Born free
Imagine my surprise during my first Danish triathlon when, emerging from the ice-cold water, I passed naked butt after naked butt lined up in the transition area where you get ready for the bike part of the race.
Living
We Ate Here
Inspired by a comment in this year’s Best Of writeups (see “Best Frozen Treat”), we marched into time-honored Timberlake’s to partake of a pleasure so classic there’s practically a glow around it. We speak, friends, of the chocolate milkshake. Served in a heavy glass by been-there-forever waitresses, the shake is thick enough to stand up […]
Rising to the tapas
Tomas Rahal, executive chef and part owner of Mas, is fond of saying, “You’re only as good as your last meal.”
Half-court press
When it was established that The Dell, the courts next to Ruffner Hall at UVA, won Best Place For Pick-Up Basketball, C-VILLE dispatched four staffers to the scene on a Wednesday evening in July to check it out. The four were wily veterans Brendan “Danny-Ainge-But-Taller” Fitzgerald, Will “Kevin McHale-But-Shorter” Goldsmith, Jayson “Jo Jo White” Whitehead […]
The bong show
One of the best things about using drugs is how it broadens your cultural horizons. As C-VILLE’s Drug Correspondent, I feel proud to have purchased drugs in many far-flung, sketchy places from all sorts of wretched individuals. How can I forget the sticky paranoia of Mexican beaches, the murderous nights in San Francisco’s Tenderloin? Kokie’s, […]
Ears to you
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, […]
Service with a Bang!
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 […]
The white stuff
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 […]
Your lap of choice
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, […]
Rock you like a hurricane
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 […]