What started as a conversation between friends – award-winning authors Gigi Amateau and Meg Medina – about raising strong daughters who become strong women has turned into their 7-year mission…
Author: Joan Tupponce
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.
Seeing the portrait of his mother, Lillie, on the Legacy Wall at Bon Secours Sarah Garland Jones Center brings great joy to Dr. Richard Bennett. His mother, Dr. Lillie Bennett, is…
The opening of Virginia Rep’s production of West Side Story marks a reunion for actors Brittany Santos and Justin Luciano, who play the lead characters of Maria and Tony, and…
Actress Daria deGaetano can check one more item off her bucket list: her wish to star in the Tony Award-winning musical A Chorus Line. Starting June 8, she will appear as…
Virtuoso Charles Overton didn’t find the harp. It found him. It’s such a warm instrument. You can feel the vibrations as you play. They reverberate through you,” says the talented…
Most people would be hard-pressed to run two miles a day, but not Henrico firefighter Alex Hall or his best friend Thaddeus Meyer. The two ultra-marathon runners clock in anywhere…
Strings teacher Jim Thomas knows firsthand how much Chimborazo Elementary and other East End elementary schools need string instruments for their students. “There’s always a need, especially here,” he says.Thanks…
Robby Robinson is keeping the fact he’s competing in the 2018 Dancing with the Richmond Stars show hush-hush. Until now, that is.“I still haven’t told my mom, and I haven’t…
The eager glint in their eyes and enthusiastic smiles are what you first notice when the River City Stars bound onto the stage. Dressed in navy, silver, and Carolina blue…
Looking out the jet window at the island below, Thomas Irving had no idea what to expect when the plane finally landed in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico. Irving, a Dominion Energy…
Tyandria Jackson is excited to portray a character from a series of books she read when she was a tween. Jackson, eighteen, will star in Pinkalicious at Virginia Rep’s Children’s…
Daniel Durston grew up with parents who were obsessed with Elvis Presley. The family would often travel to Las Vegas to watch shows featuring Elvis impersonators.“My mom was a real…
