This Friday, March 27, a different sort of experimental prompt video event will showcase a collection of work made for Homegrown Stories. In the early days of RVA Magazine, that space existed through Project Resolution, a monthly prompt-based series that gave new...
The show last night was fast and hard. Here is a selection of photos for those that missed it. Photos by Landon Shroder
The French-derived phrase “roman à clef” refers to a story in which characters, places, and events stand in for specific avatars in the real world. Think of Hamlet's play in, well, Hamlet, where the action not so subtly mimics the actions of his traitorous uncle and mother against his doomed King. The reaction is the thing. It’s a device meant to...
The Greater Richmond Convention Center has undoubtedly experienced more prosperous times. The recent walkout by Virginia Commonwealth University graduates highlighted a series of declining events in Richmond, marked by police confrontations during protests and the Governor's contentious measures on education. Before entering the building, a sign...
On Monday in Monroe Park, protesters gathered to march to the Richmond office of U.S. Senator Tim Kaine. This demonstration occurred one week after the police raid on a protest for Palestine on the VCU campus just a block away. The march included a number of VCU students as well as Zaid Mahdwai. Mahdwai was arrested outside of a...
In 1984, Steven Spielberg unleashed hell on the children of the world. Okay, maybe I'm overselling, but let's keep it real: even though it somehow emerged as a family favorite, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is seriously demented. I'd even go so far as to call it mean-spirited. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBdyLyijZhU It's one thing to...
I have fully adopted the mantle of theater nerd since I’ve been back in Richmond. I’ve always been one, but companies like Virginia Repertory Theatre and their satellite collaborations have really reignited a passion that started the first time I put on leggings and spoke in verse onstage—I was 12. I take opportunities to talk to the artists who...
"Okay, you people sit tight, hold the fort, and keep the home fires burning. And if we're not back by dawn... call the president." — Jack Burton on his way to battle the Chinese sorcerer David Lo Pan. Big Trouble in Little China is a perfect example of a movie that has aged better than any fine wine currently available on planet Earth. To make a...
As the fashion and entertainment industry buzz online about “The Garden in Time'' dress code for the First Monday in May, also better known as the MET Gala, celebrating the opening of the exhibit entitled “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York, it seemed very synchronous that I...
Satire is a dish best served hot. There is no safe space from it. In fact, its very existence defines the nexus where humor hits nerve. Its side-eye is trained on those too squeamish to look this world directly in its conjuntivitic eyes. We’ve got problems. Huge, huge, problems. They’re not funny. The absurdity of our (non) responses to them is...
