Rich Griset

4 weeks ago | richmondfreepress.com | Rich Griset

David Watkins as Lank and Katrinah Carol Lewis as Chelle in “Detroit ‘67,” playing through March 30 at the Firehouse Theatre. It started with a police raid on an unlicensed bar in Detroit. It ended with 43 dead, 1,189 injured and more than 400 buildings destroyed. Alternately called the 1967 Detroit Riot, the Detroit Uprising, the Detroit Rebellion and the 12th Street Riot, this five-day conflict primarily pitted African American residents against the Detroit Police Department.

4 weeks ago | richmondfreepress.com | Rich Griset

It started with a police raid on an unlicensed bar in Detroit. It ended with 43 dead, 1,189 injured and more than 400 buildings destroyed. Alternately called the 1967 Detroit Riot, the Detroit Uprising, the Detroit Rebellion and the 12th Street Riot, this five-day conflict primarily pitted African American residents against the Detroit Police Department. Many longstanding factors, including police brutality, housing segregation and unemployment, contributed to the riot.

1 month ago | styleweekly.com | Rich Griset

You could say that Mai Warshafsky’s love affair with Richmond began with a brief, whirlwind fling. The native New Yorker’s first visit to the River City occurred while returning from a trip to her father-in-law’s in North Carolina. Warshafsky and her husband crushed some “world-class pastries” at Sub Rosa. They downed beers at The Veil. They had dinner at Brenner Pass. In short, they were more than impressed by the city’s food and beverage scene.

1 month ago | styleweekly.com | Rich Griset

A naked redheaded woman steps into a pond to wash her hair. A British man walks an anthropomorphic three-piece suit through the process of getting cleaned and pressed. A young woman driving a roadster is harassed by a mask-wearing heavy who threatens to clog the valves of her engine. Gingerbread men voiced by Steve Buscemi and Norm MacDonald banter about cell service. A man and his distressed stomach, the latter voiced by Gene Wilder, bicker in a therapy session about the man’s eating habits.

1 month ago | styleweekly.com | Rich Griset

The white Goudy letters against a black background. The melancholic violin melody. The Peter Coyote narration. The slow panning over old photographs to give them a sense of movement. Ken Burns is such a fixture of America’s cultural landscape that the tropes of his filmmaking style can be recognized by even the most casual PBS viewer. His 2009 docuseries “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea” led to a year-over-year attendance spike of 15 million visitors to the National Park System.