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From the Shadows
VMFA director Alex Nyerges steps out with a photography show that reveals his 40-year fascination with light. by Karen NewtonIt took Alex Nyerges only four decades to get a solo photography show. And...
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Event Pick: The Amazing Acro-Cats at the Gottwald Playhouse
Friday, June 12 by Chris Bopst Some people get all warm and gooey inside about babies, but I’ll take a cat over an infant every single time. They demand less attention, aren’t as needy and most...
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Event Pick: The Bacon Festival
Sunday, June 14 by Chris Bopst In an era defined by political, social and moral polarizations, there’s one thing that has the power to bring people together: bacon. Sure, not everyone partakes in the...
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Event Pick: A Night of Honky-Tonk Angels at Capital Ale House
Saturday, June 13 by Chris Bopst Despite the continuing advancements in the battle against breast cancer, it remains the second-leading cause of cancer death in women — claiming the lives of more than...
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Event Pick: Institute, Lost Tribe, the Hussy and the Nervous Ticks at Strange...
Friday, June 11 by Chris Bopst I remember when people thought the Cars and the Police were punk rock. It was, and still is, a patently absurd assumption. But aside from a few fleeting and homogenized...
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Event Pick: Michael McDonald at Innsbrook After Hours
Wednesday, June 10 by Chris Bopst Trust no one over 30. If you still believe in the sentiment expressed by environmental and former new left activist Jack Weinberg in 1964, we can no longer trust...
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Rocketts Revival
Food Review: Mbargo restaurant and market means good food and walkable convenience for East End condo dwellers. by Rachel MachacekYou won’t see tumbleweeds drift down Old Main Street at Rocketts...
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Shopping Goes Worldwide at New Grand Mart in Midlothian
by Brandon FoxWhen New York chefs visit Richmond, they’re uniformly impressed with Tan-A Market on West Broad Street. One of them is Rob Newton, chef and owner of both Wilma Jean and Nightingale 9, a...
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Weekly Food Notes
Fire, Flour and Fork Returns, Julep's Re-Opens + More by Brandon FoxEarly bird: The full schedule will be released and VIP tickets will go on sale June 15 for the foodie love fest, Fire, Flour and...
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Punch Drunk
Jack's Richmond Lies by Jack LauterbackThe other week I read that NBC was trying to bring back embattled anchor Brian Williams to the network in some form, whether as a reporter, anchor or something...
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Sweat Inequity
The people of concrete-bound Gilpin Court live under conditions that would be called inhumane if more of us had to live there ourselves. It only gets worse for them during the summer, when the...
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Toon Town
How a Richmond-inspired cartoon became the "Peanuts" of '90s kids everywhere. by Rich GrisetSix years ago, on a cool spring day, the reward of my yearlong search was sitting in my beat-up Mercury...
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Kitchen Starters
Did you know not all beers can be cooked? It’s true, and it means if you aren’t used to cooking with beer it’s probably best that you test the beer you want to cook with first just to make sure it will...
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More Than Beer
Will Correll started off like many entrepreneurs — running a neighborhood lemonade stand when he was a kid.He moved on to selling pints of blueberries that he picked and loaded into his red wagon and...
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Byrd Theatre Needs New Projector
You may have noticed that the Byrd Theatre was closed last week. That's because it's DP100 digital projector was on it's last legs and they had to switch over to the old 35 mm projector while waiting...
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Flying Frustrated
The owner of the Richmond Flying Squirrels on politicians, his team’s future and Richmond’s "paralysis by analysis." by Peter GaluszkaFlying Squirrels owner and president Lou DiBella is passionate...
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Making It Here
My family calls it my witch’s brew. Sometimes they call it Snape’s cupboard. Since I started making kombucha a couple of years ago, there’s a cabinet in my kitchen that reeks of vinegar. (Well, I’m...
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The Tipping Point for Health Diagnostic Laboratory
A key sequence of events -- started when the company stopped paying doctors to use its blood tests -- was the tipping point for Health Diagnostic Laboratory, according to bankruptcy papers and news...
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A New Chapter
It’s been a particularly tough year for Jo Best. As co-owner of the Viceroy, she had to make, along with her partners, the tough choice to close it. She’s in the midst of a divorce and had to find a...
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Nomad No More
Options — it’s a way to bring people back to a neighborhood that’s seen better days. And the commercial corridor of Brookland Park Boulevard on the North Side is beginning to provide a few more choices...
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