Times, as we are constantly reminded, are tough. The Senate is trying to figure out how to pay for the 50 million Americans who are without health insurance, which means somehow scraping together some $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years. The good news is they have a plan. The bad news is the plan […]
Times, as we are constantly reminded, are tough. The Senate is trying to figure out how to pay for the 50 million Americans who are without health insurance, which means somehow scraping together some $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years. The good news is they have a plan. The bad news is the plan […]
Flirting is supposed to be a delicious, fun, lighthearted exchange. Boil it down to three things: smiling, making eye contact, and chatting.
It seems we’ve spent the last few months reporting on the variety of survival-mode tactics many restaurants have been taking in light of the economic recession.
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 June 28: “Bricks: Images of C-ville,” by Bill Finn. BozArt 211 W. Main St., Wednesday-Thursday, 3-9pm; Friday-Saturday, noon-9pm; Sunday, 1-4pm. 296-3919. www.bozartgallery.com. Through June 30: Recent works by Barbara Wachter. The Bridge/Progressive […]
In Charlottesville, reggae music typically seems like more of a passing fancy than a fundamental part of local music—an indicator of an uptick in Bob Marley blunt posters in UVA dorm rooms, perhaps, or a double-dub dare for some adventurous booking agent. Heck, it was a phase for local Lem Oppenheimer, a co-founder of the […]
Connect four Here, the cheese factor’s a good thing: A set of four serving plates from The Happy Cook brings vintage labels from European cheeses to your table. Are you daring enough to serve Gruyere on the Emmenthaler plate? Hyper-local food When times get tough, get foraging. Edible: […]
Fred Oesch and Debbie Davis in the 1,200-square-foot, octagonal house he designed for her in North Garden. Davis and her sister laid the Buckingham slate floor; her Murphy bed folds out of the wall behind the easy chair. It’s an overcast day, and inside a small clearing on Debbie Davis’ 26-acre property, the sunlight is […]
It’s easy to talk about getting off the grid, but how many of us would actually do it? As Fred Oesch’s first residential client who wanted to live completely disconnected from utility systems, Debbie Davis is unusually committed to her green goals. “In general principle, she wanted to be off the grid,” says Oesch. “That […]
If you’ve done any reading about straw-bale construction, you know that the epicenter of American straw-bale enthusiasm is far away, in states like Arizona and Utah. But there are a number of straw-bale houses in Central Virginia, including those that Fred Oesch has designed. Skeptics might question the use of a moisture-sensitive material in this […]
In today’s buyers’ market, you hear stories of $500,000 homes selling for as little as $250,000—a buyer’s jackpot by any standard. Price reductions are everywhere—so how can a savvy homebuyer make the most of them? Searching for discounted properties is easy enough. Log on to realcentralva.com for an up-to-date list of price-reduced or foreclosure […]