In December, a sign was posted on the window of Mitchem’s Shoe Repair and Alterations in Carytown. “Bring them home,” it read. “Your courage melts ICE.” For more than two decades, the Parks — whose ...

On the afternoon of Monday, Feb. 2 at City Hall, thousands of people flooded the plaza at 9th and Marshall Streets. They were standing on pavement and on snow and ice, many with eyes closed, hands ...

Late last year, the owner of Plan 9 Records in Carytown, Jim Bland, told his management team that a theater company was interested in staging a play in their store. Shelby Guest says she was blunt ...

It’s been 100 years since historian Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week. He chose February because the month contains the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist and social reformer ...

Few genres feel as safe and facile as biopics, which contort a person’s famous accomplishments into PR strategies. There’s little sense of discovery or even of a present tense in biopics, which is to ...

Founded by preservationist Elisabeth Scott Bocock in 1963, VisArts was originally known as the Hand Workshop and located in Church Hill. It moved to its current location in the historic Virginia Dairy ...

Listen, crystal balls can’t always be 100% accurate. In our 2025 food prediction roundup, we surmised that espresso martinis were on the way out. Looks like they’re here to stay—and we love them, ...

Genre January brings three interesting and highly variable new crime films: “No Other Choice,” “The Rip” and “Dead Man’s Wire.” Donald Westlake’s 1997 novel “The Ax” offers a trim story of downsizing ...

They’re friendly, sweet and lovable, but don’t let their charming personalities fool you — these dogs are superheroes destined for an important life journey. Guiding Eyes for the Blind, a national ...

It was at the ripe old age of 8 that Marcellus Carrington Waller repaired his first timepiece. In defiance of his grandmother’s wishes, the industrious youngster took her broken mantle clock apart and ...

Friends and colleagues recount the impact that former Style senior contributing editor and architecture critic Edwin Slipek had on themselves and Richmond. From architecture reviews to illuminating ...