I’ve never been to the Grand Canyon. But Grand Canyon Adventure sparked in me a haunting familiarity with the native people, the early explorers, and modern-day environmental activists. From the opening landscape montages, the entire IMAX dome became a helicopter,…
Reviewed by Robin Schwartzkopf We don’t get down to the Science Museum of Virginia very often, but To the Arctic – an iMAX film that transports you to the top of the world – reminded me of why we should.…
The title of this quirky and very funny play by award-winning playwright Lee Blessing is also the name of the Texas bar where the romantic family comedy takes place. I’m a natural laugher. It doesn’t take much to get me…
Unsure of exactly what to expect (or how I’d react to what I saw), I headed off to the highly anticipated traveling exhibit that is making its Virginia debut at the Science Museum of Virginia, Gunther von Hagens’ Body Worlds…
A Parent’s Review Dear mom or dad of a teen: If your little darling was the sixth grader with a serious boyfriend or girlfriend, or the 11-year-old who inadvertently stumbled upon low-octane porn sites every other time he was in…
CMoR Chesterfield 6629 Lake Harbour Drive, Midlothian, VA When the temperature hit 95 and the pool was closed for a swim meet, I knew just where to go for an afternoon of fun with the boys – the newly-opened Children’s…
I read Lord of the Flies, the literary classic by Nigel Williams, in high school – long enough ago that I had forgotten many of the details. Good versus evil, the biblical themes, the symbolism. But none of that really…
As with A Year With Frog and Toad, I was not familiar with the book before the day of our play outing, but fortunately, my much-more-well-read editor’s family loaned me their copy of The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly…
The majesty of the African savannah comes alive in The Lion King, a stunning show displaying all of the wonders that imagination and an enriching culture have to offer. After viewing Broadway in Richmond’s production of The Lion King I…
I’ll admit it. When my 13-year-old daughter, Robin, and I were tapped to review Disney’s The Lion King on behalf of RFM, I hadn’t planned to let on that we had seen the show at the Kennedy Center four years…
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