More Than A Shave And A Haircut
Raymond Patton, a Petersburg High School educator and girls basketball coach, is teaming with Richmond filmmaker Derek Wright to explore the black barbershop experience.
View ArticleA Story ... A Story ... A Story
The Hat is participating in a cavalcade of stories, music and urban musings Saturday evening at the Hippodrome in Jackson Ward.
View ArticleThe Scots Are Coming! The Scots Are Coming!
They're classmates and longtime friends, and now old enough to tour the U.S. bars in their kilts. You'll be hear them in Carytown and around town — and probably for blocks before you catch sight them.
View ArticleVIDEO: Becoming Ben
Harry Kollatz Jr. discusses the accent he developed for his role as Benjamin Franklin in “Legends & Lies: The Patriots.”
View ArticleThe Scottish Play in Edinburgh
Several VCUarts Cinema alumni are at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, where "Turn" actor Angus Macfadyen's version of "Macbeth" is being screened. The VCU program served as the film's producer.
View ArticleA New Republic
The exhibition of African-American artist Kehinde Wiley opens June 11 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. This isn't a show you breeze through, and it won't go without some things to think about.
View ArticleGoodbye, Farewell and Amen
The online aggregator of neighborhood news that many Richmonders used to stay informed of what was going on in their part of the world is pulling its own plug. One thing we don't like here is change.
View ArticleBen and Me
A character study for “Legends & Lies” puts a writer (and Virginia ham) in prime time.
View ArticleThe Election That Keeps On Giving
The all-star cast of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton squared off for the election of 1800 that many thought would ultimately destroy the country.
View ArticleBlack History Museum Comes to Life
The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia's long effort to renew the armory of the First Battalion Virginia Volunteers culminates in an opening weekend.
View ArticleRevolutionary Television
The Virginia Historical Society on Monday showed the third season premiere of the AMC Revolutionary spy drama "Turn," which blends fact with fiction, following a compelling cast of characters.
View ArticleThe Problem and the Cure
Vexine's name came out of Jane Austen, but its frontwoman Sarah Frances Gleason started her stylings of dark danger and romance at a South Richmond dive bar's karaoke night.
View ArticleThe French Collection
Before his 2010 fall, developer Justin French wanted a street art exhibition in Scott's Addition. Justin Vaughan, now Richmond magazine's senior art director, made work that remained hidden in Shockoe...
View ArticleThe Bijou at Hardywood
Film impresarios James Parrish and F.T. Rea are inviting regional cineastes to Hardywood on Saturday to party and talk about movies and finding a place to show them. And there'll be plenty of beer.
View ArticleThe Human Being
French director Yann Arthus-Bertrand began as a wildlife photographer in hot air balloons over Kenya. During the past 40 years, he's created monumental films and television series about animals,...
View ArticleSeraph, Musicircus and Mozart
During the next few weeks, your ears will be treated to a variety of music by world class musicians.
View ArticleI Was John-Boy
Back in November 1999, Richmond magazine put together a collection of essays for its "100 Years of Richmond" as an acknowledgment of the 20th century's end. Earl Hamner Jr. wrote a little something for...
View ArticleWhat He Said (Whether He Said It or Not)
Today, 241 years ago, a backwoods country lawyer of some promise stood up in a Church Hill sanctuary to give an oration that rang the rafters and reverberates down to us right this very second.
View Article'This Is the Life Meant for Me'
The choice of Tennessee Williams' 1948 play "Summer and Smoke" as the last production Bruce Miller will direct is rooted in histories both personal and theatrical for Virginia Repertory Theatre's...
View ArticleThey're Called [E]Motions, After All
KDance's fourth adventure in adapting plays to movement takes to the stage March 24 to 26 at Richmond Triangle Players in Scott's Addition.
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