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Winter C Magazine: What's in Kelly Cox's purse?

  (Photo by Cramer Photo) Once a therapist for foster kids, 36-year-old Kelly Cox has been practicing yoga since grad school to alleviate the stress of her busy schedule. These days, yoga is her busy schedule. The co-owner of Downtown yoga studio Bend spends her time instructing children, teens and expectant mothers, and serving on […]

Caite Hamilton | November 30, 2011

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Present tense? C-VILLE’s Annual Gift Guide

JUMP TO: • Your greenie neighbors • Your art student sister • Your boyfriend’s fashionable younger sister • Your gay best friend • Your supportive mother • Your tech-geek brother • Your conservative stepdad Mae West once said, “I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.” We share that sentiment, which is why […]

Caite Hamilton | November 22, 2011

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NEW! Fall 2011: Bright’s ideas

It’s 2pm on Sunday afternoon and Jackie Bright is in her Seventh Street office. This isn’t unusual. In fact, for her, it’s downright normal to be working in the off-hours. Effectiveness, she says, doesn’t always happen 9 to 5.   “I really do try to work when I feel inspired. If I can’t focus, then […]

Caite Hamilton | September 8, 2011

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NEW! Fall 2011: Check her bag

A Charlottesvillian born and raised, 39-year-old Andrea Copeland is the Community Resource Coordinator for National College, the founder of local production company Positive Channels and the chairperson for Quadruplicity, an annual conference for professional women balancing career, life, money and health. Needless to say, she’s busy. Here, we take a peek in her purse.—Caite White […]

Caite Hamilton | September 8, 2011

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All hands on deck

It all began with a party. Two summers ago, two of PK Ross’ roommates were celebrating August birthdays and one enlisted her help to decorate for the party. They hung strings of lights under the eaves, then draped window shears overhead to create a relaxing canopy. Since then, they’ve added a few side tables, flowering […]

Caite Hamilton | September 6, 2011

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August 2011: Timeworn traditional

When Cate West Zahl first laid eyes on the Rugby-area rental she and her family (husband Dave and 10-month-old Charlie) would inhabit after their move from New York, she was taken aback by the living room’s canary yellow walls and crimson accents. “It was like…a Monticello yellow. I get it,” she says, “but I don’t […]

Caite Hamilton | August 2, 2011

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July 2011: Another man’s treasure

Just five years ago, Darryl Smith couldn’t picture himself as a homeowner. A renter since college, he’d enjoyed being able to pick up and move when he got tired of the place. Cut to last Christmas, when he and roommate Alex Wear, a carpenter at Builder Beast and Alloy Workshop, began renovating his Monticello Avenue […]

Caite Hamilton | July 5, 2011

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June 2011: A collector's items

 If it’s true that every person has a story, then it stands to reason that the objects a person acquires in her lifetime must also have stories. And 25-year-old Jess Lee’s got stories. Sporting a degree in fashion design from Virginia Commonwealth University, Lee works from the bedroom of a charming Woolen Mills rental that […]

Caite Hamilton | June 13, 2011

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Summer 2011: Fine print

If it’s true that good things come in small packages, then it’s no surprise that, at 30, 5′ tall jewelry designer Laurel Smith is already a national success. But, ask the Charlottesville native what it feels like to have her Laurel Denise line in more than 150 stores across the U.S.—including Anthropologie’s flagship store in […]

Caite Hamilton | May 24, 2011