Living

I’m on a quest for good, reasonably priced Burgundy.

 Jason Pedone is a native of Jefferson City, Tennessee, which has a metropolitan population of about 15,000 people. As the new general manager of the John Paul Jones Arena, that’s about as many people as he’s expected to mobilize for every concert he hosts.  Before Jason Pedone came to the John Paul Jones Arena in […]

Michael Shaps has found a surefire way to sell Virginia wine: Open the Burgundy first.

In December the Performers Exchange Project introduced Charlottesville to a play that was so vast in scope and rich in texture that one C-VILLE writer could but compare it to an impressive spread of tapas. Our American Ann Sisters (say it aloud to get the pun), which ran this winter at Live Arts, loosely followed […]

 We’ve got one word for you: biscuits. If you’re imagining baked buttermilk goodness right now, we’re totally with you.

When the filmmakers behind The Parking Lot Movie handed me an advance copy of their documentary, I asked myself the same question I asked after first hearing about the movie three years ago: Who cares about some college town parking lot? The funny thing is, that’s the question that’s driving national interest in the documentary […]

When Karen Laetare, owner of Brix Terrace Café, told us in January that she was planning to end her stint with the Café at Monticello come spring

It’s good to have a goal. When I read that biodynamic agriculture expert Maria Thun had published a calendar for wine drinkers,

 “I think coffee’s fun and let’s get this party started.” That’s what Mudhouse Director of Operations Dan Pabst told judges a few weeks ago when he participated in the South East Regional Barista Competition. The event gives baristas 15 minutes to create three cups of coffee for each of the four sensory judges—one espresso, one […]

All roads lead to the Virginia Vineyards Association annual meeting. Well, maybe not all roads