ABODE April 2008
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April 08: Your Garden
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 […]
Taste tested [with video]
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
Hey, ladies…
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. […]
Italian stylin’
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 […]
Judge not!
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. […]
We Caught You Looking Sweet!
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; […]
April 08: Design, living and trends for home and garden
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 […]
April 08: News and ideas for sustainable living
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 […]
April 08: Upstairs, downstairs
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 […]