Style Weekly

The HR Department

Anti-Gang Efforts Intensify

Riding the 81

As Chesterfield prepares to nix the buses, the plaza express takes off.

• by Scott Bass

Films Weigh In

Abu Ghraib in Farmville

Mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners mimics abuse in Virginia’s prisons.

• by Laura LaFay

Pass or Fail

Richmond Public Schools are struggling to reach disruptive students and poor performers. Is outsourcing their problem to a private company an innovative solution or a high-priced mistake?

• by Jason Roop

Downtown Plan Gets Facelift

Urban Radio Rocks Carpenter Center

Developer Bites on Cloverleaf

Rental Unit: “Elephant”

School daze.

“Pig” in Wrong Pen

Living Word’s latest misses the mark with a misinterpreted character.

• by Jerrell Nickerson

Digestible Dance

A new dance group offers a sampling of choreography styles this weekend.

• by Lea Marshall

Grecian Formula

“Troy” brings Homer to the multiplex.

• by Wayne Melton

The Affable Acoustic

Mandolin madman Sam Bush wants everyone to have a good time.

• by Ames Arnold

Hudson on the James

New York sculptor Lee Boroson winks at classic American painting in a witty Reynolds Gallery installation.

• by Edwin Slipek Jr

Compelling but clumsy “Heroes”

Music for the Masses

Everyone plays a part in the Exceptional Orchestra.

• by Angela Lehman-Rios

Reel Time

Film night at Cafe Gutenberg.

Timothy Michael Martin at the ADA.

Sweet and Lowdown

Fiddle legend Vassar Clements heads up the Virginia Roots Festival.

set list

Where to go. What to hear.

• by Wayne Melton

Fun with Knives and Fire

Kobe Japanese Steak and Sushi serves dinner as entertainment.

• by Joseph WCates

Grow It, Don’t Build It

Local culture does not and cannot act how public-private partnerships tend to act.