Melissa Vaughn, who died on Jan. 29 after a long battle with cancer, wasn’t afraid to be a squeaky wheel. In fact, she relished it. Last year, when the local arts advocacy organization CultureWorks ...

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 ...

Every year, Style Weekly invites readers to spotlight the best Richmond has to offer. We want you to choose the things that truly wow you — your favorite businesses, the tastiest restaurants, and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Style Weekly provides insightful and tenacious coverage of the arts, culture and food scenes of Richmond, Va., illuminating diverse and interesting people, places, issues and events in the metro ...

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Valentine exhibition “West By Water: Richmond’s James River and Kanawha Canal” explores one of the city’s historic waterways. Style Weekly provides insightful and tenacious coverage of the arts, ...

Style Weekly provides insightful and tenacious coverage of the arts, culture and food scenes of Richmond, Va., illuminating diverse and interesting people, places, issues and events in the metro ...

Broadway in Richmond’s “Les Misérables” comes to the Altria Theater for a six-day stint. Style Weekly provides insightful and tenacious coverage of the arts, culture and food scenes of Richmond, Va., ...

Style Weekly provides insightful and tenacious coverage of the arts, culture and food scenes of Richmond, Va., illuminating diverse and interesting people, places, issues and events in the metro ...