Writer’s Block is RVA Magazine’s Sunday series highlighting contemporary writers working in Richmond and across the Commonwealth. We feature original poems, short stories, or essays. Just real voices writing right now. This week, we’re featuring a new story from...
Stavna Ballet's Alice In Wonderland showed a dance troupe picking up momentum and finding its groove, writes Christopher McDaniel. On Saturday January 11th, Stavna Ballet held Alice in Wonderland at the Modlin Center for the Arts, their first production of the 2020 calendar year. The wonderful show retold the classic Lewis Carroll tale through...
Artist Jacob Daley's pointillist portraits of pets bring joy to pet owners throughout the city. Throughout 2020, he'll be giving a portion of his proceeds to Richmond Animal League to help even more pets find a better tomorrow. Local artist Jacob Daley is spending 2020 painting pet portraits for a good cause. Daley and his portrait business,...
Happy new year, comic fans! Welcome to a new year of new goals, new opportunities, and -- most importantly -- new comics. This year we are bringing you more of the best in comic news, upcoming comics, and events. We will be covering GalaxyCon once again this year, where we will talk to upcoming illustrators and creators, and of course all of your...
RVA Mag #38 is on the streets now! Here’s another article from the issue, in which we explore the ins, outs, ups and downs of death and dying with Death Club Radio, the weekly WRIR show that helps demystify the universal experience of the end of life. Here’s the thing: you’re going to die. If that makes you uncomfortable and you stop reading...
Happiest of holidays, comic fans! Welcome to this week’s issue of your RVA Comics X-Change, and the final issue of 2019, featuring our End of the Year review, where we take a quick snapshot of the year in comics that was 2019. For today’s issue, we decided to reach out to some of our friends in comics who were kind enough to help us out with...
In this edition of RVA Comics X-Change, our own Ash Griffith tackles the burning question on everyone's minds: Is Iron Man 3 a Christmas movie? The Case For Iron Man As Santa Claus Could beloved fictional blowhard Tony Stark be, in fact, the next Jolly Saint Nick? Well, maybe not exactly. However, there is a lot of debate taking place across the...
TheatreLAB's Urinetown mixes political commentary and potty humor into a campy musical delight. TheatreLAB’s current production, Urinetown, is a comedic commentary on capitalism and corporate corruption. The musical, at TheatreLAB until December 28, is set in a dystopian future after a terrible drought brings civilization to the brink of...
This year's Krampusnacht walk through Carytown brought the evil folklore of Europe to the River City for the seventh year in a row. Christmas, but make it creepy. That’s the vibe channeled by RVA Krampusnacht when their parade of horned, demonic elves and Santas, and other sinister-looking Yuletide monsters takes over the streets of Carytown for...
The statue by artist Kehinde Wiley was unveiled yesterday in its permanent home at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Kehinde Wiley unveiled his “Rumors of War” statue on the lawn of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Tuesday afternoon. The statue, which depicts a young black man in streetwear riding a horse, was first unveiled in New York City’s...
