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.
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Wine's blood
Why you're a moron if you don't like rosés
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 […]
August 08: News and ideas for sustainable living
Max out your miles Yeah, this is a house and home publication, and your car isn’t part of your house. But, for one thing, lots of us practically live in our cars, and for another thing, most household budgets have been getting heavier in the “gasoline” column lately, and therefore lighter in the “cool […]
August 08: Hot house
Nestled in the woods east of Charlottesville, this stone house says sweet relaxation. Check out that wide front porch (complete with rocking chair) and that lush wooded view. Any double-wide might boast those goodies, but this place has style too, in the brick accents hugging the windows and the substantial flared porch columns.
August 08: Room to grow
At 8:30 on a Sunday morning, the road is quiet. Bunnies hop across gravel driveways as a flock of geese waits to cross the street into an open meadow that’s already hot from the strong summer sun. A woman in a sunhat completes her morning stroll down the tree-lined road, and a little boy holding […]
August 08: Plugged in
Talk about full circle: Megan Huddleston now lives in a house near Crozet where, as a 15-year-old, she fed dogs for a neighbor and had permission to walk through the nearby fields whenever she wanted. A year ago, she and her boyfriend Ferd Moyse—he’s a member of the Hackensaw Boys and they both play in […]
August 08: Your Garden
Summer afternoon Henry James once said that these—“summer afternoon”—were the two most beautiful words in the English language, and with the weather we’ve been having, who could disagree? Timely rains since February have produced “significant improvement in drought conditions throughout the Commonwealth,” according to the U.S. Geological Service. The skies have been powder puff pictures […]
August 08: Your Kitchen
Cucumber Salad This summery salad recipe, courtesy of the Indian restaurant Milan, has one possibly hard-to-find ingredient: the Indian spice powder Chat Masala. If you can’t find it to buy, directions are available online for mixing your own. 1 cucumber, peeled and cut into bite-sized pieces 1/2 small onion, cut into bite-sized pieces […]