Through English settlers, Jim Crow, and the road to federal recognition, Virginia’s Pamunkey Indian Tribe stands strong. If you haven’t spent much time in the river country of Virginia’s Tidewater region, you might mistake it for a standard-issue rural community....
Rest Easy With WRIR’s Death Club Radio
RVA Mag #38 is on the streets now! Here’s another article from the issue, in which we explore the ins, outs, ups and downs of death and dying with Death Club Radio, the weekly WRIR show that helps demystify the universal experience of the end of life. Here’s the...
Hit Me When I’m Pretty
RVA Mag #38 is on the streets now! Here's the first article, in which Ryan Kent, the author behind Poems for Dead People, talks rock bottom, writing, and redemption with the release of his latest book. You know the tune: boy grows up on dreams of baseball, falling...
Firehouse Theatre’s ‘The Porch’ brings country music worth listening to
With the proliferation of alt-Americana on pop airwaves, and country stations squeezing out a steady rotation of Millered-down twang-pop and hick-hop, it would seem reasonable to posit that rural musi With the proliferation of alt-Americana on pop airwaves, and...
RVA No. 11: James Justin & Co.
There is a particular and unnamed sensation that accompanies the realization that a band you’ve enjoyed for a while hadn’t really discovered themselves yet, all those times you saw them before. It’s a sharp breath pushing their past performances into the periphery of...
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