In the barrenness of the winter months, SCAG (Southside Contemporary Art Gallery) provides a vivid contrast. Hull Street is alive with people hustling about the red brick buildings and snow-encrusted sidewalks. The gallery itself resembles a greenhouse, its entrance...
It’s been a year and a half since the first hand-stapled copies of Dirty Dino Rock comics started showing up in coffee houses and bars around the city. Since then, artist Anne Marie Wonder (yes, that is her real name) has written, illustrated, printed and distributed six issues, all while finding time to design images for T-shirts, flyers,...
Self- contradicting, mesmerizing, heavily doused with alcohol… these could all describe Faith Healer, Henley Street Theatre’s next main stage show of its 2013 season. Part of the Acts of Faith Festival, Faith Healer premiers this Thursday, January 31st, at SPARC Center for the Performing Arts. Self- contradicting, mesmerizing, heavily doused with...
Hey everyone! It's almost February, and you know what that means--Groundhog Day is right around the corner! Yes, Groundhog Day, that random day in the exact middle of winter when people stalk a Pennsylvania-born rodent (part of a species also known as woodchucks or, um, whistle-pigs) at the crack of dawn to see how he reacts to his shadow. And...
Eroica is an exhibition of pen and ink drawings by Benjamin Sack, which opens this weekend at Ghostprint Gallery. The marks on the paper hanging at Ghostprint do more than just record moments in time; they communicate time itself. Benjamin Sack’s work is made up of millions of tiny, ornately detailed buildings that have the viewer inching up...
How delighted I was to have found myself at a different venue to view the art form which is boylesque. Boylesque, for all you newbies out there, is basically burlesque for guys. Scanning over the crowd, I noticed a consistent demographic: women, aged either mid twenties or mid forties, and extremely rowdy. How delighted I was to have found myself...
Dance and theatre connoisseurs, come one come all to the fourth annual Raqs Luminaire, lighting up the stage on Sunday, January 27th at Richmond's own historic Byrd Theatre. Showcasing a performance with a marriage of glowing costumes, mythological narrative, and the art of belly-dancing, this year's show features local and international dance...
The Rear Gallery is a new artspace that just opened recently here in RVA. A collaboration between four local artists, Laurie Lay, Elysia Houghton, Sean Jones, and Evangeline Rutherford, the gallery has been operating under the radar for the past couple of months. However, with their first official exhibition scheduled to open this Friday, January...
The Tony Award winning touring production of Monty Python’s Spamalot is kicking off its national tour January 11th at Richmond’s CenterStage. With the play authored by Monty Python’s own Eric Idle, this adaptation of The Holy Grail is a show that appears to be nothing short of a spectacle. The Tony Award winning touring production of Monty...
FDANCE is a local dance troupe headed by Rebecca A. Farrell. They are currently working to restage Farrell's "intervention dance" piece, Impressive Mastermind, here in RVA--Impressive Mastermind was originally staged at Arizona State University in Phoenix, AZ. In order to fund this restaging, FDANCE has turned to Kickstarter, seeking to raise...
