As typical for a cVillain week, things got rather spicy. Last week was about banning things (trans fat, bumper nuts and bags) before Armageddon hit. Between our new mascot and the discussion about platonic boy/girl friendships, it was one of our most diverse weeks yet.
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Last week, I checked out Guitar Hero night at Fellini’s #9. Here’s how it stacked up to my expectations…
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I’m gonna start doing a wrapup of the week on Saturdays or Sundays. If you guys like this kind of a thing, let me know. If not, then I will stop.
Monday:
New Jersey-Ites call Bodo’s everything bagels “trash bagels.” [Trash Bag Hell]
Freaky Weather Happens [Not a Record]
Lilith, as usual, knows the scenes inside out [Weekend Review]
Gobbler asks about 29N’s for Lease Signs [Why are they there?]
Thor and Lilith answer some questions from a hot date [Thor & Lilith]
First friday’s anyone [It’s cool]
What is the worst music video every [This one?]
Police car hits wheelchairer [with Fergie on the radio]
Tuesday
Should smoking be banned in restaurants? [Great debate here]
Our review of Blue Mountain Brewery [It’s awesome.]
Popo’s screaming past L&C [no one knows why, except for the passing wheelchair gang]
Wednesday
Albemarle police make it to the front page of viral video sites [Break It]
Monticello and the Virginia Encyclopedia: Are they missing the modern train [1 & 2]
All about relationships [Parlie asks, LaGrape answers with some amazing stats]
Wine party at Crush [24th of January, baby]
Thursday
Vote for the Best Pictures from our Readers [HERE]
We take a look around the C-Ville Blog O Sphere [Cooler than us]
We get some pictures of the Bamboo House [Taxidermy anyone?]
On Being A DJ [a real look at the truths of DJing for the public]
Lilith’s infamous awkward conversations for your hot date [this time it’s about Sex]
Cults in Charlottesville [for real, the koolaid is good]
Friday
Will 2007 be an amazing wine vintage [we hope so]
Silmo’s looking for some hotties to arm wrestle [winners get eternal fame]
Distract yourself at work [2G1C, again]
Oy asks “does having sex with your clone constitute incest or masturbation” [there still is no consensus]
We hope you all had great weekends [preview & your assignment]
Saturday
Wahooptie [phatness]
Popos hauling [Big GULP]
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Take 64 West to the Wintergreen exit. Turn left on 250 West, then left on 151 South. The Blue Mountain Brewery will be on your left. GO! Tomorrow night! (They’re closed Monday and Tuesday, but they shave a buck off every pint tomorrow.)
My friend and I were headed that way to go wine tasting, so the brewery was a surprise ending to what was already a relaxing, warm Sunday in the Blue Ridge. We each had the tasting sampler, six shot-size pours of beer for $5. [Note: I just got up to get a beer, just because reflecting on the beer made me want one. Unfortunately, Budweiser is not doing it for me like the Kolsch.] We split a cup of their parsnip soup with truffle oil drizzle ($3.50 I think) and the meat and cheese plate (not more than $10) and were treated to home made mustard. The value was great. Beer-lovers will be impressed, and beer-not-so-muchers can drink wine from Nelson County wineries. The food is all local, as far as I remember, and I would have taken home a growler of the soup if I could have. (But, then, I didn’t ask…)
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OXO
My “Going-Out Companion” and I stopped by OXO late Friday night. Here’s the deal: XSV will play about 30 seconds of a song, then transition it into another song. And the songs are ri-dic. It’s not something I could appreciate every night, but it was awesome to hear “Hang Tough,” “I Want to Sex You Up,” and “Mmmbop.” I happen to love “Mmmbop.” I was way into it, much to the amusement (or horror, maybe) of MGOC. I returned on Saturday and had way too much fun again, way too late!
Escafe
We heart belmont yo. We do. Seriously. He plays techno songs I secretly LOVE. I play them on my iPod when I’m working out, so I can appear all serious and intent on reading my New Yorker and pumping that elliptical, but inside my head, it’s Escafe on Friday.
Sam Hill’s New Year’s Party
I hear they had an awesome piano guy who played requests. I also hear it was packed, with a great Charlottesville crowd of music-lovers. And I also hear Stevie Jay was there. Were you there?
X Lounge
Awesome, obvi.
Bang!
Best service ever. Our waitress made MGOC feel like the special occasion it was. [Read the review.]
Siips
MGOC described it as a “country club party.” Accurately.
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Paul had initially invited me to Crush back in 2007 at the CAAR tradeshow and I initially promised to show up the day they opened, so it was with some embarrassment that I showed up three weeks late, and only on the additional encouragement of the Cvillain homework assignment. But I have to say that I am delighted that I did. »Read More
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I stopped in at Crush last night hoping to find a reasonably priced bottle of something unusual, and I left a half hour and a half glass of wine later, with a bottle of a particularly “well-structured” malbec for $12.99. (I’m not opening it until later.)
I drink wine often enough to know what I’m tasting, but I’d definitely flunk a blind tasting. (Oh by the way, we did a blind tasting of 10, 15, and 18 year Glenmorangie scotch before I did the cinnamon trick during the Christmas vacation… flunked…) I walked around while a much more knowledgeable customer checked out and realized I recognized not a single bottle on the shelves. It was exciting and terrifying, because I wanted to get something I couldn’t find at Harris Teeter but I still felt like I had no business being there. After asking Gregg about the malbecs, I asked if I could taste whatever he had around. I would do that! »Read More
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–Like Newsies, but with food. I’m trying out the name. You like? You know the drill…
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Well, I was wrong on 3 of 4 counts for predicted restaurant failures for 2007. I would still put money on West Main and the Nook.
My top 5 predictions for 2008:
1 One of the downtown wine shops will go out of business due to too much competition. It’s a tie between Tastings and Siips.
2. Belmont will get a bar in the Saxx’s location. If this place doesn’t have the power to replace Blue Light, something else will.
3. One of the local publications or blogs will try to expose Thor and Lilith. They will be wrong and we will tell them to shove it.
4. We will be thoroughly disappointed by whatever replaces the hardware store. If it’s an irish bar, it will die most quickly.
5. At least one of Charlottesville’s major real estate development projects will go bankrupt, or decide against additional building plans.
What are your predictions?
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