Erika Howsare

gallery The 13 works gathered here fill a single, smallish room that many museumgoers will walk through too quickly. Besides holding works from a crucial, concentrated period in Léger’s development, the room also serves as a passageway between two other rooms. That makes it the perfect space for a show that reveals an artist who […]

It’s not a big house, and there’s nothing remarkable about it on paper.

It was the kind of January day when energy use runs high: gray and stubbornly chilly. In a stuffy second-floor classroom in the Albemarle County Office Building, a window was propped open with a coffee cup, leaking heat and lending a certain irony to the occasion: an EarthCraft House (www.earthcrafthouse.com) training session, in which about […]

The real estate market in greater Charlottesville once stood astride a lofty peak, but now it’s packed up its trail mix and water bottle to head back down the mountain. Sounds a little ho-hum, right? That’s exactly what Dave Phillips, CEO of the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors (CAAR) (www.caar.com), predicts for 2007: “Everyone will […]

Last July, the landscape changed radically for small Virginia wineries. No, the rolling hills didn’t flatten. Instead, the wineries lost the right to put cases of their own Viognier in their own trucks and drive them down to the local grocery store. Now State Delegate Chris Saxman of Staunton wants to reinstate that right for […]

In a tiny space in the Jefferson Theater, there’s a store with a big heart. Innisfree World Artisans takes its name from Crozet’s Innisfree Village (www.innisfreevillage.org), a community of mentally challenged adults, and sells village residents’ crafts (woven placemats and scarves, wooden cutting boards, and granola) as well as items from Ten Thousand Villages and […]

Brace yourself for the following letter, shared with C-VILLE by John Cruickshank, chair of the local Sierra Club chapter. Representative Virgil Goode told us, through his press secretary, “I wrote the letter. I think it speaks for itself.”

Tuesday: The final countdown

Today – through a series of exercises in shopping and cleaning – you’re going to liberate your inner hausfrau. (And yes, men, you have one of those too.) It’s the last day you have to get the house ready before the hordes descend. So find the frilliest apron in the house, do some quick stretches, and let’s get to it!