October 08: Your Garden

  Rain reprieve Weather comes at us fast—immediate as a hurricane—but it doesn’t last long. A month ago, we were on the verge of severe drought after an encouraging spring […]

October 08: Hot house

  We appreciate subtlety now and then, and this place in Johnson Village has it in spades. Seemingly a standard rancher given some tasteful Craftsman-style updates, it wears its flared […]

Table manners

So, apparently some nerds at the University of Nottingham convinced someone out there to give them a grant to make YouTube videos about the Periodic Table called Periodic Videos—one YouTube […]

Farther along

A year has passed since my article “From the ground up” appeared in C-VILLE’s annual food issue.

We Ate Here

You know, some dishes come and go and others really earn their stripes. Such is the bazaar salad served at the more-than-half-a-decade-old-by-now teahouse. This thing has been one of the […]

Once upon a vine

Chef Craig Hartman stands in front of a row of large double doors that are opened to the outside and through which rows of grapevines are visible,