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Friday Night Lights
Fall is just around the corner. And as Eagle Glenn Frey once so prophetically sang, anticipating the severe climate change issues which threaten humanity: "The heat is on. The heat is on. It's on the...
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Fund for Slain Reporter Honors Richmond Ballet
Roanoke reporter Alison Bailey Parker loved the Richmond Ballet. And now the non-profit Piedmont Arts in Martinsville has established a fund to support Piedmont Arts On Stage performances by the...
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Sun Ra Arkestra and Grandmaster Flash to Play Folk Fest
A pioneer of hip hop, Grandmaster Flash, and the outer limits spacey free-jazz of the Sun Ra Arkestra are among the highlights for this year's Richmond Folk Festival on the weekend of Oct. 9 - 11. The...
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Best Beer Bar Competition
Mekong has won the Great American Beer Bar competition, a contest sponsored by CraftBeer.com, the last two years running. And the annual contest is up and running again. Who knows? A Richmond spot, now...
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Getting a Handle
Six lingering questions and answers about the crowds at Richmond's big bike race. by Peter GaluszkaWith the 2015 UCI Road World Championships drawing closer, some skittish Richmonders are wondering...
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Racing to Wi-Fi: Will Richmond's Wireless Networks Take a Big Hit During the...
by Paul SpencerVerizon is rushing to install hardware and software that will boost Wi-Fi connectivity in Richmond ahead of the UCI Road World Championships. The upgrades are spurred by the convention...
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A Perfect World
In a new Art 180 exhibit, incarcerated teens question the redemptive power of art. by Paul SpencerIt’s late summer 1965 and race riots have just rocked Los Angeles. A televised debate on the American...
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Matchmaker
Gallery5 teams with a New York gallery to present two risk-taking artists with “Dirty Work Dirt Dogs.” by Karen NewtonJimmy Joe Roche would like to be the first video artist living on Mars, working...
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Up All Night
Sediment Gallery challenges four artists to collaborate — separately — on a single piece. by Jackie KruszewskiOn a recent Tuesday, East Grace Street is blocked off between Second and Third. City...
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Event Pick: "The Third Man" screening at the Bijou Film Center
Sept. 6 by Chris Bopst Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest of all time, the 1949 British film noir classic, “The Third Man,” changed moviemaking. It’s revered for the groundbreaking,...
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Event Pick: Professor Cornel West at the Stuart C. Siegel Center
Sept. 3 by Chris Bopst The subject of race makes a lot of people uncomfortable. That’s why it’s important — especially in the former Capital of the Confederacy — to have an open discussion about it....
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Event Pick: Conditions, Broadside, Underdog Champs, When Cities Sleep and a...
Sept. 4 by Chris Bopst Few bands did radio-friendly, power-pop punk in the new millennium better than the Conditions. The Richmond group burst onto the international above- and below-ground musical...
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Event Pick: RVA Rock’n Art Fest at the National
Sept. 5 by Chris Bopst This isn’t your typical local music showcase. The RVA Rock’n Art Fest’s assemblage of homegrown talent is worth the price of admission, with money raised going to not one, but...
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Event Pick: Psychic TV, Corpse Light and Mutwawa at Strange Matter
Sept. 6 by Chris Bopst Psychic TV will always be ahead of the times. Formed in 1981 by multimedia provocateurs Genesis P-Orridge and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson, the founding members of the...
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Food Review: Kuba Kuba Dos
A second location of the Richmond Cuban classic adds to Fan favorites in the West End. by Karen NewtonCuban music and an effusive interior welcome guests to Kuba Kuba Dos, a second outpost of the...
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Punch Drunk: Jack's Beautiful Road Rage
How long will Richmond stay pretty after the cycling enthusiasts leave? by Jack LauterbackThe UCI Road World Championships are almost upon us. It’s been a long, winding, roughly cobblestoned path up...
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You Are Very Richmond If ...
A 30th anniversary revival of a Style Weekly classic.You know it’s not polite to make fun of Richmond unless you live here.Around these parts, 30 years hardly qualifies as old. But after its debut in...
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"The Flick" at the Byrd
Cadence Theatre Company’s next play will feature a unique set piece: the Byrd Theatre.Richmond’s favorite movie palace will play a starring role in Cadence’s production of Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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