room indicates. Perhaps this kind of move bears some responsibility for low water sales by the Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority (though the chair ... http://www.readthehook.com/music/index.php/snap-water-saving-at-bodos/ Ponzi-schemer John M. Donnelly will serve seven and a half years for running a Ponzi scheme. FILE FAMILY PHOTO John M. Donnelly walked out of federal court Friday morning a free man--- but not for much longer. The  man who pleaded guilty last spring to running a decade-long multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme from ... http://www.readthehook.com/music/index.php/donnelly-sentenced-ponzi-schemer-john-donnelly-gets-7-12-years/ Beta Bridge, swathed in pink and gold paint, welcomes filmmaker John Waters, who brings his sold-out "This Filthy World" one-man show to Culbreth at 4pm today. Other Waters' works on tap at this year's Virginia Film Fest: Hairspray screens at 7pm and Pink Flamingos at 10pm, both at Newcomb Hall. ... http://www.readthehook.com/music/index.php/snap-o-the-day-pretty-in-pink/ Famed author Earl Hamner Jr. joins cast members of The Homecoming, the dramatic holiday tale whose 1971 television version launched the long-running and still syndicated show The Waltons. Hamner, whose tv writing includes several classic episodes of The Twilight Zone, gave a reading Thursday night, November 5, at the named-for-him ... http://www.readthehook.com/music/index.php/playwright-launches-gets-homecoming/ Untitled image by Hilary Wilder. I don't want to hear anybody say, "I'm bored—there's nothing to do," this Friday because from where I stand (or sit) there is way, way too much to do. Having First Friday coincide with the Virginia Film Festival means a veritable cornucopia of visual pleasures for ... http://www.readthehook.com/music/index.php/first-friday-timeout-from-the-film-festival-edition/ A major search effort to find Morgan Harrington launches Friday morning, November 6, and continues through the weekend. PHOTO FROM STATE POLICE The Jefferson Room at the Cavalier Inn at the corner of Emmet Street and Ivy Road was filled to capacity tonight--- and then some---  as hundreds of Charlottesville residents and ... http://www.readthehook.com/music/index.php/hundreds-turn-out-for-harrington-search/ Your county supervisors--- a group that includes a financial planner--- could use a clue about financial planning, as this report of an ever-widening deficit appears to demonstrate. http://www.readthehook.com/music/index.php/doh/ Among the items allegedly purloined September 22 from Antiquer's Mall in Ruckersville that led to the arrest of Raymond J. Devere-Austin, the Baron of Delvin, are cast-iron statues of Humpty Dumpty, a dog and a horsehead, according to the felony warrant. Devere-Austin, 76, a writer, actor and stuntman, also directed ... http://www.readthehook.com/music/index.php/humpty-dumpty-listed-in-barons-arrest-warrant/