To the credit of the public school system, most of us were made to read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies at a tender age. Along with Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Slaughterhouse Five, The Jungle, and others, we were fed a healthy dose of dystopia and...
Let's be honest, men's sandals aren't cool. They are appropriate for certain occasions, where large bodies of water are involved, but otherwise they fail as fashionable footwear. The look vigorously teeters between "I love pedicures" and "Pass the bowl, brah," depending on what they're paired with. The most important reason why people should hate...
When a girl in this town gets her picture taken, there are a lot of things going through her head. "Do my arms look fat?," "Do I look bi-curious enough?," and "O-M-G is this going up on Dirty Richmond?" are just a few. A question she should probably consider is "Do my feet look stupid?" One person that forgot to ask herself that question is this...
This is what happens with every major trend in city boy style. About 5 years too late, word gets around to the fraternities and they proceed to run it into the ground. Maybe they have a secret meeting on what trend to kill next, right after the paradoxical discussion on how the borderline-gay activity that occurs in the house juxtaposes with the...
...And just a wild guess, you've never lived in Texas. Yes we all get the irony of a city girl wearing cowboy boots. The most ironic part of this accessory is how widely they receive praise at your vegan book club. It's leather. From a cow. Or it's alligator or snake or some other animal you wouldn't dare raise to your lips. ...And just a wild...
A behind the scenes look into the Grape Cloth Photo shoot for RVA Magazine Issue #6. The shoot was set in Maymont Park in the Japanese garden. Iain Duffus (owner of Grape Cloth) provides the voice and a brief history of his company. A behind the scenes look into the Grape Cloth Photo shoot for RVA Magazine Issue #6. The shoot was set in Maymont...
This show combines the work of two talented young emerging artists educated and living in Richmond. Jenna Chew’s paintings and drawings from her personal journals focus on some of Richmond’s favorite locations [e.g. Can Can] and other subjects that catch her perceptive eye. Her impressions of what we observe on a daily basis using her...
My question: is this needed? Doesn't everyone know that cigarettes will kill you? Here is a sample of the new warning labels that will be gracing your cigarette packs in 2012. The FDA must be getting a huge boner nailing the tobacco industry for lying all those years, because this is brutal. My question: is this needed? Doesn't everyone know that...
When I travel on the highway, I allow my imagination to run wild, creating farfetched circumstances of what could be inside of those unassuming tall white box trucks. The kind with no corporate label, the kind being driven by average people wearing regular clothes, on a path to get that important something from one location to another. I have...
Throughout the month of July, Ghostprint Gallery will be showcasing the art of Catherine Brooks. Brooks’ body of work reflects her personal mythology, depicting her views on love, memory and the cycles of life. Painting the female figure nude or “en deshabille” (partly clothed), Brooks typically blends poetic and mythic elements with insects,...
