March 2011: Real Estate

 In real estate, less is really more, especially if you are talking about how long a house has been up for sale. Days on the Market (DOM), a number that […]

March 2011: Rental Rescue

Recently, while thumbing through three major furniture catalogs that came in the mail on the same day, I couldn’t help but think that when it comes to home design, things […]

March 2011: Concrete ideas

When Colleen Beights decided to renovate the kitchen of her 19th-century farmhouse on Old Trail golf course—literally, the course was built around the centuries-old structure—everyone thought she was crazy. But, […]

Small Bites

Padow’s out By the time you read this, much-loved Barracks Road sandwich spot Padow’s Hams & Deli will be closed for good. Other news sources have reported that Federal Realty, […]

Chop, chop

Knives are essential to making magic in the kitchen, but that doesn’t mean you need to buy the whole kit and kaboodle

The Barolo Wars

Dramatically termed the Barolo Wars, this debate is more Iron Chef than Axis of Evil, with French oak, shorter maceration periods, and rogue grape varietals as the employed weapons.

Rocking the rules away

Nobody’s been rocking Charlottesville as long as the party band leader Bennie Dodd. So when Bennie Dodd raises his hand at a meeting about Charlottesville music, you listen. “I remember […]

Small Bites

Eye to the Skybar Already generating a lot of media buzz, a new Downtown restaurant from Alex George (formerly of Just Curry and Cinema Taco fame) is poised to be […]