Every day I seem to realize anew that people are crazy. Every day this elicits from me some comment to some person along the lines of “People are crazy,” “It blows my mind how crazy people are,” or “How do people walk around all day inside these brains? They’re crazy!” Inevitably, my companion accepts these […]
Every day I seem to realize anew that people are crazy. Every day this elicits from me some comment to some person along the lines of “People are crazy,” “It blows my mind how crazy people are,” or “How do people walk around all day inside these brains? They’re crazy!” Inevitably, my companion accepts these […]
Mum’s the wordHow to grow the official flower of fall Seeing mums everywhere you look? Eltzroth & Thompson’s Corann Ley tells us that if you want to add chrysanthemums to your yard, you should look for the garden mum variety—they’re hardy and will reappear next year. At the nursery, pick out the plants with barely-visible […]
Stored, not boughtPut some food by for the marketless months If you’re like us, you’re eyeing the end of the gardening and farmers’ market season with a vague feeling of dread. No more fresh local veggies? No more goodies growing out in the yard? What the heck are we gonna eat all winter, canned soup? […]
If you’re in the market for a house, you may have heard something or other about some sort of “credit crunch” or “mortgage meltdown.” It’s been in the news just a wee bit, insomuch as “a wee bit” translates to “plastered on every available media space for the last two months.” So with all the […]
Odd advicewww.curbly.com Friendly and spunky, the design blog and catch-all curbly.com shows us what’s cool in the design world without the Martha Stewart sweetness or the more-mod-than-thou tone of other design sites. Recently spotted on curbly: a roundup of the best furniture currently for sale on craigslist, real estate advice based on the errors of […]
In a city neighborhood minutes from Downtown, photographer Billy Hunt occupies a spacious, woodsy oasis: trees surround the 175-year-old house he shares with his wife Jocelyn and their 16-month-year-old son, William—so many trees that if you squint, you could almost think you were deep in Nelson County. “Every room is an addition,” Hunt says of […]
Marisa Catalano is sitting pretty. Not only does she help run the upscale Italian wine bar enoteca—an opportunity she calls “priceless” for a 29-year-old culinary school grad like herself—she lives in an apartment with a killer view of Carter Mountain, Charlottesville and the hills beyond. When she moved here from New York a year and […]
Albemarle County straddles the foothills and the piedmont, from the soft blue mounds of Afton to the mellow plains east of Charlottesville. This tricky topography makes many different pockets to catch first frosts. City folk retain more heat than those of us in the country and can eke out a longer season, but sooner or […]
Jim Chang is your typical reluctant neighborhood association president—he took over the job “by default,” he says. You know, somebody’s got to step up and organize the annual neighborhood potluck. Oh, but if only Chang’s job were that glamorous and fluffy. No, figuratively speaking, when Chang was the last Meadows resident to shout, “not it” […]
I like my kitchen—just not for the same reason most people like their kitchens.Let me explain. My first memory is of being hoisted onto a kitchen counter and sitting there with my legs dangling while my mother’s arm, like a bar on a ski lift, kept me from falling. I think she was talking on […]