The grand old academic journal, the Virginia Quarterly Review, has boldly uploaded itself into the iPhone era with a zazzy website brimming with eyecandy. We'll meet the VQR web-editor, Jane Friedman.
At Harrisonburg arthouse café, The Artful Dodger, a painting in a Rashidi Barrett art exhibit struck one visitor as disturbingly familiar --maybe another artist’s concept. It was. Soon news media from Norfolk to Richmond to the Shenandoah Valley were noticing.
Boatmaker Dave Gentry's surprisingly durable designs make the ancient gossamer "skinboat" (skin or fabric over a wooden frame) doable for home-crafters.
One can find unusual plants like gooseberries, quinces, jujubes, and hops along with traditional items like cherries and apples. We meet Michael McConkey from Edible Landscaping in Afton.
In much of the world, famine and drought are real. Through a new board game, international student Jacob Mayiani, with JMU ecology professors, is trying to teach his fellow Maasai people in Kenya that their own cattle-grazing practices might contribute to the climate-conditions which cause so much suffering.
They began 15 years ago with one small office and an ambitious agenda.
Today their environmental efforts spread across much of the Southeast. And are part of a national dialogue on everything from coal mining to clean air.