Happy Easter Everyone!
Easter Sunday just got a lot creepier.Click HERE if you dare. Thanks Trish.
View ArticleTomTom 2013: Second Annual TomTom Founder's Festival Hits Charlottesville...
If South By Southwest hosted TED talks, was almost entirely free, and was held in Charlottesville, would you go? Because that’s what the TomTom Founder’s Festival’s schedule looks like as it returns...
View ArticleSHOW REVIEW: Pinback
Pinback Saturday, March 16 at The Canal ClubPinback played to a delighted crowd at the Canal Club. With the Pinback show taking place the same night as Louis C.K.’s appearance at Carpenter Theatre, the...
View ArticleA Year Without Novels (Part 1: Comics)
I spent my last four years at VCU majoring in English, with a concentration in American Literature (mostly because I wanted to do creative nonfiction and that’s not an undergrad option there), because...
View ArticleThe Richmond Mural Project has been postponed.
For all those that have been wondering, The Richmond Mural Project has been postponed until the end of summer. Check out Art Whino for the info and we will post more as we know more. Stay tuned.
View ArticleRVA No. 12: Elliott Yamin
There’s a saying in the music business that you’re only as good as your last radio hit. Elliott Yamin knows this all too well. In 2006, he was on top of the world. After placing third on the sixth...
View ArticleDAILY RECORD: Botanist
Botanist– IV: Mandragora (The Flenser Records)When something genuinely unique comes along, especially in the relatively aesthetically conservative context of something like heavy metal, it can be easy...
View ArticleSHOW REVIEW: Joe Dillon's Birthday Bash
Sinister Haze, Backwoods Payback, Batillus, Mensroom Saturday, March 23 at Strange MatterIt was the weekend after St. Patrick's Day, and after a wild holiday (not necessarily involving fisticuffs),...
View ArticleWin Tickets To Laserface featuring Darth & Vader at Kingdom!
Ladies and gentlemen, RVA dance parties just got awesomer than ever! B.A.D.A.S.S. Raves, Party Liberation Front, and RVA Mag are teaming up to bring you LASERFACE--the ultimate laser electro party,...
View ArticleOne Way Richmond's Must-See Show Previews 4/3-4/9
FEATURE SHOWThursday, April 4, 10 p.m.Photosynthesizers, Canary oh Canary @ Balliceaux - $5/21+ Photosynthesizers have been on a hiatus of late, but thanks to a new lineup, a fresh approach and a...
View ArticleMixology: 1708 Gallery's Annual Art Auction, Featuring Shepard Fairey
1708 Gallery presents their annual art auction, Mixology, with honorable chair Shepard Fairey, this Saturday, April 6, at 8pm. The 23rd annual fundraiser features both a live and silent auction of over...
View ArticleRadio Rubber Room At The Republic: A Drumless Evening
Last Wednesday night at the Republic, Radio Rubber Room presented The Last Call Gospel Choir and The Green Boys. Your usual trusted author of these weekly articles, Dan Mulrooney, was unfortunately and...
View ArticleRVA No. 12: Charles Berger
Charles Berger is a tattoo artist who plies his trade at Heroes and Ghosts in Carytown. We’ve known Charles for some time, and watched his talent grow immensely over the past few years. His work was...
View ArticleRVA Magazine's Weekend Preview 4/5-4/7
It's the first weekend in April, and despite the warm days and sunny skies ahead, it looks like we're in for a weekend of extreme brutality, between the crushing dubstep that is Excision on Friday, a...
View ArticleFirst Friday RVA, April 2013: Is It Actually Spring?
Spring is here, lent is over, Easter has passed, and the weather might actually have figured out that it's time to warm up! So maybe this First Friday it'll actually be pleasant walking-around-outdoors...
View ArticleScience Team Presents The Taint At Gallery 5!
This Sunday, as part of a night of independent cinematic entertainment, Gallery 5 will be screening Richmond cult classic The Taint. Recently released on Blu-Ray by legendary schlockmeisters Troma...
View ArticleRVA No. 12: Marcus Hyde
Looking at Marcus Hyde’s photos, I can’t help but wonder what led the man who started out shooting rocks and trees for his high school darkroom class into the realm of fashion photography. Despite its...
View ArticleTom Wesselmann Retrospective Hits The VMFA
In 1980, the audacious art scholar Slim Stealingworth wrote: "Many critics have described Tom Wesselmann as the most underrated painter of the American Art world of the 1960's." The funny thing is that...
View ArticleRT's Mixtape Double Feature: Louie P & Scuba
Louie P - A Dollar And A Dream (Datpiff)So I checked my email one day and came across an email from an emcee named Louie P. I thought he was from RVA until I did my research on him and learned that he...
View ArticleTheater Preview: The Pride At Richmond Triangle Players
The Pride, Alexi-Kaye Campbell’s award winning, era-hopping play about societal issues and acceptance, continues Richmond Triangle Players’s 20th Anniversary season beginning Thursday April 4. It will...
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