Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'virginiabeach'
February 11, 2008
Photograph of Barack Obama at a rally in Virginia Beach by Rick Bowmer/AP Barack Obama won yesterday's Maine caucus, with about 57-60% of the vote to Hillary Clinton's approximate 40-42%. This makes Obama's fourth win in a row, after sweeping the Democratic contests in Louisiana, Nebraska, and Washington yesterday. About 8 inches of snow fell in Maine, but voters were still lined up outside some doors. Politico's Ben Smith writes:Obama's victory comes despite being......
Continue Reading "Obama Wins Maine, Clinton Changes Campaign Manager"January 9, 2008
Last November, Natavia Lowery's friends and family were screaming her innocence, but recently some pretty damning evidence came out about her relationship with Linda Stein, the woman she is accused of (and confessed to) murdering. Not surprisingly, the ex-Ramones manager and "realtor to the stars" had plenty of cash, but she would have had more if her trusty assistant Ms. Lowery wasn't siphoning funds. The NY Post reports that Lowery was systematically taking money from......
Continue Reading "Lowery Looted Stein's Bank Accounts"November 9, 2007
There's finally been an arrest in the murder of Linda Stein. Yesterday it was reported that the police were interested in re-interviewing Stein's assistant, Brooklyn resident Natavia Lowery, who has a shady past involving identity theft. So it's not all that surprising that today the NYPD announced Lowery has been taken into custody. They found the 26-year old in Virginia Beach, apparently visiting her boyfriend.Police spokesman Paul Browne said Lowery "made statements implicating herself" in......
Continue Reading "Assistant Arrested in Linda Stein Murder Case"October 26, 2006
With Halloween coming next week and the fall chill in the air, this is the perfect weekend to curl up with a good scary movie. The Shining or The Nightmare on Elm Street make for good rentals but if you must see a new release, the third installment in the psycho serial trickster movies, Saw III is out. This time ailing Jigsaw kidnaps a doctor and forces her to tend to him while also trying......
Continue Reading "The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: Babeling edition"August 24, 2004
Bert Sperling, who has been compiling information for almost two decades about the best places in the country, has developed a list of the most difficult cities to navigate. Sperling used Avis's mobile-phone assisted navigation, Avis Assist, and Motorola to figure out where people are most navigationally challenged, using factors like street layouts (grids, diagonals, windiness, one-way streets), congestion, bodies of water, and complexity of directions from city to airport. The top ten most difficult......
Continue Reading "Hard to Navigate Around These Cities"
