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PHOTO SERIES Inspires Conversation About Abilities
Art can inspire conversations and destroy misconceptions. That’s why Elizabeth Howley and Mary Townley asked local photographers to pick up their cameras and capture compelling images of adults with disabilities
Technology Meets Craftsmanship
“We’ve got a lot going on these days,” a grinning Jeff Rock says as we stand in a bright, 2,000-square-foot single-room warehouse off North Hamilton Street. It’s here where Rock,
Knife-Making in RVA
It was during his time living in an inner city Chicago mission seven years ago that now-Richmonder Brent Stubblefield began making knives. “I lived with all these old hippies and
Gather Here
“You can’t print at a coffee shop,” jokes Duke Dodson, one of the five owners of Gather, the new co-working space at 4th and Main Streets. “That’s what we’re hanging
The Photohontas Story
Envision yourself on the river, the James River. Envision yourself on a rock in the middle of the river with water flowing by. Now turn 360 degrees in place and
Belle Isle Craft Spirits
Three men stand outside a Manchester warehouse at dusk in early December. One of them is clad in jeans and an open-collared shirt and a dark blazer. He’s holding a
Summit Avenue Rising
Summit Avenue’s coffee shop and its beer brewery alone, Mac Gambill half-jokes, cover two key pillars of his lifestyle these days. Lured to Scott’s Addition by its industrial-turned-mixed use properties
Isley Brewing Company
You know how you might sit around drinking beers with a buddy and talk about opening a brewery? But you never actually do it, because it’s a crazy idea. And
Donuts Get Their Day in RVA
Casey Ward and Ian Kelley had big plans for Sugar Shack-an express window outside, gradual growth and name recognition, and dreams of a peaceful little shop on a corner where
Making Stones, and Groundbreaking innovation
By Jeff Kelley Central dispatch needed a better way to control the hundreds of dump trucks hauling Luck Stone rocks to customers throughout Virginia. So the proposal from an engineer