Quick! Before it’s too late, make a point to head to the Library of Virginia and see a stellar Smithsonian traveling show, “American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print” before it leaves February 4th.
The oldest poster in the show is for a lecture by Henry Ward Beecher, the abolitionist. On the poster it says …
I’ve never understood why everyone in Richmond gets so fired up over food. Whenever a new establishment opens, it’s all anyone can talk about. The buzz dies down quickly just as a new restaurant is about to open and the insanity starts all over again. What is it about restaurants that gets people so crazy? …
At this time of year, it’s so easy to come home from work in the dark and not leave the house again until the next morning. Cocooning, winter doldrums, whatever you want to call it, it’s oh-so tempting to make excuses about not going out at this time of year.
May I suggest that you get …
Mon., Jan. 23 – 7:00pm – “Joan Snyder: Dancing in the Dark” at UR – This amazing show traces the development of the artist from her earliest portrait and landscape woodcuts done during her student days to mid-career prints combining expressionism and abstraction to the deeply personal imagery of her later years. It’s also the …
For the music lovers around town who happen to have kids, getting out to see live music is a stretch. You either have to find a babysitter, forgo the show or bring them along and hope they aren’t bored or exposed to adult situations.
Someone in my music circle asked me recently if there were any …
