The Hook: Booze in the blender - Jimmy Buffett rocks Charlottesville

"The ginormous parking lots around the Arena were plastered with a special brand of tailgaters: guys in hula skirts and coconut bras, girls with shark pasties. Many sporting parrot, crab, and shark hats and some in shark and pirate costumes, all downing flagons of Caribbean-pastel margaritas mixed to the tunes of Jimmy and whining 12-volt blenders."

Good write-up of the Buffett show in Cville:

http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/19/booze-in-the-blender-jimmy-buffett-rocks-charlottesvill/

CNN: America's cool college towns

"The music scene was fertile here B.D.M.B -- that is, before the Dave Matthews Band, which formed in Charlottesville in the early 1990s."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/11/02/college.towns/