Style Weekly

UPDATE: Reggae Singer and His Gay-Killing Song Stirs Outrage

• by Don Harrison

Stretching the Field

As the economy tanks, sponsorships and participation increase at some children's sports leagues; others crank up the salesmanship.

• by Matt Gottlieb

City's First Charter School Faces ADA, Fundraising Dilemma

Cantor Challenger Lives Outside District

Charlie Diradour, challenger to U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor, doesn't live in the 7th District. Apparently, he doesn't have to.

• by Scott Bass

Museums

Shallow Waters

After its biggest customer sails south, Richmond's port struggles to regain its footing.

• by Peter Galuszka

Pulp Future

If the ink wells run dry at Richmond's daily newspaper, what happens next? How a paperless town might shake up our information, our economy and our democracy.

The HR Department

• by Ed Harrington

Celebrity Blisters: Where's Chris Brown?

• by Jason Roop

Charlie Diradour to Challenge Cantor

Local developer launches campaign to unseat Congressman Eric Cantor.

• by Scott Bass

Vandaveer at Gallery5

Pure Ridicule

“Extract” has a taste for suburban satire but suffers from a diluted story.

• by Wayne Melton

Don Carlos Barrios explains why the end is near at the Aquarian Bookstore

Stage

Matt Butcher at the Camel

Matt Butcher at the Camel

Inside Track

Richmond's new post-rock “witch orchestra” plus other local developments in sound.

• by Mike Rutz

Raisin in the Footlights

A Henrico church takes on the real world of the theater.

• by Richard Foster

Fall Reads

Sex, booze and rock 'n' roll. What more could you want?

• by Valley Haggard

Matt Butcher at the Camel

Karaoke

eighth blackbird at the Modlin Center

That One Song

Alison Self, “Skin and Bones”

• by Mike Rutz

Long, Strange Trip

Like the '60s, “Taking Woodstock” is fun but a little hazy. 

Cowboy Mouth gets “Fearless” at the Hat Factory

The Intelligence at the Triple

Open Mic

Twice-Chewed Tales

• by DBrumfield

Schmaltzy and Sublime

A smorgasbord of showmanship at the CenterStage grand opening.

• by Edwin Slipek Jr

Short Order

Guest chefs send out positive vibes.

• by Deveron Timberlake

Some Enchanted Evenings

A landmark achieves destination status.

• by Don Baker

Punch Drunk

A bartender's life in Richmond.

• by Jack Lauterback

“Conservative” Banker: Punch Drunk Is Money

Morrissey Accuses Style of Cover-Up, Ulterior Motives

Unspeakable

We would all be remiss if we ignored that it was the first message to schoolchildren from America's first black president, who was the first to endure this parental and political scrutiny.

• by Terone BGreen

Detention Center for Illegal Aliens Is Smart for Virginia

Academic “Nonsense” Over Robin Starr

When Papers Die

Princeton economist and ex-journalist Sam Schulhofer-Wohl examines the fallout: dangers to democracy.

• by Laura Robertson

When Ink Ruled

Before the Internet, newspapers dominated the public discourse: A conversation with longtime T-D reporter and editor, Earle Dunford.

• by Rich Griset

VIDEO: When Ink Ruled

Before the Internet, newspapers dominated public discourse: a conversation with longtime T-D reporter and editor, Earle Dunford.

• by Produced by Rich Griset

Micro News

How local can local news get? How about one block?

• by Greg Weatherford

Final Delivery

The dead-tree dailies of the media world keep getting chopped by declining circulation, dwindling advertising and an ever-enveloping Internet. Can we, should we —could we — live without a daily newspaper?

• by Scott Bass and Chris Dovi

The Pay Wall

How broken is the newspaper business? We're about to find out.

• by Scott Bass