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Triple Crossing taps into the gluten-removed space

Local beer innovators Triple Crossing are using a new product to remove the gluten from Element 79. The result is a delicious beer that may be safe for gluten-intolerant drinkers.

Raising Richmond: A one-year parent’s advice for newbies

Everyone’s first year is different, but nobody’s turns out exactly like they expected. Hayley DeRoche is now a sage one-year graduate and can wisely offer advice for those about to take the plunge.

BetaBox has come to town!

It’ll be here all week over at St. Catherine’s, making amazing things and blowing our minds with practical technology applications. Also, the term “makerspace” is neat.

Raising Richmond: Tiny weekends and tiny budgets

Weekends used to be about living it up and sleeping late. As a parent of a young child, you might find you’re in a totally different rut–the same parks, the same kid places. Hayley’s budget suggestions save you money and revitalize your weekend.

Raising Richmond: The tomboy trap

Is it equally as sexist to assume that wearing pink ISN’T cool? Why is dressing our children so philosophically complicated!?

Raising Richmond: So jealous

Why is it so hard to just be content with everything we have—particularly things we have worked so hard to get? This can be double-true with families and their lifestyles, and it’s something many of us have to put in a lot of effort to counteract.

RVA Family: FOMO, parenting style

You miss your kid when you’re not around him or her, and you miss the other stuff when you are. Is there a way to have it all?

RVAFamily: Going in blind

There’s an expectation for women that we have to have nurturing experience under our belts before we ever become parents. But maybe giving ourselves permission to be inexperienced prior to an experience is a good thing.

RVA Family: Seeing red

Kat Von D is currently under fire for naming a lipstick from her Sephora line “Underage Red”—a term that she claims doesn’t mean what we all think it means. But, well, she’s wrong.

RVA Family: Uptalk with a side of vocal fries

Vocal fry and uptalk and other “girly” vocal tics are maybe just how we speak, OK?

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