On August 21, 2004, a resident of Friendship Court called the police for assistance in a domestic dispute. When the officers arrived on the scene, the suspect, Kerry Cook, though unarmed, resisted arrest. The subsequent scuffle ended when one of the cops shot Cook, a 31-year-old African-American man, once in the stomach—resulting in a coma […]
On August 21, 2004, a resident of Friendship Court called the police for assistance in a domestic dispute. When the officers arrived on the scene, the suspect, Kerry Cook, though unarmed, resisted arrest. The subsequent scuffle ended when one of the cops shot Cook, a 31-year-old African-American man, once in the stomach—resulting in a coma […]
Dear Ace: I know gambling is illegal in Virginia. Is online gambling O.K.? —Tex S. Holdem Tex: Kenny Rogers’ rotisserie chicken chain may have gone belly-up, but his wisdom springs eternal: You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away and know when to run. But […]
Rent eats up our paychecks on the first of the month. The price of gas is still through the roof. Insurance costs an arm and a leg, and, let’s be honest— work sucks.
words Eclectic, heterogeneous, multifarious—spiffy words that, either by themselves or lined up like cherries on a slot machine, can’t truly capture the range of material in any given issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review. Trying to absorb it all seems to produce a mass of tiny bubbles in the brain, and the only way to […]
stage The collegiate cast of Hair—and most of the audience on opening night last week—could be forgiven for thinking the recurring song “Manchester” was an homage to the birthplace of the Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays. For though the musical is 40 years old, under Thadd McQuade’s direction it seems to be located nowhere […]
music In high school, I played the Tokyo Rose basement for my one and only time as the bassist for Moments Without. That band now goes by the name Worn in Red, and on Friday night I saw their show at the renovated Tokyo Rose. The Rose basement is a much different place than when […]
Steve Ferguson was born to be a game warden. His father was a game warden, his uncle still is. When he was in the sixth grade,
The kids had plans with friends at Chris Greene Lake, so last August 19 their parents, Colin and Virginia Glasgow, packed them into the family’s blue Toyota van and headed out from their home in Crozet. The plan: drop the kids (a son and daughter) and Virginia at the lake while Colin, unemployed, would continue […]
The adoptive mother of a 15-year-old boy was convicted April 18 of felony child endangerment for withholding HIV medication from the teen. County police were contacted by social services in February 2006. The case ended in a hung jury last November when defense attorneys argued the teen could have been lying to escape a strict […]
The last four films to screen at Carmike Cinema on Friday, April 20, all began at approximately 10pm. The longest of the bunch at 104 minutes, Disturbia—a blend of teen horror and Hitchcock’s voyeuristic Rear Window—most likely finished before midnight. At roughly 1am on Saturday morning, someone had their eyes trained on Carmike Cinema: The […]