Dennis Kucinich is a kook, yes, but he is a kook on a mission, rocketing out of the small conference room where he's been waiting, head cocked to one side with a look of urgency on his face and a sense of nervous purpose in his stride, through the door and down the hall, where he hits the podium and turns to the crowd with a big grin.
Scenes from the War On Weed in the war heavy year of 2007: Over the extended weekend of July 25-29, the Blue Ridge Parkway outside of the one-stoplight town of Floyd, Virginia, was crawling with Park Rangers up from Asheville, North Carolina, part of a special Criminal Interdiction Taskforce (CIT) assigned to police the Parkway […]
The Rutherford Institute, a Charlottesville-based organization that defends civil liberties…
“Wine’s not expensive compared to what goes into making it. The work of bringing a bottle of wine to someone’s table is extremely varied, with thousands of gestures and centuries of traditions to honor and remember. It’s not an industry, at least not to us.”—Christine Campadieu, co-owner with her husband…
Harvest Number of Mexican pickers hired at harvest time: 4 Average each is paid per eight-hour day: $102 Amount of grapes picked on a normal day: 3 tons Total harvest cost: $3,000 In addition to these costs, in 2005 the Pucketts purchased five tons of grapes for an additional cost of $9,000. The Winery Purchase […]
“He don’t even look like an operator,” the man in the mesh cap says, his arms folded across his big belly.
Mayor David Brown unzips his shorts, dropping them to his ankles, and removes his shirt. Naked except for a pair of black swim trunks, he climbs up the ladder to the platform, turns to the crowd and raises his arms. "Bring it on!" he says. "Bring it on."
cd Scenes from a preteen wasteland. Nineteen-eighty-seven, the year Metal broke, the year I turned 12, the year I first got loaded like a freight train and the year Guns N’ Roses released Appetite For Destruction. It wasn’t Nirvana that killed Metal, it was G N’ R. It was this album. Nothing was ever going […]
Gentlemen. This, above all else: To thine own size be true.
A story from Ashley Pillar, 28, who has worked at Beecroft & Bull for three and a half years, and in men's clothing since he was 18: "I have a guy, who's like a 38 waist. O.K., he comes in every fall and says, 'Ashley, show me where your 32s are!'
Confidence. That’s the mood filling the room as Al Schornberg, joined by the shining blonde triumvirate of his wife, Cindy, and their two youngest daughters, addresses four or five dozen partygoers. The occasion? The grand opening of Keswick Vineyards’ tasting room. A single overhead light shines down milky white and sickly into the cavernous winery, […]