September 13th, 2012 issue #1137

September 13th, 2012

Little Washington, big taste: A Central Virginia high-wire act

The Inn at Little Washington has been setting people up for disappointment for years. About an hour and twenty minutes north, just past Sperryville in the small town of Washington, the Inn has become a veritable shrine for the world's foodies. As a result, its storied reputation, considerable expense, and remote location can cause people to harbor wild expectations and plan their visits years in advance.

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The week in review

Most perplexing City Council action: The city will hire four ambassadors for the Downtown Mall to somehow counteract the drunkenness, profanity, and aggressive panhandlin...

Fit for grazing: Pasture readies to moo-ve into Stonefield

Ever since Trader Joe's signed a lease in the under-construction Shops at Stonefield, food lovers have been salivating, and now there's even more reason to work up an appet...
Las Cavañas: Mexican food hides in Crozet gas station

Charlottesville is no stranger to gourmet gas stations. What's more of a surprise: finding killer auténtico Mexican food hidden behind the facade of a rural gas station wi...
Sweet space: Sweethaus cupcakery moves west on Main

Tara Koenig and her husband Billy recall feeling uninspired when they first explored the new space their business Sweethaus would occupy. Nonetheless, about a week ago, the...

Ayn Rand: Her detractors miss her stellar vision

Ayn Rand, the Russian-born writer and self-styled philosopher who died three decades ago, is back in the news as a favorite author of Republican vice presidential candidate...

Price reduction helps land sale in Western Albemarle

Albemarle 6/8/12 Michelle J. & Thomas E. Willis, II to Stacy J. Taylor, 1806 Steeplechase Run, $240,000 Michael E. & Pamela I. Lutz to Ryan James Koeniger,1160 Ceda...

Property auctions

September 14 at noon at the Albemarle Courthouse Property: 6500 Free Union Road, Free Union Debtor: Donnie R. Dunn Original amount owing: $280,500 Bidder brings: $35,000 or...

Rashida forever: Rom-com sparkles with plot twist

"Celeste and Jesse Forever" is a good-hearted romantic comedy about a likable couple — so likable, indeed, that it swims upstream against the current of our desires. Th...

Table of contents

COVERBig tasteIt's the go-to-restaurant for D.C. bigwigs, movie stars and regular folks celebrating life's big moments, but is dinner at the Inn at Little Washington worth ...

Crozet Library arises

The long-awaited Crozet Library broke ground in July and part of the $5.77 million structure has now emerged. It's being built by M.B. Contractors out of Roanoke.
Deadly crash: Garth Road victim mourned as additional charges considered

A week after a fatal crash took the life of a Charlottesville teen, the family of 18-year-old Samuel Taylor is mourning their loss as police weigh additional charges agains...
Falling water: Terrain shredding starts as consumption falls

New data show that local water consumption has fallen to near-record lows– an ironic launch for a new multi-million-dollar reservoir whose capacity may not be needed ...
Gassed out: Neo-Colonial petrol station headed for demolition

First, it was the Tavern, which closed its doors in December. Now there's an another place falling into the dustbin of Emmet Street history: the Barracks Road Shell, a full...
Three notes: Source says Romando purchased gun, left letters

In the wake of the alleged August 28 murder-suicide that took the lives of four members of an Albemarle County family, a source claims police told him that the late 19-year...

Retro arts: Arthur fuses tune and tome in 'Heart'

Leave it to a guy who spent his youth in Charlottesville to find a way to bring new life to two art forms most critics have written off as unpopular or dying: the concept a...

Condon too preachy

Marlene Condon, your sometime essayist and letter writer has assumed the responsibility of educating the community on how to live responsibly with nature with her book Natu...