The best gifts are always those that you didn’t ask for. For example, that set of pots and pans is great, but really it’s every time you wear that cashmere sweater that you feel like you’re opening up a present all over again. I would say that the website The Edge is similar to this […]
The best gifts are always those that you didn’t ask for. For example, that set of pots and pans is great, but really it’s every time you wear that cashmere sweater that you feel like you’re opening up a present all over again. I would say that the website The Edge is similar to this […]
Three Sundays ago while scraping my cramped and out-of-shape body off Washington Park after a morning of flag football, a diverse mix of men, women, adults and college students filed on to take our place. There was no football. There were no flags. There was only a Frisbee. No, it wasn’t a massive game of […]
Feedback experienced déjà vu when we first walked into Jack Jouett Middle School the other week.
As both the source and the sounding board for all things food in this town, Restaurantarama works tirelessly on your behalf to decipher inside scoop from mere scuttlebutt. Typically, we save you, the reader, from the untruths and exaggerations that little birds whisper to us, but this week, we thought we’d let you in on […]
The classics don’t get enough credit: Something like the old-time chicken salad recipe, which millions of people eat every day, has held up for over a hundred years. Andreas Gaynor at Kiki learned how to whip this one up by watching his grandmother, peeping over her range top when he was a hungry, lanky kid. […]
Unless you are completely Spanish-illiterate, you already know that Aqui es Mexico means "Here is Mexico." Or maybe that should be Mexico is here, since we finally have real south-of-border food in Charlottesville. Our meal began with homemade chips and two types of salsa, one red hot, the other sublimely green. We followed that with […]
Guys: NBC. Have you heard of it? Maybe? Sorta kinda? Yeah, it’s pretty famous. It’s a network television station. They have a show called "The Today Show" and other shows, too. Now, as some people might remember, NBC went through a rough period with the end of "Seinfeld" and "Friends," but the network is back […]
Occasionally there are sites I like to give shout outs to not because they have any staying power or even any significant entertainment value beyond an initial five minutes, but because the initial five minutes you spend at the site are more entertaining that the first five minutes you spend on other sites. These sites […]