Author: Irene Vargas
Imbibing at the VMHC with the BrewHaHa and “Cheers, Virginia!” “We’ll just lay there by the juniper/While the moon is bright/Watch them jugs a-filling/In the pale moonlight.” – Bob Dylan’s “Copper Kettle” Jamie Bosket, the president and CEO of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, says that it’s not only totally right and proper for the oldest cultural institution in Virginia to host a craft beer festival, it’s a matter of historical import worthy of serious study. “If you look back at the history of beverages and their creators, you see a very American story,” he says, talking about…
When Hannah Sager and Alex Miller first met on a date in the Big Apple 10 years ago, their mutual love of lactose made for an instant connection. “We originally bonded over a shared love of ice cream and our belief that Northern ice cream is better,” says Sager. “Alex being from upstate New York and me from Vermont, we both have very nostalgic and special memories of ice cream.” Now married and living in Church Hill, the couple has been producing pints of from-scratch ice cream for the last five years. Their dairy dessert experiments began shortly after they…
A 40th anniversary restoration rescues a cult classic with loads of extras. I first saw the 1980 film, “Out of the Blue,” on a grainy VHS tape rented from the Video Fan on Strawberry Street while I was still in high school. I remember being a little depressed by it, while also thinking it was a low budget mess. My how things change. For most of its life this gritty flick was hard to find, but after a recent 4K-scan restoration championed by actresses Natasha Lyonne and Chloë Sevigny, the film looks better than it ever has on a new…
UPDATE, Friday, Aug. 5 at 6:30 p.m. Due to the nasty storms out there, two of our weekend picks have been rescheduled: Tonight’s show at Hardywood Park Craft Brewery by Afro-Zen Allstars has been pushed back to Wednesday, Sept. 7. Also the Plunky Branch show at Dogwood Dell will now take place on Sunday, Aug. 14. Richmond summers are famous for two things: high humidity and dueling concerts scheduled on the same night. This Friday, Afro-jazz icon James “Plunky” Branch, playing Dogwood Dell with his band, faces off against the Afro-Zen Allstars at Hardywood Park Craft Brewery. The concert from…
Some of Richmond’s former Confederate monuments are headed west for a major exhibition. Some of Richmond’s former Confederate statues will soon be on the march again, this time to sunny La La land. Richmond’s removed Confederate statues now belong to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, which is currently negotiating, along with Bill Martin of The Valentine museum, for four or five statues to be placed on loan for the exhibition “Monuments,” co-organized by LAXART, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit arts organization, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA). The exhibition, which opens in November 2023…