Birds do it. Bees do it. Even teenagers (if they please) do it. And when we asked you where we should do it, you said the Downtown Mall was the Best Place to Eavesdrop on Cell Phone Conversations. So to the Downtown Mall we went, ears primed to hear the most outrageous, the most appalling, […]
Birds do it. Bees do it. Even teenagers (if they please) do it. And when we asked you where we should do it, you said the Downtown Mall was the Best Place to Eavesdrop on Cell Phone Conversations. So to the Downtown Mall we went, ears primed to hear the most outrageous, the most appalling, […]
The general hotness of the food service industry, as I understand it, boils down to this: Restaurants and bars deal in appetites, and a good deal of our appetites is sexual. While the chemistry of this equation remains a bit fuzzy, I know plenty of men and women hired for jobs at bars and restaurants […]
As you’ve probably heard, it’s a fast-paced world out there. So when we came up with the category Best Place To Run In For Milk, we pictured, in addition to actual running, a stopwatch. Granted, there may have been other considerations on readers’ minds when they voted for winner Harris Teeter, such as the pristine […]
Readers of C-VILLE, when you voted Monticello the Luxury House You Dream of Living In, you revealed that your idea of luxury is, well, complicated. No McMansion, this. No granite countertops, landing strip for private jet, or (in the vacuous parlance of our time) “entertainment center.” No, Monticello is a luxury house of the Enlightenment, […]
I put together the first half of my Charlottesville supergroup in about 10 minutes. The second half took nearly two hours. You might think that assembling my own band from this year’s Best Of music winners and runners up—Sons of Bill in first place, followed by Trees on Fire, Dave Matthews Band and Sparky’s Flaw—would […]
You look fabulous, bitches! But oh, what must be done to get there. A lot of male flesh squeeeeezed into one, two, maybe even three pairs of pantyhose creating a smooth, shiny, Barbie Doll-like lower half, while the top is padded into existence and cleavage painted on. Some serious face time with the mirror, cigarettes […]
Readers pick the Best of C-VILLE 2007 from TV anchor and bartender to dentist and spa …
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I’ve written here in the past about the ever-popular website Cute Overload that posts photographs of ridiculously cute animals—usually baby ones—that people sit in their cubicles and coo over. But where one trail is blazed, others are soon to follow, and riding on the coattails of Cute Overload comes the semi-spoof website, Ugly Overload. I […]
Last Tuesday, Italian wine and panini bar enoteca unveiled a new 95-bottle wine list, and last Monday afternoon, the staff at enoteca set about the arduous task of tasting all 40 new wines by the glass appearing on that list.