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Reading Roundup

Jan 8, 2025 | styleweekly.com | Chloe Aftel |Tim Abbondelo

I don’t subscribe to New Year’s resolutions, but if I did, reading more would rank high among them—along with eating more and earning less. Did I get that right? Below are my favorite reads of late, recommended to you, for these long winter nights ahead [potentially] without running water in Richmond.
From the Ground Up

Dec 5, 2024 | styleweekly.com | Tim Abbondelo

By year’s end, the construction of Greater Fulton’s first “green street” is almost complete, but the efforts behind it promise to flourish well into the future. On the surface, the project is meant to combat the effects of climate change by making the southernly side of the 4900 and 5000 blocks of Government Road more eco-friendly.
Opin Your Ears

Nov 27, 2024 | styleweekly.com | Tim Abbondelo

Followers of Richmond’s ethereal, electronic trio Opin have come to expect the unexpected from the kinetic group. The band’s hotly anticipated, more song-oriented album “Valley Bombastic” has been in the works for several years. They’ve been working with Philadelphia-based engineer Jeff Zeigler — whose client list includes Kurt Vile, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, The War on Drugs, Purling Hiss — and the results promise to be worth the wait.
A Salute to 8 ½ Church Hill

Nov 25, 2024 | styleweekly.com | Tim Abbondelo

Nostalgia warning: My favorite Italian-carryout counter is closing its second location, nestled at the ever-shifting commercial crossroads that is E. Marshall and N. 27th streets, after six eventful years. Suffice to say, I feel some kind of way about it. On the bright side, the flagship location in the Fan will continue serving its all-killer, no-filler menu of primarily pasta, pizza and heros, on into the future.
The Scum Also Rises

Oct 16, 2024 | styleweekly.com | Tim Abbondelo

At some point this century, new music started being released on Fridays instead of Tuesdays. Why? Because the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said so—that’s why. Allegedly to counter piracy, the change is squarely arbitrary in the streaming era. No matter, bands and labels have dutifully fallen in line, dropping their latest releases in lockstep.
New Reading Roundup

Sep 25, 2024 | styleweekly.com | Elizabeth Weinberg |Tim Abbondelo

Maybe I’ve been reading the wrong books (if autofiction is dead, why won’t it die?) but I’ve never been more blindsided by a surprise twist. Those more astute to plot-driven narrative might bemoan they ‘saw it coming from a mile away,’ but I received Akbar’s big reveal with such a thrill, I tore through the denouement before shedding a tear.
After The Flood - Style Weekly

Sep 13, 2024 | styleweekly.com | Tim Abbondelo

Well before I met Tyler Thomas or could put a name to his work, I saw his faces all over town. Each uniquely their own, but all connected like a rogues’ gallery or freaky family tree.
Bright Flights - Style Weekly

Sep 10, 2024 | styleweekly.com | Tim Abbondelo

How is it that Virginia has less claim to its own state bird than its singular contributions to D.I.Y. punk and hardcore music? While seven neighboring states all share the Northern cardinal as their chosen winged emblem, a precious few have cultivated as fertile and self-sustaining an underground musical microcosm as Virginia in the 21st century.
One for the Books

Aug 26, 2024 | styleweekly.com | Tim Abbondelo

Moments before showtime, a group enters the room holding hands, in a single-file line. They settle in, notably calmer than the rest of the audience gathered so far, and spread dutifully across an entire row of seats. Much of the audience squirms and points ahead at the screen, out toward the wings, and up at the ceiling with eyes on the balcony, as if each and every inch of the room is on display and a subject of brief fascination.
One More For The Shangri-Lords

Aug 21, 2024 | styleweekly.com | Tim Abbondelo

Sometimes all it takes is a clever name before—flash, the cartoon lightbulb fires—and a band is willed into existence, as if fully formed. Such is the case with Richmond’s the Shangri-Lords, our area’s preeminent tribute act to the golden era of American girl groups. Not unlike many a fit-of-inspiration before it, this germ of an idea that would go on to form the band all started at a bar.