Washington City Paper: Contents for May. 3

King Me
For 22 years of blood, sweat, and sacrifice, John Roswell Miller has been minding his manor at Bull Run Castle.

Cover Story

For 22 years of blood, sweat, and sacrifice, John Roswell Miller has been minding his manor at Bull Run Castle.

Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

Smoking is forbidden in John Roswell Miller's castle. That's the No. 1 rule here. The 73-year-old Army vet didn't lay brick after brick, lift and set hundreds of unwieldy wooden beams, and gather thousands of antiques just so his medieval manor could stink like an ashtray. No, this honest-to-God castle should smell like Camelot.

Miller has spent 22 years putting together this peculiar Virginia palace, transforming 14 acres of Loudoun County cornfield into a 6,800-square-foot, four-story fortress featuring 22 rooms, 81 doors, and 89 windows--not to mention the Tower of Love and its 27 cupids. And he might spend the next 22 years trying to finish it, too--that is, if he truly wants to finish it. Miller's working man's hands give him the right to rule as he pleases. His law is the only law. Even his wife was forced to go outside to enjoy a cigarette--that is, before she left him. ... Continued

Issue of May. 3 - 9, 2002

News and Features

King Me
For 22 years of blood, sweat, and sacrifice, John Roswell Miller has been minding his manor at Bull Run Castle.
Cover Story By Sean Daly
High-Top Fade
Urban chic has ruined the basketball shoe.
Feature By Felix Gillette
Fare Market
Fresh Fields offers a power lunch for D.C.'s cabbies.
The City By Elissa Silverman
Small Change
The Washington Post is bashing its union again.
The City By Erik Wemple
Stair Masters
Metro obstructs a local escalator custom.
The City By Joe Dempsey
Mambo Sauce Sings Songs of Love
The Mail By Kwanee Price
No Shortcuts
The Mail By Karen A. Szulgit
Real Trouble in Paradise
The Mail By Robert Lanza
Criminal Penalties
The Mail By Redford Givens

Columns

Hail and Farewell?
Cheap Seats By Dave McKenna
Shingled Out
City Desk By Felix Gillette
Balancing the Books
City Desk By Joe Dempsey
Flame Thrower
Loose Lips By Elissa Silverman

Eats

Movies

Veiled Threat
Film Review By Mark Jenkins
Old and in the Way
Film Review By Joel E. Siegel
The Latest Picture Show
Talking Pictures By Mark Jenkins
Boys of Summer
Film Review By Arion Berger
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Film Review By Mark Jenkins
Jason X
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

Music

Sonic Boombox
Music Review By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Strange Country
Music Review By Joe Warminsky

Theater

Further Ado
Theater Review By Bob Mondello
Still Waters
Theater Review By Christopher Hawthorne

Arts and Events

Off the Wall
Jake Watling is recasting Georgia Avenue's streetscape.
Arts By Dan Gilgoff
Light Force
Artifacts By Shauna Miller
Prize Fighter
Artifacts By Aimee Agresti