Pick of the Week | A Sampling of Entertainment Options

Check out Jacob's latest picks of the week.

Experience It | Big Pansies

Experience the big pansies at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens.

Pick of the Week

Check out this week's top picks for CDs, DVDs. Books and Comics.

Experience It | On A Mission

The Ravenchase Scavenger Hunt sends Team Brick to search for clues in the fan and Museum District of Richmond.

Experience It | Looking For A few Good Kicks

Team Brick watched as the Kickers won their first game of the season.

Live it | Richmond’s Lofty Standard Of Living

The city's landscape gets spaced out in style.

Experience It | Bogey at 6 O’clock!

Team Brick takes it to the green at Bogeys Sports Park.

See It | Sketchy Livin’

The life and times of the Richmond Illustrators Club with president Katie McBride and club vice-president Holly Camp.

Experience It | Wii, Some Indoor Fun

After a few rounds of Super Smash Bros., team Brick battles each other at Wii Boxing.

Experience It | Infuzion Lounge

What's hot, cold and cool? Sexy salsa thursday at Infuzion Lounge.

Article Of The Week | The War Against Scientology

The biggest shocker in this Radar piece isn't that Scientology is a cult.

Experience It | Test-Driving Hondas

Purchasing a new car, 101.

Live It | Bal de Sade

Leather and fetish are your friends: safe word is "FUN"!

Experience It | Bowled Over

Team Brick participates in a charity fundraiser event for Junior Achievement.

Mark Montano’s Big-Ass Style

Montano took time out of his busy schedule to sign some books for Richmond Fanatics and help plan a Breast Cancer benefit.

Spidy Sense

Like most graphics and illustration folks I’ve talked to, these guys started out reading comics at a young age.

Experience It | VCU VS.. W&M

Team Brick posts up at the CAA semi-final game that turns out to be VCU versus William and Mary

Clique And Drag:  Brick Breaks Bread At Godfrey’s Drag Brunch

As Richmond’s newly self-appointed, number one sex symbol, I wanted to go to a local spot where there were lots of single women having lots of fun.

USHRA Monster Trucks Thunder Nationals

Monster fans took over the Richmond Coliseum last weekend to check out the monster madness that came to town.

Snowboarding - Brick Tries On Their Snowboards At Wintergreen

We entertained ourselves on the hour and a half long drive by making fun of Isabel’s music collection and playing sophomoric and inappropriate rounds of “Would you Rather” and “I Never”. Before we knew it, we were pulling into the resort and shimmying into our snow clothes in the gravelly parking lot.

Richmond Gets Hearts Racing

The 2nd Annual Lovers Expo came together at Dance Studio X, whose Web site whispers it’s the city’s “First and Finest School of Exotic Dance.”

Horse Racing 101

Neither is an option in real life, and my ignorance of the sport only amplified my unease as Dwayne, Mauricio, Isabel and I met at the Colonial Downs Off-Track Betting facility on Broad Street.

Heavy Metal

Her label, Face Metal Design encompasses both her work with art objects and with the wearable art that she’s commissioned to make more and more frequently.

Richmond’s National Renovations

The National Theater, which has sat cold and dark on the corner of 7th and Broad for the last 18 years, is set to renew Richmond as "the place to play" in Virginia.

Team Brick’s Holiday Wish List

It’s that time of year again: Time to fork over your hard earned cash for fruitcakes and festive sweaters in the name of “Holiday Cheer.”

Another dead black male

This is the way most people feel when they hear that a young black man was murdered. He had it coming. In Richmond, if you read that a young black male was murdered in Mosby Court, chances are the average person, regardless of color, is going to assume that the victim was complicit in his own demise.

Team Brick tests the two-stroke transport

Gasoline isn’t getting any cheaper...maybe it’s time to get a scooter?

The Big Pig Postmortem

For the first time in three decades, High on the Hog—Church Hill’s biggest backyard party—will be a no-show.

The Wilder Walk

Richmond’s charismatic mayor takes one step forward and twelve steps back, dancing a dance only he knows, to music only he can hear.

Attack of the Cones

As ice cream giant Ben & Jerry’s returns to the Carytown corridor, the corporate confectioner sparks Paul’s passion for keeping his licks local.

Six Ways to Celebrate Oktoberfest

The keg gets tapped in Munich but the revelry goes around the world during the biggest binge-drinking, sausage-stuffing, knee-slapping, chicken-dancing festival on the planet.

The Ten Commandments of Local TV News

It looks like news. It sounds like news. But after giving up 30 minutes of your life, you’re left feeling scared, confused and used.

One of Us

While most human beings are content to poke a toe in the weird pool, performance artist-filmmaker-author Miranda July would rather get in up to her neck.

Redrawing Downtown

You want to change Richmond? Here’s your chance. The city is launching their new Downtown Master Plan and the general public has been invited to help create the Richmond of tomorrow.

The Rebirth of the School

A group of Southside parents has a master plan for the soon-to-be-empty Patrick Henry Elementary that just might change the city of Richmond for the better.

Brick’s Compleat Guide to Office Piracy

A Guide to Workplace Skullduggery, Cubicle Combat and General Nautical-Themed Mischief

15 Things Your Mom Would Rather Have on Mother’s Day

She would never tell you, but she told me. And now I’m telling you.

Casualty of the Culture War

The gap between immigrant parents and their Americanized children contains more than language barriers and conflicting values.

Grass Appeal

This season, Leigh Cowlishaw and the Richmond Kickers pull double duty on the field as both defending USL-2 champions and the unofficial keepers of the flame for the sport of soccer in central Virginia.

New Wave, Old School

Before everyone in the world wanted their MTV, filmmaker Chuck Statler aimed his camera at DEVO, Elvis Costello and Madness to make catchy short films called music videos.

Two Too Much?

Two new live music venues will gamble millions when they open this year. But is Richmond really a double down town?

The Masters of Disaster Double Feature

If the stress of your daily life causes you to crave vicarious physical violence, this is your lucky weekend.

Connubial Cage Match

A Pair of Subjective Commentaries on the State of Marriage in America

food fight

The Dept. of Alcoholic Beverage Control rules the flow of liquor in VA with and iron fist...

Flying High Again

Chris Porter placed third in the fourth season of NBC's stand-up comedy reality show, "Last Comic Standing."