NEW C-VILLE COVER STORY: Can’t hear you!
April is the time to remember Thomas Jefferson, and the Center for Free Expression that is named for him does that on his birthday by awarding its annual Muzzles.
WNRN DJ dies following Blue Ridge Parkway shooting incident
Charges against Ralph Leon Jackson of Stuart’s Draft will be upgraded to include first-degree murder
Jeff and Michelle Sanders work overtime to launch their new winery
“Vigor” is a term that comes up a lot in discussions of Virginia winemaking. It has to do with how energetically vines grow, based on the kind of soil they’re in and how much sun they get. It’s not always a good thing for a plant to be vigorous—at least as far as the quality [...]
Tough financial times hit Delfosse with bankruptcy filing
Local winery owners Claude and Genevieve Delfosse avoided a foreclosure auction of their 318-acre Nelson County property yesterday with a Chapter 11 filing
Michael Shaps' French connection
Michael Shaps has found a surefire way to sell Virginia wine: Open the Burgundy first.
STREB: RAW; Friday, March 5; The Paramount Theater
Following Friday night’s performance by STREB, I walked to the edge of the stage where the eight dancers were perched and one by one squeezed their calves and biceps. With one fellow, I took a hold of his instep to admire his beautifully curved arch. In very real terms, I was trying to see what [...]
One of these wines is not like the others
All roads lead to the Virginia Vineyards Association annual meeting. Well, maybe not all roads
NEW C-VILLE COVER STORY: Roll with it
Fourteen states have legalized marijuana, and there’s reason to think that someday soon Virginia may join them.
Realtor’s suit against Patricia Kluge’s Vineyard Estates cleared for trial April 2
Albemarle Circuit Court Judge Thomas H. Wood ruled, in hearing today’s preliminary motion, that there was no termination agreement between Kluge’s company and the listing agent, Frank Hardy
Patricia Kluge to unload fine and decorative arts from Albemarle House in June
The two-day auction will include hundreds of works of "outstanding" Georgian furniture, decorative objects and paintings, valued at more than $13.5 million.
NEW C-VILLE COVER STORY: Green is the new black
No matter how many LED lights it donates to light the UVA Lawn at Christmas, Dominion Power, a $15 billion company, remains a huge factor in the coal industry
Just Kids; Patti Smith; Harper Collins, 290 pages
Some friendships are too beautiful for words. Fortunately, in the hands of Patti Smith, the 22-year bond between her and Robert Mapplethorpe is not one of them. But Just Kids is more than a memoir of a relationship that started as a romance and later, when Mapplethorpe realized he was gay, endured as a [...]
Trophy shelf filling up for Virginia wines
Caressa Cameron is not the only comely Virginia product to win a prize in recent weeks, though it’s fair to say that the new Miss America
As expected, City Council to name Maurice Jones interim city manager
The official vote will come at next Tuesday night’s meeting. We predict five thumbs up.
David Bass describes finding body that is likely Morgan Harrington [plus video]
Farmer says the location on his 541-acre farm "could not be reached by automobile."
Minor’s White Hall farm in foreclosure again
Second verse, same as the first? Minor retained his White Hall property when it was auctioned on the courthouse steps earlier this month. Will he do it again on February 18?
Anchorage Farm body, still unidentified, found 19 minutes from JPJ
The VA State Police will hold a press conference at 5. Morgan Harrington’s parents are on the scene.
Forget romance and bring on Flea when it's time to get the wine into bottles
Forklifts are handling huge cubes of stacked cartons, industrial pumps stretch across the cement floor, a semi-tractor trailer idles off the side of the building,
Reversing Kaine, McDonnell makes Soering, the UVA double murderer stay in state
The way of the prisoner is not, it seems, to freedom by way of Germany
Luxist: Patricia Kluge aims for Chinese market
Amidst her downsizing project, Kluge reflects on 10 years in the wine industry: "My gut was pointing me in the right direction."
Notorious UVA murderer Jens Soering could finish prison term in Germany
Imprisoned for the brutal double murder of his girlfriend’s parents in 1985, the former Jefferson scholar could be relocated, thanks to a last-minute effort by former Gov. Tim Kaine.
UVA Batten School student dies in Haiti
The tragedy that has so far has left 50,000 dead also claimed Stephanie Jean-Charles.
Virginia's leading sparkling winemaker makes it easier to get the bubbly
Virginia Fizz could be the name of a comic book superhero—a corkscrew-curled, bespectacled librarian by day and electrifying crime fighter by night.
NEW COVER STORY: Butts out
Think about it: When used as directed, cigarettes will seriously harm your health or outright kill you.