The Dancer Upstairs
Five years after Rob Petres Ground Zero Dance co-founder completed the renovation of the old Bainbridge School as a preeminent regional dance space, the space is getting its first full-time director.
View ArticleDon't You Know Who I Am?
The current flap over the former Spokane, Washington, NAACP chapter president who turns out probably not to be African-American isn't anything new. The full glare of media and social commentary,...
View ArticleMusicircus: Carytown Cacophony Tonight
Percussionist and, in this case, ringleader Brian Jones and Chop Suey Books take up avant garde composer John Cage's suggestion of jamming a place full of musicians and performers for a limited time only.
View ArticleLight in August
The Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality with the Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project announced on Friday their mission through a public process to create a proposal for honoring...
View ArticleRemove the Statues?
Lately, on social media and in coffee shops, a tone of indignation and righteousness (a terrible combination) is directed toward the statues of Monument Avenue. The drift goes that the bearded and...
View Article24 Hours With The General
In this throwback to June 2007, Harry Kollatz, Jr. spent a little quality time with the bronzed Marble Man.
View ArticleStudio Two Three Opens in Scott's Addition
Ashley Hawkins, executive director of the Studio Two Three Community Print Shop, had reason to celebrate on Sunday. After a quick and intense fundraising effort, her arts group opened a new chapter in...
View ArticleWho Are You and Why?
The 1708 Gallery's summer show offers 10 weeks of variety by 10 different artists and groups. This week, we enter "The Regime of Forgetting" with Nikolai Noel, working in Trinidad, and Matthew Shelton...
View ArticleMr. Kollatz Goes to Short Pump
A glance back at The Hat's trip to Short Pump, circa May 2004.
View ArticleSound! Speed! ACTION! 48 Hour Film Project Announces Finalists
What began in Washington, D.C., in 2001 as a novelty idea blossomed into 130-city worldwide event with over 30,000 films and participation by almost 400,000 people. Richmond's winning 2015 crop is...
View ArticleClay McLeod Chapman Goes the Full Eldritch
Clay McLeod Chapman wrote "The Boy," which premiered Friday in L.A and goes to video-on-demand. He and Hanna Cheek are coming for their monologue performance showcase "The Pumpkin Pie Show," and a...
View Article'The Third Man' Plays the Byrd
Director Peter Bogdanovich describes the way "The Third Man" became a great film as a series of happy accidents with all involved at the height of their powers. Joseph Cotten, playing writer Holly...
View ArticleGoin' South
The Fifth Annual Virginia Commonwealth University Southern Film Festival shows the tangled interrelations of its musical heritage and its presentation in film.
View ArticlePage-turner: Starr Foster Dances for Words
The Starr Foster Dance Project, with 20 performers, takes the words of eight and puts them in motion.
View ArticleTalking Buildings
On Saturday at the revived VCUArts Depot building, an open-to-the-public panel discussion will consider the entire city as a living work of art.
View ArticleRodin, Giant Puppets and the Fire of Creation
This weekend we visited the residence of the French ambassador in Washington to get things started for the upcoming Rodin exhibition at the VMFA. And we went to the 10th annual All The Saints Oregon...
View ArticleNo BS! Three Nights at Balliceaux
"Bass Knuckles" is the No BS! Brass Band's latest recording and, true to form, experiments and creates worlds within the sounds.
View ArticleThinking about Rodin
The immense Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibition about sculptor Auguste Rodin arrives at a propitious time: when we're discussing public art and, beyond that, the meaning of you as the cosmos.
View ArticleHold On To Your Hats
The 74 paintings of James W. and Frances Gibson McGlothlin offer a cross-section of late 19th- and early 20th-century painting by U.S. artists who created the work here and abroad, among the yachters...
View ArticleFlights of Angels
Three Richmond novelists in the past months have published books dealing with characters who are pretty fly.
View ArticleComputer Science Is No Jedi Mind Trick
An alliance of nonprofits, government and business leaders and 13 regional school systems are joining forces to battle an empire of non-computer literacy. Even Lord Vader himself showed up to sign...
View ArticleIron Will
Nathan Vernon Madison started out researching text for interpretive signs at the Tredegar Iron Works site. What he found was a rich history of men and machines pitted against nature, war, economic...
View ArticleDo We Need a Little Christmas Right This Very Minute?
Little I can say here will alleviate or allay the frenzy of the season. But here's a little perspective on all the hype and happenings.
View ArticleKnown by Her Deeds
Wendy DeGroat, a New Jersey librarian/teacher/poet of Dutch descent, undertakes to tell the story of Richmond philanthropist Grace Arents, a teacher/librarian/organizer and the favorite niece of New...
View ArticleManchester Does Mardi Gras
For the fifth year the spirit of Mardi Gras enlivens the Dogtown Dance Theatre with aerialists, Latin dance, "Pole Pressure," and a whole bunch of music — and a parade.
View ArticleVirginia Rep Honors Corey Reynolds
The Richmond native started at Kings Dominion and cruise ships, went on to Broadway with "Hairspray," got into TV with "The Closer" and then feature films, including "Straight Outta Compton." Now, he...
View ArticleTrue Romance at Bacon's Castle
This writer received an invitation from Preservation Virginia to Bacon's Castle for presentation to the public, perhaps for the first time, the written declaration of love of Dr. Robert Emmet Robinson...
View Article'We Want This To Be a Real Fine Day'
A Sunday concert at The National will bring to the stage performers who have played over the years with Robbin Thompson, known for the official state popular song, "Sweet Virginia Breeze," and for...
View ArticleThe Prodigal Arrives
"Shooting The Prodigal," about a Jewish filmmaker creating a movie for a Baptist church in Alabama, was a leap of faith.
View ArticleThe Searchers: From New Hampshire to Tennessee
As the Richmond International Film Festival's big fifth anniversary wrapped, a couple of films made in the region with local on-screen and behind-camera talent received recognition: "Coming Through the...
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.
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 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 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 ArticleSeraph, Musicircus and Mozart
During the next few weeks, your ears will be treated to a variety of music by world class musicians.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleBen and Me
A character study for “Legends & Lies” puts a writer (and Virginia ham) in prime time.
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 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 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 ArticleVIDEO: Becoming Ben
Harry Kollatz Jr. discusses the accent he developed for his role as Benjamin Franklin in “Legends & Lies: The Patriots.”
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 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 ArticleMore 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.
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