Loop de loos
Like Uma Thurman's character in Pulp Fiction, we love it when we're at a restaurant, and we go to the bathroom and find our food waiting when we return.
The bikeoff
Y'all couldn't decide whether you liked Observatory Hill or Walnut Creek Park better for a place to self-punish atop a mountain bike. So, as we do with every big decision around here, we took it straight to the top.
I'd like to thank God…and my parrot…
This year's winners of the Best Musical Group category are the Sons of Bill, whose blog about their summer tour—entertaining U.S. troops stationed in the Pacific—has graced our website since late June. We e-mailed the Sons to give 'em the good news. They, busy lads though they are, wasted no time in replying:
Correction from July 31 issue
Due to a production error, the wrong photo accompanied the photo caption in the story "Porn, gambling too much for Darden" [UVA News, July 31, 2007]. The photo is not of Bob Bruner, dean of UVA’s Darden School of Business, as the caption states, but of Gene Block, former UVA provost. We sincerely apologize to […]
We Ate Here
The patio view at Crozet hotspot La Cocina del Sol is breathtaking. We kicked back and took in the grandeur of the Blue Ridge…and the post office…and the bank. But still, it’s a snazzy Southwestern experience with a cozy small- town feel. Entrée-wise, we played it simple with the spicy chicken tacos, which hit the […]
Drought watch '07
It may have rained, but it still needs to pour. Continuing to track local water levels following the drought watch declared in late July, C-VILLE checked in with the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) to see how streams and reservoirs were looking. RWSA Director Tom Frederick told us that, though weekend thunderstorms had improved […]
Other News We Heard Last Week
Tuesday, July 31Back-scratching In a bewildering matrix of cross-marketing, Starbucks, XM Radio and Dave Matthews Band have "teamed up" to promote, well, each other. As of today, the XM Radio site carries a few of the details: The satellite radio company has a channel, called Starbucks XM Cafe Channel 45, which will be playing lots […]
We Ate Here
We love The Flat. How could we not? It’s just so cute, and the spot—a diminutive brick box tacked on the back of the Jefferson Theater—seems so perfectly suited to what’s served: a simple menu of fluffy warm crêpes folded into fan shapes and served in no-frills napkins. We had ours with tomato, feta and […]
What's up with…
New news: We’re always hot on its trail. But when we stop to cool off, we start to wonder what old news is still burning.
Drought watch '07 continues
It’s getting drier around here. After the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) declared a drought watch last week, area streams ran at only 18 percent of their normal level, down from 25 percent in mid-July (C-VILLE used poor wording last week that suggested levels were at 75 percent of normal—kudos to keen-eyed readers who […]