Give the gift of live music by purchasing a gift certificate for someone you love at Gravity Lounge, Charlottesville’s best local venue for live shows. I just recently enjoyed Devon Sproule, Danny Schmidt and the whole “King of My Living Room” crew there. Gravity offers a nice array of munchies besides their fully-packed bar. Their […]

At this time of year every parent feels the burden and (let’s face it, sometimes the irritation) at the prospect of giving the dreaded “teacher gifts” to their sons’ or daughters’ teachers. Especially when you’re my neighbor who has four kids, times the number of teachers each has, times the principal, oh yeah and what […]

On the second day of Christmas, Betty’s true love gave to her… holdings in a socially responsible investment fund! I know we all want to retire at age fifty so we are still young enough to hike and play the banjo and paint and/or just eat bon-bons on the beach if we want. But that […]

I’m happy to announce that I kicked off my “voluntary no-idling” campaign at all Wachovia Banks starting today with a simple phone call! Quit jumping up and down and let me begin by “clearing the air” surrounding idling/turning your engines off and perhaps you will find it in your heart (or I should say lungs) […]