Staunton’s Food Day festivities

Mary Baldwin College, the Staunton Creative Community Fund and Valley Conservation Council are joining forces to co-host Staunton’s Food Day Festivities on Thursday from 4-7 pm at Mary Baldwin’s Hunt Dining Hall.

The event highlights how local food and local farms are powerful economic and environmental engines with untold benefits to the community. We’ll honor the recipients of the ACRESGrant…

DJ GHOZT LAYS DOWN THE TRUTH ON SONG REQUEST ETIQUETTE AND THE WAYS HE MAKES IT WORK IN EVERYONE’S FAVOR

INTERVIEW BY MARIANNA CAMPANO PHOTOS PROVIDED BY CHRIS OWENS, WICKED PHOTOGRAPHY, AND FRIENDS OF DJ GHOZT

Over the past three years, TheDJList.com named Brian Concannon, whom is better known as DJ GHOZT, the “#1 Virginia DJ”, and Style Weekly featured him in its “Best of Richmond 2013” list. Both titles are well deserved, but they are not self-appointed. In the past, he has played at The National

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Address: 1520 West Main St.           Richmond, VA 23220

Hours: 11:00am - 2:00am                    Sunday thru Saturday

Website: www.bajabean.com

Review: I once recall hearing someone say that all of Richmond's best bars were downtown, anything near VCU's Monroe Park Campus was a dive. Whoever said that must have stopped too soon on Main Street because Baja Bean is far from a disappointment.

The main part of the bar and restaurant is located inside a basement. It has cheap pool every night and a handful of arcade games peppered throughout. Their website has a calendar showing their events and specials including, Karaoke, live music, poker night etc. The indoor bar offers a variety of good beers all at reasonable prices and the friendly staff made several interesting drinks for us when we asked. For instance, when we tried to get an apple pie shot the bartender introduced us to apple sauce shooters which were delicious. The entire crowd was a perpetually friendly group whether we were playing poker, pool, corn hole or just watching the game.

Eventually we went outside to enjoy the good weather. If you can make it to Baja Bean while its warm, make it happen. The patio is arguably the best in Richmond with the theme of friendly service and patrons continuing outside. While the drink selection is understandably less at the outside bar, the service still stepped it up by serving us terrific drinks when we simply asked to be surprised.