Sally Coleman’s dog, five-year-old Maisey, donned a purple tutu and flowers around her neck for her photo shoot for Capital Area Rescue Efforts 2021 calendar. “Maisey is the May calendar…
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Joan Tupponce
An award-winning writer based in Richmond, Joan Tupponce is a parent, grandparent, and self-admitted Disney freak. She writes about anything and everything and enjoys meeting inspiring people and telling their stories. Joan’s work has appeared in RFM since the magazine’s first issue in October 2009. Look for original and exclusive online articles about Richmond-area people, places, and ideas at Just Joan: RVA Storyteller.
The Santa Closet will be Richmond Triangle Players’ first theatre production since the start of the pandemic and the show’s star, Eddie Webster, is thrilled to be back on stage.…
Lynda Vaughan’s crafts fill her workroom and overflow into the garage just steps away. While she makes crafts year-round, this year her efforts have accelerated. “I use my crafts and…
Listening to podcasts is an activity Rachel DePompa does every day. “It’s one of my favorite things to do,” says DePompa, NBC12’s investigative reporter and creator of the NBC12 podcast…
Robin Farmer’s new book, Malcolm and Me: A Novel, is as relevant today as it was when the author was growing up in the 1970s. The young adult publication is…
Connie Matthews Harshaw is thrilled that Colonial Williamsburg archaeologists are beginning their excavation to find the original structure of First Baptist Church, one of the country’s oldest churches founded entirely…
Students in VCU’s Theatre Department are doing something they’ve never done before by presenting a virtual hybrid production of She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms that combines theatre and film. After…
Amy Shira Teitel believes there are many things we can glean from early space history. “There are endless lessons to take inspiration from in the era from the mid-1950s to…
It’s not a coincidence that producer Laura McCann wanted to air the documentary These Things Can Be Done on VPM PBS on August 13. This past August America celebrated the…
Jimmy Budd and his team are working through the challenges of the pandemic to present the 12th year of RVA Fashion Week. The show will be held October 5 through…
Executive producers of America’s Got Talent are used to dealing with death-defying acts. But a pandemic? Not so much. This season has been anything but ordinary for the television industry.…
Midlothian resident Hannah Qizilbash discovered her underlying passion of making an impact in the lives of kids when she wrote her first children’s book, The Purple Grasshopper. “All of this…