Volume 0 Issue dc-and-richmond
Best Friends Day
Imagine a best friend who has a water park in their backyard, complete with water slides, rope swings, BBQ pits, and a lineup of awesome bands ranging from heavy metal to free jazz.
Slaughterama
When you arrive on the banks of the James River, next to a munitions factory from the Civil War (that's not a smokestack, it's a cannonball forge), a walking bridge extends, hanging from a highway overpass.
Marion Barry: Guardian Angel of Punk Rock
Marion Barry, the much maligned former mayor of Washington, DC, is mostly known as a punch line. As a synonym for "smoking crack," he embodied white America's media-based fantasy of 80s urban blacks—entitled, lazy, corrupt, drug addled, and taking...
What to Do in DC
For 10 months out of the year, DC is a fetid trench. It was literally built on reclaimed swampland, by a syphilis-ridden moron from France. For a while there, only Gary, Indiana, and Detroit rivaled it for per capita shooting deaths.
James Callahan
To date, this is the second time I've interviewed artist James Callahan, the man behind Barf Comics and Nowhere Skateboards.
Hidden Spots
There are two things that almost any Richmonder will ask the moment you arrive within the city limits: "Do you want a beer?" (usually as it's being placed in your hand) and "Do you want to go to the river?"
The Warrior Prince of Tenleytown
Hakki fought for the States in the Battle of Fallujah. Before that he served in the invasion itself.