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,...
For the second year in a row, CultureWorks Richmond is hosting artoberVA, a month-long celebration of arts and culture in Richmond and the Tri-Cities area every October. In an effort to embody its mission of inspiring and cultivating world-class arts and culture, CultureWorks established artoberVA to promote events, pop-ups, science,...
Local RVA modern dance company Starr Foster Dance Project (SFDP) premiered their annual performance “The Shaking Season” this past weekend at Grace Street Theater. SFDP has been performing locally and touring nationally behind founder and lead choreographer Starrene Foster for 16 years. Their mission is to provide a positive experience for its...
How would you feel being confined to a tiny, dark, and isolated jail cell? Atlas, ART 180’s center for teens, intends to give you a glimpse into what that experience is like with their latest exhibit and installation, “My Reality”, which opened last Friday. Created by teens in the program, “My Reality” is an immersive virtual reality experience...
What do you get when you mix a Celtic-Americana-indie-rock band, a garage studio in the suburbs of Richmond, and Maymont Park? Turns out, it’s Carbon Leaf. The local band, whose career has spanned almost 25 years now, is due to play at Maymont Park on June 24. The band hasn’t played at Maymont since 2010, and the band is excited to...
This past weekend Richmond got the opportunity to celebrate the 110th anniversary of the Treble Clef and Book Lovers’ Club, one of the oldest African-American women’s book clubs in the US. Started in 1908 by Mrs. Mary Simpson, the wife of a Virginia Union University Latin professor, the club has a rich history: it has hosted readings by the likes...
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I had been living in Northern Virginia for a few months and met a friend of mine for drinks. We knew each other from Richmond, where I had spent the last half decade or so. We were drinking, smoking and talking about politics, ethics, whatever else, sitting on an empty patio on a slow weeknight. We wandered through topics from physics to...
I definitely did not bring enough tissues. This past weekend, TheatreLAB and Yes, And! Entertainment held their official opening night for “The Last Five Years,” a contemporary musical written by Jason Robert Brown about two lovers who meet, marry, and separate over the course of five years. The show is special in that the couple each tell their...
In what can only be described as universal and near cosmic irony, the investment company in New York City behind the "Fearless Girl" statue on Wall Street, is being forced to award $5 million in damages to 300 women and 15 African American employees. According to a federal audit of the group's parent company State Street Corporation, the firm...
