For two decades, the Oregon Hill Halloween Parade has been proof that community doesn’t need permission to exist. Every year, thousands of neighbors and artists spill into the streets with puppets, lanterns, hand-made costumes and signs, a homespun procession that’s...
Just as Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy, St Paul’s Episcopal Church was its cathedral. It was the church where Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis worshipped, and it was the church that hosted the Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, the first black leader of the Episcopal Church, and nearly 500 people for a series of talks and presentations...
Join us for the first "Vintage is for Lovers Market" at the historic Hippodrome Theater in Jackson Ward. We will gather some of Richmond’s best vintage vendors, artists and makers. This unique shopping experience is also for a good cause! $5 tickets get you in and 100% of the ticket proceeds will go to the Massey Cancer Center. Buy or at the...
Downtown Richmond's Belle & James will introduce a little southern charm to their area of the city this week as they relaunch with a new name and concept. The East Main Street French-American restaurant, which opened in 2014, has rebranded as "Belle," with their current chef Ro Alarahim at the helm to create a southern kitchen and bar serving...
If the Women’s March in January was a guttural response to misogyny and Trumpism, then the Women’s Strike in Richmond yesterday was a well-calculated promise. Protesters in Richmond braved the painful cold Thursday to march down Broad Street to City Hall as they sang and chanted their demands for administration number forty-five for the 109th...
Do you have a closet full of clothes and nothing to wear? Does the idea of shopping make you need a glass of wine STAT? Would you love to make getting dressed every morning easy and stress free (who doesn't?)!? Join us for WINE and WISDOM from Sydney Lester of @chicstripes and learn how to create a capsule wardrobe. In this workshop you’ll learn...
Richmond hardcore punk band Asylum has some big plans on their plate after releasing their debut album, Modern Hysteria. I sat down with Kasey Simcoe, lead singer of the band to discuss touring plans, the bands unique recording process, and what to expect from them in the near future. Although Asylum has playing venues around town for about six...
In a continuation of weekly protests outside Gov. Ralph Northam and the Attorneys General's offices, about 10 anti-pipeline protesters gathered Wednesday morning to voice concerns over the possible increased sexual violence toward women during the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). The group,...
24 years ago, Legend began as a small tasting room and pub off of an old gravel road called West 6th Street in Richmond's Historic Old Manchester District. Today, Legend hosts a 380 seat deck overlooking the city with 18 taps of Legend Beer flowing. It's that time of year again to shut it all down and bring out the big stage. Join us as we...
Literally if you don't dance at this you're just like...wrong?? Like scientifically incorrect. Hot Goth Prom 2018, no cover, 21+ Clary Sage rhythmic audio/visual electro-punk/noise for fans of psychedelics, dissociatives, dancing, and being LOUD Stephanie new retrowave/Italodisco/noise/fantasy/80s teen horror film soundtrack...
