Editor’s note: Since this story was originally written, Alex Na hosted another free tiramisu drop over the weekend, continuing to build a following around his community dessert project. This feature was submitted by Jordan Smith, a journalism student at the Richard T....
Richmond non-profit organization SPARC uses art, music, and performance to help local youth, especially those from underprivileged backgrounds, grow into creative, successful adults. Every child is different. They have different backgrounds, different family situations, and a different story to tell the world, good or bad. Some are in need of a...
Happiest of Tuesdays, comic fans! Welcome back to your bi-weekly stop for comics and pop culture news in the River City. Every issue we talk to industry experts and Richmond creatives who love comics and dig deep to find their recommendations on the next big read, with a little bit of news so we eat our vegetables, too. This week in news we...
Every Friday night this month, the Coalition Theater presents a new episode of Improvised Friends, in which six Richmond improv comics bring the legendary sitcom to life before your very eyes. In celebration of the classic 90s sitcom’s 25th anniversary, The Coalition Theater is presenting Friends in a never-before-seen manner: improv! Every...
The Ashland-based troupe of haunters have expanded beyond their annual Halloween-focused activities to open Red Vein Escape, an escape room with experiences based around some classic Richmond spook stories. Every town has a legend. In West Passaic, New Jersey, it’s the 10-mile Clinton Road; in Stull, Kansas, legend has it that the local cemetery...
For their performance at the Modlin Center, Alonzo King LINES Ballet used their intricate movements to highlight indigenous languages that are approaching extinction. Alonzo King LINES Ballet brought their evening-length production, Figures of Speech, to the Modlin Center for the Arts on Thursday, January 23. This continuous, hour-long work...
Would I Lie To You? Mural Walk creator George Tisdale unreliably narrates tours of Richmond's murals. It's more entertaining than you'd think. The Would I Lie To You? Mural Walk showcases some of the most beautiful, and most hidden, murals in and around Richmond, but with a twist. The stories told at each mural could be complete lies, and it is...
Artist and Quail Bell Press co-founder Christine Sloan Stoddard's latest book, Force Fed, views the global issue of food insecurity and wealth disparity through an intensely personal lens. There’s a new book out on the shelves by Christine Sloan Stoddard, the interdisciplinary artist and writer who founded the feminist publication Quail Bell...
Happiest of Wednesdays, comic fans! Welcome back to your favorite bi-weekly update on everyone that is up and coming and needs to be celebrated in the land of comics, in Richmond and beyond. This week, not only did I bring you more news in the land of pop culture -- there’s a comic-con museum afoot? -- but we also bring a new comic illustrator to...
At the Science Museum last week, Miss America Camille Schrier awed a room full of Richmond elementary school students with a colorful, explosive demonstration of science in action. Viewers were surprised during the 2020 Miss America Competition this past December, when Miss Virginia took the stage to show off her unexpected talent. Camille...
