Abode Features: Color my world

“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 […]

Built to last

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 […]

Something borrowed (something blue)

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, […]

Justify my love sounds

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.

As time Grohs by

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, […]

Climb every mountain

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 […]

Back in brick

Guess what we saw last Tuesday when we were strolling down the Mall? Why, the newly reopened doors of The Nook. Being devoted correspondents—as well as hungry for lunch—we marched right in and asked for a table.

Springing into action

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 […]

Just farking around

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 […]

Slurpee of the samurai

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 […]