Bearing new fruit
Last Tuesday, Italian wine and panini bar enoteca unveiled a new 95-bottle wine list, and last Monday afternoon, the staff at enoteca set about the arduous task of tasting all 40 new wines by the glass appearing on that list.
We Ate Here
Patrick Critzer’s Hamdingers cart is a seasonal pleasure, so we bellied up to make the most of it. Almost as good as the roast vegetable sandwich was the pleasure of watching Critzer put it together, armed with the tools and ingredients of his tidily arranged cart. The meal itself was savory and warm, a sub […]
What's in your backpack?
Jordan Taylor Age: 31 Year: Graduate student Jordan Taylor Concentration: EnglishHometown: RichmondWhat’s in your backpack? Moleskine notebook, Landscape and Race in the United States by Richard Schein, bandanna, glass, 25 cent flipbook from a kid at Milano, keys, CD from WTJU, map of MoMA, condoms, dust jacket for Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson, Monument Avenue […]
Your tax dollars, at work
Worked for the library for: 3 years Resides in: Albemarle County Job title: Circulation assistant. Downing checks books in and out, organizes books on the shelves, and issues library cards. Best of times: Being around others. “I’m able to help people. I love to see the children in here over the summer. It’s better that […]
Capsule Reviews
The Dark Knight (PG-13, 140 minutes) Just as Batman (Christian Bale) makes real headway cleaning up Gotham’s streets, with help from a top cop (Gary Oldman) and an aggressive D.A. (Aaron Eckhart), some joker calling himself the Joker (Heath Ledger) decides to mastermind a terrifying criminal rampage. Out comes the heavy artillery—and the moviegoers who […]
The July of Jinx
During last summer’s typical local restaurant business famine, Jinx Kern “was living on credit cards,” he tells us. This summer is a different story.
We Ate Here
We considered a mere take-out pastry to fuel up on a recent Wednesday morning, but instead went for the gold: a real sit-down breakfast in which we stuffed ourselves to the gills with Bluegrass’ Number 5. It’s a groaning plate of scrambled eggs generously stuffed with spinach, tomatoes, green peppers and cheese, accompanied by good […]
Corrections from the July 22 issue
Due to reporting errors, in “Searching for Harvey Wallbanger” [The Working Pour, July 22, 2008], two misstatements were made regarding Cirrus Vodka founder and CEO Paul McCann’s background. He has a master’s degree in environmental health and industrial hygiene, and not industrial health and environmental hygiene. Also, he worked for the Virginia Department of Mines, […]
Red dirt alert!
Though the dirt has been red on the Whole Foods site for weeks, the Planning Commission at its July 23 meeting finally recommended approval of a 66,000-square-foot store on Hydraulic Road, which company reps say will be the grocery store chain’s greenest building this side of the Mississippi. No matter how “sustainable” the structure, planning […]