The new coming-of-age feature Griffin in Summer is already drawing attention for its Tribeca wins and upcoming theatrical release, but for producer Bobby Hoppey, the film carries an extra layer of meaning: it was made in Richmond, a city he’s connected to...
The world is healing in more ways than one. All over the world, people are standing together to fight against injustices, and the same is happening within the tattoo community. Once an exclusive subculture, tattoos are becoming more accepted in mainstream society and culture. What used to be an industry full of gatekeeping and hazing run...
A verified social media account for Glenn Youngkin‘s campaign “team” has attacked a high school student who posted a tweet critical of the Virginia Republican Governor. Ethan Lynne appears to be a politically-active high school senior whose bio says he is a Democrat. Pinned to the top of his page is a 2020 tweet with a photo of him and Dr. Jill...
It’d be an understatement to say that we as a society, or, frankly, as a species, have had a depressing couple of years. In 2020 alone, Covid-19 reared its head, Australia caught on fire, California caught on fire, murder hornets were rumored to be invading the U.S., and we lost figureheads like Kobe Bryant, Chadwick Boseman, Ruth Bader Ginsburg,...
Amy Schneider has a tattoo of Princess Ozma on her shoulder. This literary character, subject of the third book in L. Frank Baum's legendary Oz series, is kidnapped as a tiny child by a witch, and forced to live her life as a boy named "Tip." That is, until Glinda the Good Witch forces her captor to transform her back into the princess she always...
Virginia’s Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares has already fired dozens of lawyers, including those working in the Office of Civil Rights, and including those who are not political appointees but career civil servants. Miyares campaigned on enforcing the law while promising to refuse to allow coronavirus mitigation efforts including masks...
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday afternoon rejected a request for a religious exemption for health care workers refusing to comply with New York State’s vaccine mandate. The state is requiring all health care workers to be vaccinated against the deadly coronavirus. Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied the request, but three conservative jurists, Clarence...
Finding space for LGBTQ comedy isn't as easy as it should be, but for Atlanta comedian Matthew English, who'll be at Richmond's Sandman Comedy Club on Wednesday, December 8, the challenge is one he's willing to take on. Comedian Matthew English is probably one of the best comics you’re not watching. Based in Atlanta, English has been performing...
Amid calls by Republicans across the country to ban and even “burn” LGBTQ books, the Denton, Texas public library is being forced to cancel Saturday’s Rainbow Family StoryTime after “hostile complaints” created concerns for the safety of staff and patrons. Among those complaints was an attack by a rabidly anti-LGBTQ former Republican state...
Spotsylvania County's school board responded to a parent complaining about "LGBTQIA fiction" being available in school libraries by unanimously voting to ban any books containing "sexually explicit" content -- and two school board members called for the books in question to be burned. Two Spotsylvania County, Virginia School Board members...
