Belmont blowup Southern Crescent, a restaurant Lucinda Ewell and her husband Ian Day first envisioned opening out of their home in 2009, will never open on Hinton Avenue in Belmont. But that’s because the couple will be changing the name by the time it starts welcoming diners by early September. The as-yet-to -be-named new restaurant […]
The man who’s led UVA’s summertime Heritage Theatre Festival for the last 20 years (and the former head of the Department of Drama) will take his last bow in the coming year. But community arts patrons may not have seen the last of Robert Chapel. Chapel says when he drove from New York City to Charlottesville in 1987 to […]
Kathy Griffin is prolific, not only in the number of comedy specials she’s done over the years, but in her ability to yammer. In a recent phone interview with C-VILLE Weekly ahead of her June 19 date at The Paramount Theater, she cut off more questions than she answered. But that didn’t stop her from […]
Lunch may not mean all that much to you and me. The meal’s far less “important” than breakfast, so they say, and at best it’s kind of like dinner’s kid brother. The kid brother who makes you eat salad. But if you’re a restaurant proprietor on C’ville’s Downtown Mall, you probably do a pretty good […]
Jack Kilby wanted to go to music school. His parents weren’t so into the idea. He settled on UVA, earned a degree in biology and scored a job as a lab technician right out of school. The career trajectory was in line with Kilby’s parents’ wishes. But there was a note of discord: Kilby had […]
Charlottesville isn’t always on top of the latest trends, but that’s not really a bad thing. Several local kitchen designers say our area runs contrary to major national countertop trends in multiple ways, all of which come down to one central theme: color. Or, rather, the lack of it. Soft, muted colors. Bright pops of […]
When Tim Showalter named his band Strand of Oaks, the serene, bucolic imagery was apt. He was for the most part a sleepy folksinger—though his beard and wild mane were always a little more Dimebag Darrell than Sam Beam. These days, the name seems a bit of a stretch. Showalter, who along with his band […]
What’s better than sitting outside on a 90-degree day and licking your greasy, sweaty fingers as the sauce from your handheld meal spills out of its wrapper? Nothing. Damn right. Summer’s the perfect time to get out and enjoy all that the growing Charlottesville food truck scene has to offer. Consult this list early and […]
Downbeat Project, a local fusion band with a rainbow of influences, is technically broken up. Last year founder Clarence Green and his “core guys,” Zack Blatter and Gerald Soriano, decided to put things on hold. The band’s third album, begun in 2013, still hadn’t materialized, and to paraphrase Green, life got in the way. But […]
The first time I saw frog legs jump onto a local menu was early last fall. Public Fish & Oyster was doing an appetizer of the gams all fried up crispy like, and I had to have them. For some odd reason, the typically French delicacy was a favorite of my childhood, and I hadn’t […]