Game Changer for Smartmouth

Game Changer for Smartmouth

By Jeff Maisey It’s summertime.  Most of Team Smartmouth’s starting lineup is batting like champs. There’s Alter Ego Saison, the team’s home run leader. Murphy’s Law Amber is good for an on-base hit every time at bat. Notch 9 Double IPA always scores with RBIs (and...
Sly Clyde’s: Coastal Virginia’s First Cidery

Sly Clyde’s: Coastal Virginia’s First Cidery

By Michael Curry Joining the ever growing number of craft breweries in the region, Sly Clyde’s Ciderworks in Phoebus is totally unique, becoming the first brewery making only cider — not the juice to be found on the shelves of the grocery store but the delicious...
MOCA’s Debi Gray: Last Words (almost)

MOCA’s Debi Gray: Last Words (almost)

By Betsy DiJulio Debi Gray began her tenure as executive director at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)—then the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia—with three of her small staff on maternity leave in the midst of the 2009 recession.  Furloughs and lay-offs...
OPINION: Shining A Light On Dark Money

OPINION: Shining A Light On Dark Money

By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema At the time of the founding of the nation, political democracy in the U.S. was extremely limited. The root meaning of ‘democracy’ is rule by and for the people. But exactly who is included in the term ‘the people’? The founding fathers...
Make America Happy Again

Make America Happy Again

By Tom Robotham In the final episode of Parts Unknown—shot in Bhutan—Anthony Bourdain asked a group of locals to comment on the country’s commitment to steadily improving its “Gross National Happiness.” It was a poignant moment, given that the episode aired two weeks...