In a town with no shortage of picturesque places to pop the question, Shaniece Bradford offers a way to take things up a notch: personalized picnics. Just Be Picnic offers an intimate experience for two (or a group—for pre-wedding parties!) anywhere you can think of: your home, Airbnb, favorite park, or local winery. Bradford, whose mission is to help people “just be,” handles everything, from the pillows to the candlesticks (and, of course, the picnic blanket).
“I’ve been drawing since around the age of 2,” Jae Johnson says. “Growing up, I had an infatuation with drawing cars. Actually, my aunt still has probably 80 percent of my work from when I was around that age.” Today, Johnson’s moved on to bigger things—literally. You can find his mural art gracing walls around […]
Charles Lewis, Maxicelia Robinson, Troy (Razor) Robinson (pictured above), and Aaron Simmons have a lot to say about local issues, and they put it all on the air with “In My Humble Opinion,” their local talk show/podcast. Topics tackled by “IMHO” include gun violence, race and media responsibility, the consequences of free speech, incarcerated mothers, […]
Good things come in small…galleries? That must be true, because The Little Museum of Art—an effort to reach more viewers during The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia’s shutdown in the summer of 2021—is a tiny treasure. Artists submit works no bigger than a square foot, which get displayed (and then traded […]
