Last night, Undeniable, the new exhibition pairing Christian Siriano and Ashley Longshore, drew a crowd into the Branch Museum of Design on Monument Avenue. The gallery buzzed with fashion, color, and bold expression as visitors moved between Siriano’s sculptural...
Happiest of Tuesdays, comics fans! And welcome back to RVA Magazine’s one-stop shop for everything comics in the river city. With GalaxyCon in the rear view mirror now, let’s settle in with some low-key favorites as we sit and pine for the next convention on our calendars. This week is the first week of July, so naturally it feels like the...
This summer, Virginia Rep presents an original production of The Wiz, the African-American musical reimagining of fantasy classic The Wizard Of Oz. The latest and final production of Virginia Repertory Theatre’s 2018-2019 Signature Season is The Wiz. This fantastical modern retelling of The Wizard of Oz hits the November Theatre with aplomb. For...
Happy not-yet-rainy Tuesday, comic fans of the greater River City! Welcome on back to issue number twenty-one of your RVA Comics X-Change, where every other week we talk about what is on the radar in comic world and pop culture. This week we take a big stroll down Artist’s Alley - GalaxyCon’s Artist’s Alley that is. One of my absolute must stops...
RVA Dance Collective capped off their 12th season with a striking performance at Dogtown Dance Theatre. Christopher McDaniel tells us all about it. On Friday May 31 and Saturday June 1, RVA Dance Collective held their twelfth annual concert, entitled Four Seasons, at Dogtown Dance Theatre. The concert encapsulated their twelfth season as a...
Art 180's annual Really Big Show will turn art by the river city's young people into a celebratory block party on First Friday. Art 180 will be hosting their 15th annual Really Big Show this Friday, June 7th, as part of June's First Friday festivities. The beloved non-profit will be taking up their entire block in Jackson Ward to display and...
Awaken, presented by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, takes visitors on a spiritual journey through the history of Tibetan Buddhism. Richmond’s very own Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) is currently presenting Awaken: A Tibetan Buddhist Journey Toward Enlightenment. This eye-opening exhibit introduces the Tibetan Buddhist religion and...
Happy Tuesday, comic fans! Welcome back to not just another issue of our RVA comic exchange, but the big issue number two-oh. That’s right, we’re back in trade paperback format! This week we’re hanging out on the west coast as we talk to California based web illustrator and Archie aficionado Sara M. Lyons, who is giving us some of her current...
The author of two children's books, Boston began writing because he wanted to see girls of color (like his own daughters) represented in children's fiction. Three things you need to know about Charlottesville-based children’s author Marc Boston: his upbeat attitude is undeniably infectious, he has a fantastic smile, and when he wants something,...
For the 6th annual Richmond Dance Festival’s finale, the third weekend’s performance on May 10 and 11 sported heartwrenching and joyous solos. The first show incorporated many different forms of dance, and the second show strongly hosted a majority of modern duets and company pieces. The final weekend differed only in terms of the number of...
