Posts Tagged ‘Reviews’
The Week in Review: 1/21/2008 to 1/27/2008
Besides the lovely complexity of having too much wine this week, we break the story on Pink Paintballs, (hopefully) find a restaurantuer a chef partner, chat with bartenders and break a rumor of a high end steak place. Oh, we also make some rule.
The week in review continues below:
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Wine Tasting Weekends
[written by Yupster]
It feels less like a tasting, more like a party. I like! Toby, the author of the new “Working Pour” column in the C-VILLE, and new commenter Sian were serving seven wines and two beers. I just can’t get over how nice the staff is. That is not a huge space, there are expensive glass bottles sitting on the edges of shelves everywhere with people in puffy coats shuffling around, and everyone is just holding out their glass over the bar with the desperate look of, “I need that grenache like there is no tomorrow.” »Read More
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The Week in Review 1/14/2008 - 1/20/2008
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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Spudnuts: Doughnuts, The Real Deal in Charlottesville
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Spudnuts has been around for a long time. And by long time, I mean when velociraptors used to hunt small wild pigs and T-Rex’s ruled the United States. In other words, Spudnuts has been open since 1969 at 309 Avon Street. It has kicked so much ass in the last 40 years or so, in fact, that both Krispy Kreme and Dunkin’ Doughnuts left town.
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The Week in Review 1/7/2008 - 1/13/2008
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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This weekend’s assignment
No complaints from me, ever, about going out to eat at Continental Divide and Bang! in the same week. But my credit card feels differently. Specifically, it said, “You swipe my ass one more time, and I’m opening up a can of whoop-ass on you.”
I said, “Really. Well, the loser store called and wants its can of whoop-ass back.”
–To which it responded, “Oh, right. Well 1997 called and wants its joke back.”
We’re not talking now, so I have to eat cheap.
Try some other spots with me. Specifically, I’m thinking of Fox’s, Moore’s Creek, 2 Sides, Big Al’s, and you’re welcome to add more. The Riverside Lunch is always packed. Dammit, let’s help out the underdogs.
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Researching Charlottesville’s Online Dating Market and Making Conclusions
[Written by Uva LaGrape]
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Wanna know what a grad student in Nerd Studies does on her time off? Research!
This is not at all scientific, but I’ve got tables of the gender/age breakdowns of the online daters in Cville as of January 6, 2008. Do with it what you will. All geographic radii were set to within 25 miles of 22902, except in the case of Yahoo Personals, which just had a near Charlottesville designation that reached all the way to Harrisonburg.
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Blue Mountain Brewery
Credit: Costi
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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