“Perfect,” you’re liable to think as you pull into the yellow-gravel driveway of the little cottage in Free Union. It couldn’t be more quintessentially Albemarle: Set back from a winding country road in a yard with lovely trees and understated landscaping, it has a cute-as-a-button gabled profile, a sheltered porch in front and an open […]
“Perfect,” you’re liable to think as you pull into the yellow-gravel driveway of the little cottage in Free Union. It couldn’t be more quintessentially Albemarle: Set back from a winding country road in a yard with lovely trees and understated landscaping, it has a cute-as-a-button gabled profile, a sheltered porch in front and an open […]
It’s not that I don’t enjoy my current full-time job at a hoity-toity glossy, but occasionally, I feel like I’m not making good on that promise I made to myself—and all those with high hopes for me—to make the world a better place. I know I’m getting all Miss Rumphius (“go to faraway places, live […]
I’m going to be up-front with you: You WILL get addicted to these. The Continental Divide has a tendency to do that to people—first, you go for margaritas, and suddenly, every Tuesday becomes Tequila Night. I, personally, am enslaved not only by the hot plates of blues (from which I peel the crispy bits of […]
Some girls go for a flim-flam man. Some want a right-hand man. Sweet, she likes herself a song-and-dance man. A well-dressed, snap-heeled happy hoofer who can carry a tune and turn on a dime.
Following National Signing Day earlier this month, Virginia football Head Coach Al Groh (www.virginiasports.cstv.com) took a few minutes to sit down and talk to C-VILLE Weekly about his recruiting class, his coaching staff, and an interesting off-season. University of Virginia football’s Al Groh recently got a rare chance to think like a fan, and not […]
Social climbing is generally considered an unsavory affair, but what Karen Laetare is up to is more like mountain-hopping—somehow more palatable. For eight years, she’s been running Brix Marketplace in a funky old building that sits on a curve of Route 53, between Monticello and Jefferson Vineyards. That’s an elevated spot, but a fickle one […]
Guess what we saw last Tuesday when we were strolling down the Mall? Why, the newly reopened doors of The Nook. Being devoted correspondentsâas well as hungry for lunchâwe marched right in and asked for a table.
Thirty-two degrees outside. Wind chill making it feel 15. The guys are peeling off the tarp. The gloves are being popped. Hard to believe in the midst of these subfreezing temperatures that it’s time to hear the umpire yell, “Play Ball”. It’s February in Charlottesville and across the street from Sean Singletary, JR Reynolds, and […]
I know I’m not the only person who runs errands on Saturday mornings. I know I’m also not the only person who, while running said errands, enjoys a spirited contest against, well, myself and the various contestants of “Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me…”. I’m a competitive person: HATE TO LOSE or be less than I can […]
This must be what they were actually putting in Popeye’s spinach can. Seriously—glugging down liquid spinach is smoke and mirrors, people. Matcha’s got it beat by a mile; the bright green leaves pack about a day’s worth of springy energy, without that underside-of-a-rock taste. Shake it up with Twisted Branch’s energy drink: It has more […]