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Hole’d up? Checking in with The Pigeon Hole and The Light Well What difference does a year make? The importance of a wine’s vintage
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Hole’d up? Checking in with The Pigeon Hole and The Light Well What difference does a year make? The importance of a wine’s vintage
Being a buyer
caption p.17: Jim Duncan, local Realtor and blogger, told us that the rising tide of houses doesn’t have to drown buyers. “When you actually start looking, the pickings are fairly slim, realistically.” No big secret here: The local real estate market, at the moment, favors the buyer. Sellers are gritting their teeth and trying to […]
But what about the money?
The house is one thing; the mortgage is another. Perhaps the most daunting aspect of the market right now is the fact that the lending industry itself seems to need a serious renovation. How can you get the financing you need without risking collapse? We turned to Matt Hodges, a partner and loan officer at […]
Private ease
The communities surrounding the Boar’s Head Inn—Ednam, Ednam Village and Ednam Forest—are all separate subdivisions, and in some ways quite different, but a passer-by can be forgiven for confusing them. In addition to sharing the Ednam name (which comes from the name of the mansion built in 1901 by a New York bachelor named Edwin […]
Is this your first time?
Sure, there are houses moving. But overall, the local housing market sort of looks like the real estate equivalent of a guy sitting on his couch, twiddling his thumbs. Lots of homes on the market, not a lot of people jumping to buy them. In the past months, the market has softened, driving prices down. […]
Hot house
The first time we went out looking for an eye-catching crib for our new Hot House page, this North Downtown beauty turned our heads. First we noticed its understated color (and of course that signature sweep of the roofline didn’t hurt either.) But the reason we kept looking was the entryway on the right, with […]
Start here
I will admit from the outset that I don’t understand the modern way of appreciating wine.
Sex Files: Reading the signs
“What turns you on?” is a question I often ask clients who struggle with arousal. Some women just don’t know how to respond, and admit that they have given it little or no thought, which is not surprising, considering that few of us have learned to tune into our sexual feelings and thoughts while growing […]
Shelves of volumes
You drive up a nearly vertical narrow ribbon of black asphalt (“I hate this road in all weather”) to get to Bill Allard’s place in Afton. It snakes past stone retaining walls holding up tipsy perennial beds to the final vertiginous bend where the log house, built by previous owners in 1989, perches above woodland […]
Your kitchen
[image p.11] [image p.11] Secret Ingredient Liquid lunch Starr Hill beer has been brewed right here in Charlottesville since 1999, first on Main Street and now in Crozet in a former food processing building. The massive scale of the building, along with plenty of refrigeration, makes this a dream spot for Starr Hill Brewery (starrhillbeer.com; […]