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A Valentine to Virginia
Last year, Esquire editor-at-large, founder of food blog Grub Street, author and James Beard Award-winner Josh Ozersky named Virginia as food region of the year and Rappahannock as one of the 12 best...
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Peter Chang Comes to the City
Peter Chang is a busy, busy man. And he’s about to get busier. The famous chef just signed a 10-year lease for a restaurant in the old Adams Camera space, now the Hofheimer Building, adjacent to...
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Round-Up from the Arts Desk
Hip Hop on FilmLocal hip hop maven Marc Cheatham of the Cheats Movement is hosting an event “Lights, Camera, Action: A Celebration of Hip-Hop Films and Music” tonight, Thursday, May 7 at Gallery 5. The...
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Elon Musk's Amazing New Solar Battery
Elon Musk has always been a mesmerizing guy. The man from South Africa has taken high-tech innovation to new levels with PayPal, all-electric Tesla cars and SpaceX rockets that are shaking up the cozy...
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Review: Cadence Theatre's "A Lie of the Mind"
You think your family’s messed up? This offering puts things in perspective. by David TimberlineCadence Theatre’s intense rendering of Sam Shepard’s “A Lie of the Mind” is an unsettling and...
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Why Fewer Coal Trains Rumble Along the James River
If you’re frolicking on the banks of the James River in Richmond these days, you may notice that there are fewer coal trains rumbling along the river’s north bank and then across elevated tracks...
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In Between Days
On stage and screen, actor Jeff Daniels seemingly can do it all.He’s always been a bit of an everyman type who can shift effortlessly between comedy and drama, driving a film with his performance or...
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Richmond Parents Take a Pass on SOL Tests
by Peter GaluszkaAfter April showers, May brings flowers. But it bears something else too — a battery of Standards of Learning testing for some of Virginia’s 1.2 million children in public...
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RVA Pinball Enthusiasts To Hold First Public Tourney
by Jason RoopWhen Pac-Man was gobbling up the hearts and minds of kids in the ’80s, not everyone was plunking down quarters for a turn at the joystick. There were plenty of pinball machines standing...
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Spikes and Valleys
The financial wins and environmental challenges facing Dominion Resources. by Peter GaluszkaFor the powerful electric utility Dominion Resources, as Charles Dickens might say: It is the best of times,...
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The Score
+6 Richmond celebrates Mother’s Day with breakfasts in bed, Hallmark cards and bouquets of flowers. The next day we resumed our usual routine of breakfasts at WaWa, business cards and buckets of PBR....
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Bill Power
A Mechanicsville native gets the off-Broadway role of a lifetime as a fiendish, young Bill Clinton. by Rich GrisetAs many a Democrat hopes will happen in the next election, Hillary Clinton is sitting...
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Lifted by the Fallen
A Richmond Ballet dancer heads for China with newfound strength from her mother’s memory. by Julie GeenWhen Richmond Ballet dancer Shir Lanyi takes the stage for the final performance of her career in...
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Country Home
Donna Meade Dean-Stevens hopes the third revival is the charm for the Old Dominion Barn Dance. by Brent BaldwinThe widow of Jimmy Dean says Richmond’s traditional country music scene is in trouble —...
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Event Pick: The Lebanese Food Festival
May 15-17 by Chris Bopst I approach life like I eat — I’ll try anything twice. The first time, I try food to taste something I’ve never had. The second time, I put it in my mouth to either confirm or...
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Event Pick: Music, Movies and Magic at Hardywood Park Craft Brewery
Sunday, May 17 by Chris Bopst Terry Rea and James Parrish are two of my favorite Richmonders. Both have spent their respective decades in the city making life more interesting. Parrish helped start...
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Event Pick: Bombadil at Ashland Coffee and Tea
Friday, May 15 by Chris Bopst Bombadil is updating the great American songbook. Originally a duo that started in Durham, North Carolina, in 2005, the group is now a trio of engaging...
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Event Pick: Mariachi El Bronx, Never Wrong and Brief Lives at the Broadberry
Sunday, May 17 by Chris Bopst Listening to Mariachi El Bronx, you’d never know the music was being played by a bunch of new millennium punk rockers. While the cross-cultural concoctions of Gogol...
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