This Week in OtherWords: January 8, 2014

This Week in OtherWords: January 8, 2014

This week in OtherWords, Jill Richardson calls for hemp legalization and Jim Hightower skewers the media’s “native advertising” penchant. William A. Collins and I are taking a break from our weekly column and Donald Kaul is still convalescing. Do you...
Nottoway to Make a Good Impression

Nottoway to Make a Good Impression

If you visit the website of Nottoway Plantation, a resort hotel, you’ll see a photo of a half-dozen people dressed in antebellum finery. It’s a plug for Nottoway’s new mystery theater evening: The actors play members of the Randolph family who built...
This Week in OtherWords: January 8, 2014

Higher Hopes for Hemp

Take a moment and look around you. Look up. The sky hasn’t fallen, has it? People in Colorado are buying marijuana — legally — and civilization hasn’t come crashing to its knees. At this point, we’ve all seen TV journalists reporting from Colorado...