Jack R. Johnson 05.2024
Fran Withrow 05.2024
The Best Hiking Neighborhoods in RVA
Fayeruz Regan 05.2024
The Many Arts of Julie Elkins
They sat around the kitchen table as the house settled into slumber, its systems quietly shutting down for the night, until there was just the soft purr of the refrigerator, barely audible. This was Bryan Harvey’s house in Woodland Heights just blocks away from the house Mike Lucas called home. The two sat across the table from Coby Batty, and these three men, linked by a love of music, had been good friends most of their lives. Each one of them began singing a song.
By Charles McGuigan 04.2024
Happening now in the community:
NORTH of the JAMES 2023 Virginia Press Association Awards
NORTH OF THE JAMES magazine won multiple awards in a trifecta for design, writing, and photography from the Virginia Press Association at this year’s held conference earlier this month.
NORTH OF THE JAMES wishes to congratulate all journalists, photographers and designers across the Commonwealth who were also recognized for their hard work, and commitment to a free press in an era when certain politicians routinely attack the Fourth Estate.
Kenya Gibson Launches Campaign
Kenya Gibson, who’s running against incumbent Ann-Frances Lambert for the Third District seat on City Council, launched her campaign on April 7, and she held no punches. She was direct, and seems to have concrete plans for making Richmond a better city with improved schools, affordable housing, and a truly transparent government.
First Sundays at The Richmond Community Hospital
04.2024
On the first Sunday of every month now, in the early afternoon, there’s a service held at a building on the city’s Northside that embodies a spirit unlike any other structure in Virginia. It is testament to perseverance and justice.
“The Richmond Community Hospital was actually started as an idea by Dr. Sarah Garland Jones,” Viola Baskerville told me on the first Sunday of April in the shadow of this hospital.
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On Presidential Immunity
By Jack R Johnson
The Best Hiking Neighborhoods in RVA
By Fayeruz Regan
Never Again
By Frances Temme
Abbie Waters: The Habit of Being
By Charles McGuigan
“Alfie & Me”
By Fran Withrow
The Many Arts of Julie Elkins
By Charles McGuigan
