Living

If I were a food critic, 2010 would’ve left me with a royal case of gout. But as it is, I write about local art, so 2010 left my brain all wrinkly, my body tired, and all of me excited about 2011. Throughout the year there were a bunch of art-related events that thought outside […]

Restaurantarama delivers the new restaurants, bides adieu to the old, all in verse.

Reality TV stars-turned chronic debtors, Tareq and Michaele Salahi provided one of only a few low moments in Virginia wine this year.

While Chang will be opening another restaurant in Charlottesville, he won’t be living here full-time.

Several weeks after we first speculated whether Satch Huizenga was still working as Live Arts’ Producing Artistic Director, the theater announced last Tuesday that Huizenga—whose 10 years at the leading local theater included six as a volunteer and four on staff—had resigned for “personal reasons.” But the lag time between Huizenga’s apparent depature and any […]

You’re down to the holiday shopping wire. Panic sets in and with a handful of Bed, Bath & Beyond coupons you choke your way through the cinnamon-scented store to buy a head massager and a brownie pan separator. And, with one trip down the wine aisle, you’re grabbing the Rabbit and the Vinturi Aerator for […]

Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell digs her CLAWs into the Jeff.

  Glass half empty: Looking on as the failed auction commences for Kluge Estate Winery & Vineyard are, from left, Chad Zakaib, former general manager at Jefferson Vineyards; Matthieu Finot, King Family Vineyards winemaker; Virginia Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Matthew Conrad; Jonathan Wheeler, former director of Kluge’s Champagne program; an unidentified observer; and Gregory Brun, […]

A wine so entwined with papal history seems an unlikely candidate to be as lusty and hedonistic as Châteauneuf-du-Pape.