GAMES & COLLECTIBLES

Interview with Sailor Moon! Terri Hawkes Came to Richmond

by Ash Griffith | COMMUNITY, FILM & TV, GAMES & COLLECTIBLES, MAGAZINES & BOOKS, POP CULTURE

If you were a child growing up in the mid to late nineties and loved anime, it is without question you would recognize Terri Hawkes’ iconic voice. Most well known as one of the original three voice actresses of Sailor Moon in the English language dub (Tracey Moore...

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Fried Chicken and Soccer? Somehow It Makes Perfect Sense

"Richmond has your back... maybe." That about sums it up, doesn't it? It's the slogan behind KCPFC, a new football-inspired project from Kwame Hayford, the guy behind Kwam's Chicken Project, and Richmond designer Ignatius Friend. The collection blends soccer culture...

Grab a Drink, See a Sloth, Learn Something at Science on Tap: Upside Down

Editor's Note: This article was produced as part of our partnership with the Science Museum of Virginia. Not every night out has to end with squeezing into a crowded bar. Sometimes it's nice to grab a drink, eat something good, learn a few things, and actually have...

Richmond Muralist Offers to Paint Free Memorial for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

Just weeks after bringing together Latino muralists from across Virginia for a collaborative project in Richmond, artist George Arturo is once again turning to public art. Following the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an ICE agent during an immigration...

Before Anyone Was Watching

I went to Virginia MOCA expecting to hear Andy Howell talk about skateboarding. Instead, I left thinking about community and how people find each other. Howell's installation opens Seamless, the museum's new exhibition exploring the overlap between art and design. At...

Won’t Daddy Do It? Fourth of July at Daddy’s Grotto 🏳️‍🌈

It was the USA's 250th birthday this past weekend, and it felt like it was 250 degrees outside. During a heat wave, a pool is the place to be, and the annual Fourth of July party at Daddy's Grotto was the cool down for the hottest queers in town. Daddy's Grotto is...

Duron Chavis is Building More Than a Farm

How two decades of community organizing grew into a vision for land ownership, education, and self-determination. The first time I met Duron Chavis, he wasn't talking about farmland. He was talking about culture. It was the early 2000s, and Happily Natural Day was...

RVA 5×5 | Leapfrogging Back to 1776, 50 Years at a Time: 1926

Editor's Note: We're sharing this essay from community content partner Jon Baliles of RVA 5x5. If you enjoy his work and want more in-depth coverage of Richmond politics and history, consider subscribing to RVA 5x5 on Substack. The views expressed are those of the...

The Light That Never Went Out

There is a spotlight still mounted in the rafters of 528 N. 2nd Street. It has been there since 1914. It has outlasted segregation, fire, the highway that cut Jackson Ward in two, and decades of silence. On the nights when the Hippodrome Theater fills up, that light...

How To Race Your Dragon: Celebrating Chinese Culture in Richmond

By Jimmy O'Keefe

Despite its corporate influences, Richmond's Dragon Boat Festival was an entertaining spectacle of Chinese culture by the James. A little piece of China came to Richmond earlier this month, when the Richmond International Dragon Boat Festival hit Rocketts Landing on August 3. The festival, which has run annually for the past 11 years, featured 41...

Putt-Putting Through Virginia

By Oliver Mendoza

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Stay Calm. Lose Your Mind. Enter the Hypnotic, Evil World of AVBAS.

By Jack Clark

Creating a successful video game is difficult even with a team of hundreds and million-dollar budgets, but solo developer Robert Ciszek is facing an extra level of difficulty as a small, one-man shop. The Richmond-based indie developer has just released his first project, a proof-of-concept virtual reality game titled “AVBAS.” Virtual reality...

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