2008
Jul
FloydFest 7: This Weekend in Floyd, VA
As promised, FloydFest is on myScoper.com!Here are some highlights that you don’t want to...
Jul 23rd
To our SWVA Butter Roomies, Here's Your...
Hiya Friends! It looks like a great week in SWVA. Enjoy!MONDAY ::Hey, having a Monday ladies? No...
Jul 21st
Doug and Telisha Williams in concert at...
country-folk artists Doug & Telisha Williams, a married couple from Martinsville, VA who tour...
Jul 17th
The Black Crowes @ Charlottesville...
Last weekend, I caught another solid concert at the Charlottesville Pavilion. The Black Crowes were...
Jul 14th
Good, Cheap, and Local / Nick's Seafood
Shhh…I’m going to tell ya’ll a local secret. But first, I’ll assert that...
Jul 4th
Jun
Emmylou Harris at the Charlottesville...
Jun 29th
Butter Room Sighting / The Alamo: Gary at the Alamo this...
Jun 28th
Cheap, Good, and Local / Kids, Pork &...
I am starting a new column this morning about three things that I am always in search of when I am...
Jun 23rd
Butter Room Sighting / Graceland: Gary at Graceland this...
Jun 23rd
It’s Easy Being Green
How big is your carbon or eco footprint? That’s an excellent question; one that I decided to ask...
Jun 17th
King's Grant Waterways Cleanup Results
Our neighborhood action to clean up our waterways by cleaning our neighborhood was a success…a...
Jun 11th
Butter Room Sighting / Nags Head
Jun 10th
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The Butter Room gals, Beth and Wendy left Roanoke, VA at 5 a.m. to drive 2.5 hours to Bristol, VA to...
Jun 6th
A Meeting between Robert Plant, Alison...
The music from the lot grew louder and our anticipation built as we walked amongst the crowds...
Jun 3rd
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Baked Virginia Jams/ Bathtub Gin - Phish Memorial Day has passed. It’s summertime...
Jun 1st
May
In The Butter Room / Ann McDaniel,...
The Butter Room is thrilled to interview Ann McDaniel, the Director of the Warehouse, the official...
May 30th
Memorial Day Food Rundown
I was very excited leading up to this past Memorial Day weekend in anticipation of all the grilling...
May 29th
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Baked Virginia Jams Tall Boy > Time Is Free - Widespread Panic Here is our last video from the...
May 26th
Gary and his family decided to hike the Cascades Trail today...
May 25th
Book Review: Blind Faith, by Ben Elton
From its release in 1949 through the end of the Cold War, George Orwell’s 1984 was a fixture...
May 23rd
Delicious Eye Candy
Networks of people tagging the URL: ...
May 21st
Deserving of a Ticker Tape Parade: My...
Mark Evans wrote on his blog recently: If there was a way to post a “no vacancy” sign on my...
May 20th
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Baked Virginia Jams / Might as Well - Grateful Dead [3.26.88] Tonight’s BVJ comes from the...
May 18th
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration...
by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, Penguin, 2006, 324 pages The advent of social media has...
May 14th
Virginia Beach Neptune Festival Season...
The Virginia Beach Neptune Festival kicks off this weekend and goes all summer. It starts off with a...
May 14th
Radiohead @ Nissan Pavilion in Bristow,...
The Butter Room was well represented at the Radiohead show from Nissan Pavilion last night...
May 13th
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Baked Virginia Jams “Ribs & Whiskey” - Widespread Panic 4/27/08 Landmark Theater -...
May 11th
Give the Gift of Meat
I want to tell ya’ll about a little treasure from Virginia called Edward’s of Surry. ...
May 10th
In The Butter Room / Paul Rosner of...
Trees on Fire are set to play their second show in as many years at Charlottesville’s Fridays...
May 8th
Van Halen @ John Paul Jones Arena in...
Diver Down was one of the first rock albums I ever owned. “Mean Street” was the first...
May 6th
Google Earth Presentation
May 5th
King's Grant Communities Waterways Clean...
WHO: Residents of King’s Grant Neighborhoods WHAT: Waterways Clean UpWHY: Look around. Our...
May 4th
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band @...
I consider myself part-Jersey. You see, my whole family is from Jersey. My Mom and Dad were the...
May 3rd
ROFLcon ‘08 :: A Meet Up for Internet...
The first ever ROFLcon happened this past weekend as a two-day symposium on the MIT campus in...
May 1st
Apr
Iron Man Debacle Shows Twitter's True...
Like many PR people, I’m still unsure of the best way for my industry to leverage Twitter. ...
Apr 30th
Widespread Panic @ Landmark Theater in...
Last night I made the trek from Cville to see some old friends in Richmond and catch Widespread...
Apr 29th
FREE stickers and buttons at this year’s first ever...
Apr 28th
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This is what the internet looks like when crammed into one room…This a video excerpt of Day 1...
Apr 28th
Butter Room Sighting / Which one should I have?: @ Sticky...
Apr 28th
Butter Room Sighting / Graham, Julia, and Matt at the...
Apr 28th
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Firefox and Tripadvisor going head to head at ROFLcon Video by our good friend Dean Browell…...
Apr 27th
Twhirl + Friendfeed: Use, but use with...
I am a big fan of twhirl, a desktop client that up until last week allowed one to update their...
Apr 27th
Butter Room Sighting / Fridays After Five: Lisa at Fridays...
Apr 26th
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“Git R Dun” by The Kings of Belmont at Charlottesville’s Fridays After Five on...
Apr 26th
Advertise / Blogging for Charity
We are blogging for charity, but only if we can get help from you. Half of the proceeds from...
Apr 25th
In The Butter Room / John Spagnolo of...
This Friday in Charlottesville, Kings of Belmont will make their Fridays After Five debut. Who are...
Apr 24th
The Most Musical Time of The Year
Have you checked the music calendar in Virginia over the next couple of weeks? If not, you better...
Apr 24th
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Local Music Spotlight Charlottesville’s Kings of Belmont perform “Jerk Store”.
Apr 24th
The myScoper girls have arrived in Boston… This pic...
Apr 24th
Butter Room Sighting / Times Square in New York City: Gary...
Apr 23rd
About Us
The Butter Room is where you will find the view from and of Virginia. A Virginian view on music,...
Apr 23rd
New Breed of Lobbyists Hail from Appalachia :...
Apr 21st
Springtime at Monticello
While I fully understand that going to Monticello is one of the more cliched and tourist-laden...
Apr 20th
Tea Leaf Green @ Satellite Ballroom in...
Last night I caught Tea Leaf Green in Charlottesville and it was a lot of fun. I have wanted to see...
Apr 18th
In The Butter Room / Sam Wilson of Sons...
If you are a Charlottesville resident, you are more than likely familiar with the city’s favorite...
Apr 17th
Baked Virginia Jams / The Concert For...
The Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Nas, and Phil Vassar put on a free concert at Lane Stadium on...
Apr 16th
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Baked Virginia Jams The Music Never Stopped - Grateful Dead 4/14/78 Cassell Coliseum, Virginia Tech...
Apr 15th
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Baked Virginia Jams Dupree’s Diamond Blues - Grateful Dead 4/14/78 Cassell Coliseum, Virginia...
Apr 14th
I took a tour of the historic Rockwood Manor Bed &...
Apr 12th
Butter Room Sighting / Does It Even Know?: My old Spring LG...
Apr 11th
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Baked Virginia Jams Heavy Metal Drummer Wilco 4/22/06 William & Mary Hall -...
Apr 10th
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Local Music “Million Miles” by Love Routine (basement demo) - We were a very good local...
Apr 8th
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Baked Virginia Jams Beautiful Sorta Ryan Adams & The Cardinals 9/13/07 The Paramount Theater -...
Apr 8th
I’ve always loved the view of downtown Lynchburg, VA...
Apr 7th
There were a few hours this weekend in Albemarle County when...
Apr 7th
For a dreary day very early in the growing season, there was...
Apr 7th
Since it’s still very early in the growing season,...
Apr 7th
By the time next year rolls around, my son will be able to...
Apr 7th
Free goat cheese at the Charlottesville City Market this...
Apr 7th
Butter Room Sighting / Charlottesville 10 miler: Todd about...
Apr 6th
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Baked Virginia Jams It’s Just That Simple Wilco 10/20/07 Charlottesville Pavilion It’s...
Apr 6th
Wilco @ 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. –...
Last night was the second of two consecutive sold out nights at Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club...
Apr 4th
Firefox Poised to Overtake IE in Browser...
Which Web browser do you use to surf the Web? According to the most recent statistics, more and...
Apr 4th
In The Butter Room / Jane Copland,...
In The Butter Room / Jane Copland, Search Marketing Consultant Ah, so this is The Butter Room...
Apr 4th
reconsidering late-period Bowie
With the recent release of the David Bowie Limited Edition Box Set CD, it seems like a good time...
Apr 4th
You'd Prefer a... Cadillac?
If you’ve watched television in the last couple of months, there’s a good chance that...
Apr 4th
In The Butter Room / Marco Arment, Lead...
(This was originally published on our old platform on January 23, 2008) Marco Arment is the Lead...
Apr 3rd
Twitter! What Is It Good For?
Absolutely ??? I am trying to figure out Twitter, and am giving it the old college try. If...
Apr 3rd
Well, I'm a Tumblr
Don’t you miss it, don’t you miss it. Some of you people just about missed it! Tumblr,...
Apr 3rd
The Beamer Legacy
It’s been a week since the Hokies disappointed thousands of Virginia Tech alums, students, and...
Apr 3rd
I Want my Apple TV!
I actually already own the much-maligned Apple TV. However, the latest software update delivered a...
Apr 3rd
Outsourcing Memory
One of the many things on which I pride myself is my memory. No, not the sweet 768MB of RAM inside...
Apr 3rd
3EB (still) Rocks!
(This show review comes a little late due to the Easter holiday, but I wanted to write it because...
Apr 3rd
Review: Gary Louris - Vagabonds
If you are a fan of the great alt-country band, The Jayhawks, then Gary Louris needs no...
Apr 2nd
What do you use as the nerve center of...
I discovered the tumblelog of Joe Lazarus this week. Why is that important? Well, Joe asked the...
Apr 2nd
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Matt Pond PA performs “People Have a Way” at The Norva on March 1, 2008.
Apr 2nd
2007
Dec
In The Butter Room / Brad Serling,...
(This was originally posted on our old platform on 12/30/97) With the end of the year upon us, we...
Dec 30th