Weekend Calendar
Check out what’s going on in the arts this weekend
Girls ‘Album’ provides lovely, candid songs
After accumulating lofty reviews from various hipster sources, Girls only vaguely follows this summer’s trendy, beach-pop revival. While some contemporaries hardly scratched the surface of originality, “Album”, is a remarkably fresh mix of youthful euphoria, hazy pop and psychedelic fuzz.
Starr Foster Dance Project to possess audiences
Starr Foster Dance Project’s first performance of the season, “Possessions,” begins Thursday, Oct. 8 at 8 p.m. at the Grace Street Theater. The modern dance show consists of three parts: “Hiding Exhalation,” “Release” and “Baggage (and the Seven Deadly Sins).
First Fridays Art Walk competes with CenterStage
I have been enjoying the First Fridays Art Walk for years. Its kooky, crazy and sometimes there might be something available for sale that I can actually afford. With the opening of the new CenterStage arts center this past September, city hall is looking to suck up some of those window shoppers. Its first order of business is to crack down on the galleries that made Richmond famous in the first place.
The Rag: No Plan Mexico
This past Monday, The People United hosted a workshop called “No Plan Mexico” at the William Byrd Community House in Oregon Hill. At the workshop Andrea Caraballo, a Uruguayan activist, described the U.S. militarization of Mexico and the use of the Merida Initiative against Mexican social movements and the Mexican people.