Two authors will read at New Dominion on Friday

The low-key, but grisly prologue to Mary Burton’s “Dead Ringer” sets an ominous note for the wildly discordant theme to come. But first, an introduction from the author’s publicist:

As Thanksgiving neared in 1965, a lot of turkeys started being sized up for a place on serving platters.

Thanksgiving wine pairing on tap at DelFosse

As I mentioned in last week’s column Allan and I spent some time at the Sorrel River Ranch outside of Moab, Utah. Located at milepost 17 on Highway 128, this four-star resort is situated between red rock buttes and the Colorado River. It encompasses 240 acres with magnificent views all around.

Baldacci returns to Barnes and Noble

With infinite patience Sam Abell waited as the elements of a perfect photograph began to converge.

Want to make some wholesome autumn memories with the ones you love? Just say those three little words: Apple cider doughnuts.

By late autumn 1973, Art Garfunkel had earned the right to sleep in.

Put a little Zinc into your artistic endeavors today

The moment the little girl spotted the gingerbread house her eyes opened wide with wonder.

Allan and I recently spent several days in Vail, Colo., and Moab, Utah, at two delightful resorts. Each place was entirely different from the other. The Sonnenalp in Vail is a large-scale hotel in the center of town and the Sorrel River Ranch, 17 miles east of Moab, is a working horse ranch with full guest facilities. Both are four-star facilities.

There just aren’t enough extended dulcimer solos these days.

New Dominion shop tunes in the country

On a towering bluff overlooking Omaha Beach, and the dark roiling waters of the English Channel, there is a cemetery.

It’s time to fall into a Sunday brunch at DelFosse

Master sommelier Barbara Werley will be a speaker, presenter and advisor at the inaugural International Food and Wine Experience of Charlottesville, which will take place Jan. 23 to 25 in downtown Charlottesville.

Abell to present New Dominion

Many instructive mottoes of the past have become as arcane as the typewriter I refuse to surrender in the face of technological miracles of screen and lap. A couple lend themselves to the book at hand.

Like cheap boomerangs that never return, juggling balls often get abandoned in frustration.

When world-famous mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell visited Charlottesville in 1929, he chose the perfect subject to talk about.

North Garden prepares for Apple Harvest fest

To paraphrase a famous poem, “The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner”: Pumpkins, pumpkins as far as they can be seen — what do you do with ’em after Halloween?

Autumn leaves were starting to drift to the ground as Sissy Spacek and her husband, Jack Fisk, hauled furniture into a large farmhouse on Route 5 near Richmond.

Don’t feed the Watusi.

With a horrified timbre in his voice, radio announcer Carl Phillips tried to describe what he was seeing to his listeners.

Chevrots will be guests at Clifton’s wine dinner

Sometimes I think that I would like to have lived in Colonial days. Then I realize how hard life was, with no supermarkets in which to do our food shopping.

Sometimes it’s the little ones who show us the way.

Spaar, Wright will read their poetry