Family Magic at Virginia Rep Center for Arts and Education
What’s so special about the new Virginia Rep Center for Arts and Education? It’s 50,000 square feet of awesome with amazing programming for kids and families.
Operation Butterfly Preservation – Save the Monarchs!
Tiffany Allen and her daughter Maggie are butterfly-saving “sheroes.” You can take these four simple steps and save the monarch butterfly, too!
Groundwork RVA – Empowering Teens to Lift Up Richmond
Groundwork RVA is empowering teens with environmental knowledge and green job skills and it’s making a difference in Richmond.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Margaret weighs in on Amazon and Good Reads’ book of the year – Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. This love story like no other is featured on the RFM Bookshelf.
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
Gift tip! Shop for memoirs and audio books this year. When it comes to holiday gifting, you can’t beat a good book. I have taken a recent liking to memoirs, and these days, nearly every celebrity of any sort has…
How “Wicked” Works Its Magic!
The Broadway musical Wicked resonated with Keeley and Evie Maddux the first time the kids saw the bewitching blockbuster musical with their family when they were in second and fourth grades. Their mom Jen Maddux had prepped the kids for…
Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell
Darkly thrilling and suspenseful tale about people you might recognize. Cate and Roan Fours, their two teen-aged children, and their neighbor Owen Pick aren’t particularly likable. Despite this, author Lisa Jewell manages to weave a story around them that’s a…
Indie Bookshops and Why They Rock!
Chris Dudley’s two daughters, ages five and three, love books – a reflection of their parents’ enthusiasm for reading and bookshops. “My first reading memory is having Mrs. Porter, the school librarian at Crestview Elementary School, read Beverly Cleary’s Henry…
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
The most fun I’ve had reading non-fiction. Written by psychotherapist, New York Times best-selling author, and national advice columnist Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone chronicles the author’s sessions with a series of her patients, while also…
Transformative History at Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Witness transformative and inclusive history in action at VMHC! The newly renovated Virginia history museum on Arthur Ashe Boulevard is not to be missed.
