April 08: Your Living Space
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 […]
April 08: Your Kitchen
See shells “A box without hinges, key, or lid,Yet golden treasure inside is hid.” —from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit There is no simpler example of the miracle of life than […]
April 08: Growing green choices
So you want to build green, eh? You’ve come to the right year. Five years ago—heck, two years ago—if you were searching for an architect to design your sustainable house, […]
April 08: Green building
Haven’t been keeping up with our Green Scene section for the last couple of years? We forgive you. Here, in very condensed form, is some of the vocabulary you’ll need […]
April 08: Just say whoa
Way back when the 21st century was young and the president was just a horse’s ass instead of a deceptive, calculating horse’s ass, I worked for a Realtor in Bethesda, […]
April 08: Biscuits and wi-fi
Sometime in the mid-19th century, a small village in southern Albemarle County known as Mount Israel took its official name from a leading resident, Roland Bates. By then, the town […]
April 08: Hot House
Last time we took a good look at the ecoMOD house in Fifeville, it had yet to be transformed into the high-concept dwelling designed and built by a team of […]
Smarten up
Just like The Economist is kind of one-stop shopping for the thinking person who doesn’t have time to read The Wall Street Journal every day, More Intelligent Life is one-stop […]
Beef’d up
Where’s the Prime beef? You may be asking yourself this question. Turns out, the USDA’s grading for top-quality beef—after Prime, it’s Choice, then Select, then…you don’t really want to know—isn’t […]
Are they not MEN? [with audio]
Johanna Fateman is a modern day Renaissance woman. She’s a writer, member of electro-feminist punk band Le Tigre, has an MFA in painting and runs a hair salon in New York’s West Village.