SECRET INGREDIENTTastemakers Dried spices can sit on supermarket shelves for a long time, growing dimmer all the while—and how long has that cayenne been in your pantry? You know it’s supposed to be spicy, right? To perk up elderly spices, toast them briefly in the oven or fry them in oil at the beginning of […]
SECRET INGREDIENTTastemakers Dried spices can sit on supermarket shelves for a long time, growing dimmer all the while—and how long has that cayenne been in your pantry? You know it’s supposed to be spicy, right? To perk up elderly spices, toast them briefly in the oven or fry them in oil at the beginning of […]
GROUND RULESPeekaboo Early bulbs tease in and out with varying temperatures. No need to worry: Fickle weather is their middle name. A lesson to us all, they grow as fast as they can when conditions are good and batten down during difficult times. Give liriope its yearly haircut this month, but use a light hand […]
There are some things that I am just really bad at. These things include applying blush, keeping an eye pencil steady, keeping my shirt reasonably unwrinkled and blow-drying my hair. I believe that some people are genetically programmed to look put-together and some people are destined to look as if they are perpetually falling apart, […]
Grapevines are everywhere Chris Hill goes. The first thing he says, standing tall and white-haired beneath the great terraced slopes of Delfosse Vineyards, wearing a Virginia Tech hat and aviator sunglasses, is “Are you familiar with how a grapevine grows, Toby?” Not really, and so at 9am on a chilly February morning, one of Virginia’s […]
Most people find sex enjoyable. But did you know that it is also good for your general health?
Maybe money talks, after all. When entertainment behemoth Live Nation, a spin-off of Clear Channel Communications, bought 51 percent of Coran Capshaw’s Crozet-based e-commerce company Musictoday in September 2006, he explained to billboard.biz that he “wasn’t looking to sell a major stake.
By now, you’ve probably heard that a CVS/pharmacy is looking to stake a claim on the Corner. Last week our own John Ruscher reported on c-ville.com that the owner of the Anderson Brothers Building, which houses Satellite Ballroom, Plan 9, Higher Grounds and Just Curry, confirmed that the chain store giant has been scoping out […]
We felt kinda odd ordering a grilled cheese sandwich with turkey, and even odder choosing the focaccia bread over wheat or rye. But in the offbeat menu at Feast! we trusted. Sure enough, this is the kind of grilled cheese sandwich that our grandmother should have offered us—or that Martha Stewart hungered to teach the […]
Sometimes you just want to sit down and relax while someone strums an acoustic guitar and sings.
First thing’s first: Did everyone see Tina Fey’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton on “Saturday Night Live”? Booya! I’m having t-shirts made that say “Bitch is the new black” on the front, and “Bitches get things done” on the back. But if you missed Fey’s endorsement-as-comedy-routine, it’s not too late to catch it on the Internet […]