Ground Rules Year of the greens New Year’s resolution: Grow your own. Tired of worrying about E. coli in bagged spinach and turning over bedraggled heads of romaine that look like they’ve been through hell to get here from who knows where? With a bit of planning, it should be possible to walk outside and […]
Ground Rules Year of the greens New Year’s resolution: Grow your own. Tired of worrying about E. coli in bagged spinach and turning over bedraggled heads of romaine that look like they’ve been through hell to get here from who knows where? With a bit of planning, it should be possible to walk outside and […]
Help Line Disc dos Question for Anne Williams, host of WNRN’s Acoustic Sunrise: How should I store my CDs to keep them organized and damage free? Answer: First of all, says Williams, if you can avoid big temperature swings in the spot where you keep your collection, that’s a good thing. “Most radio stations try […]
On his recent solo tours, Kurt Wagner, the front man for Nashville-based alt-country band Lambchop, has been stringing a clothesline across the stage.
They aren’t top chefs just yet, but the high school kids in the Culinary Arts program at CATEC (Charlottesville Albemarle Technical Education Center) are No. 1 in our hearts right now. Here’s why: Thanks to a class project that began in November 2007 called “One year of Blessing, Caring, and Thanksgiving to people in need, […]
Lauren Disabato (right) Where we spotted her: Volunteering at the SPCA with her friend Jess Occupation: StudentStyle sense: Lauren says she gets her style from reading magazines. Her hoodie is from J. Crew, her jeans are from Abercrombie & Fitch, and she is wearing UGG boots.Jess Bossems (left)Where we spotted her: Volunteering at the SPCAOccupation: […]
Little-known fact: Splendora’s is open for breakfast, and if you hustle you’ll get there even before the vats of gelato are set out in the big glass cases. (Why you’d want to? Just ‘cause.) We let our eyes roam over the pastries until they settled on a humble-looking currant scone. It was the round type, […]
Note: This recipe is part of a series of classic Acquired Tastes from the C-VILLE archives. This one first ran in 2003. Sure, it would be fun to be jet off to Munich, but it’s a heck of a lot easier to hop in your car and jet up Route 29 to the Bavarian Chef […]
Even if they aren’t always followed, New Year’s resolutions are a ritual for many of us. What’s more, year after year, Americans tend to resolve to do the same things they resolved to do the year before, probably because when we made our resolutions the previous year we stuck to our guns through mid-February, but […]
Tile fingerprints For Earlysville potter Suzanne Crane, it’s all about the local. Crane is a former English teacher who learned her craft (and discovered her talent) by taking pottery classes at PVCC. Now she’s traded grading papers for creating handmade, botanical-inspired ceramic pieces that are rooted (pun intended) in local materials and plants. Dan Zimmerman […]
Higher schooling Back in May, we told you that Charlottesville Albemarle Technical Education Center (CATEC) students were building a house to be certified under LEED standards—the school’s first green building project. Well, we’ve got bad news and good news. The bad: That project ran into some timing troubles and didn’t earn a certification. The good: […]