If you walk through the doors of the ABC store on West Main Street with fantasies of mojitos and margaritas watering your mouth, you’ll find your buzz is soon killed. The store has more in common with the sterile confines of a dentist’s office than a tropical paradise. Sure, there are random glimmers of personality: […]
If you walk through the doors of the ABC store on West Main Street with fantasies of mojitos and margaritas watering your mouth, you’ll find your buzz is soon killed. The store has more in common with the sterile confines of a dentist’s office than a tropical paradise. Sure, there are random glimmers of personality: […]
Food & Drink intro video by Okay Yellow RESTAURANT Mas Runner-up: C&O Restaurant O.K., Mas-obsessed reader, we get it. Choosing Mas for nearly every category —including Best Coffeehouse and, inexplicably, Live DJ—is not what we’d call a subtle nod to your favorite restaurant. Luckily, you’re not alone in your fanatical affection for the Belmont tapas […]
Biscuit Run, now slated to become a state park! Watching Biscuit Run make the inconceivable switcheroo from 3,100-unit development to 1,200-acre state park was a bit like watching magician David Copperfield disappear the Statue of Liberty. Eight months later, and some of us are still looking for the magic wands, trapdoors and ropes that the […]
Retail intro video by Okay Yellow JEWELRY STORE Angelo Runner-up: Andrew Minton Jewelers We suspect he stays on top year after year not simply because jewelry artist Lee Marraccini designs beautiful bling, but because he and his wife, Pam, run more than a jewelry store. They run a jewelry gallery. Next to cases of Lee’s […]
Local gifted education teacher John Hunter spent the end of July at the annual EduStat conference, where he was a featured speaker alongside a former chief learning officer for the Central Intelligence Agency and the co-founder of JetBlue Airways. By the following week, the subject of local filmmaker Chris Farina’s documentary World Peace…and Other Fourth […]
Three months after the May 3 death of UVA lacrosse player Yeardley Love—allegedly at the hands of fellow student-athlete George Huguely
Combined with the development of Hillsdale Drive Extended, construction of the new 40,000-square-foot Whole Foods grocery store has dotted Hydraulic Road with orange cones and construction signs for months. But Alan Taylor, Vice President of River Bend Management, Inc., expects the outer shell of the new store to be complete by December or January. […]
Entertainment intro video by Okay Yellow BIG VENUE John Paul Jones Arena Runner-up: Charlottesville Pavilion The bigger the better, we always say. Apparently, that’s what you say, too, as JPJ—the biggest of this town’s big venues—wins again. Headliners like Phish, Jimmy Buffett and Taylor Swift surely have something to do with the arena’s popularity, but […]
Services intro video by Okay Yellow DOCTOR Greg Gelburd of Downtown Family Healthcare Runner-up: Bruce Campbell Readers have put Greg Gelburd ahead of the pack for six years now, but that doesn’t mean they want him all to themselves. In fact, for a good cause, they’re happy to share, as they did last fall when […]
Charlottesville filmmakers popularize an image of the city, without a single mention of TJ, the Grish or DMB The silver screen has always been celebrated for its ability to turn ordinary folks into larger than life characters. By “ordinary folks,” of course we mean well-connected Hollywood types with rock hard abs, chiseled features and few, […]