March 08: Your Kitchen
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 […]
March 08: Your Garden
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 […]
Mirror, mirror
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. […]
The Vine Whisperer
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 […]
Sex Files: Not just for fun
Most people find sex enjoyable. But did you know that it is also good for your general health?
In the key of change [with audio]
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.
Just Curry to become just CVS?
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 […]
We Ate Here
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 […]
Peelander-Z from outer space [with video]
Sometimes you just want to sit down and relax while someone strums an acoustic guitar and sings.
Laugh line
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 […]