Rich Griset
Contributing Writer at Style Weekly
Journalist at Freelance
Denmark-based reporter. NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Fortune, NY Daily News, Love+Radio. Erasmus Mundus journalism master's student at Aarhus University
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3 days ago |
styleweekly.com | Rich Griset
Local actress Sara Dabney Tisdale was eight months pregnant when she began rehearsals for her latest play. “I took about two weeks off to give birth and then came back,” says Tisdale, a former Style reporter. “When I came back to rehearsals after having the baby, my whole center of gravity changed.
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1 week ago |
styleweekly.com | Rich Griset
Clad in black-and-white uniforms, they once appeared all over the River City—leading cheers, ruffling their pleated skirts, thrusting their pom-poms into the air. But these cheerleaders weren’t rooting for Richmond’s athletes. Instead, they were praising the city’s artists. Reasoning that creatives need as much encouragement as jocks do, the Art Cheerleaders appeared at First Fridays, 1708 Gallery’s InLight exhibition and other events to put a bit of pep in the city’s artistic step circa 2007.
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1 week ago |
styleweekly.com | Rich Griset
Taylor Lane can trace her choice of career to Elvis Presley’s guitar pick. As a youngster living in Chicago, Lane was taken by her grandmother to see “Million Dollar Quartet,” a jukebox musical inspired by the real life meeting of Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins at Sun Studio in Memphis. During the show, the actor playing the King of Rock and Roll tossed Lane his guitar pick. “It changed my life,” says Lane.
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1 week ago |
styleweekly.com | Rich Griset
The men burst into the bedroom in the middle of the night and shined their flashlights into the eyes of the sleeping couple. “Who is this woman you’re sleeping with?” one of the men demanded. “I’m his wife,” the woman answered. Her husband gestured to the five-week-old marriage certificate hanging on the wall next to their bed. “That’s no good here,” said the sheriff before hauling the young couple off to jail. Their crime? Being Virginians in an interracial marriage in 1958.
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3 weeks ago |
styleweekly.com | Rich Griset
A former drag queen recalls a forgotten Parisian gay bar. A shapeshifting cat and butterfly dance through the cosmos. A cavalcade of old TV commercials rapidly morph into one another. These are a few premises of the shorts that will be presented at the Byrd Theatre on Sunday as part of the Richmond Animation Festival. Now in its third year, the festival will screen a series of shorts before artist and experimental animator Lilli Carré takes the stage to discuss her work.
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Writing up “Fancy: Costumes, Characters and the Richmond Masque,” @theValentineRVA's new exhibit about the museum’s eclectic array of garments, accessories and other ephemera from the city’s past. For @StyleWeekly https://t.co/rRvVUD4b9q
Writing about @Nickelodeon cartoon "Doug" and how fans can grab a bite at the Honker Burger today https://t.co/XRorWMmsPi
Just learned that my @VirginiaBiz story won a business writing 2nd place from the @va_press_assoc! The story concerns the difficulties faced by female and minority entrepreneurs in securing venture capital and angel funding. Congrats to all the winners! https://t.co/w67wjHSt90