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Christie Jones and Mary Klavin got married at Raven’s Roost, with a crowd full of guests in hiking gear. “It was very intimate, and easy to be present without the formal pomp and circumstance,” Klavin says. Photo:  
Amanda Maglione

“True to us:” One couple finds a nontraditional path to wedding bliss

Magazines | Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

Is the standard wedding format a bit too—well, standard for you? “A lot of who we are is somewhat unconventional,” says Christie Jones of herself and her wife Mary Klavin. As they researched options for their April 2018 wedding, they realized that many venues were not only expensive, but “formulaic, and just not us,” she […]

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Ma Belle Calligraphy. Photo: Courtesy Ma Belle

Letter perfect: Our favorite local calligraphers

Magazines | Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

Nothing says “instant keepsake” like a hand-lettered invitation, and plenty of local calligraphers are up to the challenge. Michelle Streeter of Ma Belle Calligraphy (above) works in a modern style and offers invitation suites along with fun extras, like a handwritten version of your vows, to display at the wedding and, later, in your home. mabellecalligraphy.com […]

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Patisserie Torres' chocolate cake with mango filling and raspberries. Yes, please! Photo: Morgan Salyer

Yaaaasssss, dessert: Go ahead, give in to your sweet tooth

Knife & Fork | Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

There’s only one right way to eat dessert: at every meal. Start with breakfast—a sticky, gooey donut (okay, fine, you can put bacon on it)—then a sip of a sugary shake, and later, a pillowy pile of tiramisu and a mug of cocoa before bed. In this issue, we’ll show you how to appease your […]

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Knife & Fork
Pamela Margaux started her sparkling wine importing business 25 years ago, selling cases from the trunk of her station wagon. “I like this,” she remembers saying. “Let’s find more wines.” Photo: Jon Phillip Sheridan

The taste of terroir: Local wine importers source your next favorite glass

By Lisa Martin | COMMENTS

As they peruse a restaurant wine list or browse the shelves of the local wine shop, do most imbibers know how all of those foreign bottles made their way here? From finding a promising producer in the European countryside, to navigating a logistic and regulatory thicket to usher the product into the U.S., to presenting […]

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Knife & Fork
Home Remedies Mercantile & Exchange owner Adrienne Ramsey wanted to create a shop for goods and groceries, but also a place to exchange ideas and learn more about living a sustainable lifestyle. Photo: Jeffrey Gleason

Honest goodness: A new Lovingston shop offers up high-quality wares

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

Restoration has always been important to the Ramsey family: There’s Luke, whose company Ramsey Restoration focuses on the construction and preservation of historical property, and who learned how to build log cabins from his father. And there’s Adrienne, who formerly served as a spokesperson for the Food Routes Network (the same folks who developed the […]

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Knife & Fork
Keevil & Keevil's beloved ham biscuit. Photo: Morgan Salyer

A taste of luck: Three ways to start the new year

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

New Year’s is more of a drinking-and-kissing holiday than one meant for feasting. But don’t let a good start-of-the-year meal go overlooked, especially if you might leave some luck on the table. We asked some local food folks to cook us up New Year’s Day nosh that was traditional (to capitalize on all that good […]

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Knife & Fork
Lynsie Steele conjured Vie Lifestyle while trying to cut costs feeding her six children. Photo: Amy Jackson Smith

Bargain hunter and gatherer: Living the Vie Lifestyle means eating affordable, easy-to-make meals

By Jenny Gardiner | COMMENTS

For mother of six Lynsie Steele, necessity was the mother invention as she tried to feed a large family on a shoestring. “I was trying to find ways to save money so I challenged myself to cut my grocery bill in half,” says the food entrepreneur. She decided to blog about the meal plans she […]

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C-BIZ
Charlottesville Angel Network founder Tracey Greene says Charlottesville's entrepreneurs thrive thanks to its mature angel network, rather than the kind of corporate support on which larger cities rely. Photo: Eze Amos

Start it up: What’s the climate for entrepreneurs in Charlottesville, and how could it improve?

By C-VILLE Writers | COMMENTS

Mike Appleby figured he’d keep his big city job when he moved to Charlottesville. Appleby’s Boston-based employer kept him on to run a development team when he moved to C’ville to get married. But Appleby quickly came to love the area—“it’s the nicest place I’ve seen anywhere,” he says—and five years later he hatched a […]

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C-BIZ
Craving a job that felt more rewarding, Eric Walter sold the tech business he'd built over 15 years and launched Black Bear Composting. Photo: John Robinson

Rich soil? The rise, fall, and rebirth of Black Bear Composting

By Sierra Bellows | COMMENTS

After selling the tech business he’d built over 15 years, Eric Walter wanted to do something more rewarding. “More fulfilling spiritually,” he says. “Out from behind a desk and outside.” His Chicago tech business, Gorilla, had Patagonia as a client. “Sustainability infused everything they do,” says Walter. “That changed something for me.” After considering a […]

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C-BIZ
Crissanne and Elizabeth Raymond started selling NoBull Burgers at Charlottesville's City Market, but now the company's reach expands as far west as Colorado, with California in the owners' sights. Photo: Martyn Kyle

A noble calling: Veggie burgers that taste good

By Lisa Martin | COMMENTS

Crissanne Raymond developed an original veggie burger recipe more than 30 years ago in her hometown of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. Riffing off of her mother’s lentil soup recipe, she built a burger from a lentil and barley base, flavored it with roasted vegetables and tamari, and used it to feed her growing […]

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C-BIZ
After two decades in business, Max Boxxer founder Richard Crisler says that he's ready to revitalize the brand and capitalize on web commerce. Photo: Sanjay Suchak

Thinking outside the box(er): Max Boxxer rebrands for the future

By Lisa Martin | COMMENTS

Entrepreneur and Max Boxxer founder Richard Crisler is a man for all seasons, but summer might suit him best. His first business endeavor was Yo Wear, launched at Duke University when he was a student, which produced Duke- and fraternity-themed boxer shorts that sold on campus and through fraternal organization magazines. “After I graduated and […]

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C-BIZ
Independent funding: Navigating finances as a freelance contractor

Independent funding: Navigating finances as a freelance contractor

By David Posner | COMMENTS

There are more 1099 contractors in the workforce than ever before and their numbers continue to rise. The term “1099” comes from a series of IRS documents that are designed to report income received outside of salaried employment. This can include investment returns, tax refunds, and income made as an independent contractor or freelancer. The […]

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C-BIZ
Having owned downtown consignment boutique Darling for two years, Linnea White says she's ready to be more intentional about where the business is headed. Photo: Tristan Williams

Put me in, coach: A downtown shop owner tests the business-coach waters

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

When Rachel Brozenske, VP with Allison Partners, sat down on a Wednesday morning in October with Linnea White, the two of them were feeling out the possibility of a coach-client relationship. Brozenske has been a business coach for more than a dozen years; White bought the boutique Darling, just off the Downtown Mall, with a […]

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C-BIZ
Maurice Covington. Photo: John Robinson

A play- book for profits: Maurice Covington helps pro athletes spend and save for success after sports

By Nathan Alderman | COMMENTS

Two days into training camp with the Chicago Bears, Maurice Covington’s hamstring tore—and took his future plans with it. “Being focused about football and wanting to make it to the NFL and then having that taken from me,” says the former UVA wide receiver, “that transition was terrible.” A decade later, Covington has turned that […]

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C-BIZ
Antwon Brinson never thought he'd be a chef, but “I had a teacher that believed in me,” he says. “He’d seen something in me that I didn’t see in myself.” Now, he wants to do the same for others through his culinary training program. Photo: Robinson Imagery

A new recipe for success: Chef Antwon Brinson’s Culinary Boot Camp helps local residents build life-changing kitchen careers

By Nathan Alderman | COMMENTS

A teacher changed the course of chef Antwon Brinson’s life. Now, as he trains Charlottesville residents for kitchen careers, he’s trying to do the same for his own students. Brinson says he never thought he’d become a chef. He enjoyed cooking growing up, but didn’t consider it a career until high school. “I had a […]

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Made In C-VILLE
Photo: Courtesy Vinegar Hill Vintage

The other three percent: Local clothes make the town

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

Here’s the next level, folks. You might be eating local and shopping local, but are you wearing local? The garments we don often come from very faraway places and seem to just appear out of nowhere; an oft-reported statistic from the American Apparel & Footwear Association states that 97 percent of the clothes sold in […]

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Made In C-VILLE
Photo: Sanjay Suchak

Woven in: Andrea Korotky nurtures a lifelong passion for her craft

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

The eight-harness loom that Andrea Korotky bought in mid-1970s New York is still a daily companion, standing in the corner of her Charlottesville studio. When the weaver sits down to the loom—which is roughly the size of an upright piano—her more than 40 years of experience are obvious in the fluidity and confidence of her […]

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Made In C-VILLE
Joshua Farnsworth’s Earlysville woodworking school, Wood and Shop, is the result of a reignited childhood passion. Photo: Sanjay Suchak

Carving out community: Woodworking enthusiast teaches traditional technique

By Caroline Hockenbury | COMMENTS

Stepping into Joshua Farnsworth’s Wood and Shop schoolhouse is like wrenching open a time capsule. Traditional woodworking instruments, including saws and handheld shaving tools, dangle from pegs and hug the surrounding white walls. Walking among the homemade workbenches and rustling up a rush of sawdust, you slip back a few centuries. Farnsworth began to home […]

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Made In C-VILLE
Material possessions: Instant heirlooms from three local leathercrafters

Material possessions: Instant heirlooms from three local leathercrafters

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

There’s just something about leather: It’s at once rugged and polished. And always cool. Plus, it’s a material that’s easy to source in our area, thanks to local saddle shops and nearby tanneries. Here are three hand-crafters making your next favorite accessory. Stamp of approval Siberia native Daniel Foytik became fascinated with leather as a […]

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Made In C-VILLE
Photos: Courtesy Laurel Smith

Comfort in calligraphy: Local artist disseminates hope with engraved jewelry

By Caroline Hockenbury | COMMENTS

One night when artist Laurel Smith was sleeping, her mind projected her future onto the backs of her eyes. She dreamt up a whirring dremel tool, a jewelry-making instrument then somewhat unfamiliar to her, and awoke with a newfound sense of purpose. A D.C.-based event planner in her 20s at the time, Smith sensed she […]

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Made In C-VILLE
Heart in hand: Handmade accessories lend a personal touch

Heart in hand: Handmade accessories lend a personal touch

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

What’s not to love about a handmade piece of jewelry? Here are five local gems worth wearing. Direct from nature As a kid, Rebecca Perea-Kane would play with Fimo clay, sculpting tiny animals with her sister (“we must have made hundreds of them,” she says). No surprise, then, that her line of delicate jewelry celebrates […]

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Real Estate
Forest Lakes: Community, Convenience, Comfort

Forest Lakes: Community, Convenience, Comfort

By REW Writers | COMMENTS

By Ken Wilson – When Frank Kessler and the Kessler Group began construction on what was to be the largest planned unit development in Albemarle County in 1989, their goal was to create the “ultimate living community that would allow families to raise their children in a close-knit environment where residents enjoyed well-planned amenities.” Almost […]

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Real Estate
Rain Gardens: A Lovely Way to Protect the Planet

Rain Gardens: A Lovely Way to Protect the Planet

By REW Writers | COMMENTS

By Marilyn Pribus – “Each time it rains, pollutants such as nitrogen, phosphorus, zinc, and even lead flow directly into our sewers and waterways,” laments horticulturist Karyn Smith of Stanardsville. Since much of the water in our area is drawn from the Rivanna River watershed which encompasses Charlottesville, all of Albemarle County and parts of […]

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