Style Weekly
Richmond's alternative for news, arts, culture and opinion
- Issue Archive for
- May 20-26, 2009
- Vol. 27, No. 20
News & Features
Daily Lays Off More
Times-Dispatch newsroom takes another hit.
Mixed Signals
Oh, turns out the city will have to pay for it. Mayor Jones weighs in on the long-overdue consultants' report on Bottom baseball.
Bang and Blow
Local musicians launch city's first marching band.
Unique Specimens
Our seventh annual fiction issue.
The Sinker
Who will pay for it? The nagging question still dogs the Bottom ballpark.
City Hall's Limbo
Five months in, Mayor Jones has yet to fill top leadership posts.
Ballpark Findings
An executive summary from consultants studying the proposed Shockoe Center Development.
Ms. Green Clean
Cycling maid fills niche with all-natural cleaning business.
Mother's Little Pushers
In the fight against drugs at middle schools, authorities face a nearly unstoppable trafficking source — mom.
Arts & Events
Zero Heroes
A movie delivers the laughs, but not much more.
Journeyman
“Wheel in the Sky” keeps on turning, but songwriter Robert Fleischman knows where he'll be tomorrow: Richmond.
California Screamin'
Henley Street and Barksdale head to Los Angeles to explore family strife in two new shows.
That One Song
Liza Kate, “Don't Let the Dogs” -- Download the song at the end of the story.
Border Crossing
“Sin Nombre” looks at gangs and immigration.
Faith in Science
A new building connects the spiritual with the scientific.
The Kids Are All Right
Five local authors write about running away, psychiatric institutes, homes for unwed mothers, the search for self and other hazards of growing up.
Start Your Bonfires
Reading Banned Books by Night
Food & Drink
Short Order
A Brazilian churrascaria in the Bottom, a raw bar in Carytown, Shackleford's opens another location in Chesterfield and more.
Replanted
Gutenberg grows into a new version of its former self.
Opinion & Blogs
Missing the Bag
Why should private ballparks get money that could be used for other, more important public goods? When public money goes to private interests — that is our opportunity cost.
Special/Signature Issues
BONUS CATEGORY: Tiny Pulitzers
While we had to choose four winners, there were so many little moments of brilliance throughout all the stories that we had to pull out some of the best and give them their own special awards.
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