1+ week, 2+ day ago   (454+ words) Participating in speech and debate is one antidote to the doubt and despair Young Americans feel. A Harvard Kennedy School poll released this past spring found that half of Gen Z Americans believe that people their age have no real…...

17+ hour, 56+ min ago   (71+ words) Style Weekly Pours and Pasties Burlesque and Variety Show Pours and Pasties returns Strangeways Brewing in Scott’s Addition with a brilliant lineup of performers for the month of September! Prepare to be teased, pleased, amazed, and entertained! Join us for…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (204+ words) "Barbie: A Cultural Icon" offers a snapshot of changing times at VMHC. Barbie’s coming to Richmond to remind us that before something becomes history, it was culture – and that includes pop culture. It’s a notion that really democratizes and expands…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (209+ words) “Fresh produce, artisan goods, and the heart of Latin culture — every Saturday in Chesterfield County.” 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Free. Through October. 13900 Hull Street Road in Midlothian. A juried show of fine arts and crafts featuring around 75 local and regional…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (161+ words) In its 78th season, Homefront Players brings Jane Austen to the Fort Lee stage for the first time with “Pride and Prejudice.” Homefront Players is a nonprofit community theater that has been operating on the Fort Lee Army base for over…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (334+ words) Local writer Ebony Walden on her new travel memoir exploring the Black diaspora. “I had that same soup in Honduras, and I had something that taste similar when I went to parts of Colombia,” she says. “I think there are…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (833+ words) The Impressionist revolution comes to VMFA. It’s difficult now to imagine a time when Impressionist art wasn’t popular. You can find reproductions of Claude Monet’s water lilies, for example, on dresses, refrigerator magnets, umbrellas, hats, jewelry, coasters, tote bags, cell…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (501+ words) Broadway’s Patrick Page brings “All The Devils Are Here,” a show about Shakespeare’s villains, to the Modlin Center. Hades. The Grinch. The Green Goblin of Spider-Man fame. These are just a few of the villainous roles that actor Patrick Page…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (309+ words) After a “pause” of operations, the storied Chesterfield theater has announced a new business plan and continued fundraising efforts. On Wednesday, the board of directors for Swift Creek Mill Theatre announced a new business plan in the hopes of keeping…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (260+ words) Firehouse Theatre’s “Confederates” examines systems of oppression and privilege in the past and present. Modern academia can be a political minefield. Even before the Trump administration began holding the funding of universities hostage for being “too woke” or allowing students…...