Jon Stewart thinks Goode talks funny
May 23rd 4:43pm
by lindsay
Congressman Virgil Goode (R-Rocky Mount) got himself into a bit of national
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Inspired by Grisham, UVA grad walks to DC
May 23rd 3:19pm
by Dave McNair
In addition to inspiring local fiction writers recently, local author John Grisham has inspired one local anti-war activist to begin a 5-day walk tomorrow from the Rotunda to the White House in protest against the Iraq War.
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Swindlers list: Student loses $3,500
May 23rd 2:34pm
by Lisa Provence
A classic classified scam is back, and a rising third-year UVA student trying to sublet an apartment on craigslist was bilked out of $3,500 over the weekend.
The playbook was standard: The student received a response from someone purporting to be from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, [warning sign #1] wanting to rent
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HookCast for May 24, 2007
May 23rd 10:43am
by lindsay
Murder in the Park, The Queen's guide to summer, Racist parking regs?
ON THIS WEEK�S COVER:
Murder in the Park: Rice release revives memories
In the second of a two-part series on unsolved local murders, Barbara Nordin examines the events surrounding the 1996 deaths of Lollie Winans and Julie Williams in the Shenandoah National Park and the government's now-withdrawn case against Darre
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City, Capshaw make Coal Tower trail
May 22nd 6:36am
by Hawes Spencer
The City announced last night that it will create a new pedestrian trail linking the Downtown Mall to Carlton Avenue near the Woolen Mills area of the City, via the developing "coal tower" property owned by music mogul Coran Capshaw.
The announcement indicates that the so-called Coal Tower Trail will run from the East End of the Mall near the Lexis-Nexis building near the CSX/Buckingham Branch railroad tracks passi
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UVA to demo 23 buildings at Blue Ridge Hospital
May 21st 5:44pm
by Dave McNair
For almost 30 years, the crumbling Blue Ridge Tuberculosis Sanatorium along Route 20 South has been in the shadow of the wrecking ball.
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See Dave for $15,000 per ticket
May 18th 5:31pm
by lindsay
Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds will put on a special, intimate show on Saturday, July 28 on Long Island, part of a special five-concert series called "The East Hampton Social," featuring not only this dynamic duo, but also Prince (July 14),
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Silent but deadly
May 18th 4:00pm
by Courteney Stuart
What's big, blue, genderless, mute, and quite possibly a little bit stinky? Give up? It's Charlottesville's new "gascot," who's helping the gas distribution office of the city's utilities department teach kids gas safety.
Today the still-unnamed creature (seen here with city spokesperson Ric Barrick) wandered Downtown waving to passersby.
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Mall gets menagerie?
May 18th 1:52pm
by Courteney Stuart
For nearly 14 years, a small specialty shop at the east end of the Downtown Mall has kept cat lovers purring with all manner of goods with feline themes. Now fans of two other species have a reason to woof and whinny.
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Hook columnist considers run for Council
May 18th 1:44pm
by Lisa Provence
The Squeaky Wheel may eventually have to go on hiatus, but the City Council race just got more interesting with the entry of transportation activist Peter Kleeman, who is collecting signatures to get on the November ballot as an independent, Charlottesvill
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Ad winners cuddle their ‘Emmas’
May 17th 2:58pm
by Lisa Provence
"We'll treat this like Vegas– what happens here, stays here," said WINA program director Jay James last night at the Glenmore Country Club. Yeah, right.
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HookCast for May 17, 2007
May 17th 2:19pm
by lindsay
Rt. 29 murder unsolved 11 years later, Dueling shelter mags, Dems pick candidates
ON THIS WEEK�S COVER:
Cold case? Alicia Showalter Reynolds and the fall and rise of Darrell Rice
After serving time for an attack in Shenandoah National Park, Darrell Rice is about to be free again.
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Beta Bridge painters preserve Tech condolence
May 17th 12:09pm
by Lucie
Recent Beta Bridge passersby may have been startled to see that one side of Charlottesville's most mutable public billboard seems to be restored to its original brick.
No paint was stripped for this job, however.
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Whitehead no fan of Falwell’s church-state brew
May 16th 5:28pm
by Hawes Spencer
While lauding the personable and prankster sides of fundamentalist preacher Jerry Falwell, who died yesterday in Lynchburg, freedom fighter John W.
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Big names added to Pavilion’s season
May 16th 4:31pm
by lindsay
To borrow from Casey Kasem, the hits just keep on coming for the Charlottesville Pavilion this summer.
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Clear channel: WNRN gets new sound
May 16th 3:47pm
by Lisa Provence
Going up: WNRN's new antenna rises to the occasion via the crane on the right.
PHOTO BY JON HALL
Regular listeners to WNRN may have noticed over the past month that the modern rock
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French Fry-powered bus rolls in
May 16th 2:42pm
$10,000 reward for St. Anne’s letter writer
May 15th 4:27pm
by Lisa Provence
Katharine Almy, the local woman who sued John Grisham and his St. Anne's-Belfield colleagues for emotional distress, announced today that she is now offering a $10,000 reward for evidence leading to the identity of the letter writer whose missives stirred up millions of dollars in legal fees and years of litigation.
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Mem Gym pool drained for the last time
May 15th 4:00pm
by Dave McNair
After 82 years, the Memorial Gymnasium Pool at UVA was permenantly closed on May 2. According to Intramural-Recreational Sports spokesperson Carol Spry, the pool's basic systems were extremely outdated, and so the decision was made to convert the space into a sport court for indoor hockey, soccer, fencing and other activities.
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Bold City slogan retired
May 15th 1:54pm
by Dave McNair
For three years now, ever since Frommer's ranked Charlottesville the #1 place to live in America, the City has sported the slogan: City of Charlottesville: The Best Place to Live in America."
However, it what might qualify as a
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Urge to merge!
May 15th 1:45pm
by Courteney Stuart
A year and a half after four Planned Parenthood of the Blue Ridge board members resigned, citing "eroding" community support, "deteriorating" leadership, and "dysfunctional programs," things are looking up for the organization.
On Monday, May 14, Planned Parenthood of the Blue Ridge
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Cox lays down his toilet brush
May 9th 4:53pm
by Dave McNair
After making Constitutional history by being the first person to defend the First Amendment with a toilet brush, Charlottesville resident Kevin Cox is calling it quits.
"I'm not touching it again," says Cox of the Downtown Mall's Free Speech wall.
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Lennon and Yoko Liked Charlottesville!
May 9th 1:42pm
by Courteney Stuart
When a delusional fan shot and killed John Lennon outside his home in New York in 1980, his family lost a father and husband; the world lost a visionary.
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Driver charged, no fish-kill in Afton milk spill
May 9th 12:39pm
by Lucie
The driver of yesterday's spilled milk truck, Dwayne K. Kahle, has been charged with reckless driving and failure to maintain a logbook, according to Albemarle Police Sergeant Glenn Fink.
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Hookcast for May 10, 2007
May 9th 10:59am
by Courteney Stuart
Festival of the Photo, John and Yoko in Charlottesville, Delighted Dems
ON THIS WEEK�S COVER:
Picture this!: Festival of the photograph comes into focus
Internationally renowned photographer Nick Nichols has documented some of the most remote areas the world but in early June, his sights will be set squarely on Charlottesville as he launches Look3: Fest
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Another milk spill soaks Afton
May 8th 6:18pm
by Lucie
For the second time in three months, a refrigerated truck has spilled its milk near Afton. Today's wreck occurred around 8am when the tanker overturned at the intersection of Critzer's Shop Road (Rt. 151) and Rt. 250.
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Another WAHS employee arrested
May 4th 4:27pm
by Lisa Provence
A tipsy 15-year-old girl at Western Albemarle High Tuesday led to the arrest of JV softball coach Alisha D. Stewart, 24, of Faber.
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New park, new name… new future for City trails?
May 3rd 6:21pm
by Dave McNair
In January, the City Parks & Rec department ran a contest of sorts, seeking possible names for a new park/trail on an island of land between the Skate Park on McIntire Road and the Recycling Center.
Last Friday, as part of an Arbor Day celebration, Mayor David Brown planted a tree on the site and finally unveiled th
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Deadly pennies?
May 3rd 2:53pm
by Courteney Stuart
In 2001, UVA physics professor Louis Bloomfield made national headlines for catching cheaters. Six years later, Bloomfield is making headlines for catching something else: pennies.
Bloomfield, author of the 2006 book
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Allen invests in Charlottesville– again
May 3rd 10:46am
by Lisa Provence
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FILE PHOTO BY LAUREN BROOKS
Microsoft co-founder/billionaire Paul Allen lost $60 million the first time he put money in a Charlottesville-based company.
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HookCast for May 3, 2007
May 2nd 5:35pm
by lindsay
P. Buckley Moss, UVA gun arrests, Appalachian Law hero speaks out on Tech
ON THIS WEEK�S COVER:
Horsing around: P. Buckley Moss and not-folk art
P. Buckley Moss is a true Virginia superstar, and although her work will probably never hang in swank local galleries, that doesn't bother her (or her legions of fans) one bit.
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Sanjaya and other ‘Idols’ coming to JPJ
May 2nd 5:20pm
by Lucie
The American Idols Live tour will perform at Charlottesville's John Paul Jones Arena, according to an announcement on the venue's website this afternoon.
The tour, which arrives in Charlottesville on September 16th, will comprise the top ten finalists from this season's hugel
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Year later: talks stalled in courthouse collapse
May 1st 2:49pm
by Dave McNair
It's been over a year since the northeast corner of the old Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court building collapsed during a $13.5 million renovation, but as passers-by have noticed, little has changed.
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Woolen Mills dam could be history by summer
May 1st 12:27pm
by Lisa Provence
A request for bids brings the historic Woolen Mills dam closer to coming down– partially– before the hundreds of thousands of shad fry released in 2006 head back to the Rivanna River to spawn, if a request for proposals bears fruit.
Meanwhile, another 600,000 fry were sent on their way to the Atlantic yesterday, April 30, perhaps joining up with t
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VT fallout? One broken B.B. gun = four arrests
Apr 27th 5:34pm
by Courteney Stuart
Not since a class full of architecture mystery writing students allegedly trespassed at an abandoned hospital has a UVA class assignment resulted in as much trouble as this one.
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Carlisle canned: NBA Pacers oust Wahoo
Apr 26th 11:46am
by lindsay
After four years at the helm, the Indiana Pacers fired former UVA basketball standout Rick Carlisle after a four-year tenure as head coach.
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School Board chair handpicks successor
Apr 25th 5:11pm
by Lisa Provence
Albemarle School Board Chair Sue Bell Friedman announced today she would not run for a second term representing the sprawling Rivanna District and endorsed Darden HR administrator Ronnie J. Price Sr.
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Couric: still America’s sweetheart?
Apr 25th 4:58pm
by sgilliam
First, she was expected to step into the shoes of Dan Rather and single-handedly stem the slide in evening news ratings. Now, in the wake of a backlash over her interview with presidential nominee John Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, a story claims Katie Couric has enemies in her own newsroom.
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HookCast for April 26, 2007
Apr 25th 3:27pm
by Hawes Spencer
Moving forward, driver down, alleged bomb boy returns
FROM THE NEWSROOM OF THE HOOK NEWSPAPER ON THE DOWNTOWN MALL IN CHARLOTTESVILLE VIRGINIA, THIS IS THE HOOKCAST FOR THE WEEK OF...
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Surprise, surprise: Mayor Brown seeks reelection
Apr 25th 12:52pm
by Courteney Stuart
He may be a chiropractor, but Mayor David Brown isn't backing out of politics. As first reported here yesterday, he is seeking another four-year term on City Council.
Brown formally announced his intention to seek a second term this morning at a press conference outside City Hall.
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