Fest foot forward: Downtown, everything's waiting for you

Here We Go Magic brings its layered, stream of consciousness lo-fi to the acoustically excellent Haven stage on Saturday. (Photo by Gregory Mitnick) Spurred on by the success of their Nelson County-based festival, the Festy organizers are now spreading out the atmos-phere with events through-out the year. On Saturday, The Infamous Stringdusters, curators of The […]

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Small Bites: This week's restaurant news

 Pop-up pig pickin’ Pork has a permanent place on Brookville Restaurant’s menu (and in chef/ owner Harrison Keevil’s heart), but on Friday, May 4, the second floor restaurant will temporarily become BVILLE-Q, featuring 100 percent locally-sourced barbeque pork to support the Tom Tom Founders Festival. Tickets are limited because a mere $45 gets you all-you-can-eat […]

Hand me my spears: Asparagus is in for spring

Hand me my spears! Nothing heralds the arrival of spring like asparagus. Fat or thin, the spears rise obediently with the season, perishing long before a tomato might make its acquaintance on a plate. Sure, you can buy asparagus year-round now, but why defy nature? These dishes from around town honor the beauties during their […]

Small Bites: This week's restaurant news

 Happy hour in the haus Every second spent eating Tara Koenig’s cupcakes is a happy one, so you’re guaranteed to get downright giddy at Sweethaus’ new happy hour(s) on Tuesdays from 2 to 4pm, when buying two cupcakes gets you one on the, er, haus. A pop-up chef On Sunday, catch Clifton Inn’s Tucker Yoder […]

Farmers first, winemakers second

What’s struck me more than anything over the past three years as I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know our area winemakers through this column, is how they consider themselves farmers above all else. No matter how skilled they are at making up for a bad vintage in the cellar, they all seem to […]

New imprints look to label local bands

Pseudo-sisters Sarah White (left) and Sian Richards bring their old-time act, the All-New Acorn Sisters to Charlottesville’s newest music spot The Whiskey Jar. (Publicity photo) Charlottesville has long been a delicious melting pot of bluegrass, rock, and alt-country, and the number of high-quality performers here seems as good as it’s ever been: so it was […]

From our farms to our tables

  Farm to table eating isn’t new. In fact, it’s as old as the farm day is long. But when it became cheaper and easier to produce and distribute processed foods, we went from a farm-to-table nation to a factory-to-drive-through one. In the past decade or so, as we’ve become more concerned with the safety, […]