Morgan Rowe Occupation: Sales assistant at CBS 19 Where we spotted her: SUGAR New Year’s Eve party at Mas Style sense: Morgan prefers the simple, classic look with lots of black and white, and says Jennifer Aniston is a style inspiration. She usually shops J. Crew and Nordstroms, and got everything she’s wearing here at […]
Morgan Rowe Occupation: Sales assistant at CBS 19 Where we spotted her: SUGAR New Year’s Eve party at Mas Style sense: Morgan prefers the simple, classic look with lots of black and white, and says Jennifer Aniston is a style inspiration. She usually shops J. Crew and Nordstroms, and got everything she’s wearing here at […]
How will pregnancy affect your sex life? Ask your girlfriends who have been pregnant whether they had sex during their pregnancy and you will likely get quite a mix of answers—from “I was constantly horny and felt like having sex every single day,” to “No way, I felt nauseous the first few months and then […]
The other week I read that ad pages at The New Yorker are down 26 percent and that in the last issue there were only 10 pages of ads in the entire issue. This news hit me in the gut because I was suddenly faced with the prospect of what our reading landscape would look […]
Champagne is the most brand conscious of wines, unapologetically purchased for its price and status: Moet, Cristal, Krug, names mentioned by rappers and Wall Street traders alike, although perhaps less so by the latter these days. Chief among those in terms of brand recognition is the highway-safety-orange label of Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin. Ubiquitous in wine […]
When my sisters and I were kids, we had a favorite ritual with our babysitter. We’d set our old kitchen table with a lace tablecloth, pull out the fine candlesticks and put our boxed Kraft Macaroni and Cheese into a crystal serving bowl. Classical music played on my dad’s record player and we felt like […]
Dr. Ho’s is its own little universe down there in North Garden. It’s packed, for example, on Tuesday nights, and one gets a sense of a close-knit world that embraces both sides of the counter. We stopped in after work for takeout—nothing fancy, just a large pizza with garlic, tomato and beef—and were comforted not […]
I am not in the habit of hawking the commercial sites of major companies. But times are so tough that I am even feeling a little pain for The Man, and don’t feel as bad about giving AutoZone a shout-out as I might have in the past. Plus, AutoZone has a pretty great website. Especially […]
The most anticipated opening of 2009 happened last week. Chuck Adcock—former head chef and part owner of Michael’s Bistro
Have you ever noticed the word “Monticello” printed on the label of your favorite Virginia wine? “Christ,” you probably thought, “is there anything around here that man hasn’t gotten his clutches on?” Well, no, but the use of “Monticello” on the label does not mean that the wine is made at TJ’s house. Monticello is […]