From left, Amanda, Diana, Dan, and Liz Welch. The day before we met, Amanda Welch had returned from a run of events to promote a memoir she co-wrote with her siblings, The Kids Are All Right. The book is about the process of losing both parents at a young age, in a span of four […]
From left, Amanda, Diana, Dan, and Liz Welch. The day before we met, Amanda Welch had returned from a run of events to promote a memoir she co-wrote with her siblings, The Kids Are All Right. The book is about the process of losing both parents at a young age, in a span of four […]
Sunny side The home of Spackled Egg receives a sunnier, satin-finish outlook. We’d been wanting to paint our house for a long time—ever since we painted the roof red, which made a comical combo with our medium-blue exterior. After a couple of years with a flag-themed home, we finally executed the plan we’d had all […]
Charming the snake Think of the plumbing snake not only as a cool, money-saving D.I.Y. tool, but also as an investment in foregoing many future embarrassing moments. Because if you have to call a professional at 10pm (in tears) on the night before hosting your entire family for Thanksgiving dinner after thinking it would be […]
Put your stamp on it Kind of like a buffet table on Thanksgiving, we here at Instant Decorator like to give you options. This month’s project does just that: Use this fabric-stamping technique on hankies (they make a nice stocking stuffer), shower curtains, window coverings, table cloths…even bed skirts! Since the holidays are coming up, […]
From the moment Martha Milne was introduced to Bram Willets by a mutual friend five years ago, something just clicked.
Jamie Dyer said he’d be at Miller’s early—at least an hour or so before the Hogwaller Rambler’s Tuesday night gig with guitarist Jamal Millner. When I got there, Dyer was nowhere to be found. “What time does the music start tonight?” I asked the bartender. Jamal Millner and Jamie Dyer cover a few decades […]
After nine years in the North Wing of Barracks Road Shopping Center, Wild Greens is scheduled to close for good on Halloween.
There are many wines out there that have suffered the slings and arrows of overplanting and overproduction and come out nobler in the end.
When Restaurantarama learned that The Boar’s Head Inn’s new pastry chef started in his position six months ago, we thought we were terribly derelict in getting the news, but Kes Thuys, who came to Boar’s Head most recently from a pastry chef stint at Yosemite National Park assures us we’re not too late: “The first […]
Andrew Hodson’s point is simple: “Unless we sell wine, we can’t buy grapes.” Hodson is the owner of and “emeritus winemaker” at Veritas Vineyards. He was in the C-VILLE office several weeks back, describing the complicated web of professional organizations that in some sense threatens the health of Virginia winemakers and winegrowers. There’s the Virginia […]