A Sunday series from RVA Magazine featuring writers from Richmond and Virginia Writer’s Block is RVA Magazine’s Sunday series highlighting contemporary writers working in Richmond and across the Commonwealth. Each week, we feature original poems, short stories,...
Video Games Live, the long running visual concert series created by Tommy Tallarico, will be playing your favorite game tunes at Video Games Live, the long running visual concert series created by Tommy Tallarico, will be playing your favorite game tunes at the Altria Theater Feb. 20. The Richmond Symphony will accompany Tallarico in performing...
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 country stations squeezing out a steady rotation of Millered-down twang-pop and...
Ladies get ready to get gussied up in your finest and go out this weekend to the Robinson Theater to support the arts. Ladies get ready to get gussied up in your finest and go out this weekend to the Robinson Theater to support the arts. Art on Wheels will hold its 7th annual fundraiser, Sweetheart for the Arts, this Saturday to benefit their...
WRIR 97.3 FM, Richmond's Independent Radio, is commemorating being a station for over a decade with their annual “Party for the Rest of Us” with a stacked 11 act line up performing on two stages. WRIR 97.3 FM, Richmond's Independent Radio, is commemorating being a station for over a decade with their annual “Party for the Rest of Us” with a...
Kendal LeMire admits she wasn't much of a coloring book person when she was younger, but the self-described non-stop creator finds great pleasure in filling Kendal LeMire admits she wasn't much of a coloring book person when she was younger, but the self-described non-stop creator finds great pleasure in filling in the lines between larger...
One of RVA’s most well known muralists, Mickael Broth, wants visitors to "consider their own understandings of conflict, beauty, and history" in his upcoming exhibition at Black Iris, opening next week. The show is inspired by Germany’s invasion of Verdun, France in 1916. The battle would “become one of the defining battles of the First World...
Over the past six months, painter/sculptor Darryl Starr has been preparing for his forthcoming opening, scheduled for April of 2016. We last saw his work in October of 2014, at the now-departed Monument City Coffee and Records at Third and Grace Street. Fifteen-foot ceilings housed ten of his large, autobiographical abstract canvases (4’x6’,...
2015 might be defined by a lot of things... Syria, ISIS, domestic terrorism, and Drake's new hit single "Hotline Bling." 2015 might be defined by a lot of things... Syria, ISIS, domestic terrorism, and Drake's new hit single "Hotline Bling." Sorry to start that list off so rough (it's the Monday before X-mas, bare with us here), but seriously,...
Somewhere between a magazine and a zine lies Dialogue, a new print project created by Ben Cochran, a communication arts student at Virginia Commonwealth University. Somewhere between a magazine and a zine lies Dialogue, a new print project created by Ben Cochran, a communication arts student at Virginia Commonwealth University. “Dialogue came out...
