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 […]
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 […]
When Rebecca Lamb and her husband came down to Charlottesville to visit the University of Virginia, they got lost in the streets off Barracks Road and found themselves in a charming neighborhood with beautiful houses on small streets sheltered by a mature tree canopy. A year later, the self-employed Lambs decided to escape the relatively […]
Craftsman is big these days among the builders and buyers of brand-new houses, and it’s not hard to see why: The first generation of these liveable, finely made houses stand out in older neighborhoods for their solid forms and friendly details. Consider this specimen, which we spotted in the JPA neighborhood, exhibit A. And get […]
Click here to see video highlights of last weekend’s 6 Day Bender and Sarah White show at Satellite Ballroom. A few minutes before 7:30pm on a Wednesday evening, and Feedback is staring at a sea of tangled bows and brass on the stage of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Performing Arts Center. A cacophony of […]
First Oprah’s Sophie, now Martha’s Paw Paw—what’s a rich and powerful woman to do? Blog, apparently. At least that’s what Martha Stewart has done a lot of since Paw Paw, her “beloved dog Kublai Khan Paw Paw Chow Chow Chow” (Damn, that’s a mouthful. Does it even make sense?) died on Saturday, April 12. Martha […]