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Book it: What local biz leaders are reading

Book it: What local biz leaders are reading

C-BIZ | Jennifer Pullinger | COMMENTS

Need insight to spark new thinking about your company, help you reach the next level of success, or give you a boost in creativity? We can all use a little inspo sometimes, and more often than not, we turn to books for answers. Whether you favor the feel-good vibes of Jen Sincero’s You Are a […]

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Aqua Cville Hand Car Wash owner Jeff Kamrath is a former UVA baseball player who see his business as way to be an active participant in the community. Photo: Amy and Jackson Smith

Squeaky clean: Car wash business expands, but keeps it local

C-BIZ | Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

Last April, Jeff Kamrath opened Aqua Cville Hand Car Wash on Emmet Street, and the weather promptly turned against him. In his first year in business, he says, “It rained 41 percent of the days we could have been open.” That was far from ideal, but Aqua Cville made it to its first anniversary anyway. […]

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Osheim’s aesthetic reflects mid-century modern style and her Scandinavian roots. Photo: Christina Osheim

Form and color: Christina Osheim’s sublime ceramics

Abode | Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

Christina Osheim distills a wealth of fine arts education and diverse influences into her ceramics. She studied at Minnesota’s St. Olaf College, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art before establishing her Charlottesville studio, Möbius Keramikk, at 1740 Broadway St. Her wheel-thrown objects (cups and tumblers) and items with stenciled […]

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Abode
Tucked into a hardwood grove, the house lives up to its nickname, A Walk in the Woods. Photo: Peter LaBau

A family home: The couple retired near Keswick, but the kids are always welcome

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

After meeting in college, the couple got married and pursued their respective careers—she as a librarian and he as a patent attorney—living for many years in Delaware. About two years ago, when the time came for them to retire, there was little question they’d end up near Keswick, specifically, on a piece of land connected […]

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Abode
A balcony perches outside the third-floor, which is used as a meditation room. Beneath the exterior cladding, foam panels envelope the house, increasing its energy efficiency. Photo: Prakash Patel

Back to nature: A graphic artist creates a great escape in Nelson County

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

The graphic artist, web designer, and bookbinder worked in Charlottesville for many years, running her own business. She shifted gears, taking a full-time job at a non-profit. But after a while, she wanted to get back to being her own boss, and to find a way to spend more time in the country, gardening, hiking, […]

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Abode
Commissioned in 1952, the Charlottesville home was designed by Edward Durell Stone, whose architectural work also includes the original Museum of Modern Art, in New York, and the Kennedy Center, in Washington, D.C. Photo: Stephen Barling

Modern makeover: A hidden midcentury masterpiece gets a major update

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

On a quiet street in Charlottesville sits a not-too-eyecatching house, its plain brick façade all but obscured by a screen of trees. Yet this is far from an ordinary rancher. In fact, it serves as a connection to a wider, more cosmopolitan world, and to an optimistic time in architectural history, when the International Style […]

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Abode
Over the past three years, the chef's garden has grown from a few herb beds into a small farm that provides a diverse bounty. Photo: Eric Kelly

Hyperlocal: At Pippin Hill, the produce is just outside the kitchen door

By Cathy Clary | COMMENTS

Chef Ian Rynecki and gardener Diane Burns modestly refer to their creation at Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyards as a kitchen garden, but the result of their collaboration is nothing less than the ideal template for farm-to-table cooking. Before making his way to Albemarle County in 2017, Rynecki had climbed a ladder with a basket […]

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Abode
Growing sod is a 12- to 18-month process, beginning around the first of September, when the Hutchisons seed about 200 acres with a fescue-bluegrass mix. The mature grass is kept trimmed to three inches, harvested into 2-by-5-foot strips, then rolled and bundled for sale. Photo: Skyclad Aerial

Local turf: An Orange County farm for ready-made lawns

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

Ever wonder where those Yodels-like rolls of grass come from that you’ve seen stacked on pallets or laid out in front of a newly built home? From a sod farm, of course. Growing and harvesting sod is a practice that thrives mainly out of sight (and out of mind). But in Orange County, Andy and […]

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Abode
The simplicity and uniformity of the wall enhance the other primary quality of the apartment, namely, openness. Photo: Virginia Hamrick

Wonder wall: An expansive pine façade melds beauty and functionality

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

There’s an air of mystery about the renovated third-floor apartment on the Downtown Mall. A wall of rough-sawn reclaimed white oak treated with bleaching oil runs nearly the entire length of the main room, interrupted only by the rectangular opening that accommodates the black-glass stovetop, kitchen sink, and counter space for food prep. It’s a […]

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Abode
Wall removal and the installation of large windows opened up the original space, both physically and visually. “We have 180-degree mountain views of the Blue Ridge, with the aviation activity in the foreground,” the owner says. “It’s pretty cool.” Photo: Stephen Barling

First class: A Waynesboro couple upgrades their airpark home

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

Leslie and Rich Hock, a real estate agent and commercial pilot, respectively, live the way many of us can only dream of. In the garage beside their home at Eagle’s Nest Airpark, in Waynesboro, they stow their Beechcraft Bonanza, a single-engine four-seater. When they want to visit their daughter, they wing down to Austin, Texas. […]

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Abode
Mounded into windrows, the raw organic materials cure until they are ready to be sold as compost and mulch. The internal temperature of the mounds, measured with a thermometer as long as your leg, stays above 140 degrees for six weeks at a time. Photo: Stephen Barling

Break it down: Panorama Paydirt makes “black gold” from city leaves

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

Compost isn’t a glamorous business, but then again—if it helps you hang onto a big, beautiful piece of land in Albemarle County—maybe it is. The 20-or-so acres that Steve Murray uses to produce compost and mulch at Panorama Paydirt, near Earlysville, have been one way to keep the 850-acre farm in the family. “I raised […]

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Unbound
The beauty of the James River, here partially shrouded in fog, is matched only by its storied past. Photo: Robert Llewellyn

The View: River of history

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

Upon finding the source of the Jackson River, parent to the James River, Earl Swift writes in Journey on the James: Three Weeks through the Heart of Virginia: “From this trickle grows a river that offered sustenance to Indian and early colonist, carried pioneers to new lands of the West, bloomed red with the blood […]

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Unbound
AKC champion standard poodle Clapton, of Louter Creek Hunting Poodles, sports a Historical Continental Clip while fetching a duck. Photo: John Carelli

That dog will hunt: The poodle returns to its roots as a water retriever

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

Poodles get a bad rap as frilly leash candy. For this, we can blame the French. Forget Best in Show. The poodle has hunting-dog roots, which were developed in central Europe—particularly, in the area that would become Germany—in the 16th and 17th centuries. But during the 18th century, the breed became popular among French nobles, […]

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Unbound
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

By 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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Unbound
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

By 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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Unbound
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

By 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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Unbound
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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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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Who needs a manicured lawn when you can establish an environmentally beneficial plant ecosystem in your yard? Photo: Devin Floyd

Urban wilderness: Creating a native habitat in town

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

When Devin Floyd and his team at the Center for Urban Habitats design gardens, they don’t just think about which plants will bloom in which season. Their approach is far more complex, encompassing the request that client David Wimberley made when he first hired them in 2014. “He came to us because he wanted to […]

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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
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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