Earlier last month, Kababayan, a long-time staple for Filipino food in Woodbridge, Virginia, moved to a new location on Minnieville Road. The move comes after 17 years of serving homestyle Filipino dishes and specialty grocery items in Smoketown Plaza. “We’re very proud of what we’ve done here,” says John Dela Rosa, who owns the business […]
Living in Charlottesville, passing symbols of white supremacy was a part of my daily life. I would walk by Confederate General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, the “Johnny Reb” and Confederate General Robert E. Lee on my way to the Downtown Mall, their bronze likenesses looming over me. Picking up my mom from work at the […]
On Saturday, July 10, the Business Crossing Network hosted its first networking event at Jirani Coffeehouse in Manassas, VA. Local entrepreneurs from a variety of industries came together to share their businesses and establish new connections with one another. “To help small business owners entrepreneurs have a space where they feel honored, empowered and refreshed […]
On July 1, a ban on electronic skill games went into effect in Virginia, garnering a firm response from various small business owners across the commonwealth who are pushing back against the ban. Yesterday, a judge heard arguments regarding such skill games after a group of six business owners in Norfolk and Virginia Beach sued […]
At 21-years-old, Michelle Garcia independently published her first book. Cul-de-sac Angels is a collection of poetry, memoir work, and creative nonfiction that was shaped by her upbringing in suburban Lake Ridge, VA and fueled by her love of nostalgia. Since its publication in April of this year, the book reached Amazon’s Top 100 Bestsellers List […]
My interest in journalism started with a newspaper clipping preserved in laminate from Charlottesville’s The Daily Progress. “A street called home,” reads the headline and above it, a picture of a few of my many aunts and uncles. In 2002, my family’s migration story from the Philippines to Charlottesville, Virginia, hit the front page of […]
