We caught you looking sweet!
Jennifer Marks and Nicolette Leung
Living
We ate here
Why has the Blue Moon Diner been beloved for so long? The Huevos Bluemooños must be part of the reason. Order these, any time of day or night, and behold a mountain of potatoes, eggs, cheese and salsa: a glorious mess of flavor and calories. When they ask you what kind of toast you want, […]
When celebrities blog
O.K. So. Everyone knows that Rosie O’Donnell blogs, right? Everyone has heard tell about her weird blogging style that often involves what some might refer to as “poems” (e.g., “a book is not a blog/a book has very few strict rules/so does singing/and comedy too/you never know to…what?”), right? Well, you may have heard that […]
Getting in with the un-crowd
The name of the game is change. Starr Hill just closed its doors. After more than 10 years of selling you your favorite discs, Danny Shea has stepped down from managing the Corner’s Plan 9 Music store to focus on booking and promoting Satellite Ballroom shows, which will now include bands that would have played […]
Raves for rants
I think I’ve spoken before in this forum about my childhood wish to go into advertising. How, thanks to ads like Play Station’s 1998 classic pedaling Metal Gear Solid and the Tiny House ad for Geico, I am convinced that the advertising business is full of the coolest, smartest, funniest people in the world. While […]
Sultry-night salad
Says Gay Beery, owner of A Pimento Catering, this is a salad for steamy soirées: “Serve this on a hot summer evening alongside a piece of grilled fish or chicken, and with a fresh loaf of bread!” Makes sense to us: There’s enough flavor (between the arugula and fennel) and substance (blue cheese) here to […]
Sea change
The waters are getting rocky here in the Charlottesville dining scene, and it’s not just the little fish that are getting swept out with the tide these days.
The best wines of my generation
Confidence. That’s the mood filling the room as Al Schornberg, joined by the shining blonde triumvirate of his wife, Cindy, and their two youngest daughters, addresses four or five dozen partygoers. The occasion? The grand opening of Keswick Vineyards’ tasting room. A single overhead light shines down milky white and sickly into the cavernous winery, […]
Hometown hero
There are few more cultured baseball people in the world than Charlottesville’s own Mike Cubbage. From a second round pick out of UVA in 1971, to an eight-year Major Leaguer with the Texas Rangers and the Minnesota Twins, to a coach with the New York Mets and Boston Red Sox, Cubbage is baseball’s embodiment of […]
Feeding me
Vague memories from the Food & Wine Classic that recently wrapped up here in Aspen from where I write: the girl at the table next to me telling her companion that she used to have sex with Bobby Flay in the bathroom of the restaurant at which we were dining; me getting so drunk on […]