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 […]
Richmond Storytellers: Secretly Y’all
Roald Dahl said that “the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places,” and Secretly Y’all—the storytelling series held every other month at Balliceaux—is proof that he was right. Secretly Y’all came to Richmond in 2010, having launched in Charlottesville by friends of current hosts Kathleen Brady and Colin King. “They passed us […]
James River Writers
Telling a story—a good story—is no easy task. It’s a skill that demands creativity, efficiency, research, a keen understanding of one’s audience, and most of all, a story worth telling. Achieving this mix has stymied even the most venerated storytellers, at one point or another, and can often prove an insurmountable hurdle for an aspiring […]
Richmond Storytellers: Greg McQuade
Not all stories are told in books, magazines, and online posts. Some are told in two-minute segments on local television news. During his 14-year career at WTVR CBS 6, Greg McQuade has earned more awards for storytelling—16 Emmys, 17 regional Murrows and three national Murrows than any other reporter in town. While the awards are […]