In a quiet office inside Health Brigade, Edward Peters talks about the city the way someone might describe a long, strange dream that’s familiar, unpredictable, and filled with people he still can’t stop caring about. “I’m an HIV test counselor,” he says, “and my...
Doors 7pm / Sounds 8pm // DOS $5 |||| Manatree (RVA) ||| Your Dream Coat (Brooklyn) || Butt (RVA) | Grandma (RVA, Leslie Hong of Haybaby) Manatree "Manatree formed around 2009 when four longtime friends were entering high school. Drawing from early pop and rock influences like the Strokes and Wolf Parade, mathy bands like Maps and Atlases, and...
Acid Dad Camp Howard Moonwalks The WInstons Show starts at 9pm
Official United Blood Pre Show! NAYSAYER (OG Richmond HC) THE FLEX (UKHC) ARMS RACE (UKHC) PRIMAL RITE (Revelation Records) HANGMAN (Flatspot Records) Thursday 4/5/18 @ Strange Matter - 929 w Grace St. Richmond, Va 5PM Doors // $12 // All Ages Advance tickets - https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1664782
Richmond's Opin is on track to drop their next EP Drifters later this month, and the four-piece has given us a little taste of what to expect with the funky/groovy track,"How Can I," accompanied by some extra trippy visuals. Formed last year by ex-White Laces members Tori Hovater (vocals, keys) and Landis Wine (vocals, guitar) after they...
RVA Magazine is back with our 32nd issue, a celebration of women in arts, music, fashion, and politics. In a year dubbed "the year of women," RVA Mag is bringing the national conversation to the local level and raising Richmond’s voice to a wider platform. While the focus this issue is women, we also have our usual coverage and reporting of beer,...
This batch of Missed Connections may be brief, but its spicy as ever as sparks fly between a man with a broken leg and a vet in a cowboy hat, a man admires a woman from afar at an Easter Vigil at Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, a handsome Firebird's waiter is generous with his prime rib, and one poor soul longs for their former flame from Buffalo...
Tim Kaine, the incumbent Democratic Senator from Virginia, held his first campaign kick-off rally this evening at Maggie Walker High School in Richmond. Set against the backdrop of campaign signs and bluegrass music from the Cary Street Ramblers, a crowd of around 300 people gathered in the gymnasium to hear the senator announce his re-election....
Perhaps no face has been scorched into cinema quite like Renée Falconetti’s, whose portrayal of Joan of Arc is considered to be the face of tension-filled injustice and martyrdom put to film. 1928’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc” is Carl Theodor Dreyer’s spiritual nightmare, a classic work of silent film that singed Joan of Arc’s tragedy to screen...
A new documentary about local work towards racial reconciliation premieres this Sunday at The Byrd Theater in Carytown. Titled 11 AM: Hope for America’s Most Segregated Hour in homage to Martin Luther King, Jr., who said church was “the most segregated hour in America”, the film focuses on Urban Doxology, a music ministry of the local nonprofit...
