Ingredients of spring: Gadgets we love for cooking with the season
Spring is here, and so are spring ingredients. Hooray for food that’s never seen the inside of a can! Hooray for fresh green stuff on our plates! We shopped around […]
You art what you eat
We’re pretty sweet on this piece by local artist Evan Mooney—and not just because it looks like candy buttons. The UVA grad says her “Hard Candy” series celebrates her steel […]
Booze watch: Bottle House brings high-end drinks and eats to downtown and doorstep
T he Bottle House opened on West Main early this year, and the craft beverage and artisanal foodstuffs boutique has some serious pedigree. Daniel Kaufman and Guillaume Gasparini met coming […]
The artists’ way: Local artists share what stalls, motivates, and inspires them—for better or worse
Art can be intimidating. In talking with Chicho Lorenzo, Benita Mayo, Heather Owens, Michael Jones, and Megan Read, five visual artists currently working in Charlottesville, we’ve learned about each artists’ […]
Good bars: Empowering women through chocolate
Carly Romeo had always been really into chocolate, but it wasn’t until a visit to a chocolate shop with a friend that she realized her interest had grown beyond that […]
Best of the FEST: Local fashion marketing firm Spirit of 608 trains focus on tight niche
Lorraine Sanders knows FEST. She better. She came up with the acronym. As a modern marketer, acronyms are kind of Sanders’ thing. So are podcasts, social media campaigns, viral videos, […]
They run these streets: As the pandemic drove people apart, Prolyfyck Run Crew helped bring them together
They gather in the dozens at the Jefferson School at 6am every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday: Black, brown, and white, women and men, old and young, united by the road […]
A lyrical world: For Spanish poet Fernando Valverde, Charlottesville is a global stage
In one of Fernando Valverde’s poems, “Ellis Island,” he imagines would-be immigrants to the United States, gathering in European cities like a swelling tide: “The future / sold in first […]
Recycling for cycling: Community Bikes brings nonprofit mettle to refurbished pedals
Community Bikes has been providing bicycles to Charlottesville kids and adults in need since 2001, but with the widespread rush to ride over the past calendar year, the nonprofit has […]
Fashion statements: What can clothing teach us about how to be an ally? A lot.
There’s a direct connection to be made between the work of Playground of Empathy and its founders’ Instagram account, @cvillefashion. The organization works to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion through […]