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1 month ago | 
richmondmagazine.com | Kim Catley |Laura Lee |Diane McMartin |Joan Tupponce
From the dress to the caterer, you made your voices heard by voting in 101 categories for your top local wedding professionals. The 2024 results include multi-year winners alongside new vendors making their mark. No matter how long they’ve been helping couples in RVA, these businesses and individuals work tirelessly to make matrimonial dreams come true.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
richmondmagazine.com | Kim Catley
I start my conversation with Halina Zimm with a simple question: “How did you survive the Holocaust?”
“My father came up with the idea,” she replies from her living room, seated in a chair. “Christians had different papers. My father talked to a woman who gave me the papers from her own daughters. And then I was on my own.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
richmondmagazine.com | Kim Catley
Interior designer J.P. Horton has trained with and worked for several leading designers, including the long-running Virginia firm Stedman House and Los Angeles-based Michael S. Smith, where Horton completed projects for entertainment bigwigs George Lucas and Tyler Perry. Along the way, he developed a design approach that marries Southern tradition and modern styling and gives equal attention to function and story.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
today.williams.edu | Kim Catley
Like millions of people, Matthew Tokeshi will be following Election Day—and the days that follow—closely, waiting to find out the outcome of the tight race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. He’ll be watching to see how Harris performs in key battleground states and how that compares to President Joe Biden’s narrow wins in 2020 and Hillary Clinton’s losses in 2016.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
richmondmagazine.com | Kim Catley
“Everything here turns into art,” Geraldo Netto says of the Near West End home he shares with Shawn Loehr.
It’s an apt description. Wooden fence posts are used to build the face of a fireplace. A fallen tree has been sliced into a side table. And every work of art on the walls — save one 17th-century find — is painted by Netto.
“We use everything,” Netto says. “We don’t waste anything.”
Loehr purchased the midcentury brick ranch 20 years ago.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
richmondmagazine.com | Kim Catley
James River Park System Director Ralph White rising out of the water. The staff of Plan 9 Music styled to match The Beatles from “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” The late local personality Donnie Corker, aka “Dirtwoman,” dressed as Cupid, clutching a heart-shaped box of chocolates. Arts philanthropist Pam Reynolds posing in a paper dress.
For more than 40 years, Style Weekly photographers have captured images of renowned Richmond personalities.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
richmondmagazine.com | Kim Catley
It started much like any other youth ensemble performance: Dancers in training from the School of Richmond Ballet filed onstage, followed by fifth and sixth grade ambassadors from Minds in Motion, the ballet’s enrichment program for elementary students. They rolled their shoulders, stretched their arms and bounced their knees, warming their bodies and awakening their minds.
This time, however, they encouraged the audience to join them.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
today.williams.edu | Kim Catley
Every weekday this summer, Ben Washburne ’23 wakes up early and heads to the Charles River in Boston. He and three rowers and a coxswain grab their oars, board their boat and set out for a morning race down the course. By 11 a.m., he’s back in his home office as his colleagues—most of whom live in California—sign on for the day.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
richmondmagazine.com | Kim Catley
When the owner of Envy Homes approached Richmond-based decorator Alyssa Johansen about designing his new build on the outskirts of Orlando, Florida, she says he was looking to make the most of the suburban lot.
The property is set amid a community of townhomes, cottages and modern multistory homes with small lots and nearby neighbors. The home’s architecture creates privacy and fosters indoor-outdoor living with a rooftop lounge, outdoor kitchen and a central interior courtyard with a pool.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
richmondmagazine.com | Kim Catley
As the first full winter of the COVID-19 pandemic approached in late 2020, Janie and John Molster were looking for an escape to a sunnier climate when they secured a rental getaway in South Florida. They fell in love with the area and, by the end of the season, were under contract to buy a condo in Delray Beach.
The dwelling is on a 1970s club property with views of the golf course and the Intracoastal Waterway. Outside, a path to the beach is just steps away.
