http://www.readthehook.com/kids Charlottesville Kids and Family community site and Event Calendar Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:52:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ... for most surprising traffic ticket. In Charlottesville, the police chief continues to defend ticketing the wheelchair-riding citizen struck in a crosswalk, while Boston tickets a driver rushing his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth. http://www.readthehook.com/kids/index.php/boston-competes-with-cville/ Jeremy Settle makes his last Charlottesville broadcast. Newsplex news director/VP Jeremy Settle, who moved to Charlottesville four years ago to work with the upstart WCAV and start news programs on WVAW and WAHU, has moved back to the Washington, DC, area from whence he came. Thanksgiving Eve was Settle's final night as ... http://www.readthehook.com/kids/index.php/settle-signs-off-of-newsplex/ If you're feeling hungry, Dish has a couple of news items you might be interested in. First off, Juanita "Winky" Hunt, who revived Big Jim's on Angus Road and re-named it Winky's, tells us that they are now serving the original Big Jim's BBQ. As was previously reported, Brent Lunnen, ... http://www.readthehook.com/kids/index.php/winks-has-original-big-jim-bbq-fellinis-now-has-lunch/ Their Eyes Were Watching God. Promotional Photo Teens can start their film making career and promote this spring’s Big Read in Jefferson-Madison Regional Library’s YouTube Contest. Make a video that encourages people in our community to take part in The Big Read by reading “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora ... http://www.readthehook.com/kids/index.php/youtube-contest-for-teens/ Commenting online about Edible Communities Inc's lawsuit against Flavor Magazine, in which the corporate food mag went after the local food mag for copyright infringement, blogger Jenee Libby jokingly wondered when the company would come after her.    "Oh dear, thinking maybe I should change the name of my blog! lol! ;) ... http://www.readthehook.com/kids/index.php/edible-strikes-again-mag-company-goes-after-local-food-blog/ Dish loves a good falafel, that ancient Middle Eastern fried patty or ball made from fava beans or chickpeas, and stuffed into a pita or laid on a bed of lettuce with vegetables--especially eggplant, yum!--and laced with tahini sauce.  But where do you get a good one in town?  Read ... http://www.readthehook.com/kids/index.php/dude-wheres-my-falafel/ Just five months into its fiscal year, which began July 1, Albemarle County faces a $7.2 million deficit and will raise property taxes to compensate, according to the Daily Progress. http://www.readthehook.com/kids/index.php/county-red-ink-hits-72-million/ Sage Moon's Morgan MacKenzie-Perkins remains a downtown booster, even as she shutters her gallery. FILE PHOTO BY BILLY HUNT December's First Friday will be Sage Moon Gallery's last First. The five-year-old art gallery plans to turn in its keys December 15, and its space joins the neighboring empty storefronts on the 400-block ... http://www.readthehook.com/kids/index.php/mall-east-end-loses-another-business/ Harvard University, which, like UVA, uses the so-called "Yale model" of investing its endowment, is now reporting a 22 percent loss, which is more than UVA's alleged 18 percent loss. http://www.readthehook.com/kids/index.php/harvard-tops-uva-loses-22/ Local blogger and Virginia Quarterly Review web guy Waldo Jaquith interviews photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson, whose eye-opening recent article in the VQR "The Life and Lonely Death of Noah Pierce" "tells the story of just one veteran, the 23-year-old Pierce, who took a handgun and shot himself in the head on ... http://www.readthehook.com/kids/index.php/horrors-of-war-jaquith-interviews-photo-journo-ashley-gilbertson/