Living

Chef smart

Marisa Catalano is sitting pretty. Not only does she help run the upscale Italian wine bar enoteca—an opportunity she calls “priceless” for a 29-year-old culinary school grad like herself—she lives in an apartment with a killer view of Carter Mountain, Charlottesville and the hills beyond. When she moved here from New York a year and […]

Erika Howsare | October 2, 2007

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Fuzz

art Fuzzy art, it turns out, is something of a relief. This show’s title, says curator Patrick Costello, refers vaguely (fuzzily?) to the soft texture of the fabric that’s one of the collection’s favorite materials, and to its “warm and fuzzy” emotional slant. Though the Bridge, like most gallery spaces, tends toward the architecturally hard […]

Erika Howsare | September 25, 2007

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Umbau breaks mold to fight sprawl

On the front page of the website for Umbau, a 2-year-old architecture school in Staunton, “we fight sprawl” is the most concrete statement of a shared goal, though certainly not the most high-minded. “At Umbau you will set the paradigms,” the site proclaims. “Total departure. Radical…What the world needs.” And: “Build Puccini.” The manifesto-worthy rhetoric […]

Erika Howsare | September 25, 2007

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How UVA reduced water use by a third

If all the city’s water customers were swimming around in a pond together, UVA would be a mighty big fish. In 2006, the University went through 438 million gallons of water, which is 13,305 gallons per person (including faculty, staff and students). Given that the pond itself is looking drier—both the city and Albemarle County […]

Erika Howsare | September 25, 2007

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"Sculptures from the Collection"

art It’s never a good sign when a person enters an art exhibit and feels dismissive. Usually the problem is with the viewer, not the work. Perhaps it’s a lack of education; then again, perhaps it’s a disappointed urge to get lost in something, or open something in the mind. A small sculpture show at […]

Erika Howsare | September 4, 2007

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Docs eye future migration

Like chicks around a hen, there’s a whole contingent of medical practices that cling to the skirts of Martha Jefferson Hospital within the leafy E. High Street neighborhood. The offices of internists, orthopedists and obstetricians fill converted houses and small office buildings along E. High Street, Jefferson Street and Locust Avenue. And, as the mother […]

Erika Howsare | September 4, 2007

Living

From little to big

If there's one profession that's well represented in Charlottesville, it's architecture. The local glut of designers—from neo-Jeffersonian to eco-contemporary—partly accounts for all the great houses here. This year, as we looked forward to our children's design issue, we started to wonder: When architects become parents, how do they design spaces for their own kids?

Erika Howsare | September 4, 2007

Living

Created space

If Belmont’s Douglas Avenue were a family, Joan Schatzman would be the matriarch. The native Chicagoan moved here in 1978 and bought four houses on the avenue because, she says, "I wanted to shape my neighborhood." Decades later, the result of her efforts is a diverse and tight-knit community that gets together at holidays and […]

Erika Howsare | September 4, 2007