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3 days ago | styleweekly.com | Rich Griset

Local actress Sara Dabney Tisdale was eight months pregnant when she began rehearsals for her latest play. “I took about two weeks off to give birth and then came back,” says Tisdale, a former Style reporter. “When I came back to rehearsals after having the baby, my whole center of gravity changed.

1 week ago | styleweekly.com | Robey Martin

“We shut this place down at 3 a.m. one night, had a big time,” my dad says as we’re walking into 1870 Restaurant and Bar, the new Midlothian steakhouse (ish) from David and Brittany Dunlap. He’s not talking about this iteration of Jewett-Bass Hall, though. The stately building has been many things before the Dunlaps took over in 2023. Erected by George H. and John W.

1 week ago | styleweekly.com | Chuck Bowen

The first 25 minutes of David Mamet’s “Henry Johnson” are gripping. They are perhaps right up there with his best work, whether we’re talking the stage or screen. This first act does the audience a disservice though, writing a check that the rest of Mamet’s film can’t cash. Your palette is primed for top shelf, yes-folks-he’s-still-got-it Mamet, and you’re left with an uneven failure that eventually borders on self parody.

1 week ago | styleweekly.com | Rich Griset

Clad in black-and-white uniforms, they once appeared all over the River City—leading cheers, ruffling their pleated skirts, thrusting their pom-poms into the air. But these cheerleaders weren’t rooting for Richmond’s athletes. Instead, they were praising the city’s artists. Reasoning that creatives need as much encouragement as jocks do, the Art Cheerleaders appeared at First Fridays, 1708 Gallery’s InLight exhibition and other events to put a bit of pep in the city’s artistic step circa 2007.

1 week ago | styleweekly.com | Rich Griset

Taylor Lane can trace her choice of career to Elvis Presley’s guitar pick. As a youngster living in Chicago, Lane was taken by her grandmother to see “Million Dollar Quartet,” a jukebox musical inspired by the real life meeting of Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins at Sun Studio in Memphis. During the show, the actor playing the King of Rock and Roll tossed Lane his guitar pick. “It changed my life,” says Lane.