Living

What do you do when you meet President Barack Obama for the first time?

Jay Gwaldis and Louise Largiadèr are really into motorcycles. The two met in June 2007 on their way to a BMW motorcycle rally at the Biltmore in Asheville, North Carolina. Louise, 46, was on her very first solo ride, accompanied by her brother Anton, a BMW motorcycle technician, and his girlfriend. Jay Gwaldis and Louise […]

Whether due to a true holiday spirit or to the expectations of social intercourse, your December calendar probably filled up fast with invites to cookie exchanges, dinner parties and tree-trimming gatherings. Between the expected and the impromptu invitations, along with anything planned at your own home, you may find yourself reaching to the very bottom […]

Lauren Hoffman has released final albums before. In a 2000 issue of C-VILLE, Stephen “Cripsy Duck” Barling wrote on the occasion of her departure from town that local songwriter Hoffman, then 23 years old, was “just gone. No more music. Moving to London. See ya.” During a recent meeting at C’ville Coffee, Hoffman—now in her […]

With no apparent connection to the blowout at Scott Stadium on November 28, the UVA-versus-Virginia-Tech-themed Rivals Sports Bar & Grill closed abruptly last week.

At some point, between making the bed on Monday morning and putting the trash out on Sunday night, we think to ourselves, is this what life is all about?

When Jay Moore decided to propose to his girlfriend of five years, Joanna Brockel, last winter, he knew he wanted to do something both special and physical since they’re both physical therapists. She does acute therapy. He does outpatient therapy. And they share a love of sports (they play on the same co-ed football league […]

In the beginning, God created the station wagon, and suburban rooftops were without form, black as the hot chocolate in little James Yates’ mug as his parents drove him through their neighborhood. One neighbor plugged in a cord, another flipped a switch, and rows of incandescent bulbs divided themselves from darkness. And, years later, Yates […]

It’s been a week since Virginia joined 27 other states and the District of Columbia in banning smoking at bars and restaurants