Best of C-VILLE Staff Picks

Curl up with a good book

If you love both books and lap robes, you have likely found The Espresso Edition online. Stephanie Whitman had been blogging full-time before she moved to Charlottesville in 2021, but now her day job is social media manager, and blogging about books at theespressoedition.com is her side gig.  Ten years ago, when Whitman was diagnosed […]

Carol Diggs | August 20, 2024

Best of C-VILLE Staff Picks

Local craft

Want to have something in common with John and Patricia Kluge, The British royal family, The College of William & Mary, and “The Beverly Hillbillies” mansion? Then you should commission a mandmade item from local metalsmiths Stokes of England. Whether it’s imposing wrought-iron gates for your stately home, beautiful and long-lasting furniture for your house […]

Carol Diggs | August 20, 2024

Best of C-VILLE Staff Picks

Suit up!

Your wedding is a time to present your best self—which may mean a custom suit. Luckily, Charlottesville has plenty of options. There are national retailers Brooks Brothers, Jos. A. Bank, and Men’s Wearhouse. Or you can go the shop local route. Eljo’s was opened in 1950 on the UVA Corner by two Wahoo brothers (Elliott and […]

Carol Diggs | August 20, 2024

News

Summer internship program gets city kids hands-on with the great outdoors

On the last Monday in July, in the fields behind the Fifth Street Starbucks, a crew of sweaty high school kids is taking a mid-morning break, swigging energy water and snarfing down bags of chips (after working outside all morning, they need the salt). Their blue T-shirts say “Trailblazers.” And that’s what they are—pioneers in […]

Carol Diggs | August 7, 2024

Abode Magazines

A traditional home gets a lighter, brighter kitchen

You’ve bought a 1950s home in the Rugby area. It’s lovely and spacious, but it needs a little re-organizing. One example: It has a small, dark galley kitchen; you have four kids who want to bring their friends over and hang out, which means it’s time to re-do the first-floor layout and design a kitchen […]

Carol Diggs | July 17, 2024

Abode Magazines

A home’s landscape evolves to fit a new family

Homes, in tandem with the lives lived within them, change and evolve. So do their landscapes, as the grounds around one home in the University area demonstrate. The house has gone through its own evolution. Built in the early 20th century, it was designed by noted Charlottesville architect Eugene Bradbury, whose work includes St. Paul’s […]

Carol Diggs | July 17, 2024

Magazines Weddings

Celebrate your love…in Love, Virginia

You’ve found your life partner. You both share a love of the Blue Ridge and the outdoors, and you want to have family and friends gather and share your commitment ceremony. Enter Love Ridge Mountain Lodging.  The name is no coincidence. The little town of Love sits astride State Route 814 (aka Love Road), close […]

Carol Diggs | May 23, 2024

Magazines Weddings

Say cheese!

Wedding photos can be formal or casual, posed or of the moment. Or you can step into the booth… Kyle Kirkeide turned his own wedding guest experience into The Photobooth Company. “I went to my sister’s wedding in Florida in 2011, and they had a photo booth set up,” he recalls. “Afterwards, I started thinking […]

Carol Diggs | May 23, 2024

Knife & Fork Magazines

A cut above

From the outside, Reid’s Super-Save Market looks like what it is—a mom-and-pop grocery and Charlottesville institution that’s been serving the neighborhoods along Preston Avenue for decades. The store was in the news last winter, as the community rallied to help it survive changing demographics, post-COVID supply challenges, and inflation hitting food prices hard.  But for […]

Carol Diggs | May 22, 2024