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Projecting Our Hopes And Dreams

Since the protest movement began last month, artist Dustin Klein's projections of police brutality victims and civil rights heroes have become a crucial component of the nightly gatherings at the Robert E. Lee Monument. Amidst the nation-wide protests against police...

Responding To Crisis With Art

Richmond’s Black Art: RVA Magazine is highlighting more local artistic voices responding to the BLM protest movement. Let’s take a closer look. It’s a long road to justice for the Black Lives Matter movement, and for many, art is a handy tool for expression. On...

In Times Of Crisis, We Make Art

Richmond’s Black Art: RVA Magazine highlights local voices responding to the BLM protest movement. Let’s take a closer look. In this time of widespread protest, the spirit of resistance has gone far beyond the daily marches and gatherings in Richmond's streets. All it...

Dogtown Dance Theatre’s Virtual Dance Festival

With social distancing making gathering in one place for the annual Richmond Dance Festival an impossibility, the dances were instead hosted online, where a dozen performers responded to our current isolation with thought-provoking movement. This May, Dogtown Dance...

Noah Scalin Joins The (Old) Navy

Old Navy was donating $30 million worth of clothing to families affected by COVID-19, and they wanted to let the world know. Veteran Richmond artist Noah Scalin was glad to help. Last month, Old Navy announced something big. They’re throwing their hat in the ring...

It’s Discovery Season at Firehouse Theatre

With COVID-19 having an extended impact on the way we live, Firehouse Theatre is making big changes to ensure they can keep bringing live theatre to Richmond. As Virginia slowly reopens amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses across the commonwealth are doing their...

‘Carlisle Montgomery’ Is Very Richmond

Harry Kollatz Jr.'s coming-of-age novel about a six-and-a-half-foot tall nine-fingered guitar playing "freak" is a gloriously sprawling portrait of Richmond pre-gentrification. Style Weekly doesn't do their annual "You Are Very Richmond If…" issue anymore, and in a...

Virtual Art

With social distancing making art shows a thing of the past for now, Richmond's artists and galleries are finding new ways to reach the outside world. “Our artists do have access to their private workspaces to make art but it's a lot quieter in the art center now,”...

RVA Comics X-Change: Issue 30

This week, Comics X-Change is focusing on the local scene, with an extensive report about the goings-on at the first-ever Comic Arts Richmond, which took place last weekend and was a rousing success. Happiest Wednesday, comic fans! Welcome to the dirty thirty edition of our biweekly comic exchange. Not only are we old enough to drink and rent a...

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Images Of American Emptiness: Edward Hopper’s Hotels

Edward Hopper captured the alienation of 20th century America in his paintings of hotels, currently on display in an in-depth retrospective at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The exciting new show Edward Hopper and the American Hotel opened October 26th at the VMFA, its only East Coast venue. Despite long being an established part of the...

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RVA Comics X-Change: Issue 29

Happiest of pre-Halloween Wednesdays, comic fans! Welcome back to not only another issue of your beloved biweekly comic exchange, but the last issue before Halloween. The next time we see each other, it is nothing but smooth sailing to comfort food and turkey time. This week we have some gifts that keep on giving. I have some spooky...

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Opinion: Time to tear them down

Tear Them Down One hundred and fifty-two years ago, Richmond became the former capitol of a failed nation built upon a bedrock of suffering, shackles, and servitude. Today, statues memorializing its president and military officers cast the cold shadows of an inexplicably glorified history on the present day. As many as seven hundred monuments to...

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RVA Comics X-Change: Issue 28

Happiest of Tuesdays, comic fans! Welcome to issue number twenty-eight of your biweekly comic exchange in what is only the best and spookiest month of the year. I have some good old-fashioned Halloween-flavored news for you. After that, our good friends down the block at Velocity Comics have some hearty recommendations for you this week that...

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Enjoy Terror In the Fields of Hanover With Red Vein Haunted House

Virginia's foremost crew of horror aficionados, the Red Vein Army, return all this month with their fourth year of painstakingly-crafted terror at Hanover Vegetable Farm. If you find yourself near Hanover Vegetable Farm in Ashland any weekend this month and you hear a chorus of blood-curdling screams, don’t be alarmed -- it’s just the sound of...

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The Hustle Season Podcast: Ep. 100 We Made It, OK

RVA Magazine is proud to showcase The Hustle Season Podcast every Saturday afternoon. Produced at La Cocina Studio in Richmond, VA; homegrown musicians Kelli Strawbridge, Reggie Pace, James Seretis (La Cocina’s engineer) & Gabriel Santamaria bring their irreverent, outspoken and at times thoughtful opinions to the masses. Focusing on pop...

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