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The understated emphasis of the greatness of Jay.

Category: Style Weekly

Snap Isn’t The Only One Who’s Got The Power

Style Weekly’s Power List is out and rounding out the 75 are a couple familiar names among the RVA blogosphere:

75. Ross Catrow and John Murden

Richmond’s online community has a streak of serious civic engagement because of the infrastructure provided by John Murden and Ross Catrow. Murden built, modeled and then shared his template for neighborhood [...]

Robert E. Lee Is A Perv

Robert E. Lee was caught watching women dress at the Virginia Center Commons Sears:
First Robert E. Lee lost the Southern cause, now one of his more recent rear-guard actions has him in hot water in Henrico County Circuit Court.
It seems the rears that this Lee — of the 8000 block of Creighton Parkway in Mechanicsville [...]

Style: When Taking A Side Is An Audition

Style Weekly’s Scott Bass has a little ditty this week that cherry picks from River City Rapids as an example of Jon Baliles readiness and presumed eagerness to take a job with Mayor Wilder’s press office. Because, clearly, if you support something you must be looking to get a job with that thing as [...]

Style Weekly Editor On Environmental Film Festival Sponsorship

Jason Roop, editor of Style Weekly, has commented on Style’s withdrawing of their sponsorship of the Environmental Film Festival in light of its organizer’s past ties to the eco-terrorist group Earth Liberation Front:
I can only speak to the editorial side of Style Weekly in saying that our team is covering the festival, as we always [...]

Environmental Film Festival Organized By Former Eco-Terrorist

Style Weekly reports that the upcoming Richmond Environmental Film Festival organizer John Wade was convicted in 2002 of conspiring to blow up a crane at Short Pump Town Center with fellow members of the Earth Liberation Front, an organization labeled by the FBI as “one of the most ‘dangerous domestic terror groups’ in the United [...]

Print Media On Blogging

People love this blogging thing. So much that the print folks wanna give it some credit.
Style Weekly published some thoughts through this week’s “Short Order”:
It’s difficult enough to open a small business in Richmond. And it’s more difficult still to fight the now-inevitable bloggery that follows, with every self-styled critic weighing in on matters [...]