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• Local Foods Go Mainstream

  Reporting & Essays - Community
  By Tom Robotham Have you been watching Ken Burns’ new documentary about America’s National Parks? If not, you need to. Like Burns’ other films—The Civil War, Baseball and Jazz, in particular—it’s deeply informative and profoundly inspiring. I...

• Carpe Diem

  Columns - View from the TReehouse
  By Tom RobothamTell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life. – Mary Oliver. For the last few months, I’ve been watching the HBO series Six Feet Under on DVD. If you’ve never seen it, I urge you to get to Naro Expanded Video...

• Living in a Thousand Directions at Once

  Columns - View from the TReehouse
  By Tom RobothamRalph Waldo Emerson once wrote, with some sense of frustration, that he had a tendency to read “in a thousand directions at once.” That comment has always resonated with me because I do the same thing—and like Emerson, I am often frus...

• An Outsider’s View: The Works of Colin Ginks

  Arts & Culture - Art Opening
  In many ways, the United States has always been an insular society. Unlike Europeans, we tend to diminish the importance of learning other languages and, as a rule, we lack a multicultural world view. As a result, it is difficult for us to see our country...

• Predicting What Will Haunt Us

  Arts & Culture - Film
  By Fred Levy Over the years, movie villains’ names and faces have changed, but the characters have stayed the same. In the ‘40s, we hated and feared the Nipponese and Nazis, as Hollywood served up countless examples to mirror our fear, while simultane...

• Promised Songs of Springtime

  Arts & Culture - Music
  By Jim MorrisonOver the last month, several highly anticipated new albums have been released. And like the flowers of the season, most of them wowed while a few quickly faded from view, efforts best forgotten. Buddy and Julie Miller - Written in Chalk (N...

• The Art of Glass Redux

  Arts & Culture - Art Opening
  By Montague Gammon III One super-cool, multi-city exhibition will flow across the region this spring and summer, bringing wonderfully diverse forms and facets of glass art to every corner of Hampton Roads.The Art of Glass 2, the sequel to a 1999 eve...

• Fifteen Rules for Happy Hitchhiking – Conclusion

  Reporting & Essays - Travel
  By Jesse Scaccia   Complete Rules for Hitchhiking Series Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4  I sprinted to the median, did an army roll over the barrier, and hustled to the other side of road. It was still raining. The soulful green of nature was all around me ...

• Fifteen Rules for Happy Hitchhiking – Part 4

  Reporting & Essays - Travel
  By Jesse ScacciaIt was dark by the time we parked the Chinook and followed Ryan as he crept through the weeds toward the sound of the ocean. I heard Ryan begin to fall, the nature of his descent unknown underneath the flickering stars. The full moon looke...

• Stripping Willie

  Arts & Culture - Music
  By Jim NewsomNaked WillieWillie NelsonRCA Nashville/LegacyWillie Nelson’s new recording with western swing band Asleep at the Wheel called Willie and the Wheel has been getting a lot of notice since its release last month. And it is a lot of fun. But Wi...

• A Festival Grows in Norfolk

  Arts & Culture - Film
  By Tom RobothamCannes. Sundance. Norfolk. Wait a minute. Norfolk? Well, OK. It may be a bit premature to start mentioning Norfolk alongside the biggest names in the world of film festivals. But this year, the ON Film Festival—a joint venture between ODU...

• A Ground Breaking Event

  Reporting & Essays - Business
  By Tom RobothamAs a rule, groundbreaking ceremonies are not especially newsworthy. And even on a slow news day, they’re generally not worth covering in person. Reporters and editors figure they can get all the information they need from a couple of phon...

• 15 Rules for Happy Hitchhiking – Part 3

  Reporting & Essays - Travel
  By Jesse Scaccia“Anybody got drugs?” I was in the front seat as the Chinook navigated through switchbacks in the Pacific Coast Range. Ryan’s shoulder was in my lap to get leverage against the powerless steering. Great and noble redwoods held council...

• A Citizen’s Report on Iran

  Reporting & Essays - International Affairs
  By D.D. DelaneyAt Barack Obama’s prime-time news conference on Feb. 9, Reuters journalist Caren Bohan asked him what his administration’s strategy will be for engaging Iran.Here, in part, is Obama’s reply, as it appeared on C-Span:“I said during t...

• Goat Cheese, Anyone?

  Reporting & Essays - Letter from Morocco
  By Johanna SomersI live in a beautiful village in the south of Morocco.  The population is only about 2,500 people and there is certainly a small town vibe.  Everyone knows everyone else’s business and everyone is related in some way.  I have been we...

• Dirty Girl Scout

  Fiction & Poetry - Fiction
  By Alicia DekkerApparently, if you hold my hair out of the toilet while I am puking, I will feel that I owe you some kind of relationship.  Never mind that I don’t have a single thing in common with you, don’t find you physically attractive, and don�...

• 15 Rules for Happy Hitchhiking - Part 2

  Reporting & Essays - Travel
  By Jesse Scaccia"Something about The Miracle feels like you and the driver have worked together to tap into the collective subconscious, and that feeling is as intoxicating as anything else in this world."This is the second of part of a series. See archiv...

• Fifteen Rules for Happy Hitchhiking

  Reporting & Essays - Travel
  By Jesse Scaccia   Screw you, you bleached blonde, upper-middle-class, husband brings home the bacon and slaps it straight on your rump house wife. I hope God magnifies the rays of the sun through the tinted windows of your luxury SUV and it burns your ...

• No Barriers

  Columns - On The Porch
  By: Melissa TroutmanWhen I feel overwhelmed, some unseen force draws me outdoors. Invariably, I turn my gaze upward. When I can look past tree canopies swaying in the breeze into the great beyond, where my eyes cross no barrier, then I begin to feel bette...

• The Heathen King

  Reporting & Essays - Memories of Christmases Past
  By Marybeth Highton  The first time I found the three Wise Men, I was an eight-year-old girl on a Christmas visit to my grandmother's house. They were hiding under my bed, clustered there in the pale gray light of a Philadelphia winter's morning.    H...