Fuel up on gas and beer
Take a trip past the corner of Market and Ninth streets and you’ll notice that even though the building still says Fuel Co., changes are a-happening at this formerly Patricia Kluge-owned restaurant. Subhash Desal, owner of a convenience store and a Subway sandwich shop, purchased it at auction this summer and we still don’t know all of his plans, but the gas pumps say Sunoco, there’s a shiny drive-up (or walk-up?) window front and center, and beer trucks have been wheeling in their wares.
Scribbled chefs
Waynesboro artist Bart Lanman, who’s made an art form out of a style of rendering he calls “scribble scratch,” will have nine lifelike portraits of Charlottesville chefs for sale at Blue Moon Diner on Friday, March 2 at 6:30pm in the “A Line of Good Taste” art show. Lanman will donate a portion of his proceeds to UVA cancer research. And don’t forget to eat and drink while you’re there.
A chile cookoff
The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library is hosting the Big Read (a program sponsored by the National Endowment of the Arts to revitalize the role of literary reading in American popular culture) throughout central Virginia during the month of March. The featured book, Bless me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, takes place in New Mexico with a focus on southwestern cooking, so the library’s main branch is having a chile pepper cook-off on Saturday, March 3 at 3pm. Share your green or red chile salsa with the library community for a chance to win one of three gift certificates to Foods of All Nations. E-mail bigread@jmrl.org to enter.