August 2023 Challenge – richmondmagazine.com

In This Challenge

78 / Ablaze With Blooms Flower farming is making a comeback. Meet the gardeners rising a neighborhood area of interest, discover a flower trade and go to a farm bursting with 200,000 daylilies. By Claire Fortier and Emily Richardson

84 / Finest & Worst 2023: A Customers Information to Richmond For our thirty sixth annual Finest & Worst subject, we current readers’ picks throughout 200 classes — companies, shops, eating places and extra — in addition to Richmond’s less-than-stellar elements, from visitors jams to political drama.

161 / Non-public Faculties Information Go behind the scenes with St. Catherine’s all-girls golf staff and discover knowledgeable recommendation for selecting the proper personal college for your loved ones. Plus, the most recent information and up to date stats from space colleges. By Paula Peters Chambers, Laura Anders Lee, Mark Newton, Matthew Sporn and Will Thalhimer 

UPFRONT

32 / Elections The stage is about for an impactful election.

34 / Schooling A museum merger will assist increase civics information.

36 / My Take Assist for a neighborhood wracked by gun violence  

40 / Atmosphere Debating the norms of pet waste disposal 

42 / Schooling A metropolis college’s neighborhood backyard bears fruit.

46 / Flashback A neighborhood Statue of Liberty stands tall.

224 / Parting Shot Salute the flags.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

50 / Datebook Comic Sommore cracks jokes on the Humorous Bone, dragon boats race at Rocketts Touchdown, the Richmond Triangle Gamers go “Head Over Heels,” Gary Clark Jr. performs The Meadow Occasion Park, watermelon reigns in Carytown, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic seem on the Altria Theater, and The Oddities & Curiosities Expo involves the Higher Richmond Conference Middle. 

52 / Happenings 19 issues to do in August 

53 / Highlight RVA Rapper’s Delight connects hip-hop and historical past.

54 / Profile Celebrating 20 years of the offbeat Ada gallery 

56 / Highlight Truth or fiction? Mural excursions with an unreliable narrator 

58 / Highlight The inaugural Iron Blossom Music Competition brings massive names to RVA.

LIVING

62 / Store Speak Blackbyrd Items leaves its mark on handcrafted leather-based.

64 / Well being A digital program helps vets beat substance use dysfunction.

66 / Attempt This Cosplay presents a brand new strategy to expertise favourite characters.   

68 / Encore Honoring older adults for his or her contributions to the neighborhood 

70 / Journey Layers of leisure in Lexington 

74 / Household Parenting tweens and teenagers within the digital age 

EAT & DRINK

206 / Roundup Edible methods to finish summer time on a excessive be aware 

208 / Ingredient Corn is filled with culinary potential.

210 / Highlight Meet Tanya Cauthen, Belmont Butchery’s proprietor and chief meat monger.

212 / Specials A month-to-month dinner membership shares the meals of Khmer. 

214 / Q&A Behind the scenes at Yellow Umbrella Provisions

216 / 5 Faves Summer time occasions demand crowd-sized sides.

216 / Purveyor Dentwood Espresso is constructing neighborhood and dialog.

217 / Open Tab Fruity, refreshing, rum-forward cocktails

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