Wage clean air with the peace lily and other houseplants. Places in a planned utopiaBelvedere development will sell a green vision Can you create a sustainable community nearly out of thin air? Local development company Stonehaus is betting it can. Its 675-unit Belvedere development broke ground on May 10, beginning a five- to six-year buildout […]
But is it design?“Modernism” shows museumgoers how we lost our frills These days, we’re used to living with a mix of the modernist and the traditional. Just look at the Downtown Mall, where the blunt outlines of the fountain in Central Place sit within view of many century-old facades. It’s easy to forget that modernism […]
By Will Goldsmith, Erika Howsare and Meg McEvoy More than anything else, the big zoning changes enacted earlier this decade in both Charlottesville and Albemarle are about density. The idea: Cluster development near work centers, pack all the new people into as little space as they will accept, and locate places to shop nearby so […]
Oh-six was a year of contradictions and confounded assumptions. The Republican incumbent who was supposed to be unbeatable for the Senate enacted his own Chernobyl-like meltdown; “affordable housing,” the presumed cause du jour, turned into a dictionary game …
It\’s been a hot and sweltering summer. Yet one of the most popular dishes at D\’Ambola\’s Italian restaurant in Afton is the equally hot and spicy Alici con Bucatini Rigati.
Recently at C-VILLE, we’ve been pondering what makes this town exactly the way it is. How can it be so artsy, stylish, community-minded, fast-growing, infuriating and deliciousâall at once? By way of an answerâand after much discussionâwe’ve assembled a list of 20 people that are shaping our community right here and now.
Local artists and writers have paired up at the Second Street Gallery to “speak” about loveâand the results are as diverse as the emotional responses to love itself.
The only thing better than the verdant, mountainous setting around Nellysford is the fact that it’s home to some pretty outstanding Italian food. We sat on the deck at D’Ambola’s on a perfect June evening, when all we needed was a little appetizer to tide us over. The fried zucchini, despite its unassuming name, was […]
Lately, Second Street Gallery has been running a rather complicated fundraiser for which 12 local restaurants have developed “Artinis”â variations on the classic martini that have some art-related twist.
What’s in your backpack? I.D., wallet, iPod, Amos Oz’s Tale of Love & Darkness