Problem: Designing a bug-free, fresh air play space “We feel really strongly about our kids being outside as much as possible,” says Whitney Morrill, mom of two and architect, owner and founder of design firm Woollerton Edifice PLLC. “But we needed to give them a sanctuary from Charlottesville’s heat and mosquito mafia.” Particularly between […]
Problem: Designing a bug-free, fresh air play space “We feel really strongly about our kids being outside as much as possible,” says Whitney Morrill, mom of two and architect, owner and founder of design firm Woollerton Edifice PLLC. “But we needed to give them a sanctuary from Charlottesville’s heat and mosquito mafia.” Particularly between […]
“The shade of Jefferson broods over Charlottesville. Misunderstood, embalmed by little minds in static thought, the revolutionist must turn forever in an angry grave. The grandeur of his University looks down at sycophants who ape his cornices at puny scale…and strive forever to repeat the form without the soul. To follow in his footsteps means […]
If you’re like a lot of homeowners these days, you’d probably love to go green. Energy efficiency retrofits, high-efficiency furnaces and solar panels are home improvements that can save thousands and thousands of dollars in energy bills over the years. But high upfront costs have so far kept many folks from adopting practical energy saving […]
There’s nothing like watching an episode of “Hoarders” to make you feel buried alive, boxed in, and like a slave to your own possessions and space. Cut to me in my front yard with a change box, half of my belongings covered with sale tags, and a poster reading “Everything Must Go.” In all […]
Though it sounds like a dating device, the stud finder has nothing to do with landing a man, unless you’re planning to hang him on your wall from a picture hook. This small, handheld tool ensures that your trophies, whatever they may be, stay safely in place by identifying where the wooden supports run behind […]
“Everything’s a work in progress,” says Leni Sorensen about the home and acreage she shares with her husband Kip in White Hall. Transplants (as of 1982) from South Dakota, the couple have long had their hands in rural pursuits, from growing vegetables to raising pigs and cows. Kip, a master carpenter, is building them […]
Master Sommelier Tim Gaiser has a new $89 DVD that promises to teach you everything he knows about wine—or at least as much of it as he can disseminate in 20 minutes. At $4.50 a minute, that’s a pretty penny. Since I have yet to get my big break (“Swirling with the Stars”?), I’m […]
As you leave the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Amherst, you pass a sign that reads “Welcome to the Real World.” Of course, the real world can be a place where artists struggle to make ends meet, or juggle equal commitments to making art and making ends meet. A show that opens September 10 […]
It’s kind of like something out of It Could Happen To You, the movie with Nicolas Cage and Bridget Fonda in which a cop promises to split his not-yet-won lottery winnings with a diner waitress. Except, in our local version, Nicolas Cage would have split soon after the waitress inherited her piece of the prize. […]
After Love is a Mixtape was released in 2007 to great fanfare, Rolling Stone contributing editor Rob Sheffield joined the ranks of onetime locals whose name current locals love to drop. That’s not likely to change with the release of his new book, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, released this month, about growing up […]