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Devils Backbone trade marketing manager Elizabeth Van Noppen shares a tent with June, a yellow Labrador retriever, at the brewery’s basecamp in Roseland. Photo: Devils Backbone Brewing Company

Devils’ dogs: Adventure dogs are on everyone’s mind

Unbound | Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

Many years ago, in a different life, it seems, I steered a little aluminum boat with an outboard motor across the glistening surface of a lake. The memory is so vivid that it includes the oily smell of the exhaust swirling around my head and mixing with piney puffs of the soft summer air. In […]

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Flushing a chukar partridge on an upland hunt, Clapton, an AKC Champion standard poodle, proves that the breed can do more than look pretty. Photo: Louter Creek Hunting Poodles

Adventure dogs! Nothing beats being in the great outdoors with your best four-legged friend

Unbound | Shea Gibbs | COMMENTS

Science has proven the extraordinary connection between humans and dogs, but perhaps the best evidence of the bond is easier to find—when people and their pups get outside and play. Earlier this year, dogs made headlines for astonishing outdoor-sporting feats, much to the joy and gratitude of their human friends. In mid-March, the story broke […]

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Filling a massive wall at 5th Street Station, “Rivanna River by Poseidon” is striking—but not universally loved. For the record, we kinda like it. Photo: Skyclad Aerial

Outsider art: Our favorite plein-air murals and sculptures

Unbound | Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

In a self-styled art town like Charlottesville, you don’t have to step into a gallery to have an art encounter. There are lots of places to see murals, sculptures, and even interactive works from your car or the sidewalk, or while strolling through the IX Art Park. Increasing the accessibility, the Charlottesville Mural Project—which has […]

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Dogs are allowed on some Outdoorsy adventures but may require an additional fee. Check before you go. Photo: Lynne Brubaker

Rent a road trip: Outdoorsy is Airbnb for RVs

By Nathan Alderman | COMMENTS

If the open road is calling you—or if you’d like to spend a few nights communing with nature without, you know, getting eaten by any part of it—Outdoorsy’s here to help. The online service matches owners willing to rent out their pop-ups, Casitas, trailers, and RVs with road-warrior vacationers. Launched in 2015, the company has […]

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Unbound
A man and his rig: When fully laden with gear, Register’s bike weighs 125 pounds. Photo: Eze Amos

Riding lessons: A cyclist learns a lot about himself—and America—on an epic tour

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

On six-week jaunts over several years, Charlottesville’s Chris Register crisscrossed the country on his bike, interviewing people for his book series Conversations With US: Two Wheels, Fifty States, Hundreds of Voices, One America. The first volume, published in early 2019, is based on his 1,916-mile trip through the Midwest and Great Lakes states. Here, he […]

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Magazines
The Slash 9.8’s high-tech features include a central shock absorber developed in collaboration with race-car engineers. Photo: Courtesy of Trek

Trail master: Trek’s Slash 9.8 will get you there—and back

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

When we asked Shawn Tevendale, owner of Blue Ridge Cyclery, to recommend a killer trail bike to feature, he emailed a link back within a minute to the mechanical wonder you see here. “It’s like a monster truck,” Tevendale says. “It’ll go anywhere you want it to, and crush it.” Tevendale also gives the Slash […]

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Unbound
“Whenever I’m feeling down, I remind myself of what I’ve accomplished,” Johnson says. “I tell myself, “Monica, you pulled a truck that weights over 12,000 pounds. You’re amazing!” Photo: Amy and Jackson Smith

She’s got the power: Meet Monica Johnson, the strongest woman in Charlottesville

By C-VILLE Writers | COMMENTS

I’ve been doing strength competitions for just about a year and a half, so I’ve worked hard to get to where I am. My current national ranking is second in the women’s amateur heavyweight division. That’s according to the Arnold Corporation, the governing body for Strongman and Strongwoman events. I’m 32 now, and I feel […]

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Unbound
Kids on the loose: Confronting the risks of a free-range childhood

Kids on the loose: Confronting the risks of a free-range childhood

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

“Go play outside!” is one of those phrases that pops out of parents’ mouths as though it comes from a deep well of universal wisdom. Along with eating your vegetables and not waking the baby, playing outside seems so obviously the right thing for kids to do. Once they cross the threshold into the great […]

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Knife & Fork
Vivi’s Cakes and Candy is the reincarnation of the much-loved Sweethaus. Photo: Morgan Salyer

Happy return: Sweethaus is back with a new name

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

When Sweethaus abruptly closed last December, the year ended on a sour note for fans of the bakery’s cheerful confections. But the new year turned out sweetly for Charlottesville, as former manager Billy Koenig and his team opened Vivi’s Cakes and Candy in the former Sweethaus space on Ivy Road, with the same recipes and […]

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Knife & Fork
The winery’s namesake tree stands among the vineyards. Photo: Courtesy Wisdom Oak Winery

Spotlight: Wisdom Oak Winery

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

Jason Lavallee would like to thank everyone for being so nice. It’s not what a guy expects when he parachutes into town and opens a winery with his wife, and they’re total newbies to the industry, and he starts knocking on doors and asking established winemakers a lot of questions. “I was pretty open, like, […]

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Knife & Fork
Jill Myers is an olive oil sommelier and importer. Photo: Eze Amos

My favorite bite: Pirate’s bounty

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

“It will be two years in July since I had this meal, and it was great not only because of what I ate, but also because of the beautiful setting. I was traveling with seven friends, two from Palermo, Italy, and the rest from the Charlottesville area. I remember it was very hot, about two […]

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Knife & Fork
Visitors can’t keep their eyes—or their hands—off the ovoid fermentation tanks at Stinson Vineyards. Photo: John Robinson

Concrete decision: Stinson Vineyards ferments in an egg that’s hard to beat

By Robert Harllee | COMMENTS

I first encountered an ovoid concrete fermentation vessel at Austria’s innovative biodynamic winery Meinklang in 2004. Actually, there were a few of them, all lined up and looking like 1950s science-fiction rocket ships, held upright by fin-shaped buttresses. A startling departure from the oak barrels and stainless-steel vats I was accustomed to seeing, the eggs, […]

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Knife & Fork
“Happier cows make better meat” is just one of the motto-ish lines you’ll find on the website for Albemarle’s Sherwood Farms, where Prime 109 sources its dry-aged cuts. Here, a Kansas City strip steak gets a boost from roasted Meyer lemons and garlic. Photo: Amy and Jackson Smith

10 hot* new restaurants: A diverse collection of upstarts drives a local dining boom

By Simon Davidson | COMMENTS

The restaurant business, like any industry, goes in cycles. Grow, contract, repeat. Here in Charlottesville, our last boom came in 2014, a year that brought Lampo, The Alley Light, Oakhart Social, Parallel 38, Public Fish & Oyster, MarieBette, Rock Salt, Red Pump Kitchen, and Al Carbon, among others. Now, after a slight lull, the area’s […]

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Knife & Fork
Drink it neat, over ice, or in a cocktail. This stuff is as versatile as it is delicious. Photo: Morgan Salyer

Wine of another kind: Flying Fox soars into fresh territory with seasonal vermouth

By Robert Harllee | COMMENTS

About 10 years ago, concurrent with the onset of the artisanal cocktail movement, small-batch European vermouths began showing up in the U.S. market. Winemakers took notice, and some started experimenting with producing their own. Today, vermouth is enjoying a moment, with some of the very best being made in our own backyard, by Afton’s Flying […]

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Earl Swift visits the Blue Ridge Parkway's Afton Overlook, elevation 2,054 feet, with the Rockfish Valley sprawling below. Photo: Amy and Jackson Smith

The accidental environmentalist: Author Earl Swift could go on about the ravages of climate change. But really, he’d rather be hiking.

By Jennifer MacAdam-Miller | COMMENTS

Earl Swift is the author of seven books, including the urgent and poignant Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island. It was named a best book of 2018 by NPR, The Washington Post, Outside, Bloomberg, and Smithsonian, among others, and recently won a Reed Environmental Writing Award from the Southern Environmental […]

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Knife & Fork
Clay Greneveld’s chopping blocks feature hardwoods carefully woven into repeating patterns, like chevrons, and highlighted with exotic woods, like sassafras. Photo: Morgan Sayler

Building blocks: A contractor-turned-craftsman churns out custom goods for cooks.

By Shea Gibbs | COMMENTS

After retiring from the construction business, Clay Greneveld couldn’t sit still, so he launched a second career as a custom craftsman. For a short while he made pen sets, using acrylic and wood, but he found the work too fussy and the profits marginal. Now, three years into his new venture, Greneveld has discovered his […]

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Knife & Fork
Renee Byrd’s recipes—including the one for these honey-sweetened thumbprint strawberry jam cookies—are as delicious as they are as healthy as they are delicious. Photo: Renee Byrd

The joy of eating: How a local cook, food stylist, and blogger with a national following learned to love food again

By Jennifer MacAdam-Miller | COMMENTS

After years of struggling with disordered eating and food sensitivities, Renee Byrd rediscovered her love of food and cooking. Now she shares recipes—and a bit of life-changing magic—on Will Frolic for Food, the blog she started in 2013. In a way, Byrd, 29, is the Marie Kondo of food. While she advocates a better, simpler […]

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Abode
Jefferson made periodic visits to Poplar Forest—a 4,819-acre plantation he’d inherited from his father-in-law in 1773—between 1806 and 1823. The residence was completed in 1809. Photo: Stephen Barling

Jefferson’s other home: Poplar Forest gave the president what Monticello couldn’t—peace

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

Monticello was a busy place in Thomas Jefferson’s time, just as it is now. And just as Jefferson’s second home, Poplar Forest, provided him with a much-needed retreat, the meticulously restored property today offers visitors a peaceful haven to gain a different view of the third president’s life and times. Located near Lynchburg and first […]

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Abode
Seeds planted indoors take one to three weeks to germinate, and planting outdoors should take place after the last frost, generally, around May 15. Photo: Getty Images

Ready, set, grow! A quick guide to starting vegetables and flowers from seed 

By Cathy Clary | COMMENTS

Starting plants from seed may not be the easiest, or even the most economical, way to supply your garden. It requires investing not only a lot of time, but also money for seeds, potting soil, flats, cell packs, thermometers, those cute little markers, and perhaps heat mats, a cold frame, or small greenhouse. Regardless, the […]

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Abode
There’s something extremely clever about creating a space with dual functionality: a place to entertain and park a car. Photo: Kip Dawkins

Grand garage: A grungy space gets a lush upgrade

By Lisa Martin | COMMENTS

A garage is often a dank, dusty place, cluttered and cobwebby, smelling of gasoline and grass clippings. It’s the last place most homeowners would choose to create a bright, inviting space that could host, say, a wedding party—but a Farmington couple did that and more, with a contemporary renovation of their three-car garage, an addition […]

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Abode
An existing rock wall and boulders found on the site gave the homeowners cues for the colors and textures of the patio build. Photo: Stephen Barling

Patio perch: A new hardscape creates space for entertaining outside

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

After living for decades in a grand house in Suffolk, Virginia, overlooking a 27-acre lake, Diane Grieder and Marion Grigg retired to Charlottesville and a whole new landscape. They were glad to downsize to a smaller home, Grieder says, but “it was hard to give up that lake view.” Two years ago, when they found […]

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Abode
Sunlight pours in through an atrium skylight and large windows bracketing the stove and exhaust hood. The rich colors of the tile backsplash and painted finishes lend contrast and depth to the design. Photo: Virginia Hamrick

A kitchen full of light: A big, bright cooking space blends beauty and functionality

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

For the interior redesign of a large house in a leafy Charlottesville neighborhood, architect Bethany Puopolo reassigned many of its spaces—a family room became the master suite, and the living and dining rooms switched places—in order to make them work better for her clients, a couple with three young children. But the father, the family’s […]

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Abode
A gridded map of London and the rich colors and textures of the furnishings lend a sumptuous feel to the front of the tasting room. Photo: Virginia Hamrick

Lounge act: Flying Fox Vineyard gets clubby with its new tasting room

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

The style of central Virginia’s wine-tasting rooms generally reflects their rural, agrarian roots. Some have a rustic, barn-like feel, because vineyards are essentially farms. Others exude the refinement and grandeur of a country estate, where one might relax with a glass of viognier after a morning on horseback. There are exceptions. Gabriele Rausse Winery built […]

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