Stored, not boughtPut some food by for the marketless months If you’re like us, you’re eyeing the end of the gardening and farmers’ market season with a vague feeling of dread. No more fresh local veggies? No more goodies growing out in the yard? What the heck are we gonna eat all winter, canned soup? […]
Odd advicewww.curbly.com Friendly and spunky, the design blog and catch-all curbly.com shows us what’s cool in the design world without the Martha Stewart sweetness or the more-mod-than-thou tone of other design sites. Recently spotted on curbly: a roundup of the best furniture currently for sale on craigslist, real estate advice based on the errors of […]
In a city neighborhood minutes from Downtown, photographer Billy Hunt occupies a spacious, woodsy oasis: trees surround the 175-year-old house he shares with his wife Jocelyn and their 16-month-year-old son, William—so many trees that if you squint, you could almost think you were deep in Nelson County. “Every room is an addition,” Hunt says of […]
Due to a reporting error, in the story “Web could shift real estate market” [Development News, September 19, 2007], Zillow.com was identified as a site that charged to market homes for sale. In fact, Zillow.com offers this service for free.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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.
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 […]