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We were joined on our walk the woods by Mik, a Chesapeake Master Gardener named Ed Bradley, and Jean-Marie Eagler, president of the Arboretum. Once Mik, a tall man with a Hungarian accent, decided we were okay, he started in on the jokes.
“You can always tell a dogwood by its bark,” he said. But my [...]

A Walk through the Woods
We had a miscommunication with our two guides through the Chesapeake Arboretum, so we ended up arriving an hour later than they did.
“It’s okay,” said Miklos Lestyan, the City Arborist/Urban Forester, with a broad smile. “We were just out in the woods. We’re happy there.”
Mik handed me a card that had [...]

One couple’s photographic essay of a recent trip to their beautiful homeland.

Writer Mallory Douglas takes the Olde Towne Portsmouth Candlelight Home Tour, and discovers some surprises amongst the neighborhood, its people, and in herself.

Architect and urban planner Lennie Araujo reviews what Norfolk is missing, how it can get it, where it could go, and why any of it matters.

So for nearing fours hours I’ve been watching the construction crew slowly chip away at this ugly veil…
While the lack of one big, dramatic, ‘Tah-dah’ moment was a little disappointing, it somehow seems appropriate. This big thing I’ve been waiting for, expecting to be a crash-boom kind of affair, is instead almost delicate—a respectful unveiling of a forgotten structure past its prime.

A major component of the SevenCities brand is 24SevenCities.com, the alternative daily magazine that’s about everything local.
Turning the traditional publishing methodology of ‘print-first, web-later’ on its head, the SevenCities brand uniquely ‘breaks’ its content online. In simpler terms, everything you read, see, and experience in our print pubs, including Taste, is first published at 24SevenCities.
One-third [...]