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Richmond weekend events: Garden Glow, Oktoberfest, sloths
Richmond is definitely getting into the Halloween spirit this weekend. Thursday, Oct. 15 🌟 Maymont's Garden Glow is back to transform the estate into a wonderland of light displays, food trucks and fall festivities through Nov. 8. Last entry at 9pm. $20 for non-members. Pro tip: If you go Sunday at 6:45pm , you can also catch an autumn-inspired performance by the Richmond Symphony. 🎨 Ghosted Paint & Sip brings a Halloween-themed painting night to Väsen in Scott's Addition with supplies included. 6-8pm. $44. Friday, Oct. 16 🍺 The 56th Richmond Oktoberfest returns to the Richmond Raceway with German food, beer, live music and traditional dancing. Friday 6-10pm; Saturday 3-10pm. $10, free for ages 15 and under. 🖤 EMOWEEN at Ember Music Hall is an emo and pop-punk tribute show featuring the music of My Chemical Romance, Paramore and the All-American Rejects. 7pm. Tickets start at $28.15. 🎸 The Brook & The Bluff are performing at the Broadberry with The Sways. Doors at 7pm. $36.60. Saturday, Oct. 17 🦪 OystoberFest , the oyster-and-beer-themed fundraiser at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church in Ginter Park, is back with live music, a kids' zone, brats, beer and, of course, oysters — served up steamed,
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Students, staff react to Boatwright Memorial Library’s new renovations, WLC
This August, the University of Richmond lost the scaffolding and revealed the completed Boatwright Memorial Library after a $66 million three-year renovation. With the semester well underway, students and administrators gave the Collegian their reactions to the new space. With revamped study spaces, a new location for the Weinstein Learning...
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One Year Later: Richmond Remembers D’Angelo and the Legacy He Left Behind
D'Angelo blended soul, hip-hop, funk, and jazz to pioneer neo-soul, influencing generations of contemporary R&B artists. Growing up on Richmond's South Side immersed him in gospel traditions that became the foundation of his distinctive sound. His three studio albums—Brown Sugar, Voodoo, and Black Messiah—remain culturally significant works that continue resonating...
Axios Richmond
Come on Barbie, let's go party — in Richmond
Barbie World is coming to Richmond via a museum exhibition that opens Saturday at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture . Why it matters: Richmond is the only stop in the Mid-Atlantic for the traveling exhibition — and locals only have about three months to see it. Driving the news: "Barbie: A Cultural Icon " traces the iconic doll's evolution from her 1959 debut through decades of changing fashion and cultural expectations. Come on Barbie, let's go party. Image: Courtesy of Virginia Museum of History & Culture Visitors can sees more than 250 vintage dolls, outfits and accessories — plus the original Barbie and Dreamhouse. The exhibit also features a life-size pink 1984 Corvette and a Barbie box, so locals can create their own Barbie moment. You, in the Barbie dream car. Image: Courtesy of Virginia Museum of History & Culture Zoom in: There's even a local and historic twist (VMHC is a museum, after all). Six dolls on display have Virginia connections and will be displayed alongside artifacts that help tell their stories. Among them: Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas, NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald and George Washington (y'all, there's a George Washington Barbie). UVA and
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56th Annual Richmond Oktoberfest Returns to the Raceway
It is our pleasure to announce that the 56th Annual Richmond Oktoberfest will be again be held at the Old Dominion Building at the Richmond Raceway Complex, 600 East Laburnum Avenue, Richmond, VA 23222. **We have decided to keep the entrance fee this year to only $10 per person for those 16 years old and older.** Kids free.
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Exclusive: This 10-Year-Old Drum Major Is Leading the Band at an HBCU Homecoming
At Virginia State University’s homecoming matchup against Livingstone College, one of the band’s standout figures was far younger than anyone might have expected. At just 10 years old, Richmond native Aleem “The Dream” Saunders took the field dressed in all white, moving alongside VSU’s marching band as a drum major-in-training. What began as a childhood fascination with rhythm, sparked by drumming on water buckets as a toddler, has grown into a passion that brought him to the heart of a college football tradition.
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One Year Later: Richmond Remembers D’Angelo and the Legacy He Left Behind
D'Angelo blended soul, hip-hop, funk, and jazz to pioneer neo-soul, influencing generations of contemporary R&B artists. Growing up on Richmond's South Side immersed him in gospel traditions that became the foundation of his distinctive sound. His three studio albums—Brown Sugar, Voodoo, and Black Messiah—remain culturally significant works that continue resonating...
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56th Richmond Oktoberfest is this weekend
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - The 56th Annual Richmond Oktoberfest is back this weekend at the Richmond Raceway Complex. There will be dancing, music and of course the classic bier stein holding contest. A variety of German beer from three of the best-known German breweries – Warsteiner, Paulaner, and Bitburger– will...
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Take A Walk Through This Eerie Virginia State Park That Looks Straight Out Of A Thriller
Nothing is chasing you. Nobody is hiding behind the farmhouse. Yet somehow this Virginia park still feels like the opening scene of a thriller. Morning fog hangs low, a quiet creek slips through the landscape, and open fields stretch across ground tied to the final days of the Civil War.
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In a new documentary, Virginia tribal leaders tell their own history
Academy Award-nominated director James Spione will bring his latest documentary, “The Native Shore,” to Richmond’s Virginia Museum of History & Culture next week for what he hopes will be an evening of opportunity. “This is more than a screening,” Spione said. “It’s an immersive cultural event, with...
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Music Time Machine: Brian Justice and the Grateful Dead in 1985
On a freezing cold, rainy, early November night in 1985, the area around the Richmond Coliseum was bursting with excitement. For Brian Justice (‘85), Collegiate alumnus, ordained Episcopal Deacon, and current Upper School history and religion teacher, the night was drastically different from the experience of his first Grateful Dead show in the Coliseum a year before.
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Faith, Religious Nationalism and The Civil War
Throughout his career, author Richard Carwardine has been drawn to the interplay of religion and politics. Specifically, the Oxford professor of American history was intrigued by how religious beliefs and identity have worked to shape political loyalties, and how party leaders have seized opportunities to mobilize people of faith. With...
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Matchbox Twenty stops in Richmond for 30th Anniversary tour
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - No you aren’t crazy or just a little unwell, Matchbox Twenty is making a stop in the River City for their 30th Anniversary North American Tour next summer. The 52-date tour will bring Matchbox Twenty to amphitheaters and arenas across the U.S. and Canada, including...