Book Review
American Prisons: Hell on Earth
by by Fran Withrow Want a peek into what hell might be like? Then sit down with “The Sun Does Shine,” and be prepared to thank your lucky stars you are not on death […]
Month: October 2018
Columns
Hidden Histories: Night Witches
by by Jack R. Johnson For a short while during World War II, the air over the Eastern front was inhabited by witches. That’s what the Germans called them, anyhow: Nachthexen or Night Witches, […]
Cover Story
Abigail Spanberger: Defending Her Country Yet Again
by PHOTO: Rebecca D’Angelo DESIGN: Doug Dobey by Charles McGuigan […]
Business Profiles
Stir Crazy Cafe: A Smooth Transition
by By Charles McGuigan Early Saturday morning, a line reaches from the counter all the way back to the front door. Mainly, the orders are for coffee, a few iced teas, breakfast […]
Businesses
MSNBC on Location at Lakeside Farmers’ Market
by by Charles McGuigan When Kyle Anderberg brings his produce to market he leaves no carbon footprint at all. What he does leave are his own footprints—about 700 of them—from Lakeside’s Tiny Acre to Lakeside […]
Business Profiles
Zorba’s Express a Full-Service Italian Restaurant
by by Charles McGuigan Santos Contreras left his home in the coastal city of La Union, El Salvador when he was just fourteen years old. From birth, he had witnessed one dictatorial regime after another […]
Art Show
“Confluence” by Steve Hedberg and “Hearts and Bones” by Tom Chambers At Glave Kocen Gallery
by Carrying 100 pounds of gear mounted to his 12-foot kayak, Richmond artist Steve Hedberg set course in September 2017 to paddle the 320 navigable miles of the James River. Hedberg’s mission was to […]
Art Show
“Visions from the Trail” at Stir Crazy Café
by “ Five years ago, Sonja Moore joined a local hiking group, Central Virginia Trailblazers, and renewed her love of the outdoors. In recent years, she has combined her love of hiking and photography. This […]
Art Show
New Paintings by Tim Harriss at Eric Schindler Gallery
by With his newest group of paintings, Tim Harriss takes machine-aided abstraction to an extreme level. His interest in the Hockney-Falco thesis regarding the use of lenses to create optical distortion has long […]