Living

 The six students and at least as many volunteers arrived at the farm around 9am, and were cut loose with borrowed and donated digital cameras. “The idea was to get the kids out shooting when the light was O.K.,” said poet John Casteen IV, looking upon one young photographer as she took a picture of […]

Para Coffee is growing. Or outgrowing, as the case may be.

In this town, the tapas fad has outlasted even some local restaurants. One West Main eatery, though, is working to buck the trend.

 Sitting in her newly christened tasting room, Penny Martin says “she’s starting to learn to like” wine. 

“I picked up something in Bhutan that I haven’t been able to kick,” the photographer Steve Winter said last week. By the time we were done speaking, it was unclear whether he had been talking about a fever, or some contagious disease identifiable only by the afflicted’s unwavering dedication to enormous feline species. “I try […]

When Ryan DeRamus opened Random Row Books last fall, he didn’t have a clear vision for the space, about half of which is occupied by bookshelves and couches, so he allowed the community to do, more or less, what it wanted. With the then-recent closure of the Outback Lodge, what Charlottesville really needed was a […]

When opportunity knocks, Karen Laetare answers. 

In our minds, they’re as inevitable a duo as Adam and Eve. But are wine and cheese always meant to be? 

 Hello, summer A bounty of pleasant garden tasks spills out of June’s bosomy embrace. Enjoy it before the hellish days of July have us scurrying for the slightest bit of shade.  Cut grass no shorter than two to three inches so that it can sustain itself without chemical treatments. If you like careful, fussy chores, […]

  And acreage, too Nothing like a nice, big front yard to class up the joint. We think this colonial off Ivy Road is plenty nice on its own, but all that lawn—with room for blooms and a very welcoming walk—puts it over the top.                     […]