Kluge, Sweely: Putting a cork in it Foreclosures hit two big local wineries Checking in with Green House Coffee, Shenandoah Joe, Hibachi Grill and the fate of Bel Rio. Mo’ than joe Bye bye bakery? News on Balkan Bakery, Chaps and Mellow Mushroom Countdown to Kluge auction continues Tobacco company investment rumor debunked by State […]
Kluge, Sweely: Putting a cork in it Foreclosures hit two big local wineries Checking in with Green House Coffee, Shenandoah Joe, Hibachi Grill and the fate of Bel Rio. Mo’ than joe Bye bye bakery? News on Balkan Bakery, Chaps and Mellow Mushroom Countdown to Kluge auction continues Tobacco company investment rumor debunked by State […]
Don’t bug me Not that I would know from experience (wink, wink) but if you’ve got unwanted guests like ants, mosquitoes, gnats and flies in your kitchen, there are some ways to evacuate the varmints without using hazardous pesticides. One more use for Dr. Bronner’s: deterring pests. The simple solution: sanitation. You may not want […]
A few months ago, Andrew Rose Gregory woke at around 1am in the Brooklyn apartment he shares with his younger brother, Michael. He threw on an Oxford shirt and jacket, took a seat in front of a green screen, sang a few lines about global warming into his brother’s camera, and then went back to […]
When Cantina opened on Elliewood Avenue on Friday, July 17, owner Elizabeth Manatad still had paint on her arms.
It may not be strictly straight, but a line connects a Salvadoran farm worker named Señor Reyes, the octogenarian British wine sage Michael Broadbent, viticulturist Fernando Franco and me. Back in the 1970s, a question about rotting beans from Señor Reyes directed at his boss’s young son led Franco, the hijo in question, to college […]
Ann had made a lot of effort to get to a blind date with a guy she’d met online.
Galleries Art Upstairs Gallery 112 W. Main St., Suite 3 (in York Place). Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday, noon-5pm; Friday, 1-9pm; Sunday, 1-4pm. 923-3900. www.artupstairsgallery.com. Through August 2: “Vislumbres: Watercolor Landscapes,” by Mercedes Lopez. BozArt 211 W. Main St. Wednesday-Thursday, 3-9pm; Friday-Saturday, noon-9pm; Sunday, 1-4pm. 296-3919. www.bozartgallery.com. Through August 2: “Red, White, & Blue,” a collection of […]
Feedback first caught a set by the Reliable Narrators in February while working as a judge at Ty Cooper’s “Virginia Got Talent?” competition. The local duo was only a few months into making music at the time, but Dave “Hypothesis” Glover and Lorenzo “Linz Prag” Best nabbed a second place finish on the strength of […]
“There is no earthly way that we would be making wine right now without Virginia Wineworks,” said Steve Madey, owner of Hague Winery. This sentiment was echoed amongst the six other wineries also debuting their labels at the 1st Annual Virginia Wineworks Festival held June 27-28. A veritable coming-out party for these debs using the […]