We Ate Here

Patrick Critzer’s Hamdingers cart is a seasonal pleasure, so we bellied up to make the most of it. Almost as good as the roast vegetable sandwich was the pleasure of watching Critzer put it together, armed with the tools and ingredients of his tidily arranged cart. The meal itself was savory and warm, a sub […]

August 08: Design, living a trends for home and garden

  Basket cases Although we might not be as resourceful as Depression-era grandmothers with hand-made flour sack aprons, we love the feeling we get from reusing things that look like trash. Baskets and containers from the farmers’ market are a pretty way to organize in the kitchen, bath or office. You’ll find your berries and […]

Raising the roof

The first time I became aware that pre-fab housing could be something other than disgusting was a number of years back when the magazine Dwell sponsored a pre-fab home design competition, then sold—through the magazine—the winning blueprints. Since then, the idea of mass-producing good design (think Apple tech design applied to architecture) has fascinated me. […]

The July of Jinx

During last summer’s typical local restaurant business famine, Jinx Kern “was living on credit cards,” he tells us. This summer is a different story.

We Ate Here

We considered a mere take-out pastry to fuel up on a recent Wednesday morning, but instead went for the gold: a real sit-down breakfast in which we stuffed ourselves to the gills with Bluegrass’ Number 5. It’s a groaning plate of scrambled eggs generously stuffed with spinach, tomatoes, green peppers and cheese, accompanied by good […]

Wine's blood

There is a certain type of wine drinker who thinks of himself (it is often, but not always, a man) as being above drinking pink wine.

Always too early

My previous column focused on the most common sexual problem for women: low libido. Now I will address the most frequent male concern: rapid or premature ejaculation (PE).

August 08: One thing leads to another

“If you were to design a house, you’d be highly unlikely to come up with this design,” says Theo van Groll, sitting in the dining room of his home in Gordonsville. Indeed, the house’s odd form—low and oblong, spacious but somehow appearing small—is unusual, and that’s because it wasn’t meant to be a house at […]

August 08: Payback time

Just because you’re successfully weathering the current credit crises, armed with your reliable FHA-backed loan and your unsexy but stable fixed interest rate, doesn’t mean you should rest easy. You are losing money just sitting there! By the time you make that last mortgage payment decades down the road, you ultimately may pay more than […]