Barry Bonds likely will go down in baseball history, but for home runs or growth hormone? "And down the stretch they come!” That legendary line of announcer Dave Johnson has punctuated the final stretch of many great horse races, including the Triple Crown. But Mr. Johnson’s trademark might best be used to announce another trio […]
Barry Bonds likely will go down in baseball history, but for home runs or growth hormone? "And down the stretch they come!” That legendary line of announcer Dave Johnson has punctuated the final stretch of many great horse races, including the Triple Crown. But Mr. Johnson’s trademark might best be used to announce another trio […]
I like it when people do my dirty work for me. Like the dishes, my taxes, or buying gas. I don’t know if this constitutes dirty work (because it hardly needs to be done at all), but some journalist in Philly has taken it upon himself to read the entire Left Behind series so that […]
Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar owner Matteus Frankovich has made more room for you and yours to belly up to the bar. If you tried to stop by the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar the week of April 9, you might have been stymied. An Easter weekend renovation took a few days longer than planned—what renovation doesn’t?—but […]
There are memorable nights in sports, and then there are the unforgettable. Friday, April 20, was one of those unforgettable ones.
If you’re one of those people who scours every last molecule of cream cheese frosting from your plate of carrot cake, you’re going to love this. Henry’s Carrot Cake Cheesecake delivers nothing but the good stuff: sweet cream cheese times two—cheesecake and icing—and a thin layer of moist cake. The recipe was created by Henry’s […]
“It had been coming for quite a few years.” That’s the understatement with which Janice Dodrill describes her decision, last summer, to redo the kitchen she’s lived with since 1980. Janice and her husband, Ernie, live in a brick ranch house in Earlysville, and if you talk with them about their home, you get the […]
Custom prefab?It’s coming to a factory near you Listen to Per Sjolinder describe his company’s method of homebuilding, and—even aside from the enormous mountain views that frame the conversation—you’ll likely be impressed. Sjolinder says he can build all the walls that make up an average house in just a couple of hours. What’s more, he […]
Batman, meet RobinNature Neutral teams up with the Habitat Store Gorgeous weather brings out the construction worker in us all, and there’s excellent news on that front: The Habitat Store, on Harris Street, now carries products from Nature Neutral, Charlottesville’s eco-friendly building supply company. This merge creates something like a Lowe’s for the environmentally conscious, […]
‘‘This exceeded any expectations I ever had about a bathroom. We had visited [a house in Barbours- ville] that was life-changing. It changed our paradigm of what a house is; it sparked our imaginations. We said, ‘What if you put a bathroom in the top of a turret?’ The bathroom also has an unusual shape: […]
Good eatswww.foodmigration.com The Food Migration blog reads like an old friend who tells you her recipe secrets and restaurant finds over milky chai on a rainy afternoon—that is, if you have a friend who happens to be exceedingly well traveled, a culinary whiz, and clever to boot. Cindy Meyers, the creator of foodmigration.com, has amassed […]