Editor’s Note: This piece was written by a student at Randolph-Macon College as part of a feature writing course. Thank you to the students and to Professor Seth Clabough, Ph.D., for organizing the project. Where there was once a forest full of life and hidden...
Artist and Quail Bell Press co-founder Christine Sloan Stoddard's latest book, Force Fed, views the global issue of food insecurity and wealth disparity through an intensely personal lens. There’s a new book out on the shelves by Christine Sloan Stoddard, the interdisciplinary artist and writer who founded the feminist publication Quail Bell...
Happiest of Wednesdays, comic fans! Welcome back to your favorite bi-weekly update on everyone that is up and coming and needs to be celebrated in the land of comics, in Richmond and beyond. This week, not only did I bring you more news in the land of pop culture -- there’s a comic-con museum afoot? -- but we also bring a new comic illustrator to...
At the Science Museum last week, Miss America Camille Schrier awed a room full of Richmond elementary school students with a colorful, explosive demonstration of science in action. Viewers were surprised during the 2020 Miss America Competition this past December, when Miss Virginia took the stage to show off her unexpected talent. Camille...
Stavna Ballet's Alice In Wonderland showed a dance troupe picking up momentum and finding its groove, writes Christopher McDaniel. On Saturday January 11th, Stavna Ballet held Alice in Wonderland at the Modlin Center for the Arts, their first production of the 2020 calendar year. The wonderful show retold the classic Lewis Carroll tale through...
Artist Jacob Daley's pointillist portraits of pets bring joy to pet owners throughout the city. Throughout 2020, he'll be giving a portion of his proceeds to Richmond Animal League to help even more pets find a better tomorrow. Local artist Jacob Daley is spending 2020 painting pet portraits for a good cause. Daley and his portrait business,...
Happy new year, comic fans! Welcome to a new year of new goals, new opportunities, and -- most importantly -- new comics. This year we are bringing you more of the best in comic news, upcoming comics, and events. We will be covering GalaxyCon once again this year, where we will talk to upcoming illustrators and creators, and of course all of your...
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 thing: you’re going to die. If that makes you uncomfortable and you stop reading...
Happiest of holidays, comic fans! Welcome to this week’s issue of your RVA Comics X-Change, and the final issue of 2019, featuring our End of the Year review, where we take a quick snapshot of the year in comics that was 2019. For today’s issue, we decided to reach out to some of our friends in comics who were kind enough to help us out with...
In this edition of RVA Comics X-Change, our own Ash Griffith tackles the burning question on everyone's minds: Is Iron Man 3 a Christmas movie? The Case For Iron Man As Santa Claus Could beloved fictional blowhard Tony Stark be, in fact, the next Jolly Saint Nick? Well, maybe not exactly. However, there is a lot of debate taking place across the...
