Style Weekly

Amazing Brains

Five of Richmond's brightest scientific minds.

Freedom House Eyes Jackson Ward

The abandoned St. Luke's building could become a new place for Freedom House to serve meals.

Curriculum Quirks

Turkeys, psychics and molding roses.

• by Melissa Scott Sinclair

Monroe's Fight Nears Final Phase

Fliers' Sender Didn't Break Law

Stars Returning for Ballet's Farewell

What I Do: Scott George, 31, Brewmaster

Long Road

The state's new VDOT director sees reforms take hold.

• by Warren Fiske

theater: Musical Flashback

Though it blasts audiences back to the 1940s, the climate in the Barksdale's latest is similar to ours today.

• by Jerrell Nickerson

Born to Play

The road goes on forever for Allman offshoot, Derek Trucks.

• by Ames Arnold

Down-home Brother

Jason Mraz fled Richmond to make it as a musician in sunny California, and it worked.

View from Home

Four photographers find humble homes worth recording.

• by Steven LJones

Fighting Gravity (and Hunger!)

museums

creation story: Amy Berlin, director

I love working with the actors. The rest of the stuff … the design and all that can get overwhelming. I would be very happy in a little black-box theater.

Eccentricity with a Heart

"Everwood" pulls in viewers past its quirky surface.

• by Don Dale

French Toast, French Fries, FRENCH KICKS

The Big Picture

quickflicks

"Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets", "Half Past Dead", "8 Women", "8 Mile"

galleries

movies: The Funk, you say

Forget hearing it through the grapevine, believe you me, this is one funkified, rocking documentary.

The Stage

"Tied" to it

This Ain't No Humbug

recently read

Blackwood Farm, Traps

Old Favorite, New Spot

If you miss El Matador, take refuge at the Hot Tamale Café.

Ginseng Mountain Grilled Lamb

From "Cooking Fresh from the Mid-Atlantic" Eating Fresh Publications

wine: Wine's Encyclopedic Mind

Michael Broadbent, wine's foremost expert, sat down with Style to talk tasting, collecting and American drinking habits.

• by Layne Witherell

The Big Stretch

• by FTRea