Longtime customers of Afton Mountain Vineyards have started stopping by the farm to say goodbye to its founders.

For the two of us a half-chicken is sufficient for a meal, and even then there is some meat left over, usually white meat.

Kid Pan Alley takes over local bookstore

Around 1775 Italian violin maker Pietro Antonio Landolfi finished work on an instrument that would come to be ranked among the finest ever made.

And now, the rest of the story.

Watch out for Kids in the Kitchen this weekend

Do you have the shamrocks ready and something green to wear for St. Patrick’s Day next Tuesday?

While some career fields may look rather bleak at the moment, such as financial institutions and real estate, others are forging strongly ahead — for example, education.

In his day Coly the mule was one of Charlottesville’s most popular animal celebrities.

Rogan honored for lifetime achievement

Cauliflower is a cool-season vegetable and is now on special in some of our markets. Although I like it very much, I hardly ever focus on it when grocery shopping. I did buy a head of cauliflower the other day to make a pasta dish, which I first encountered years ago in an Italian restaurant in San Francisco.

Library book sale goes 16 straight days

Thanks to the family of one local baby, many local families will head home from the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank with infant formula, diapers and supplies for their own babies.

On a recent Saturday afternoon, a prince was brought home to his family.

The skies above Charlottesville were cloudy, and rain was expected before nightfall on Aug. 31, 1940.

Class peels away jitters for confident cooks

A recent piece on the TV news confirmed my suspicions that some of the packaged items in our grocery stores were smaller with less content. The manufacturers have designed new labels for these slightly smaller versions and have kept them at the same or a little higher price. I’ve noticed it in some canned goods and even in packages of popcorn kernels. I wondered why all of a sudden I was not getting the quantity of popped corn we had been enjoying.

While there may be controversy over Zora Neale Hurston’s claim that she wrote her 1937 novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” in seven days, there’s no disputing its excellence. Nor its painful, yet triumphant story and the way Hurston blends soaring prose with the richness of Southern black idiom.

UVa professor will speak at Crozet

All Michael Garstang wanted to do was create a passable drawing of an elephant for his young grandchildren.

In 1830 Dr. James T. Barclay opened what might have been the first drugstore in Charlottesville.

Italian is class act at Tuesday’s demonstration

It was with great surprise that I recently learned that several of the leaders in fine dinnerware — Waterford, Wedgwood and Royal Doulton — had gone into bankruptcy. I wondered to myself whether these casualties of the economic world indicate the era of fine entertaining and dining is ending.

Bence delves into new ‘Revelations’

While most of us are anxious to be rid of the cold days, at least we didn’t have to deal with the problem that the recent freeze visited upon one local couple.

No institution more masterfully orchestrates the traumatic transformation from civilian to soldier than the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

It wasn’t billed as the Greatest Show on Earth, because that phrase was already taken by a certain famous circus.

Countless candy lovers have reaped the rewards of Sue Charney’s insistence on getting her sweets just right.

Check out the art scene at Zinc this evening

Rose are red,

Violets are blue,