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VCUarts’ She Kills Monsters Brings Fantasy To Virtual Reality

The COVID-19-inspired move to virtual production hasn't always been ideal for live theatre, but for VCUarts' production of She Kills Monsters, which focuses on role-playing games, it has been strangely appropriate. In the last year, there has been no shortage of...

Recontextualizing the Lost Cause

Valentine museum founder Edward Valentine was responsible for sculpting multiple Confederate monuments around Richmond. Now the museum he founded hopes to display his statue of Jefferson Davis in order to confront the role Valentine, and Richmond, played in the Lost...

Building A Collection, Building A Scene

Shockoe Artspace founder Ryan Lauterio's documentary, The Builder, spotlights Richmond art collector Don Childress in an effort to show how important collectors are to keeping the art world alive and thriving. In 2017, VCU professor and founder of Shockoe Artspace...

Looking Back at RVA Magazine: How This All Started

Back in 2005, Downtown Richmond was a dangerous place. There was no craft beer scene, no street art, crime was rampant, the city had no togetherness. It took the community deciding for themselves to be the change they wanted to see -- one project, one protest, one...

Bella, Bello

Studio Series: September, Richmond Ballet's first in-person performance since the pandemic began, demonstrated the new normal for live dance performances, and displayed some world-class talent. As gathering restrictions begin to ease by law, one local dance...

RVA Comics X-Change: Issue 39 — GalaxyCon 2020 Edition

Happy Tuesday, comics fans! Welcome back to your favorite bi-weekly go-to for comics news and talk in Richmond. Not only that, we are your best go-to for in-depth coverage of the biggest annual comics and pop culture event in the River City - GalaxyCon Richmond.  Conventions are beautiful events for many reasons; they bring people of all...

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RVA Magazine #39 Is Out Now!

Don't look now, but the latest issue of RVA Magazine just hit town, and we're kicking off our 15th year in operation with a real banger! Full of the city's best street-level culture, you'll learn everything you need to know about what's hot in the River City for the first year of the 20s and beyond. PHOTO: J. Roddy Walston, RVA 39 We begin by...

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Step Into The 1920s with Into the Woods’ Souvenir

In the living room of a Stuart Ave home in Richmond’s Fan District, the world’s worst opera singer comes to life… and this unique comedy play heads into its final weekend.  Into the Woods Productions invites you to the living room of a Fan District home for its latest theater production, Stephen Temperley’s Souvenir, starring Gabrielle Maes and...

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For Military Kids, Art Provides A Voice

While the military kid life is full of ups and downs, Richmond’s Military Kid Art Project helps balance things out. Travelling across the country, moving several times a year, and not seeing a parent for months at a time may seem strange to some -- but for many military kids, it’s just a part of life. And while military life has many positive...

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RVA Comics X-Change: Issue 38 (GalaxyCon 2020 Preview Edition)

Happiest of Tuesdays, comic fans! Welcome back to your Richmond Comics X-Change: GalaxyCon 2020 Preview Edition. This week we see the opening of GalaxyCon in Richmond, and for year two, we are going to get you prepared just in time to meet all of your favorite actors, comic book authors, and -- for the auto nerds out there -- even a few of your...

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Dreams Deferred

In Virginia Rep's current presentation of August Wilson's Fences, director Tawnya Pettiford-Wates shows the heart of a black family's struggle to keep the lingering effects of racism from pulling them apart. From one of the largest performing arts organizations in Central Virginia comes a story of legacy, family, responsibility, honor, duty, and...

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Dancing to Self-Love and Teamwork

Richmond Ballet’s Minds in Motion program gives city school students a different type of extra-curricular activity credit: ballet.  While thousands of Virginia students walked across stages to collect their diplomas last year, several hundred marked the end of the school year in a different way -- with the grand finale of Minds in Motion, a...

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Love Jumpers

This Valentine's Day, Death Club Radio's Phil Ford considers the doomed romantic tradition of the Lover's Leap, and asks: where did this macabre folk legend come from? I like to think I am a practical, sensible person -- although many have told me otherwise -- but I still can’t fathom why two forlorn fools would jump off a cliff for love. Who the...

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Get Lost In Williamsburg with Phillip Merritt

The Lost In Williamsburg podcast tells listeners a supernatural story of the city, shifting from the 18th century to present-day through strange and unexplained happenings.  Phillip Merritt has “No F@%s Left to Give” when it comes to art. Phillip Merritt is an architectural landscaper by day, and a multi-dimensional artist by night. Merritt...

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