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Bandcamp / Buy Bisk, aka Tokyo’s Naohiro Fujikawa, has been chrome-plating chaos for a quarter century, turning out records that are absurd and exhilarating in equal measure. A Bisk song rarely follows a straight line for long: The Japanese producer’s drum programming weaves through knotty thickets of syncopated beats and white-noise bursts, chasing ghosts and dodging potholes. His samples are fragmentary dispatches from far-flung points, and any given musical phrase might shoehorn multiple worlds into wobbly union—free improv with easy listening, kindergarten recess with...

Singer-songwriter-player-of-many-instruments Dinty Child has a new single out. “Incident at the Border” tells the true tale of a musician, a waywardly tossed Frisbee, and a resulting broken window at the Border Café in Harvard Square. It was recorded by Child and some friends in 2018 as part of a batch of 17 songs, 11 of which ended up on his 2020 album “Lucky Ones.” But it didn’t make the final cut, and is now seeing the light of day by its lonesome. Child has carved out a colorful career on the local music scene since getting his first guitar about a half-century ago while growin...

World War II veteran celebrates 100th birthday Times Record Theron "Doc" B. McElroy, a decorated World War II veteran, celebrated his 100th birthday on Saturday, Jan. 16. The family requests that birthday cards and messages be sent to Doc McElroy c/o Greenhurst Nursing Center, P.O. Box 458, Charleston, AR 72933. Doc was born Jan. 16, 1921, in Sub Rosa to Scot and Isabelle McElroy and is the only survivor of their seven children. He is also among a dwindling number of World War II veterans. He joined the U.S. Army on Dec. 26, 1941, and received an honorable discharge on Dec. 20, 1945. Hi...

Brave New World Even in the best of times, opening a restaurant is a risky endeavor. Opening a restaurant during a pandemic is essentially uncharted territory. While Richmond has lost a number of independent restaurants due to pandemic pressures, including gems that helped shape the dining scene, the region has also witnessed an influx of new dining establishments. We look at some of these recent additions, from a chef-driven pizzeria in Scott’s Addition to a Black-owned juice bar in the Fan and an urban oasis in Fulton Hill. Although face masks, takeout boxes and COVID protocols were no...

By JUSTIN LO | Special correspondent Years from now, we’ll look back and remember 2020 as the year when our long-standing ideas about dining changed — not so much for the good, but in response to the bad that is the coronavirus pandemic. And not because we wanted those ideas to change, but because they had to. The ingenuity and creativity of local restaurant owners, chefs and bartenders have long served our city well. They’ve been the driving force behind Richmond’s transformation into the buzzworthy food city we boast of today. That same aptitude for reimagin...