December 2009: Green Scene
More green, please This house on a prominent Ridge Street corner will soon get a green rehab. Want more green housing in Charlottesville? You got it. In a unique collaborative […]
December 2009: Feeling at home in Neal Deputy's adaptive apartments
In 1996, when architect Neal Deputy adapted the original Coca-Cola Bottling Works (CCBW) Building on 10th Street NW into four residential apartments, there wasn’t much like it for renters in […]
December 2009: D.I.Y. Diary
Set to weather well Often, we’ve had guests who, against all reason, have actually volunteered to stay overnight in our chaotic household so that they may donate their elbow grease […]
December 2009: Instant Decorator
Crafter’s Christmas The last thing we here at Instant Decorator wish for you this season is to be boring. When you dig out your holiday regalia and find that […]
December 2009: Toolbox
The wallpaper scorer’s teeth punch tiny holes in the paper, which make it easier for stripping agents to do their work. Easy removal still not guaranteed. Stuck on the scorer […]
Patience and rewards
Dan and Molly Laufer dated for half a decade before getting married. Three of those years were spent in separate cities. Dan, 25, lived in Atlanta, where he worked at […]
C'vllle Coffee spruces up
On any given day at C’ville Coffee you’ll likely see a cross-section of Charlottesville’s diverse citizenry.
The gravity of Astronomers' new EP, Think Fast!
Kyle Woolard—the fuzz-folk, almost-Mark Kozelek songwriter behind Uncle Jemima—e-mailed me in October to let me know that he’d joined up with local trio Astronomers. Not long after, the band booked […]
Bringing wines to the turkey table
If you are the lucky recipient of an invitation to someone’s home for Thanksgiving this year, please call your host immediately to tell him that you’ve got the wine covered.
Two ways that restaurants and tourist stops get their name on a bottle of wine
As if Richard Hewitt did not have enough to do, the master of the Keswick Hall wine list (all 32 pages of it) will bottle 25 cases of Petit Verdot […]