Brewing up food
Some people view beer as a food group. You know the type—the ones who prefer to drink their lunches and consume a good portion of their weekly caloric intake in pale ales and porters.
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Brewing up food
Blue Mountain Brewery isn't just suds
Some people view beer as a food group. You know the type—the ones who prefer to drink their lunches and consume a good portion of their weekly caloric intake in pale ales and porters.
A crushing development?
Until very recently, buying wine in Charlottesville was relatively peaceful and, with the exception of the recent statewide flap over winery self-distribution, undisturbed. It worked the way it does everywhere else in the country, operating under the Byzantine, three-tier system of selling alcohol (a throwback to Prohibition), whereby the wineries must sell to distributors, who […]
Fired up [with audio]
Pop music boasts a rich tradition of family bands, from classic groups like The Jackson 5 and Sly and the Family Stone to the ex-husband/wife duo the White Stripes and our own Sons of Bill.
Green-eyed lady
I really want to see my carbon footprint get smaller, but when faced with a pile of paper to recycle, my thoughts tend to run a little something like, “How do I recycle paper again? Does brown paper go with glossy paper or newspaper? Or does newspaper go with white paper? Or is newspaper its […]
Gift of grub
Mark Cosgrove received the “best birthday present ever” when he turned 29 a few months ago.
We caught you looking sweet!
Janice Wood (left) and Victoria Gardner Occupation: Owners of Posh Style Where we spotted them: Outside their shop Style sense: Both Janice and Victoria love clothing with a historic feel. Their aunt, who was a designer, is often an inspiration for them. Victoria’s colorful, patterned skirt is Profile (a designer from Huntington Beach), her top […]
The charm of C’ville [with audio]
When Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield first met his neighbors after moving into his apartment in Brooklyn, they asked him if he was from Charlottesville.
Star power
After reading Doug Nordfors’ contribution to a recent C-VILLE cover story—a few hundred words pondering the lackluster literary scene in Charlottesville—I began pondering the same question myself, specifically regarding the under-35 literary demographic. Being on break from my own MFA program, I decided to investigate ways to get the local, under-35 literary demographic off their […]
We Ate Here
Could it be that we were heavily inclined to like the pan-roasted breast of Polyface Farms naturally raised chicken served with sweet potato risotto and kale because we are so enamored of Joel Salatin’s approach to sustainable, happy farming over in the Valley? Maybe. After all, he’s the outspoken, charismatic hero of Michael Pollan’s “natural […]
Designing for diners
First lesson in restaurant design: Nothing ever starts on time. Ted Nelson has that one down now. He and his partner, Ben Dagitz, of Design Build Office, are designing the new location of Aroma’s Café in the Barracks Road Shopping Center. It’s the first restaurant project for the one-and-a-half-year-old firm started by Nelson and Dagitz, […]