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A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words
International imagery outshines language in "Missed Connection" at Reynolds Gallery. by Megan Zalecki Language is limited. It can fall short of certain ideas or emotions.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to...
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There Food
Culinary notes from recent travels in the Pacific Northwest. The first in a series from Style Weekly food writers. by Deveron Timberlake Not that we don't have enough food trends to follow, but here's...
View ArticleSlave Trail Commission Stays Out of Shockoe Stadium Debate
by Tina Griego The Slave Trail Commission's executive committee is recommending that the body stay out of the heated debate about whether to build a baseball stadium in Shockoe Bottom, says its...
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Sheryl Warner and the Southside Homewreckers at Crossroads
Saturday, Sept. 21. 8 p.m. by Chris Bopst I wonder if people a hundred years from now will look back and think of Justin Bieber as a seminal American artist. It’s within the realm of possibility, I...
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Rasin Still on Vigil Job: “I’ll Be Right There”
by Tom Nash Tragedy doesn’t take a holiday, and apparently neither does Alicia Rasin, the city’s ambassador of compassion. A news item in the Richmond Times-Dispatch that the longtime homicide vigil...
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WRIR-FM 97.3’s second annual Music History Tour
Saturday, Sept. 28. 11 a.m and 3 p.m. by Chris Bopst There isn’t a nook or cranny in this town that wasn’t covered in blood at one time or another. Most people obsess over the gory aspects of our...
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All That Jazz
Tim Reid is launching a new Web series with a little help from the crowd. by Craig Belcher Tim Reid is old school. The actor’s earliest work can be seen in broadcast television relics such as “Rhoda”...
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Lasting Impression
Food Review: A television chef heaps it on in the Fan at Mint Gastropub. by Karen Newton When Beloit College issues its annual mindset list, we get a reality check about the cultural reference points...
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Walk of Faith Addresses Violence in Richmond
by Tina Griego The immediate and extended family members of the young black men killed in street violence arrive outside the Manchester courthouse Saturday. Most are women — mothers, grandmothers,...
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GayRVA.com launches G Magazine at Bar Code
Friday, Sept. 27. 8 p.m. by Chris Bopst With the overturning of the Defense of Marriage Act and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, it’s getting downright hip to be gay these days. While I applaud society’s...
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Isolated Beacon
Will the new Gateway Plaza mend downtown Richmond's urban fabric? by Edwin Slipek John Clark is a Richmond lawyer, friend and keen observer of how architecture affects city life. He chides me for not...
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Weekend, White Laces and Big No at Strange Matter
Friday, Sept. 27. 9 p.m. by Chris Bopst The punk, noise pop of Weekend gives as good as it gets. Haunting drones, agitated yet lilting melodies and space-is-the-place, reverb-soaked vocalizations...
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Gym Rats
The Richmond School Board hears of struggling phys-ed classes and rodents in locker rooms. by Tom Nash As if getting ready for gym class weren’t bad enough, some city students are asked to change and...
View ArticleSwan Song
Virginia Opera stages a rare work based on Shakespeare’s favorite fatty. by Rich Griset The fat, boastful but cowardly knight Sir John Falstaff is one of Shakespeare’s most beloved characters, and...
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Course Correction
Opinion: Massive, open, online classes seem certain to shake traditional institutions of higher learning to their foundations. by ’Rick Gray I’m not sure where I first heard about massive, open online...
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High on the Hill
It’s grappled with segregation, urban renewal, public housing and racial reconciliation. A community of change, Church Hill embraces its identity and looks to the future. by John Murden Don Coleman...
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Toubab Crewe and the Southern Belles at Capital Ale House
Thursday, Sept. 26. 8:30 p.m. by Chris Bopst William S. Burroughs once famously said, “Language is a virus from outer space.” Words — no matter how well articulated or carefully strung together — can...
View ArticleLETTER: Thirsty for Gwar
While weeping gleefully at old videos of Gwar on Youtube (“The Gwarchive,” Fall Arts Preview, Sept.11), it occurred to me that some place in Richmond ought to have a drink called a Sleazy P. Martini,...
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