Editor’s note: Since this story was originally written, Alex Na hosted another free tiramisu drop over the weekend, continuing to build a following around his community dessert project. This feature was submitted by Jordan Smith, a journalism student at the Richard T....
Taking place the second Saturday of each month at 17th Street Farmers Market, the Richmond Night Market lights up the evening with the music, art, and culture of Richmond's black community. “The Richmond Night Market provides a fresh open-air gathering for handmade, independent artists and small businesses, while highlighting the city that...
Before her final performance this weekend, longtime Richmond Ballet dancer Maggie Small shares her thoughts about a career spent on her toes. For the season opener of the Richmond Ballet’s 2019-2020 performances, the company presents Contemporary Classics at the Dominion Energy Center for the Performing Arts this weekend, Friday, September 27...
After Toni Morrison’s passing, her close friend and poet Nikki Giovanni reflected on their story at the Institute of Contemporary Art at VCU. Picture this: the year is 1970, and author Toni Morrison just published her first book, The Bluest Eye. The book is gaining nationwide attention from critics and readers alike. One reader in particular is...
If you noticed something different about your usual parking space last weekend, you weren’t alone. Last Friday, your favorite parking spot in the city might have been occupied -- not by another driver who found it quicker than you did, but by public art spaces created by Richmond-area design, architecture, and creative firms as well as artists....
Happy Tuesday comic fans! Welcome to your official fall edition of the comics exchange - same good comic fun, but with more caramel apple spice for your diet. This week we’re focusing on the “feelgood” -- some comfort food, if you will. With everything going bananas in the world, and our inevitable demise looming heavier than the cream in a...
Since 1969, Richmond Book Shop has thrived, keeping its original vintage feel alive for a new generation of Broad Street literati. For the vintage-holic -- or frankly, anyone who appreciates culture -- walking into Richmond Book Shop is like being a beer enthusiast walking into your favorite brewery. Bob Marley and Ralph Steadman posters...
The creatives behind Quirktastic grew up without a space for black youth in nerd culture... so they made their own. “You’re not really the right race to dress up as that character.” “You don’t really look like a geek.” “Are you pretending just for guys’ attention?” Lauren Grant has heard everything in the book. But together with Bryanda Law...
Happiest Tuesday, Comic fans! Welcome to issue #27 of your favorite biweekly place to talk shop on comics and pop culture, the RVA Comics X-Change. This week we have a smaller, post-Labor-Day-lull edition of the exchange, but just enough to get us ready for fall. We've got a bunch of pop culture favorites, an indie nod, and even a Throwback...
*This article originally appeared in RVA Mag #37, on the streets now at all your favorite spots. If you meet AEST2 in the course of an ordinary day, he seems like a normal citizen. But he leads a double life, furthering a decades-long graffiti career in secret. The majority of the city has no idea he exists, but within the tightly-knit local...
