Every morning at 9 a.m. in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, the world stops. Cars freeze in the streets, trams halt mid-track, and pedestrians stand silent as the national anthem plays. It lasts a minute, a ritual pause to remember the dead and remind the living what they’re...
While walking through Petersburg, Virginia in the springtime, it’s not uncommon to see constructed sets or altered buildings. AMC’s “TURN: Washington’s Spies” is wrapping up production of its fourth and final season, but it is just one of many film projects in Virginia’s growing industry. “TURN” actor Samuel Roukin has also been directing his...
The Byrd Theatre is giving you 10 chances to see the legendary actor in some of his most iconic movies this weekend - and as usual your tickets fee will go to support a good cause. “We continue to push our classic programming series with timeless classics everyone wants to see back on the Big Screen, blended with many important films and...
Opening the 10-foot steel door to enter Need Supply Co. in Carytown sets a tone of importance for the experience that awaits. Your stomach flutters; did you come prepared for this level of decorum? Are you up to snuff on your fashion vocabulary? What constitutes a culotte? Fortunately, the store’s interior room quickly soothes any anxiety. The...
It’s remarkable how much or little we have changed in America. Around the center of George Stevens’s 1942 Woman of the Year, recently married couple Sam Craig (Spencer Tracy) and Tess Harding (Katharine Hepburn) are going through a newlywed rough patch and come to the conclusion a child would be a great quick fix. Tess, without much forethought,...
Pantera vocalist Phil Anselmo has teamed up with actor/horror icon Bill Moseley on a new record and while the tunes undoubtedly will rock, a new video promises to also after a weird, terrifying twist to the release. "This video is and down'n'dirty and comes with no strings attached," said Moseley, an actor who has famously slaughtered people on...
At age 21, he was made the head of the House of Dior. Five years later, he opened his own fashion house, and by the time of his death in 2008, he had become immortalized as one of the most brilliant fashion designers of the 20th century. He was Yves Saint Laurent, and his innovative designs are on display now at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,...
Stepping inside the Dear Neighbor boutique in Church Hill feels a bit like entering the foyer of someone’s home, and that’s because that is essentially what you’re doing. Owner Kristy Cotter’s store, which focuses on providing curated and handmade goods for the thoughtful gift-giver, sits just behind her house. Dear Neighbor first opened in...
Stepping inside the Dear Neighbor boutique in Church Hill feels a bit like entering the foyer of someone’s home, and that’s because that is essentially what you’re doing. Owner Kristy Cotter’s store, which focuses on providing curated and handmade goods for the thoughtful gift-giver, sits just behind her house. Dear Neighbor first opened in...
As a creative (and sci-fi influenced) writer myself, I have a magnificent appreciation for Prometheus, for both what it did and didn’t do. Call it Zen, but the omission of directness, the constant open-endedness of the questions asked and the overall work required of the viewer are exactly the methods that I use to spin my own fiction. You could...
