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Hype Williams’ Classic ‘Belly’ Brought Hip-Hop to the Big Screen – See It Monday at The Byrd Theatre

by R. Anthony Harris | CANNABIS CULTURE, CULTURE, FASHION, FILM & TV, HIP HOP & RAP, NIGHTLIFE, POP CULTURE, STREETWEAR & SNEAKERS

There are certain films that aren’t just watched but absorbed, metabolized into the DNA of an entire culture. For hip-hop, Belly is one of those films. The late '90s street saga, directed by the legendary Hype Williams, wasn’t Hollywood— Hollywood didn’t...

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St. Vincent’s Minimalist Show | An Evening of Pure Rock Magic at Ting Pavilion

On a cool Saturday night, St. Vincent took the stage at Charlottesville's Ting Pavilion, and with one swift motion, Annie Clark planted her flag on the modern rock 'n' roll frontier. Gone were the distractions of flashy props and overblown theatrics. What remained was...

Weekend Frequency Vol.7 | Street-Soul Noir, UK Groove, Dirty South Playlist by Troy

Music is the lifeblood of our city. The late-night sets, the sweat-soaked venues, the dusty record bins filled with sonic treasures and hidden frequencies. Richmond gets this— more than any other city in Virginia. So here’s Weekend Frequency—a weekly,...

Disturbin’ the Peace | Hardcore Chaos in Baltimore

This was the fourth year for the Disturbin’ the Peace Festival, making its return to Baltimore on February 1st. An all-day music festival organized by Flatspot Records, the lineup consisted of 13 bands that got the chance to be embraced by the Baltimore hardcore music...

Sound Check! United Blood Festival! The Local Honeys! The Crystal Casino Band! & More!

Tried to give this one a nice balance, something to cure it all. Get the rage out at a hardcore fest, slamming elbows and diving over the fence. Cry your heart out to some gritty country ballads. Dance away the cares with something a little more fun and light hearted....

A Richmond Beginning, a Typographic Legacy: Teddy Blanks In Focus

In the Richmond of 2005, Teddy Blanks was everywhere—playing packed shows with Ross Harman as the pop duo The Gaskets, writing sharp film reviews and interviews for the early issues of RVA Magazine, and even acting in a short film that, for me, still holds personal...

Weekend Frequency Vol.6 | Lo-Fi Indie, Jazz Alt, Deep-Cuts Playlist by Tyler Williams

Music is the lifeblood of our city. The late-night sets, the sweat-soaked venues, the dusty record bins filled with sonic treasures and hidden frequencies. Richmond gets this— more than any other city in Virginia. So here’s Weekend Frequency—a weekly, reader-curated...

It’s Still Our City | Ep. 7 Tony Harris, RVA Mag

"A long, long time ago, I was in a Richmond, Virginia–based band called The Jefferson Plane Crash. We were writing an album, and our practice space was the old, infamous Compound. I distinctly remember walking into the restroom to hit the head, and I noticed a...

VHS Club | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

“Everything seemed the same, but it wasn’t. It was a nightmare.” By 1978, the American Dream was officially dead. The counterculture of the ’60s and early ’70s had been absorbed into the mainstream, packaged and sold through a matrix of unlimited consumerism and...

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