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Merry Christmas
In mid-December, I was one of about 3,000 Union First Market bank customers in the Richmond area who was a victim of debit card skimmers. These are thieves who use inconspicuous and tiny recording...
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MOVIE REVIEW: Fighting the Power
"Selma" powerfully captures an important victory. by Nicholas Emme Sometimes a historical drama can be an inaccurate one. The main concern doesn’t always have to be faithful recreation, and the result...
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Urban Design Committee Turns on Floyd Avenue Bike Proposal
The Urban Design Committee voted Thursday to deny a proposal to turn Floyd Avenue into the city’s first bike-walk street. The proposal next goes to the Planning Commission on Jan. 20 for a final...
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Young Welder Makes $140,000 a Year
How important is having a four-year college degree, really? That’s a great question if one looks at yesterday's The Wall Street Journal, which features a story from Houston about how Justin Friend...
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Valentine Museum to Take Over First Freedom Center
The First Freedom Center, with its monumental spire installed to mark the site where the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom was born, is opening next Friday with a media shindig and tours for the...
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Fishing for Compliments
Virginia is the food region of 2014, according to Esquire food editor Josh Ozersky, and Richmond's Rappahannock was celebrated as one of the country's best restaurants in the same issue. To mark the...
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Fish Put City in a Pickle
City leaders have been racing to get infrastructure improvements done in time for their host gig of the 2015 UCI Road World Championships in September. But increasingly, it seems less certain that much...
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State Song Pitch Comes Back Around
Virginia hasn’t had a state song since 1997. It’s a deficiency James Robertson, a retired Virginia Tech history professor, has found increasingly untenable.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on...
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Exit Strategy
How many curators does it take to change a light bulb?None, that’s not a curatorial task, you’ll have to ask maintenance. Bad art humor aside, what is a curatorial task, anyway?Well, if you’d been John...
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Tollroads From Hell?
Transurban, an Australia-based transportation firm that used to manage a big toll road in the Richmond area, has been getting a lot of bad press in news media and on the blogosphere these days. It's...
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Come Up to the Lab
The setting is a little strange -- even sketchy. The space is definitely gritty, with lab equipment haphazardly piled on old couches and coffeemakers gathering dust in the corner.…[ Read more ][...
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Mayor’s Office: Ballpark Update Forthcoming, Maybe
The mayor’s office says something is happening with its long-stalled ballpark proposal, but they won’t say what. The revelation, if you can call it that, came after the mayor’s staff asked for a 60-day...
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Activists Threaten to Stage “International Protest” at Bike Race
About three-dozen activists started singing “Amazing Grace” and chanting protest slogans in the middle of a Richmond City Council meeting Monday night. The protesters identified themselves as members...
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Red Flag
Ten years ago, Richmond was one of five cities in the running to become the home of the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Local officials badly wanted the racing development, making an elaborate pitch that involved...
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LETTER" Time to Send a Message to Delegate Morrissey
I am extremely dismayed, disappointed, and shocked at the support that Joe Morrissey is still receiving from some of his constituents in the 74th House of Delegates district. I understand that...
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Who’s Suing Who: Spy Cam Complaint
by Ned Oliver A Richmond renter who says he found a hidden camera in his bedroom is suing his former landlord for $1.3 million. In the lawsuit, filed late last month in Richmond Circuit Court, Ryan M....
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His Boldest Leap
A local choreographer explores HIV awareness in a city that may need waking up. by Brent Baldwin When Johnnie Mercer was growing up in the tough neighborhood of Blackwell in South Richmond, his local...
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The Provocateur
Longtime local arts teacher Myron Helfgott looks back on the occasion of his career retrospective at Anderson Gallery. by Karen Newton There was no liquor by the drink and race relations were...
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