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Axios
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
What to do in Richmond this 4th of July weekend
In case you're needing more than just fireworks shows this weekend, and don't have plans, Richmond has a packed schedule. Thursday, July 3 🎶 If you want to dip out of work early, The Valentine has "The Oasis: A High Noon Summer Concert Series" with vocal soul from The Trey & Erica Experience. Noon-1pm. Free. 🧛🏻♂️ The entire "Twilight" saga, Sabrina's favorite movie series, is playing at the Byrd Theatre, starting with the first one at 7pm. $9. 💃🏻 Mas Tequila Y Tacos has a salsa and bachata dance party with an intro lesson at 8pm. $5. Friday, July 4 😳 Parlay in Scott's Addition has a hot dog eating competition where participants eat as many hot dogs as possible within 10 minutes. Winner gets $500. Noon-3pm. Free to watch. 🍺 Hardywood on Ownby Lane is having a "Let Lagers Ring" celebration with pizza, shaved ice and live music. Noon-10pm. Free. 👀 The Hof on West Broad Street is offering a view of the fireworks from their rooftop bar. 4-11:30pm. Tickets start at about $18. Saturday, July 5 🧘♀️ Or do community yoga at the VMFA. 9-10am. Pay-what-you-can. 🎨 Artspace Gallery on Hathaway Road has its "Glamour is Resistance" exhibit through July 19 about celebrating queer identity. Noon-4pm. Free. The Black History Museum in Jackson Ward has " The Unsung Harmony of the Black Music Experience" tracing how Black Virginians "used music to resist, remember, and reimagine freedom." $10. 10am-5pm. Sunday, July 6
Axios
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
11 things to do in Richmond this very hot weekend
The weekend is coming in hot — literally — so here are 11 things you can do in town that don't involve (aggressively) sweating. 💦 Splash around at one of the nearly dozen of free splash pads around town. 🤿 Hit up a free city pool, or rent one via pool-sharing company Swimply. There are now 19 available to rent in town, and at least half of them are in the ground. 👙 Take the whole family to Pocahontas State Park and try out its water park, which has four pools, water slides and a spray area. Adult swim passes start at $10. 🍿 Stay cool in the Byrd Theatre with a flick ("The Phoenician Scheme" and "Sinners" play primetime this weekend). $9. 🚤 Rent a boat! Local options include self-captained retro boats at Rocketts Landing, pontoons from Kingfish Boat Rentals in Eastern Henrico and jet skis through an Airbnb-style boat rental company. 🛟 Float the day away in a tube on the James River. You can rent one or BYO.
Axios
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Richmond's Byrd Theatre named one of the world's coolest theaters
The Byrd Theatre was named one of the coolest movie theaters in the world this month by Variety. Why it matters: It's one of only eight U.S. movie theaters mentioned in a list of 21 spots. The big picture: The magazine's roundup puts Richmond's nearly 100-year-old film house in Carytown alongside places in India, Iceland, Mexico, South Korea and France. And the writer doesn't hold back on giving it its flowers. The Byrd Theatre, she writes, is "one of the country's most elaborate movie palaces, and one of the most intact examples of lavish cinema architecture." "The effect is of being in a French Empire opera house." Coincidentally, over a decade ago, the international Cannes Film Festival's main theater in France offered to give the Byrd its cushy seats for free. But the Byrd turned it down because it'd cost up to $100,000 to actually put them in and store the old ones. Zoom in: Variety also hit us with a fun fact of their own that we didn't know: Grammy award-winning local Lucy Dacus shot her " Hot and Heavy" music video there.
Axios
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
What to do in Richmond this weekend: Studio Ghibli Fest and First Fridays
We've made it to yet another Richmond weekend. Let's get into it. Thursday, April 3 🍿 Studio Ghibli Fest is at the Byrd Theatre all week long with movies (all $9) from the famous Japanese animation studio. The schedule includes: Thursday: "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind." 7pm. Friday: "Spirited Away." 7pm. Saturday: "Ponyo" at 10am and "Kiki's Delivery Service" at 7pm. Sunday: "My Neighbor Totoro" at 2pm and "The Boy and the Heron" at 7pm. Friday, April 4 It's First Fridays! Here's how you can celebrate. 🍰 The Parlay Social will be at Le Cache Dulcet with desserts, charcuterie, games, vinyl sets and more. 7pm. $10. 🎉 Gallery 5 and RVA Mag are celebrating their 20-year anniversaries with a block party in Jackson Ward. 5-midnight. Free. 🪩 Shrek Rave is BACK, baby. 9pm at The Broadberry. Tickets start at $15. Saturday, April 5 🖼️ ¡FridaFest! opens at the VMFA with a full day of live music, paintings and food from local Mexican restaurants like Taqueria Morelos and TBT El Gallo. 1-7pm. Free unless you're going to the exhibit which is $20. 🌷 Tiptoe through 3,800 tulips on the 2600 block of Hanover Avenue created by local Rick Bridgforth. 1pm. $25 goes toward the local Make-A-Wish foundation. Sunday, April 6 😋 Food Truck Rodeo? We're in. This one is at Steel Horse Harley Davidson in Midlo. 11am-5pm. Free.
Axios
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Things to do in Richmond this weekend: GalaxyCon, secret bars and more
It's going to be almost 80 degrees in Richmond this weekend, so we recommend being outside as much as possible. But here are few indoor options, too. Thursday, March 27 👽 GalaxyCon is back until Sunday at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. Keep your eyes peeled for William Shatner. Schedule. Prices vary but single day passes range from $45-$70. Friday, March 28 🕯️ You know we love Candlelight Concerts but this one might be our favorite: It's the best of Bridgerton via a string quartet at Bolling Haxall House. 6:30pm. Tickets start at $42. 🎥 The Byrd Theatre added a pop-up screening of "No Other Land," which won the Oscar for Best Documentary, because their Tuesday one sold out. 4pm. $9. Saturday, March 29 🤫 Markus Gold is DJing at The Little Secret, aka a secret bar behind Skybox on West Main. 10pm. $15. 🦖 Watch "Jurassic Park" with a live symphony from the Richmond Symphony at Altria. 6pm. Tickets start at $15. Sunday, March 30
