Fat days: Nope, you’re not crazy
Finding a good pair of pants is the shopper’s equivalent of playing Goldilocks. Some are too big, most are too small, and a few (if you’re lucky) are juuuust right. […]
Sex Files: Role reversal
Growing up in Denmark and being a teenager in the mid-’70s, I remember Lasse Hessel spreading the word about healthy living. The doctor hosted a popular, government-sponsored TV series and […]
March 08: Drive me home
Need to get away from it all? Need a new easy chair? Says we, these goals are entirely compatible. We all know there’s lots of great shopping here in Charlottesville, […]
March 08: Driving forward
Many of the neighborhoods around town are stately or old or both. Some stretch back a half dozen generations. But the neighborhood of Pantops, a sprawling mass of office parks, […]
March 08: Situation normal
Adjusting mortgage rates, national foreclosures on the rise, threats of a looming economic recession…times are tough. Just ask the Georgia man who donned a ski mask and walked into a […]
March 08: Hot House
We love a house that’s completely at ease with itself. In the case of this Barracks-area home, that means a modern-as-modern sensibility that makes no apologies. It’s your basic double […]
March 08: Design, living and trends for home and garden
The grate war Going into outdoor cooking season, we all labor under the following maxim: Grilling is great. Cleaning is not. However, if you want to keep grilling, you’ve got […]
March 08: Two cooks in the kitchen
“It was this dark, stinky house.” So says Grier Murphy about her house on Hinton Avenue, back when she and her husband, Kevin, first saw it in 1999. At that […]
March 08: News and ideas for sustainable living
Line up! Being part of the solution means different things to different people. Money saved, a smaller carbon footprint, and fresh-smelling sheets: Line-dried laundry is the solution that City Councilor […]
March 08: Your Living Space
COFFEE TABLE LIBRARYEastern standard Unless you plan on relocating to Japan and building a new home, Marcia Iwatate and Geeta K. Mehta’s Japan Houses is unlikely to provide ideas about […]