#HERStory: Tasha Dixon
For our next installment of the #HERStory series, Luke Witt sat down with Tasha Dixon, the Operations Manager at Triple Crossing Brewing Company, to talk craft brew, female leaders in the beer industry, and all things RVA. As most Richmonders know by now, Triple Crossing Brewing Company is cranking out some seriously tasty beverages that […]
PHOTO SERIES Inspires Conversation About Abilities
Art can inspire conversations and destroy misconceptions. That’s why Elizabeth Howley and Mary Townley asked local photographers to pick up their cameras and capture compelling images of adults with disabilities who are thriving in RVA. “We wanted to inspire young people with disabilities to set goals and dream big by giving them successful role models—their […]
RICHMOND JUSTICE: Capturing Stories That Matter
By Hannah Ayers and Lance Warren Each week in 2016, we revealed a new portrait and story about a Richmonder whose life is shaped in some way by the justice system— part of a year-long study of the justice landscape in Virginia’s capital city. Richmond Justice grew from years of making media about incarceration that […]
One Love: LGBT Families
Families are just families, regardless of who comprises the family unit. That’s the message of One Love: LGBT Families, which is on view until September 4, 2017 on the Valentine’s Lower Level. Developed in collaboration with Richmond Region Tourism’s OutRVA campaign, One Love: LGBT Families features photographic portraits by Michael Simon of lesbian, gay, bisexual […]
#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, […]
Richmond’s Only Live Late-Night Talk Show
Just to be clear, RVA Tonight with Beau Cribbs, the live, late-night talk show created by Cribbs, is not a real television show. Although given the show’s growing popularity, television may not be a bad idea. RVA Tonight consistently sells out the 75-seat venue at the Coalition Theater the first Friday of every month. The […]
Wheels of Change: The Library of Virginia and the Bicycle Boom
By Dana Puga The “Bicycle Boom” refers to a period during the 1890s when cycling was at its height. There seems, however, to be another bicycle boom taking place in Richmond these days. And the Library of Virginia is in the thick of the action. Located in the heart of downtown Richmond, the Library of […]
Cycles of Kindness
By Patience Salgado Between this boy and his bike, there was a deep love. I completely get it: the wind blowing on your face and going faster than your legs can take you. It is all of boyhood in its perfect freedom. Then it happened. Just one look and I knew it was gonna be […]
I Am Tourism
Seven million visitors, $2 billion pumped into the local economy, 22,000 jobs, and a savings of nearly $600 in taxes per household. That’s the impact of tourism in the Richmond region. We all benefit. And we all have opportunity to help grow these numbers. “Hotel occupancy in the Richmond region is shattering records,” says Jack […]
Dream Nation Project
About 10 years ago, longtime friends Shane Patrick Crews and Sam Anderson started talking about their childhood dreams. Crews had wanted to be a magician and Anderson, who came from a blue-collar family, had dreamt of being able to wear a suit to work every day. Both had followed their dreams, with Crews working as […]