Second cooling: Behind the new frozen yogurt craze
Just two years ago, locally owned Arch's Frozen Yogurt, with locations on Ivy Road, the Corner, and Emmet Street, was the only fro-yo game in town. Today, there are three new regional franchises serving the stuff, and one already has three locations–- Sweet Frog (Downtown, Barracks, Hollymead), Bloop (Pantops), and Berry Berry (the Corner). And it might be only a matter of time before the big national players, Pinkberry and Yogurtland, take up residence.
September 20th, 2012 issue #1138
News
5th District race: Social issues 'a distraction,' says Hurt
The 5th District incumbent makes no bones about it: his traditional conservative values are a product of how he was raised. That would be in Chatham in southside Virginia, ...
Natural cause: Widower of slain motorist found dead
The Culpeper man who lost his wife in a controversial hail of police gunfire has died in mysterious, but perhaps not nefarious, circumstances. Gary D. Cook lived long enoug...
Presidential gag: UVA Board still trying to silence Sullivan
The days leading up to the first on-Grounds meeting of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors since their June debacle were tense. No public protests, but pre-meeting...
Act I of The Madwoman of Chaillot is underway Friday evening, September 14, with the Bank of America as a backdrop. The show continues Thursdays-Saturdays at 6pm through Se...
Solid stream: UVA Visitors to televise themselves
After some particularly public prodding from a well-known local couple who took matters into their own hands, the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors plans to offer ...
Essays
Freezing eggs: The path to female reproductive equality
More and more women are waiting until they are older to have children. Why? Because they are building their careers and waiting for Mr. Right. But what if Mr. Right fails t...
Real Estate - On the Block
Volume amid volume: Upscale home graces a casual neighborhood
Facetime
Dramatic tension: Kielbasa counts down to opening night
Jody Kielbasa is tired. When we spoke with him, the Virginia Film Festival director had been in Richmond the previous night, trying to celebrate his wife's birthday while d...
Letters
Ayn Rand suitable for teens and Greenspan only
Thank you for your attention on Ayn Rand, however apologetic it might have been. [September 13 essay: "Ayn Rand: Her detractors miss her stellar vision"]
Rand and Romando massacre have something in common
Did anyone else notice the pairing in your September 13 print edition that assembles a hypothesis:Cause: Essayist's defense of Ayn Rand's proto-philosophy ["Ayn Rand: Her d..