December 08: A local holiday
Are you hoping for a kindler, gentler holiday season this year? Something that feels good AND looks good, no matter the temperature, and goes great with last year’s haircut? Trade […]
December 08: Hot house
We think this place in the Rugby neighborhood looks just perfect for entertaining. No idea whether there’s an open floor plan inside, allowing hostess to chat while fixing cocktails—it’s […]
December 08: Glossary of the housing crisis
Chances are, more of you reading this are currently on shaky ground with your mortgages than two years or even one year ago. It’s not likely that you’re feeling too […]
December 08: Neighborhood on the line
The Willoughby subdivision holds a secret: Hidden in Joelle and Michael Meintzschel’s backyard is the treehouse of dreams. At a glance Distance from Downtown: 2 miles Distance from UVA: […]
December 08: News and ideas for sustainable living
Red and green go green: LED Christmas lights will make the Yuletide less power-hungry. Green lights If you’re headed out to pick up a zillion-pack of Christmas lights with which […]
December 08: Recaptured kitchen
Having a back porch is all well and good, but when one’s kitchen is tiny, one may start to eye up the verandah as an area ripe for colonization. Such […]
Weather or not
If there is one underrated pastime in the book of life, it is that of talking about the weather. I could talk about it all day long to anyone who […]
Cork is dead, long live cork
Six years after Randall Grahm, the owner of Bonny Doon winery, held an elaborate mock
We Ate Here
In a hurry at breakfast, and not wanting to spend a fortune, we finally clued in to the fact that every Downtown worker and her mother lines up to buy […]
Attention Bohos
As of the end of October, Escafe has new owners and a new direction. Actually it’s an old direction: