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 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 […]
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.
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 […]
Tuesday, July 24Fox reacts to Tech killings The New York Times, picking up an Associated Press story, reports that Fox has opted to alter a scene in a new midseason drama in response to the April massacre at Virginia Tech. Fox plans to unveil "The Sarah Connor Chronicles," a show based on the Terminator movies. […]
Where there’s a wiki, there’s a waywww.Wikihow.com If you’re raring to go on some new shelter project but haven’t a clue on specifics, you might want to try Wikihow.com, a community-authored index of how-to guides. If you’ve ever used a wiki like wikipedia.org, you know how this site works: Individual users write the articles, and […]
It’s easy to forget they’re there—after all, you can see right through them. But make no mistake: There aren’t many parts of your house more important than the windows. They affect the way it feels to be inside and the way the place appears from outside—so keeping them looking sharp is a must. They’re a […]
One requirement. That’s all we had: “Be bold.” Otherwise, our instructions to photographers in this year’s the-art-director- is-on-vacation photo contest were fairly freewheeling.
In the July 10 cover story ["Food fights"] The Farm at Red Hill was misidentified as Red Hill Farm. Also, it is located in North Garden, and not Free Union, as was stated in the article. Our sincere apologies to the fine folks at the farm for the reporting errors.
In last week’s story on the proposed government auction of bandwith ["City Fire Chief Enters Bandwidth Battle," Government News], the position and role of Charlottesville Fire Chief Charles Werner was misrepresented. Werner is not a public safety commentator with the Association of Public Safety Officials International. Moreover, while there are concepts in the Frontline proposal […]