Back in 2006, the owner of the building at the corner of First and Main Streets on the Downtown Mall, developer Keith Woodard, had plans for a 9-story "super" tower with an underground parking garage. But city planners, alarmed by the idea, along...
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Exotic ingredients with fun, hip, and happening late-nights. In early 2012, this venerable place departed its long-time Mall-front location to grab the colorful and multi-levelled space that was...
"In art everything is possible, but everything is not necessary.” ― Arvo Pärt Icelandic band goes dark You could count the number of famous music acts to come out of Iceland on one hand– there's Bjork, her band The Sugarcubes, folk group...
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“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” ― Masanobu Fukuoka On the Road Again for local farms Country legend Willie Nelson is returning to the Charlottesville Pavilion, and...
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“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson Reap what they sow Thomas Jefferson was a legendary gardener, and if around today, would probably be a self-proclaimed "foodie". He was known for...
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Last week, we brought news of the opening of Crozet Pizza at the Buddhist Biker Bar & Grill. In a stroke of luck, just before our visit to the popular pizzeria, Dish discovered a new, anonymous group of local food lovers calling themselves the...
It's hard to believe that someone hadn't thought of this before. A sports bar on Fontaine Avenue offering tailgate catering for UVA football games just a half-mile from Scott Stadium, and in the thick of the area where fans park and walk to the...
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust Trying To Be Cool America is no stranger to French culture. From Monet to Camus, Bardot to Brie cheese, the list of artists, philosophers...
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Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity. - Marilyn Monroe Vaudeville vixens come to Charlottesville Nuit...
Out the bay of magnificent windows at Fossett's Restaurant at Keswick Hall it looks like a huge shopping mall is being built. Where the golf course used to be there are giant earth-moving machines tearing up the landscape for a new course, one...
Less than a year old, Meriwether Springs Vineyard may be Charlottesville’s newest winery, but so far, it is shaping up to be one of the most promising. Resting on 40 beautiful acres, the property boasts a vineyard, tasting room, event center for...
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"What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't." - Charley Pride Aaron Lewis: A simple man Aaron Lewis is quite the musical anomaly. For almost...
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