A fool for April Everyone’s a sucker for spring in Virginia. What’s not to like? Pale confetti flowers shower from cherries and crabapples onto candy-colored drifts of azaleas, daffodils and tulips all surrounded by that jazzed-up green that nature saves just for April. The lawn care industry uses such idyllic scenes to sell products that […]
A fool for April Everyone’s a sucker for spring in Virginia. What’s not to like? Pale confetti flowers shower from cherries and crabapples onto candy-colored drifts of azaleas, daffodils and tulips all surrounded by that jazzed-up green that nature saves just for April. The lawn care industry uses such idyllic scenes to sell products that […]
When mutual affection for ska bands like The Specials and Madness brought The Pietasters together at Virginia Tech in 1990, the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind was still a year away
Truth be told, Women on Web is not a beautiful site. And by “beautiful” I’m talking well-designed, easy to read or easy to use. It is none of these things. And yet it is to-the-point, it does a job that needs doing, and having it out there in cyberspace is a beautiful thing, indeed. Using […]
Spring is upon us, and that means one thing to Restaurantarama—alfresco dining! Ah—the breeze, the buskers, the poor food servers trying to negotiate pedestrian traffic on the Mall—these are the things we dream about all winter long. One of the many popular Mall patios, of course, is the centrally located outdoor seating of Sal’s Caffe […]
The eight judges arrived at Keswick Hall at 9am on a beautiful day last week and, except for lunch and two small breaks, didn’t stop tasting wine until around 3:40pm. This year’s Monticello Wine Cup competition featured 95 wines—soon to adorn tasting rooms and be bragged about in newsletters—from the Monticello AVA (the American Viticultural […]
Melike EtemOccupation: Graduate student in systems and information engineeringWhere we spotted her: Walking outside the Glass Building Style sense: Melike doesn’t remember ever buying a complete outfit from one store; she likes to mix and match things she buys from different places. On the day we caught her, she was wearing skinny Levis, a gray […]
I screen, you screen Summer is almost upon us with days full of sunshine, long languid evenings, barbecues…and bugs. No one likes a party crashed by insects, so now is the time to make sure your screens are in tip-top condition. Cat got your screen? You can probably repair it yourself The first place to […]
Mixed media Got a book you want to bid goodbye, and a CD you covet? Here’s one solution: swaptree.com. The idea on this site is to list what you want to trade, then list what you want, then put your feet up and let Swaptree do the rest. It works by matching your “haves” with […]
When Rob and Megan Weary moved into their new house last August, they’d reached a breaking point. Since 2005, they’d turned 76 acres of land in Keswick into a 100-member CSA farm while commuting from Charlottesville. There was also Megan’s bout with cancer soon after giving birth to their first child, a daughter who’s now […]
Improve your overhead Question for Francesca Diggs, owner of The Feathered Nest: What are some things I can do to a plain drywall ceiling to make it an attractive part of the design of a room? Answer: Diggs says that whether you are working with new construction or planning a renovation, there are many ways […]