This article is part of the official Virginia Pride Festival Guide, released ahead of the celebration on Saturday, September 27. Presented with the support of Out RVA, Allianz, Hit Play, Virginia Lottery, CarMax, Bank of America, CoStar Group, Genworth, CapTech,...
I looked down at my hands, finally, away from the stage as the play ended -- and realized I had crushed my flimsy, disposable cup between my fingers until it was just twisted plastic in my bare hand. It was this visceral reaction that carried me through Act One and Act Two of Firehouse Theatre's Desire Under the Elms this past Saturday. Eugene O’...
5:51pm Visiting grandmother’s house was a weekly ritual in my family. Every Sunday we went to church, dinner, and then to grandma’s quaint little cottage just outside of town. Don’t get me wrong, I love my Grandma, but I dreaded these visits. Sitting on plastic covered furniture, being overwhelmed by the smell of mothballs, making small talk...
All sorts of organizations do fundraisers. Girl scouts sell cookies, high school and college clubs try to sell you donuts and middle schoolers sell magazines. The Wizengamot Quidditch Club of VCU, however, has found a unique way to get funds: selling part of their president’s body as real estate for a tattoo. The club launched their crowdfunding...
Chinese Art is making a journey to the west by coming to the VMFA next month. The exhibit, Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China will feature 130 pieces of art including 10 life-sized terracotta figures straight from the pits of Xi’an, the capital of the Shaanxi province in China. Riding off the overwhelmingly positive responses...
The set is bare-boned, simple, roughly hewn. Soft white lighting pours over actor Adam Turck’s shoulders. As he balances a rake between his hands, he repeats a string of words over and over, perfecting the New England accent that will carry him through Act One: “fuck you, fuck you.” Looking around, no one but me is giving Turck’s impassioned...
It's a long-standing tradition at Richmond's tattoo shops, but what makes someone wait in line for a $13 tattoo? Customers lined up by All-For-One, one of many shops along with Lucky 13 offering specials on Friday the 13th "It's really about the community," one heavily-tattooed visitor tells me. She skipped work to be here, and asks that I not...
Quill Theatre and the Virginia War Memorial are bringing history to life and putting audiences in the middle of the most pivotal war in history by partnering to present “For the Duration: Letters from Home.” The one-night-only event features real letters from WWII soldiers and their loved ones back home, collected by James Triesler, a historian...
The Art of Burning Man, an art exhibition that has been on display at Norfolk's Hermitage Museum since June, will come to a close October 14. A multi-media pageant, the exhibit features curated original art pieces from the annual Nevada-based Burning Man festival, costumed characters, music, and as one would expect with anything with the name...
Rolling hills and a sprawling park lead to the beautiful mansion that sits on a hill. Its detailed architecture and lavish decor are frozen in time as the legacy of the mansion in Maymont has been sealed into its bygone generation, waiting to reveal its ever-present charm of the Gilded Age to the 21st century. If you grew up in Richmond, then at...
