• Asides

  Mondavi died; friend o' Kluge
  Legendary California winemaker Robert Mondavi has мебелиdied. Lisa Provence covered his May 2002 visit to Charlottesville and mentorship of fellow vintner Patricia Klugeмебелимебели. (0)

  Davis delivers stinging missive to GOP
  Now that he’s not running for Senate or seeking re-election, Congressman Tom Davis (R-Fairfax) has written publicly what many of his colleagues have reportedly stated privately: the Republican Party is in the worst shape in decades. In a controversial 20-page memo he delivered to his GOP colleagues in the House yesterday, Davis writes that the present political atmosphere is “the worst since Watergate and far more toxic than in 2006, when we lost 30 seats (and our majority).” Davis attributes this to President Bush, whom he says, “continues to flounder,” and the uniformly arch-conservative “GOP brand,” which Davis calls an “albatross” around the necks of moderates like himself. # (2)

  Monticello really gets new boss
  Monticello really is getting a new director. Yes, we heard change was coming last September, but it’ll be hard to imagine the place without 24-year veteran Dan Jordan. The new boss, Leslie Greene Bowman, hails from Winterthur, an Americana, decorative arts, and architecture museum based in a rich person’s house in Delaware. (0)

  Hook gets wrong hours, F-bomb
  Someone claiming to be associated with Maya, the restaurant reviewed in this issue, pointed out that we botched the restaurant’s hours (totally this editor’s and not the reviewer’s fault), insisted that his restaurant used fresh whipped cream, dropped an F-bomb, and left. We do apologize about the whipped cream disbelief but particularly for the wrong hours. From maya-restaurant.com, here are the right ones: Maya’s bar is open 4:30pm to 2am daily. Maya’s kitchen is open from 5 to 10pm Sunday through Thursday and 5 to 11pm Friday and Saturday. (10)

  Feds get plea from UVA 'hooker booker'
  A 32-year-old who majored in English literature at UVA, Tameka Rochelle Lewis, is the latest casualty in the war on prostitution once pursued by— but now ensnaring— former New York prosecutor governor Eliot Spitzer, Reuters reports. The complaint [PDF] indicates that Lewis, who pleaded guilty this morning to a “conspiracy,” was the one who booked the Valentine’s Day tryst at Washington’s Mayflower Hotel that destroyed Spitzer’s political career. (0)

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