Laney Sullivan Releases First Solo Album
Laney Sullivan, of the indie-folk band known as Lobo Marino, has launched her first solo album called “infinite christmas.” Recorded in her mother’s basement, the prolific local musician used nothing more than her voice and a loop pedal for her latest, moving body of work. “The project is mostly just me experimenting with my new […]
Steve Bassett Releases Tres Leches
Steve Bassett, coauthor of “Sweet Virginia Breeze,” Virginia’s state song, has released a new album that critics are calling the finest of his music career. The new album, called “Tres Leches,” is a blend of swampy southern rock with New Orleans funk and soul. Think Little Feat, Allen Toussaint, and Allman Brothers. Along with the […]
#HERStory: Sam Reed
Sam Reed has blazed trails for female funk, soul, and R&B artists since she got her start in 2006. Her passion for music can be traced back to her days singing in church as a child and listening to old school records with her parents. Today her music has influences of rock, soul, jazz, R&B, […]
HERStory: Twila Jane
Twila Jane has an insatiable drive to create, to connect, and to build bridges for Richmonders to explore cultures that are not their own. Formerly known as Khalima, Twila is a dancer, musician, author, director, instructor, and owner of Electric Nomad, RVA’s only studio dedicated to bellydance. In the next installment of the #HERStory series […]
Double Vision at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia
By Cameron McPherson “These are not the type of pieces you can just look at and walk away from,” explains Richard Woodward, a board member of the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia. Woodward serves as co-curator of the museum’s latest Murry DePillars: Double Vision exhibition. The original exhibition organized by Richmond’s Black […]
#HERStory: AMY BLACK
Amy Black, an award-winning tattoo artist in RVA, is the founder of The Pink Ink Fund, a non-profit that provides post-mastectomy tattoos as part of breast reconstruction due to breast cancer. Luke Witt caught up with Amy for the #HERStory photo series, in partnership with Richmond Grid magazine, to find out what drives this impressive, […]
SoundView Project Taps into Street Energy
On a lively stretch of E. Broad sits a brand experience shop that boasts a bold name and even bolder ideas. Release the Hounds, which offers advertising and graphic design led by John Mills, is known for its street-level window display that has featured everything from art to pop-up shops over the years. This fall […]
Mapping RVA: Excluded Communities
Whether you live in the Upper Fan or in East Henrico, you likely have much more in common with your neighbors than a zip code. The racial and socioeconomic divides within Greater Richmond find bold visual expression in Excluded Communities, a spatial analysis and exhibit launched by Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) to illustrate the […]
It’s All Relative
What makes a family? Who can define your family? The Valentine shares in the dialogue with this new exhibition, It’s All Relative: Richmond Families (1616–2016), which opened on October 13 in the Stettinius Community Galleries. It’s All Relative explores the changing definition and composition of families in the Richmond community from the 17th century to […]
The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia Opens in the Leigh Street Armory
By Paul Spicer On the corner of St. Peter and Leigh Streets in Jackson Ward sits a place for dialogue. The castle-like building, originally constructed in 1895, once served as the base for the First Battalion Virginia Volunteers Infantry, Richmond’s first African American regiments. This spring the building, known as the Leigh Street Armory, became […]