Hey, small spenders
Ordering within a $20 budget at an upscale restaurant is like using two limited wishes granted by a frog whose soul bears no trace of a handsome young prince. One glass of one of the cheapest wines.
Third Street Blues
Something getting in the way lately as you scramble from the Downtown Mall to get to Market Street Wineshop before it closes? No, not the UVA students—we’re talking about the block-of-a-fence that Third Street NE has become. You may be wondering what’s going on there, since, to the untrained eye, it doesn’t look like much […]
Election Watch 2007
Update, October 24, 2007: Keep up-to-date on the "money race:" On the Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP) website you can get contribution profiles on all the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors candidates. These reports are updated as information is available, based upon the required periodic disclosures of campaign finances with the voter registrar’s office in […]
Other News We Heard Last Week
Tuesday, September 18Moral solutions The work of UVA psychology professor Jonathan Haidt is the focus of a major article in the Science section of today’s New York Times. Haidt’s book The Happiness Hypothesis explores the evolutionary basis of morality—in other words, the idea that we have moral codes because they benefit the societies we social […]
We Ate Here
“Cobblestone?” we thought, staring at the menu at Chaps. What on earth could that mean? Will there be actual stones in the cone? Just as important, will they be organically grown—er, quarried? Turns out, cobblestone is a lovely, simple chocolate ice cream with ribbons of peanut butter. Puzzling moniker aside, we loved it.
We Ate Here
For some reason, it’s been forever since we indulged in the ritual of Chinese takeout. Where better to revive the habit than the place C-VILLE readers voted Best Takeout—namely, Asian Express on W. Main? The cheery counter service must be one reason it’s so popular. Another must be the clean, honest tastes. Take, say, the […]
Dylan v. Costello
Given name Robert Allen Zimmerman Declan Patrick MacManus Born May 24, 1941, Duluth, Minnesota August 25, 1954, London, England Wives 2 3 First record Bob Dylan (1962 on Columbia) My Aim Is True (1977 on Columbia) Latest record Modern Times (2006 on Sony BMG) The River in Reverse (with Allen Toussaint; 2006 on Verve Forecast) […]
Other News We Heard Last Week
Tuesday, September 11 Dig these drummers WSLS, a CBS station out of Roanoke, reports that the UVA marching band, which has only existed since 2003, already enjoys a bit of national recognition (albeit of the commercial variety): The band’s 30-member drumline is featured in a series of print ads for Yamaha instruments. Apparently this is […]
We Ate Here
Being in a phase of life that has us looking for a high concentration of protein in a convenient form, we are drawn, naturally, to Mellow Mushroom’s Mighty Meaty Pizza. This superheroically named pie, which we order for delivery, packs everything we want: pepperoni, sausage, ground beef, ham and bacon. Yup, as far as the […]
Other News We Heard Last Week
Tuesday, September 4Wine fraud article takes shot at Jefferson Who wouldn’t love to hear Thomas Jefferson talk about politics? But what about wine? This week’s The New Yorker quotes a passage from John Quincy Adams’ diary, in which Adams remarks that Jefferson knew less about wine than he thought he did. This week’s The New […]