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James Callahan’s Huck-A-Buck At Books Bikes And Beyond

James Callahan, the RVA artist formerly (and sometimes still) known as "Barf," will be presenting a selection of new and recent works for your viewing pleasure beginning tonight at Books Bikes And Beyond Thrift Store. You may be familiar with Callahan's work from Born...

ART FEED: Adam Juresko’s “Self-Abuse”

Adam Juresko is based in Philadelphia these days, but he was an RVA artist (and musician) for a long time, so it's good to see him returning to his former hometown for an exhibition of new works that opens this Friday at Gallery 5. Adam Juresko is based in...

Writing You Can Stab People With: An Interview With Raven Mack

Raven Mack makes zines. Back in the mid-1990s, when the only places you could expect to have the internet were colleges and government agencies, zines were the format of choice for do-it-yourself creative expression. Cheap photocopied pamphlets consisting of typed (or...

Portrait As Community At Anderson Gallery

Beginning Friday, November 30, VCU's Anderson Gallery presents Portrait As Community, a student exhibition documenting various communities in and around Richmond. Portrait As Community was a course offered by the Department of Photography and Film, VCU Libraries and...

Win Tickets To See Byrlesque At The Byrd–Holidays At The Movies!

After a huge success with the first edition of Byrlesque At The Byrd this past summer, Deanna Danger Productions and Boom Boom Basics Burlesque & Performing Arts Studio are bringing their talents back to the Byrd for a return engagement this Sunday! While the original...

Gypsies! Tramps! Thieves! At Gallery 5

Last month, Gallery 5 hosted the Fifth Annual Carnival Of 5 Fires multi-event extravaganza. The flagship event for the month, the three-ring burlesque circus known as Gyspies! Tramps! Thieves! took place on Friday, October 19. This multimedia performance, presented by...

DAILY FIX: What’s Your Deal?

What's Your Deal? - RVA Music Fest from Johnny Hugel on Vimeo. Dirty Richmond & Hit Play Productions ask "What's Your Deal?" - A look at the RVA Music Fest. Featuring The Silent Age, Luggage, The Diamond Center, Black Girls, Best Coast, Girl Talk and all the bands of the music fest and people of RVA who make it look so easy to look so good. This...

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ART FEED: PIXEL PANCHO & OPEN WALLS DC

Got this nugget from our friends at Art Whino Gallery in DC. Please join us for rising talent, Pixel Pancho’s, first U.S. Solo Exhibition in which he personifies his experience in the United States. As with all his work, there is a strong focus on the life of materials and especially the deterioration and rusting of metals. The theme of time past...

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FASHION RANT: Uncreative Recreation

Creativity comes in a lot of forms. Granted, nothing is truly original. Ideas can't exist in a vacuum, and we all have to accept that everything new is built on a platform of existing thoughts and influences. However, slightly tweaking a product/logo/image/brand that already exists requires about the same creative potential as a brain aneurysm....

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Beyond Barbie – Caught in a Fun House Mirror

Karen Morris had never spoken to such a large group of people about her history with eating disorders. Over the past year, she had participated in a few lobby efforts on the state and federal level to encourage government to make eating disorders a public health priority, meeting in small groups with elected officials or their staff. Karen and I...

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SHOW REVIEW: Louis CK

Louis CK Thursday October 20 at The Carpenter Center As a young comedian, Louis CK struggled to achieve a personal sense of accomplishment. It wasn’t until, after 15 years as a comedian, he took a moment to reflect on the craft of comedy icon George Carlin that it all began to make sense for him. He learned to develop an act that he would throw...

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WEDNESDAY: Supersketch At Quirk Gallery

Come to Quirk Gallery this Wednesday for an unusual and amazing event in which art will be created before your eyes. Local artists including Emerald Grippa, Jeffrey Alan Love, Bryan Woodland, Sara Gossett, Dan Owen, Marshall Higgins, Harrison and Reed, William Godwin, Eric Scott Pfeiffer, and more, will spend the evening sketching, creating works...

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BOOK REVIEW: Young Broke & Beautiful

Young Broke And Beautiful: Broke-Ass Stuart's Guide To Living Cheaply by Broke-Ass Stuart (Seven Footer Press) Back before the internet came along and, if not killed, at least greatly diminished it, there used to be a thriving underground zine culture all over this country and the world. Plenty of zines were about underground music and art, but...

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