We Ate Here
We spotted the new Just Curry sign outside the Downtown Transit Center and just couldn’t resist the delicious (and inexpensive) meal that waited within. Fans of Just Curry’s Corner location […]
Get on the bus
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 […]
Science projects
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 […]
Cue Lionel Ritchie
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
May 08: Design, living and trends for home and garden
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 […]
May 08: News and ideas for sustainable living
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 […]
May 08: Your Kitchen
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 […]
May 08: Your Garden
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 […]
May 08: Love your little kitchen
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, […]