Donny Atkins is excited about re-introducing the Diggity Dudes to Richmond-area children during the band’s tenth anniversary. Atkins and his best friend, Mike Hartsfield, started the hip, kid-friendly band in 2009. “We took our kids to see The Wiggles, and…
Deedra Harris feels it’s important for students in her dance classes at Armstrong High School to express how they are feeling through the art of dance. “I feel like these kids go through a lot on a daily basis that…
The tears streaming down the cheeks of singer/songwriter MILCK in her video for Quiet are as real as the pain she has experienced in her life. The emotionally charged song has sparked the #ICANTKEEPQUIET movement among women who have been forced…
Nicole Jones learned about Art 180 when her daughter, Chloe, was involved in the organization’s classes at the age of ten. “My daughter grew through the program,” Jones says, adding Chloe is now a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School.…
It’s crunch time for the 250 families volunteering for the thirty-fifth annual Lebanese Food Festival. Each year, the popular event pulls in more than thirty thousand guests. Volunteers begin making their Lebanese delicacies in mid-February and continue the process through…
Matthew Baker gets to step into Shakespeare’s shoes every night when he takes the stage in the Tony-nominated Something Rotten.But the show’s take on the prolific Bard is a bit different than one would expect. “He is the rock star…
Cincinnati Blues at Richmond Animal Care and Control and John Lennon and Yoko Ono at Richmond SPCA are hoping families will celebrate National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day by adopting them. Cincy, as she is affectionately called at RACC, is…
As the only female lieutenant and the oldest female firefighter in Henrico County Division of Fire, Michele Greep, fifty-two, feels like a mother hen to the younger females in the division. It’s a role she knows well. Greep is the…
Matthew Lee Robinson couldn’t hold back his emotions when he watched the first technical rehearsal of his new musical Atlantis, opening at Virginia Rep this Friday. “I burst into tears in the first five minutes because it’s so beautiful and…
Hannah Rhudy began brainstorming ideas about how to make sure children were not left in a hot car after hearing last May about the death of five-month-old twins that had been left in their family’s SUV in Chesterfield. “Losing the…
