JUMP TO: • Your greenie neighbors • Your art student sister • Your boyfriend’s fashionable younger sister • Your gay best friend • Your supportive mother • Your tech-geek brother • Your conservative stepdad Mae West once said, “I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.” We share that sentiment, which is why […]
JUMP TO: • Your greenie neighbors • Your art student sister • Your boyfriend’s fashionable younger sister • Your gay best friend • Your supportive mother • Your tech-geek brother • Your conservative stepdad Mae West once said, “I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.” We share that sentiment, which is why […]
Live music is the great unifier. Whether it’s Madonna singing “music makes the people come together,” or John Cage describing a composition by Lou Harrison (“Listening to it, we become an ocean”), the common denominator of concerts both lowbrow and high is the promise of becoming part of something bigger than yourself. Composer Sergei Tcherepnin […]
The six of us had no idea when we arrived at Aromas Café for dinner that we’d be waddling out three hours later feeling like we’d been to Morocco and back
Nelson County is Beer County Friday marked the opening of Wild Wolf Brewing Company (Nelson County’s third brewery) on Route 151. Mother and son team Mary and Danny Wolf grew out of their home brewing digs and have set up shop in a landmark building on five acres that include tobacco barns-come-boutiques. With an outdoor “Biergarten,” […]
Want to know what wine geeks all over the world are guzzling as their year round house red with everything from pizza to pork chops? I’ll give you a hint: It shares a name with that barely-fermented bubblegum juice that starts winging its way into glasses this Thursday. Despite having a region and a grape, […]
In 1958, composer John Cage gave a lecture titled “Indeterminacy” that would be remembered as a milestone in post-war avant-garde composition. Sitting at a desk in front of an auditorium of people, he read a series of randomly ordered one-minute stories to the accompaniment of electronic scratches, distorted recordings of music and the occasional mashed […]
You know everyone at your Thanksgiving table, so insist on a bird that’s from around these here parts
Taylor Smack clears out a brewing tank, known as a mash tun, of spent malted grains from a freshly brewed batch of a doppelbock. Eating and drinking local is getting easier every day. We shop at farmers’ markets, drink wine from vineyards just down the road, and taste beer at our local breweries. But, when […]
There are only a handful of local grain growers in the area and when I met with Brian Walden, owner of Steadfast Farm in Red Hill, I learned why. “We don’t have the flat expanses of land they have out west, and Virginia’s hot and humid climate is treacherous for growing grains,” said Walden, who […]
GREEN EYE A jump on local gifts The smart money’s on buying local this holiday season, and any shopper worth her salt knows that waiting until after Thanksgiving to start on that list will cause consternation. Get in the game this month with the Artisan Studio Tour, November 12 and 13. It’s a weekend when […]