Style Weekly

$470K Later, School Roofs Still Leak

Legal fees related to leaky rooftops at three city schools outpace repair costs.

T-D Launches Gay Magazine, Then Pulls Out

Public Defender: Bar Group Has Disdain for Law

Well known defense attorney David Baugh resigns from disciplinary committee of the state bar.

• by Amy Biegelsen

Smolla's Smooth Over

How suing The New York Times tripped up Rod Smolla, former dean of UR's law school.

• by Jay JLevit

New State Law Prevents Suspensions for Truancy

• by Chris Dovi

Mind Traps

The state's mental health system is bogged down with patients stuck in psychiatric hospitals. They're not all supposed to be there.

• by Amy Biegelsen

Museums

Ask a Socialist

Is Barack Obama a commie? Are the tea baggers right about him? Good question for an actual red-card-carrying art student at VCU.

• by Scott Bass

Mind Traps

The state's mental health system is bogged down with patients stuck in psychiatric hospitals. They're not all supposed to be there.

• by Amy Biegelsen

Shad Row

The political planking gets all the headlines, but the best shad stories are just down from Powhatan Hill.

• by Chris Dovi

The HR Department

Gavin Degraw at the National

8-Bit Beethoven

“Video Games Live” somehow turns “Pong” into a symphonic piece and gives guitar heroes an actual stage, God help us.

• by Clarke Bustard

Living Things at the Canal Club

“Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy” at the Landmark

Lily Allen Shows Off Haircut, Wit in D.C.

Stage

Susan Greenbaum at Hanover Tavern

Art of the State

Found magazine, VMFA gets a popular lady's bedroom, fancy donation boxes, not-quite-live-music and more.

• by Catherine Baab and Brandon Reynolds

Revenge of the Birds

“The Birds” at the Byrd.

Karaoke

Hair Apparent

AART's “Steel Magnolias” tackles death and hair spray, while Richmond Shakespeare gets crazy with donkey ears.

Gallery5 Turns Four

“I Love It Against My Better Judgment” showcases the best of VCUarts

Our Town

Church Hill's renovated Robinson Theater becomes the latest old venue to find new life, but it's not looking for big names to fill the stage.

• by Roberto Curtis

A Day at the Movies

Virginia's independent films get their own festival at the Byrd.

• by Roberto Curtis

Parachute at the National

Open Mic

Short Order

Kobe, sushi and a view of Keswick Farm at Wild Ginger. … Plus, Capital Ale House increases its commitment to Virginia brews and more.

• by Deveron Timberlake

Fish in Water

Sometimes a restaurateur must swim with the tide.

• by Don Baker

Tax Protester Is Self-Serving

None of the Above

Two decades of standardized testing have produced a generation of administrators more concerned with the results of multiple-choice tests than with teaching higher-order thinking skills.

• by ’Rick Gray

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