The bus is 45 minutes late picking me up due to the ladies on board needing Starbucks, but I don’t mind. The Washington Wine Academy and Reston Limousine have started bringing groups from Washington D.C. to Charlottesville to tour wine country, and intrigued by reports of Long Island wine tours gone mad (drunken bachelorette parties! […]
The bus is 45 minutes late picking me up due to the ladies on board needing Starbucks, but I don’t mind. The Washington Wine Academy and Reston Limousine have started bringing groups from Washington D.C. to Charlottesville to tour wine country, and intrigued by reports of Long Island wine tours gone mad (drunken bachelorette parties! […]
Science writing tends to fall into three categories: incomprehensible (a la textbooks and academic journals), middle-aged (Bill Bryson, Mary Oliver), and alpha-manly (Sebastian Junger, Jon Krakauer). And yet, what of all the other writers out there with a flair for the written word and a weakness for the scientific method? They tend to get the […]
As this year’s All Night Long after-prom party begins at midnight, music pounds throughout U-Hall, which feels empty despite the hundreds of kids from Western Albemarle, Albemarle, Charlottesville and Monticello highs
What’s on your browser? This month’s surfer: Peter Loach at the Piedmont Housing AllianceWhat’s on his browser: hud.gov What it is: The official site of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Why he likes it: Although Loach admits it can be a fairly “cumbersome” site to negotiate, it has everything under the sun […]
Get on board as local eating picks up speed By the time you read this, Earth Day will be over and three new “green initiatives” will have been launched by our local Earth Day organization. One of these, “Growing Food and Community,” involves promoting the local food scene in Charlottesville—a vibrant cause, and getting more […]
Hand off “Where’s your best friends?” a chef instructor at cooking school used to chant; he referred to tongs (in the dominant hand) and a dry kitchen towel (in the other hand). The ideal set of tongs should be loose enough (in their action) so as not to cause hand cramping; the ‘teeth’ of the […]
Almost frostless The average last day of frost for Charlottesville generally occurs in mid-April, but out here in the hollow we sit in a frost pocket—a low spot where cold air settles—and can get nipped as late as the first week in May. Cool crops like lettuces, spinach, cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli thrive with spring […]
Got a galley? An eat-in? A squeeze- past-your-spouse, pretzel-pose- to-open-drawers kind of kitchen? We’re guessing you’d still like to enjoy that room, despite the odds. In support of your efforts, dear space-challenged readers, we offer you a smorgasbord of stories. There’s a real- life tale for inspiration, about a couple who transformed wasted space into […]
Dear reader, close your eyes with me, if you will, and think back to a lost time, an era gone, the enchanted world of local real estate circa 2004 and 2005. Do you remember that distant past, when homes sold in days, mortgages were written with the effortless sweep of an ink pen and the […]