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 was already bustling due to its place alongside the commercial thoroughfare that stretched from Staunton to Scottsville. It was called Plank Road because the lush […]
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 was already bustling due to its place alongside the commercial thoroughfare that stretched from Staunton to Scottsville. It was called Plank Road because the lush […]
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 UVA students. Back then, it was a ramshackle mid-19th-century home that had narrowly escaped demolition. So when it caught our eye this time—looking urban and […]
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 shopping for those poor, busy souls who don’t have time to religiously read The Economist, Salon, ArtForum, The New York Times’ Style Section, etc. The […]
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 readily available around here. There are probably two reasons for that: One, it’s not readily available anywhere—only about 3 percent of beef produced in this […]
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.
In my last column, I gave you the lowdown on some of the health benefits of sexual expression for women. Now it’s the men’s turn. Studying a large group of people over an extended period of time is the best way to find out how changes in health are triggered by various lifestyle modifications. Several […]
So maybe you don’t start thinking about Christmas presents until Black Friday, and maybe you’re the type to Google “Charlottesville accountant” in, oh, the second week of April. Those things aren’t important anyway—at least compared to the task of preparing your body for a baby. We learned all about the preconception checkup through a helpful […]
Before moving from East Los Angeles to a rural Utah town at the age 14, Rick Olivarez