One look at Sweet Pickles, and your immediate thought is that she looks like the living incarnation of a clown doll from your childhood. Which one specifically is up to you, and in fact, the answer that springs to your mind is a good way for her to get a rough idea of...
I was just thinking to myself, it really has been a long time since someone has brought a good, strange surrealist comedy show ala Kids in the Hall or The State into the world, let alone this city. Just as the thought popped into my head, Baltimore-based Wham City Comedy announced they would be making their way to Richmond next month for a one...
The man who has made us laugh and rose to stardom with his self-deprecating humor and tales of his family like Uncle Richard Jr. and his kids, to attempting to keep up with the ballin' out lifestyles of rappers and basketball players, will make a stop in Richmond in March. Comedian and actor Kevin Hart has expanded The Irresponsible Tour, adding...
WESTERICHMOND, Va. — The land of WesteRichmond has long been a field of battle for numerous great grocer houses, its citizens watching as contenders rise and retreat from the arena. Many remember when the first volleys of arrows were loosed between House Kroger and House Martin’s. For long years their shared Cary Street border ran red with the...
RICHMOND, VA — The Peedmont, a Virginia- based satirical news site, announced today that it has been acquired by the Russian Times, a leading Russian media outlet, effective immediately. The sale was made following a night of heavy drinking among The Peedmont’s editorial staff at Penny Lane Pub early last week. “We’d been drinking for hours and...
RICHMOND, Va. – Speaking in front of an eager crowd at the popular Ellwood Thompson’s supermarket in Richmond’s Museum District, UFC officials announced an exhibition parking lot brawl between two esteemed neighborhood fighters. The grand event, called “Manic in the Organic,” is scheduled to take place on October 29. “We’re excited to announce...
RICHMOND, VA. — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) is now looking for a replacement to their six-year-long running performance piece, “Flaggers.” The piece is a live-action exhibit, consisting of between three to ten individuals standing on the sidewalk in front of the museum waving the Confederate flag. The exhibit was originally installed...
RICHMOND, VA. — Two nights ago the Richmond food scene welcomed the new American-French fusion breakfast-for-dinner tapas restaurant Leftovers Bestovers in a prime VCU campus location on the corner of Schafer and West Franklin Streets. The space, which was made famous by the much-loved Cous Cous restaurant, had been searching for a new tenant for...
The celebrated Public Broadcasting/Comedy Central/Sci-fi Channel show Mystery Science Theatre 3000 has expereince a rebirth with a new, Mike-free version on Netflix, and new host Jonah and the show's creator, Joel, are taking the show on the road with a stop in RVA late this summer. We're a bit too slammed for more details right now, but it all...
With millions of views on Youtube, as well as one of the weirdest Adult Swim video's I've ever seen, I'm pretty excited to see Baltimore-based collective Wham City Comedy do their thing at Black Iris Gallery this weekend. Avid AS fans might recall the group's name for their 2014 video "Unedited Footage of a Bear," which features less bear-footage...
