Local BMX isn’t a kiddie sport -- in the hands of Richmond BMX, it’s an extreme, all-ages family bonding sesh. At Gillies Creek Park, just up the road from Shockoe Bottom, the smell of cooking charcoal floats through the air. Neon figures in wraparound helmets and...
In a huge win for the community, Charlottesville has a skate plaza forming: A 2 million-dollar skate plaza, to be exact. With its location inside a pedestrian park, it's an unusual landmark for the city. But for the skate rats of Central Virginia, it's a welcome one....
The Virginia State Fair is a pageant of all things last-century wholesome, an event dedicated to the agricultural arts which made Virginia the Commonwealth it has become today. Since 1854, the state fair has held court (only put on hiatus due to the Civil War) and...