Drinksgiving isn’t on any calendar, but it behaves like a holiday anyway predictable, chaotic, and oddly comforting, the way familiar mistakes often are. This year, instead of guessing which dive bars would be overflowing, we just asked the city. Our 2025 Support...
Big Herm is cooking up a storm. Chicken sizzles on top of the grill in front of him. Potatoes dunk into the rolling boils of oil. Buns toast in the oven below. In the robust grills, fryers, and ovens of Big Herm’s Kitchen, the machinery keeps the galley kitchen feeling like a sweaty summer. By the door, boxes are filled to the brim with the best...
Safe Space RVA's Summerfest is coming to Diversity Richmond this weekend, and if you haven't checked them out yet, this is a perfect opportunity. Safe Space RVA was founded in the past year by several local queer activists, makers, and small business owners, who put it together to be both a monthly community market and a safe community space in...
It was a Yelp search for “Duck Noodle Soup” that brought me to Thai Studio. Not many other options showed up on that list. I love a solid duck noodle soup, so I try to stay on the lookout wherever I find myself living. When I lived in Los Angeles, I took countless drives from Highland Park to Thai Town for the mouth-watering,...
“Attack of the Killer Thumbs” aims to provide answers to your garden quandaries and your houseplant conundrums. We think plants make our lives and homes and balconies a better place to be. But we also know that you aren’t made of money. Here you will not find “recommendations” for our “favorite” ninety-dollar gadgets or “quick and easy” tutorials...
Taylor Scott had a problem. The 2019 Virginia Commonwealth University graduate had begun growing vegetables in her apartment and she had a surplus. “I [needed] to get rid of these tomatoes, and I [didn’t] know where to put them,” Scott said. She was sharing this problem with a friend back in her hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana. Her...
“Attack of the Killer Thumbs” aims to provide answers to your garden quandaries and your houseplant conundrums. We think plants make our lives and homes and balconies a better place to be. But we also know that you aren’t made of money. Here you will not find “recommendations” for our “favorite” ninety-dollar gadgets or “quick and easy” tutorials...
“It’s free cooking gas,” said Monica Alinea. Monica Alinea and her husband, Tim, are proud owners of a HomeBiogas system. Situated in the sunny backyard of their Pensacola, Florida home, the system looks like a 7-foot rectangular, black balloon. But it’s not inflated with air, it’s methane. The Alineas use HomeBiogas, a product...
The founders of Fonticello Food Forest bent down under the picnic table to pick edible chickweed leaves and lavender flowers. Moments later they were running to their neighbors’ aid – some of their chickens were loose. Jameson Price and Laney Sullivan founded the outdoor space, which serves as a free source of fresh and perishable food for...
How is Richmond's restaurant industry adapting to the longterm ramifications of the pandemic? It really depends on who you ask. “I don’t think it’s going to be the same, quite frankly.” Micheal Sparks answered my call en route to his beach house. A culinary giant, Sparks is the CEO of the Underground Kitchen, a Richmond-based organization...
