Style Weekly

From Miami Beach to Mango

After years of cheap cuts, a writer offers her head to Vidal Sassoon's style gods.

• by Elizabeth Cogar

Original Tales

New stories by Lenore Gay, Darren Morris and Eva Langston, winners of our Third Annual Fiction Contest.

The HR Department

First Place: The Hobo

• by Lenore Gay

Second Place: The Paper Airplane Engineer

• by Darren Morris

Third Place: Goddesses

• by Eva Langston

Judges

Pink Bomb: Neighbors Protest Yard Police

Broad Street Standoff

The fight for the Thalhimers block has just begun.

• by Scott Bass

Loupassi Begs Mayor: Let Harrell Attend Meetings

Kids Learn About the Bulls and the Bears

What Would Wilder Do?

Museums

Lukewarm

"Waiting ..." serves up undercooked and overheated morsels of comedy.

• by Wayne Melton

Galleries

Rene Marie at the Modlin Center

Jazz diva Rene Marie returns with new material

Citywide Intervention

The new Go Read Richmond book has people talking about alcoholism.

• by Valley Haggard

The Dancer as Musician

Savion Glover reinvents tap once again.

Stage

Where the Emperor Gets His Clothes

Fashion students and artists get "Exposed" at Wearable Art 8 .

Lift and Separate:

At Reynolds, Paul Ryan tries to cover a lot of territory.

Rental Unit

"No Direction Home"

Bookmark

Good news for poets.

Worth the Wait

Soprano Cristina Nassif joins tenor Daniel Snyder for a debut that's been eight years in the making.

• by Chantal Panozzo

Recently Read

Reviews of "The Time of the Uprooted," "Wolf Point," "Best of the South," and "Off-White."

Quick Flicks

Capsule reviews of current films.

Set List

Where to go. What to hear.

Side Dish

Food news, events and whispers.

Breaking the Chain

Nuanced flavors at André's Grille give life to a franchise-stuffed highway.

• by Davis Morton

The Shadow of Things to Come

How bad can it get? Remember, you don't have to be out of oil to have a crisis; you just need demand bigger than supply.

• by Don Smit