We just discovered the name for the new cafe in the former Milano space in Main Street Market will be “Calvino Cafe.” The construction is still ongoing. According to the promotional card, we should expect coffee and espresso as well as smoothies, breakfast paninis and wraps. The website is not up yet, but the card says things should open in December. We’re excited about this one.
Other side of card after the break…
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Italo or Juan?
I believe it’s both because you can’t have Juan without the other.
Get thee to a punn’ry, Floozy… Thou art a breeder of silly comments, not unlike the ilk who patronise this tube o’ internetz.
Italo the mighty have fallen.
That name is stoopid.
@5 What name?
Im picturing a cartoon kid with a stuffed tiger and a sombrero peeing into a cappuccino cup.
/just saying.
I would enlighten you Zuge but we don’t have any internetz access in the punnery to which you banished me. Let me out and I’ll try and make you look slightly less daft.For free.
BTW BYo, I would rather eat slugs than read that crap cartoon strip…. I have never EVER laffed at it. Like never fucking ever. Is it me?
I don’t care what they call it, I just want my freaking Americano back on that side of town. I tried subsituting crack from the guy on crutches in the Greyhound parking lot, but it just doesn’t hit the spot.
Duck, I heard that the crippled dude cuts that shit with his own freeze dried semen when he runs out of cornstarch. Nasty.
That’s probably why it tasted of desperation and soullessness… and here I thought it just was me aching for the days of tasting Milano’s sweet nectar.
Milano was an awesome cuppa
Milano is at 100 W. South St., next to the South Street Brewery, that place with the fireplace and the piano. Go to SSB and go east 20 paces. I know, the address doesn’t make any sense.
@14, that means I’d have to walk past my scoliotic friend. He might beat me for leaving him.
Zugunruhe – a restless, anxious inherent urge to migrate, to move. A noted behavior in ornithology. That’s what it means. Meant completely un-fucking-pretentious as possible and really the only thing relatable at the moment. I don’t even know why I fucking try. Or why I’m even upset. A thousand pardons for seemingly daft and awkward attempts at humor. Silly, meant as silly, as in lovably humorous. If it were otherwise, I might have said ‘witless comments, not unlike the cretins who patronise…” To be unfetteringly honest, you all (self included) constantly totter along a precarious tightrope to which one side you fall you’re merely a chuckle or two and to the other side, you’re merely a flash-in-the-pan, revealing a momentary glimpse of raw self-martyrdom where you’ve wrapped that crown of thorns so tightly around your own head you’ve forgotten that it’s you who’s now causing you pain, all you have to do is let go of it. Forget economic downturns, sign of the times of superfluous businesses going out of business and animosity-filled free for alls, the general cantankerous attitudes and negation are more draining and depressing than anything you could possibly find worth posting.
As for this post, this town doesn’t need another coffee place.
I’m not touching this one. It bites.
hm. SOMEBODY got into the refrigerator magnets.
parlie… have you got any Ketamine?
I got this one flooze…
Zugunruhe- a restless, anxious inherent urge to migrate
…and an awesome new scrabble word.Thanks for that!
I don’t even know why I fucking try. Or why I’m even upset.
Me either,as I am pretty sure folks are dishing on “Calvino” and not your nick.
A thousand pardons for seemingly daft and awkward attempts at humor
Truly none needed. We’ve all said a hundred things less comprehensible. Trust me – no worries.
To be unfetteringly honest, you all (self included) constantly totter along a precarious tightrope to which one side you fall you’re merely a chuckle or two and to the other side, you’re merely a flash-in-the-pan, revealing a momentary glimpse of raw self-martyrdom where you’ve wrapped that crown of thorns so tightly around your own head you’ve forgotten that it’s you who’s now causing you pain, all you have to do is let go of it
Oh so true, and may I say, well put. But its way better to be up on the tightrope than sitting in the stands craning your neck like a melvin. Those that were dancing were thought to be insane by the people who couldn’t hear the music… amiright?
the general cantankerous attitudes and negation are more draining and depressing than anything you could possibly find worth posting.
Oh hells yes, and thats why I, for one, keep getting drawn back here. Think I care about boojy restaurants, ten milers or pooping at work? Loveable misfits, cantankerous loners and troubled punsters wrestling with their crowns of thorns and hair shirts. Thats where love lies. And you my friend, already fit in.
As for this post, this town doesn’t need another coffee place.
Yeah but who cares. The invisible hand of the free market will either fist it or give it a gentle hand job. Either way, no skin off my flute. And either way, we will have another thread that will eventually devolve into parlie’s tendency to set fire to things- which is, really, the way it ought to be.
Thanks Belmont…. and to think I was just going to slip The Zuge some knockout drugs and administer a fucking good kicking. You as always are a soothing voice of temperance and reason.
the precarious tightrope of cantankerous martyrdom! YARRR!
this is fun, we should write all those words on jenga blocks and drink about it.
Wow, a damned shame to waste a really good rant on something like this. That was a really good rant.
the precarious tightrope of cantankerous martyrdom
My band’s name.
YARRR!
Our first smash hit single. Its an acronym.
We’re playing the garage next weekend. I’d show you pictures, but I only have limited legal representation.
@23 really? it was too long & boring for me to read.
Yeah, I scanned that rant. And took a nap while I scanned.
@20 You make it really difficult to retain my painful umbrage. In the light of reason, I reread the comments…and I completely misinterpreted them. Soothing is a good adjective.
Well, here I am, Cvillians. Cvillian is a Tower of Silence upon which I’ve apparantly been cast by way of putting my foot in my mouth. Snack away, you vultures.
@21 ‘The Zuge’, an appellation reminiscent of the scarily exuberant, fire-arm slinging, furry animal head mounting, friend of Fred Bear, and fellow native Michigander, The Nuge. I don’t like it.
WooHoo… Welcome to the party Zuge. In honor of your need to migrate, we have set up the party snacks all over the place on little wooden house structures. As usual, parlie has been at the booze so we only have cherry MD 20/20 and a few miniature bottles of Midori left but what a pretty drink it will make. hic.
25 and 26… you two need some fecking Ritalin.
@28 sounds like floozy is hinting for another pub crawl, spicy bears!
Another pub crawl would be awesome. Some one set that up. Do we need a special occasion?
We’ve put together one to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Charlottesville.. $5 gets you drink specials and a santa hat, all proceeds go to charity. December 13th. http://www.cvillesocial.com/events/view.php?id=24
@32: It’s on the corner, so, you know…FAIL
@33: Donk, that is brilliant.
@34 hoping a good chunk of the student population will be gone by then, but we’ll see. it’s cold out, wanted the bars as close together as possible.
i wish mcgrady’s was easier to get to for these types of things.. it’s really on an island by itself.
Name 1 good bar on the Corner.
@35 too bad the bars on the mall are so far apart. i hate having to drive from zocalo to ventana on winter nights.
Yeah that trek from Blue Light to Zocalo is just deadly.
@35 Exams end Tuesday, December 16th, but no exams on Sunday, December 14th. Who knows how many students will still be around on the 13th, waiting for exams on the 15th or 16th…
I haven’t noticed anyone on here mention Shebeen in terms of pubs and places to drink… Any reason?
@ 40 Because they are racist.
Because it is tucked away in a tiny shopping center off the beaten path and we forget that it exists.
@40 are you asking bc you’re in that book club that can’t plan ahead?
cdc was there back in the day.
Its short for “That restaurant, where’s she been?”
Shebeen do this soup called Cape Malay Curried Corn Chowder. OMFG … I would stamp on orphaned puppies to get just even a smell of it.
That shit is gud.
@37/38 point taken, but the only bar I really care for downtown isn’t even on the mall (South Street).
@39 that’s the hope. doing it the weekend after would result in too many people gone for the holidays.
We’re able to get better drink specials out of the corner bars as well, due to CVSSC relationships with them (and in general, lower ‘base’ prices than the downtown mall bars), which was a huge factor as well. as much as people here hate the corner, it’s only $5 and it’s for charity — even if you don’t want to come, consider donating anyway! I know everyone has plenty of charities to choose from this season, but even a few bucks can make a difference.
Thanks!
Chad…I might have, if you hadn’t stolen my glory last week.
@48 i couldn’t resist, the timing was perfect.
also, shebeen is cool, though i haven’t been there in a while. owner (Walter) is a good guy, and i dig the ambiance there.
@41 Racist? How so? (sincerely asking…)
Racist? How so? (sincerely asking…)
Jesus. Do try to keep up.
Because everyone is racist, all the time. I learned that on cvillain. Besides, you are only asking me for clarification because I am white, right? What’s next? You gonna burn a dictionary in my front yard?
That was a funny joke. 5 hours ago.
@43 No, thought about joining a book club though. Unfortunate work schedule keeps me out of the loop of many a week-night goings-on. CDC?
@ 53 CDC = Civil Disobedience Committee, A local politically active group that meets in a different location every wednesday night to keep the feds off their tail. Their movement is known as the Malted Revolution.
@51 Jesus. Do try to keep up.
the Roman soldier said as they made their way to the top of the hill…
My life doesn’t revolve around this bloody place, so no. I won’t try to keep up. I do my damndest trying to sift through the snarkastic non-witticisms to get to the meat of what’s being talked about… Besides, you extrapolate so nicely and with such style. I don’t want to deny you, Belmont.
Rowrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!
I was just messin with you BBT. I wouldn’t want my snark to throw you into the emo haiku zone…
Though I talk about
the blackness of my soul’s depth
I am not racist
@57 I know…perhaps it’s not easy to imagine my chuckling smile as I write my rebuttals, counterarguments and commentary.
I try the haiku thing, but it’s not really natural to me. I prefer some type of Joycian, stream of consciousness prose which ,by the time I finish writing it, irritates the fuck out of me as much as everyone else who reads it. Or attempts to read it.
That being said, anyone who is having a drink at the moment, have one for me. I can’t wait til I get off of work.
What happened to Zughefudditaboutit?
It was otterdung.
Vocabulary moniker man.
@58 i am opening a bottle of chianti now.
@53 charlottesville drinking club. wednesdays.
WORST SERVICE EVER!!!!! THIS COFFEE SHOPS SUCKS! THE PEOPLE ARE EXTRA RUDE!!!!!!! THE COFFEE SUCKS and they charge $5 for bottled water!!
IT WAS AN AWFUL EXPERIENCE!!! DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!
BAD!!! BAD!!! BAD!!! BAD!!!
@64: Inside voice dude
Capsock – Are you ready to unleash the fury?