'Weird Al' Yankovic brought his Bigger & Weirder tour to the Allianz Amphitheater earlier this week, turning Richmond’s newest stage into equal parts circus and cultural mirror. For anyone still catching up, Al has spent more than four decades parodying pop icons,...
Juggalos are a deeply misunderstood subculture; the FBI classifying them as a gang in 2011 proves that. However, under the veneer of face paint, clown personas, costumes, and Faygo is a community of people that are deeply committed to one another. This was on full display at the Juggalo March on Washington DC this past Saturday. From a certain...
Over the weekend, hundreds flocked to Brown's Island to check out the inaugural Stone's Thrown Down in RVA, a music and beer festival put on by Stone Brewing Richmond to celebrate their one year anniversary here and give back to the local community who have supported them since they opened their doors in Rocketts Landing. The weather was perfect...
This past week was heavy with news, the kind of complex news which is now defining the political age we live in. There was the announcement by the neo-Confederate group CSA II from Tennessee that they would be marching on Richmond to protect Lee monument on September 16, then the activist collective Indecline conducted a provocative act of public...
Back in the early 80s, suburban kids who'd picked up on the first wave of punk rock from NYC and London were starting to pick up guitars and create their own regionally-focused underground bands and scenes. Richmond was no exception, and photographer Cindy Hicks was an essential presence at those early shows, often turning away from the bands on...
There is no question Richmond, Virginia is a dichotomous place with a story to tell. Yet picking the right story is always the challenge for any photojournalist or writer. Part of this challenge is balancing the obvious with the not so obvious, and exposing it in a way people can connect with as they go about their daily lives. In a perfect media...
When looking back over any great music scene, there are a handful of brilliant documentarians that bring that mystique. Like Rolling Stone's first photographer Baron Wolman or David Godlis at the birth of punk, local Joey Wharton is capturing music now in a way that no one else is. Using a combination of self taught techniques and in-camera photo...
The photographs in this essay are a terrifying glimpse into the events that unfolded in Charlottesville at Unite the Right this past weekend--events that for me, started on Friday evening at a small nameless field on the University of Virginia campus and would not end until late Sunday evening. I cannot describe the feeling of dread that came...
"I am a photographer based out of Richmond, Virginia who specializes in adventure/travel photography. Cityscapes and landscapes are my favorite subjects to shoot but I also like to shoot portraits of people and objects. Some would say my style is a little bit different than most in Richmond but that's what I like. Most of the time I like to go...
“Who let the dogs out?” has been a question asked for decades. The new question is “Who put the dogs on Instagram?” For those of you wondering this about the new Dogs Of Richmond account, it’s Will Wright. The account is like Humans of New York for pups. Each post features a dog Wright came across while exploring Richmond....
