Carry on!* Lands’ End canvas tote from Sears ($25, Fashion Square Mall, 974-8240) First row: Merona Printed Canvas Tote from Target ($12.99, 3290 Seminole Trail, 964-0231); Reduce Reuse Recycle tote from O’Suzannah ($32, 114 Fourth St. NE, 979-7467) Second row: Sea Bags Anchor Tote from Sustain ($220, 406 W. Main St., 244-0028); Metallic […]
Carry on!* Lands’ End canvas tote from Sears ($25, Fashion Square Mall, 974-8240) First row: Merona Printed Canvas Tote from Target ($12.99, 3290 Seminole Trail, 964-0231); Reduce Reuse Recycle tote from O’Suzannah ($32, 114 Fourth St. NE, 979-7467) Second row: Sea Bags Anchor Tote from Sustain ($220, 406 W. Main St., 244-0028); Metallic […]
For once, France can’t take any credit for the success of one of its own grapes. Once upon a time, Malbec was from France and not given much at- tention, but the neglected grape found a happy home in Argentina where it gets to bask in both sunshine and limelight. The arrangement seems ideal: Country […]
Folks over in Crozet have been working on the railroad. Er, rather, the railroad issue. In early May, Buckingham Branch Rail- road, the company that leases Crozet’s Square area from CSX, put the kibosh on patrons parking there. Claiming liability issues, BBRR gave businesses on The Square—including Fardowners and Mud- house—30 days to get used […]
What’s the hold up? That’s what we ask ourselves each day that goes by and Fry’s Spring Station isn’t open. In January, co-owner Robert Sawrey told us we could expect the restaurant to open in late March. Unfortunately, he tells us now, it’s taken longer than expected. “We couldn’t get the power set up,” Sawrey […]
You have to hand it to Virginia First Lady Maureen McDonnell: She can tell a joke. Leading a contingent of 30 restaurant and retail people from Richmond and Virginia Beach to Jefferson Vineyards last week, as part of her effort to promote Virginia wines, she listened cheerfully while winemaker Andy Reagan described his success with […]
The Plan 9 in Albemarle Square isn’t the greatest record store in the world; it might not even be the best record store in Charlottesville. But it boldly persists in being the kind of business you’d have to be a fool to run in this day and age: a record store. On a recent visit, […]
There’s not much Restaurantarama likes more than a slice of whole wheat bread with a thick slathering of homemade jam. And we’re not alone.
Well-dressed couples mingled beneath the tent, beer and wine in hand, picking tuna appetizers from the silver trays that were carried by a team of black-clad caterers, half of whom spent much of the night smoking cigarettes out back. In the painted brick building beside the tent raged a boisterous art auction, thanks to a […]
As I write, wine lovers in our country are united on a single front that has nothing to do with what’s in their glasses, but rather, what might not be, if some beer and wine wholesalers get their way. A bill known as H.R. 5034 snuck onto the floor of Congress last month with bi-partisan […]
What’s in the flour? While any grain can be ground into flour, wheat flour takes the cake in terms of commercial use and availability in the United States. After wheat is sown, grown, harvested and transported, it still takes a beating before it reaches the supermarket shelf. Essentially, commercial milling strips a grain of anything […]