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This Week Buried in Press Releases #3
We have compiled all the music news RVA has received during the last week.
VA Indie Film Fest Schedule!
All of these films look entertaining, informative, or both. Personally, I'm the most excited about Meet Me in the Bottom and Trenches- an extremely important local cultural issue, and indie sci-fi!
DAILY FIX: Die Antwoord
What is this music coming outta South Africa? I was laughing at first then I was confused and now I am on the fence. Thoughts on this Vanilla ICE looking dude and his crew? Thanks Ben for passing this on.
When You Are Strange.
Pretty stoked about seeing this. I wonder how they went about getting all this original footage?
Color pictures from Czarist Russia
I stumbled upon these images a few months back, but didn't really look into the gallery. Now that I'm seeing them again, it is a fascinating documentation of the last years of Czarist Russia. The image above is probably my favorite, showing classic Russian architecture alongside the beginnings of the industrial revolution, and the images I have selected to show here involve physical representations of such lines- the old and the new, the rich and the poor.
From Alex Gridenko:
Born in St. Petersburg and educated as a chemist, Prokudin-Gorskii devoted his career to the advancement of photography. In the early 1900s, he developed an ingenious technique of taking colour photographs. The same object was captured in black and white on glass plate negatives, using red, green and blue filters. He then presented these images in colour in slide lectures using a light-projection system involving the same three filters.
Strange Matter: The 929 West Grace Street Saga Continues
The re-vamping of 929 West Grace street (formerly Twisters, 929 Cafe, The Nanci Raygun, Bagel Czar...
What's Happening with RVA.
When RVA launched in April 2005 Richmond's cultural scene was a blank canvas waiting for direction, documentation and new vision. To our excitement, many groups (Gallery 5, Curated Culture, Venture Richmond, Books On Wheels, etc.), businesses (Kulture, Sticky Rice, Rumors, Chop Suey, The Camel, New York Deli, Ellwood Thompson, etc.) and promoters (PLF, Best Friend's Day, Community Chest, Brain Drain, etc.) heard the call and helped create a homegrown culture to be proud of. Almost five years later the city is entering a new phase of cultural growth, and with respect for the changes in media consumption and technological advancements in communication, we've decided to make some big changes too.
On Feb. 1, 1960, four freshmen changed history by not getting lunch.
It had been six years since the landmark Brown V. Board of Education and segregation still reigned supreme. Practically none of the schools had integrated, and state-sponsored racism was still rampant. Then, on this date fifty years ago, these four men- known as The Greensboro Four, revitalized a waning civil rights movement. First, there were four; the next day, over twenty, and within five days, hundreds of students, activists, protesters and ordinary citizens sparked a movement across the American South that would continue until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
According to Franklin McCain, one of the four black teenagers who sat at the "whites only" stools:
"Some way through, an old white lady, who must have been 75 or 85, came over and put her hands on my shoulders and said, 'Boys, I am so proud of you. You should have done this 10 years ago.'"
Their act of defiance changed history, set off the sit-in movement that swept the South and paved the way for a series of changes that transformed American society.
“The moments they sat in those chairs have had a lasting impact on our nation,” President Barack Obama said in an e-mail to the News & Record. “The lessons taught at that five-and-dime challenged us to consider who we are as a nation and what kind of future we want to build for our children.”
Full story from The News-Record
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