It’s 2pm on Sunday afternoon and Jackie Bright is in her Seventh Street office. This isn’t unusual. In fact, for her, it’s downright normal to be working in the off-hours. Effectiveness, she says, doesn’t always happen 9 to 5. “I really do try to work when I feel inspired. If I can’t focus, then […]
It’s 2pm on Sunday afternoon and Jackie Bright is in her Seventh Street office. This isn’t unusual. In fact, for her, it’s downright normal to be working in the off-hours. Effectiveness, she says, doesn’t always happen 9 to 5. “I really do try to work when I feel inspired. If I can’t focus, then […]
A Charlottesvillian born and raised, 39-year-old Andrea Copeland is the Community Resource Coordinator for National College, the founder of local production company Positive Channels and the chairperson for Quadruplicity, an annual conference for professional women balancing career, life, money and health. Needless to say, she’s busy. Here, we take a peek in her purse.—Caite White […]
One of the surest ways to make new friends is by having a baby. The pregnant belly is like a beacon for new buddies. You’ll end up with 25 new Facebook friends from your prenatal yoga class alone, and later find yourself at a park, shouting all the gory details of your labor and delivery […]
You want to save her, don’t you? You’re a good super-friend. You probably inherited it like I did. I’ve got a good bit of my grandmother in me. Not the part that ate like a bird, but the part where she squinted her eyes and helped you plan your escape. Hardship made her crafty. Until […]
Most people recognize and know how to meet their basic needs when it comes to doing things like eating and drinking, or turning the heat up or down. And they don’t even think twice about it. But what about when it comes to sex? Do we trust ourselves? Recently, I attended an international conference where […]
When you fall back November 6, keep things running smoothly—and fashionably!—with these five tickers from around town. From left: Alfex stainless steel watch from Angelo ($495, 220 E. Main St., 971-9256); Anne Klein from T.J. Maxx ($39.99, Rio Hill Shopping Center, 974-7410); Philip Stein rose gold-plated watch from Keller & George ($450, 1149 […]
The vanguard of the local building industry may be slashing energy loads by up to 90 percent—creating the Picassos of energy-efficient architecture. But thousands of locals still live in the housing equivalent of a velvet Elvis: older homes built with little or no weatherization. “In the city of Charlottesville and Albemarle, in the 1950s and […]
Fall for flats (clockwise from top left): The 1920s fan detail adds whimsy. Libby Edelman flats ($24.99, T.J. Maxx, 974-7410) Bright red patent leather adds a little sass. Adrienne Vittadini flats ($39.99, T.J. Maxx, 974-7410) Dainty bows make a practical flat lovely. Delman pointy toe flats ($250, Scarpa, 296-0040) We love that these look like thumbprints. TOMS […]
If you think my job as a wine writer is cushy and glamorous, you’re right. On winery visits, I get to frolic through the greening vines, sample new wines in the cellar and then taste the finished products in comfy tasting rooms, eating all the oyster crackers I want.
By day, John Alexander works for the Centers for Computation Intensive Research and Scholarship at UVA. But on nights and weekends, with Diane Ober, he organizes a local group called the Rivanna River Sacred Harp, Charlottesville’s steward of what some claim is the oldest surviving American musical tradition: Shape Note singing.