2023 Best Of Awards: Peninsula vs Southside
As someone who grew up in southeastern VB, was a “Ghent girl” in my 20s, and then a Newport News resident through my 30s,...
More 2023 Overall Gold Restaurant Winners
From seafood spots to breakfast bites, healthy eats to burger joints, these are some of our readers' favorite local...
String Presence Makes Music in Hampton
Megan Jenifer-Harris has made a life’s work of the violin. The Hampton-based musician started her music business String...
New Ravenna’s Exquisite Tile Mosaics
On the Southernmost tip of the Delmarva Peninsula, bounded on the west by the Chesapeake Bay and the east by the Atlantic...
Norfolk Botanical Garden Is Growing
Former Norfolk Botanical Garden President and CEO Michael Desplaines is at the wheel of a golf cart, deftly navigating...
Stay! At Pups and Pints
Heard the one about the dog that walks into a bar and asks, “Is this fire hydrant taken?” That’s not so far-fetched at...
Making Magic with the Wagsters
Right around the corner from the Williamsburg Premium Outlets stands an unassuming building that formerly housed the...
Firing Up the Flavor at Harbor’s Edge
If your idea of the food served at a senior living community is canned peas and applesauce, you might be in for a...
Patti McCracken’s “The Angel Makers”
Patti McCracken wandered around in the village of Nagyrev, Hungary, with her friend and neighbor Harald Leban, whom she’d...
Woodhurst Neighborhood Added to Historic Register
If a National Register of Historic Places designation makes you think of Colonial era homes with red brick and plaster,...
2023 CoVa Idea House: A Taste for Space
When is an Idea House not a house? When it is a townhouse. But “Urbanna,” the 2023 CoVa Idea (Town) House, is steeped in...
Old Fashioned Steakhouses Our Readers Love
Sometimes you want to go wherever everybody knows your name. Or maybe where a friendly smile and a familiar crock of pub...