Ryan Kent has always had a warm, calming presence for me. I met him when I was still very young. We were bartending at Sabai, a job that neither of us would be at for long. We established common interests in lyrics and poetry, and went out to parties a time or two. It...
10 Years Later: A Best Friends Day Conversation
It's been 10 years since the last Best Friends Day Weekend in Richmond, Virginia and 20 years since its founders first came up with the idea of visiting a local water park to celebrate the end of summer. What they didn’t realize at the time was that this visit would...
Richmond’s Local Business Find Ways To Thrive In a Big-Box World
*This article originally appeared in RVA Mag #36, on the streets now at all your favorite spots. We live in a convenience-based society. Between Amazon Prime shipping various household needs straight to our doors, and food apps like DoorDash and UberEats keeping us...
Healing The Wounds Left By Massive Resistance
More than 2,000 black children were robbed of an education during Virginia's Massive Resistance campaign against school integration. Ken Woodley wants to give it back. Ken Woodley, author of The Road to Healing, will be speaking at Chop Suey bookstore this afternoon....
Ryan Kent’s latest poetry collection finds truth in loneliness
If you know who Ryan Kent is, it's probably from his role as a vocalist in several bands around town, most notably southern-fried metallers Gritter and brutal thrashers Murdersome. As a rather talented lyricist, though, it wasn't much of a stretch to move into the...
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