Appreciation: Robert Wernick
The Hat reminisces about meeting Robert Wernick, a career journalist, after first getting to know him through his writing for Time-Life publications, as well as Life, Vanity Fair, The Saturday Evening...
View ArticleCommercial Taphouse's Last Call
The mainstay Robinson Street establishment Commercial Taphouse is passing on the beer draft lever to new ownership after 21 years.
View ArticleImprovisational Theater Makes Up Whole Plays
ComedySportz Theatre is putting on InstaPlay, a show that's made up as it goes along. Director Amy Berlin says, "Our goal is to make it look like a play and hopefully for a few in the audience to not...
View Article'Auto-Biography' The Life of A '57 Chevy
It’s been a road of fortuitous twists and turns that brought writer Earl Swift to his fifth book of narrative nonfiction, "Auto Biography." He’ll be at the Fountain Bookstore in Shockoe Slip on...
View ArticleFolk Festival Poster Art Revealed
Tuesday evening, the poster for the 2014 Richmond Folk Festival, designed by Leslie Herman, was unveiled at Glavé Kocen Gallery in a single-night exhibition of posters from 2005 to the present.
View ArticleColumbus Discovered
In 1928, a statue of Christopher Columbus was commissioned by the Richmond chapters of the Knights of Columbus and the Sons of Italy. The idea didn't suit everyone. But his past weekend, the monument...
View ArticleChapman at the Poe Today
Richmond native Clay McLeod Chapman returns with a valise full of spooky, scary stories.
View ArticleBrassy Evening at the Broadberry
Globe-girdling, Richmond-based trumpeter Rex Richardson is in town for a one-night stand at the Broadberry on Wednesday night. They'll be joined on the bandstand by a group of greatly talented players.
View ArticleFly Me to the Moon
They didn't see spring on Jupiter or Mars, but members of a national conference of the Giant Screen Cinema Association got spaced out under The Dome.
View ArticleA Beery History of Richmond
The history of our town’s sudsy side is brewed up by writer Lee Graves in "Richmond Beer: A History of Brewing in the River City," hitting the stores now.
View ArticleMissing Richmond: Caryl Burtner's Exhibit at UR Downtown
Caryl Burtner collects everyday objects and catalogs experiences. Add this exhibit to your own personal assortment of Richmond-ania.
View ArticleOn the "Table" at the Visual Arts Center
The Visual Arts Center of Richmond's "Table" is a deceptively quiet show about what brings us to gather around the table and our memories of those events.
View ArticleWarble 'Woo-Hoo' and Get a Piece of the Rock
A well known Richmond media personality is auctioning a woodsy hunk of land in the James RIver. In 1869, an attempt there by a politician to court the African-American vote concluded with death.
View Article'Get Lit'
Chop Suey Books' literary impresario Ward Tefft, in collaboration with the Hardywood Park Craft Brewery on mysterious, winding Ownby Lane, is gathering 28 writers, their books and a jazz band in one...
View Article'Book de Tour'
Richmond artist — and cyclist — Greig Leach has published his collection of scenes from the 2014 Tour de France. And he accomplished this during marathons (of painting) in his living room.
View ArticleEv'ryone Drinks On 'Forsooth!': Shakespeare Goes Hardywood
Cynde Liffick's Bard Unbound presents "Shakesbeer at Bardywood: The Drinking Scenes — Part Deux."
View ArticleOne Night Out
The Hat about town: the history of Highland Park, memories of "Mame," and a full house at Black Iris.
View ArticleGod and Man at 14th and Cary
The new First Freedom Center, planned to commemorate the Jan. 16, 1786, ratification of the Statute of Religious Freedom, opens on Friday. It will become part of The Valentine.
View ArticleInside Myron Helfgott's Head
Presenting over 50 works by Myron Helfgott, this retrospective covers nearly 45 years of production and fills all three floors of VCU's Anderson Gallery. It is curated by director Ashley Kistler.
View ArticleTalking about North Church Hill
North Church Hill is among Richmond's oldest neighborhoods, but it's also on the forefront of the discussion about how best to tie history and tradition to a sustainable future that can include...
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