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"When I was 15, I shot my first feature film,” the local horror film director John Johnson told me last week. “I was lucky enough to have Sam Raimi and […]

If you’re an oyster lover, then you’ve probably been slurping the critters down for a month now (we’re already well into onto our second “r” month, signaling safer shellfish consumption—myth or not) and washing them down with one of the classic wine pairings—Chablis if budget allows and Muscadet for the rest of us.

Well, wow. With a pair of high-profile residents, a porn tycoon, and a filmmaker as famous for his biopics as he is for the historical liberties he takes in them, looks like the Virginia Film Festival’s 24th year will be one of its most interesting.

When a diet gets a lot of hype, it’s easy to write it off as a fad, but a gluten-free diet is a lifestyle. Once only a prescription for celiac […]

Opening soon Sweet Frog, the Downtown self-serve frozen yogurt bar with 28 stores in Virginia and North Carolina (and plans to expand to Maryland, Tennessee, Louisiana and South Carolina), is […]

October skies Keep your eyes on the skies this month and you may be lucky enough to stumble upon clouds of migratory monarchs wending their way to Mexico. Like the […]

Paying homage to the pepper The long, strong days of sunshine are slipping away, and nighttime falls silent as the insects finish their summertime symphony. Every environmental cue carries one […]

Stacey Smith with Maia, age 7 and Hall, age 4. Photo by John Robinson. Upside of a downsize Challenge: Moving to a smaller home and embracing the change The sad state […]

Houses aren’t often described as “specific.” But the Locust Grove home of Richard Berdel and Mable Kinzie is just that. Inside and out, it’s a response to very particular demands, […]

Everyone’s saying it, and the low interest rates prove it: It’s a buyers market and a great time to buy a second or vacation home—if you can afford it. Just […]