*This article, the latest in our ongoing "From The Desk Of GayRVA" column in RVA Magazine, originally appeared in RVA Mag #37, on the streets now at all your favorite spots. I’d never seen such sprawling crowd at the Byrd Theatre. People wrapped around the block,...
Cursing With A Mouthful Of Waffles: Buck Gooter’s Glorious Noise
For Harrisonburg duo Buck Gooter, traveling the world playing music is what being alive is all about. In a partially unbuttoned, jet-black dress shirt and bomber-style leather jacket, coughing echoes of the rockabilly underbelly of Memphis, Billy Brett jumps off the...
Raising Hell
Local BMX isn’t a kiddie sport -- in the hands of Richmond BMX, it’s an extreme, all-ages family bonding sesh. At Gillies Creek Park, just up the road from Shockoe Bottom, the smell of cooking charcoal floats through the air. Neon figures in wraparound helmets and...
Get Ready: RVA Fashion Week 2019 Takes Over Richmond This Week
Back for an amazing 11th time, RVA Fashion Week will bring all the glamorous runway action your little heart desires to a variety of venues around town. Here's our full rundown of what's in store. Converging on Richmond this week for six days of colorful runway shows,...
Let Your Freak Flag Fly: Dirtwoman’s Legacy Returns to Richmond Tonight
Porno theaters and biker haunts, streams of punk rockers flowing from bar to street to bar again, stitched up in Germs gear and Buzzcocks back patches. A line of motorcycles slouch crooked near the sidewalk, like iron horses in front of a saloon. This was Grace Street...
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