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When I noticed on Keswick Hall’s calendar of events that a wine dinner honoring the Judgment of Paris was scheduled for March 18, I quickly reserved a spot

Sarah White has served as a sort of de facto first lady of Charlottesville rock & roll since her first record, 1997’s All My Skies Are Blue. It sometimes feels like there’s not much around town that doesn’t in some way, shape or form, draw on White’s contributions since. But over the past few years […]

In this town, where culinary staff come and go quicker than the time it takes to pour a martini

All that was missing was the bottle of bubbly.

When three cinderblocks are swinging across the stage, following the choreography is a matter of life and death. Dancers in Elizabeth Streb’s troupe have learned that lesson. So when we heard that one of her troupe’s alums was showing his work at the Ruffin Gallery, C-VILLE staff hopped in the family Toyota and drove on […]

The dumpling duo has done it again. Dragana Katalina-Sun and Sun Da, married proprietors of Marco & Luca dumpling shop on the Downtown Mall, opened a second Marco & Luca on Elliewood Avenue at the old site of Sublime. Judging by the line out the door on a snowy day last week, when Restaurantarama observed […]

On any given day, you’re likely to catch Water Lundwall at a coffee shop Downtown, with a ruler, fine black pen and a sketchbook in front of him, dreaming up impossible architecture. The meticulous sketches in Walter Lundwall’s “Red Hill,” now at C&O Gallery, are equal parts housing plan and optical illusion. That explains the […]

When we are young, popularity is everything. And, as all of you Gertrudes, Hectors, and Penelopes out there know, a name can do a lot to lower your standing. Think of Germanic wines as the Throckmortons of the wine world—alone in the corner with their skinny necks and cryptic labels, still struggling to overcome the […]

Trash? No, treasure In your closet, do you have a bunch of clothes with the tags still on? Wendi Smith feels your pain. Wendi Smith’s consignment event, Leftover Luxuries, can help you earn some extra cash for the junk in your trunk—and even the trunk itself! Smith, an interior designer by trade, runs Leftover Luxuries, […]

  Age: 50 Occupation: Copy editor at SNL, poet SNL copy editor and poet Kendra Hamilton is no stranger to travel. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, she says her favorite trips involve her writing. She’s studied in Durham, Houston, New Orleans and once spent a six-week fellowship in Italy. Currently, she’s in Charlottesville putting […]