Fashion Crush Friday: Alexander Wang
Allison Oberlin, Guest Columnist Alexander Wang is a part of a new generation of up-and-coming American designers on track to become a classic American brand like Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and Donna Karan. After designing for the famed label, Balenciaga and collaborations with H&M he is now perhaps one of the most sought-after designers in […]
Resurrection Men: Richmond’s Secret Culture of Body-Snatching
By Nilan Vaghjiani, contributing writer Imagine, instead of going out on a late friday night to a local soiree, preparations are made to visit the nearest cemetery. This cemetery visit is not of sentimental nature and involves you, some hired henchmen, and shovels. In fact, this visit is a heist known as Body snatching: the […]
Winter First Fridays
By Gabriella Lacombe, contributing writer My dear readers, I ask you, for a moment, to imagine a venn diagram. Do not be afraid, this isn’t elementary school. The left circle is dedicated to Art. Written inside are the words “life in palpableform”, “human experience”, “passion” and “feeling”, all finger-painted in a rainbow of gouache. The right circle […]
Beyonce x Topshop coming 2015
By Alena Sydnor, Guest Columnists Beyonce and TopShop to create an Athletic Wear Line The buzz in fashion is that the Queen B has paired up with TopShop to design an athletic wear line, Parkwood TopShop Athletic Ltd. This collaboration could have not presented itself at a more ideal time than now, considering the recent […]
Winter, I hate you
By Gabriella Lacombe, guest columnist Photo by Jose D’Alta The streets of Richmond are grey and baron this week, and the people passing by are grimacing from the involuntary tears streaming out of their eyes– if their faces aren’t covered up by a thick scarf or ski mask. Three blocks suddenly seems much further away […]
Satellite Syndicate Proves Richmond’s (Still) Got Beats
By Jose D’Alta, Online Editor Photos by Daniel Potes You might’ve seen them online, or at one of the many shows they’ve been putting on recently; Satellite Syndicate is a blessing to a city saturated by Indie Royalty hopefuls, camping-obsessed folk bands, and chord-blasting, first world Anarchists. The beat-driven collective’s been incredibly active since their […]
Up Close with Nico Deportago-Cabrera
By Mary Swanson, guest columnist After interviewing Addison Zawada at Lockn, Ink had the chance to sit down with Nico Deportago-Cabrera, another Red Bull cyclist who specializes in courier racing. Nico, in addition to participating in courier championships and cyclocross, is the vocalist and guitarist in a garage punk/power pop band called Young Distractions [http://youngdistractions.bandcamp.com/] […]
Addison Zawada v. INK Magazine
By Mary Swanson, guest columnist Image Credit: Robert Snow Earlier this last month Ink had the opportunity to cover Lockn’ Festival in its second year. If you’ve ever attended a festival you’ notice that other activities are offered in addition to the music, disc golf being the most common. This year, Lockn’ switched it up […]
Whirr Your Head Off: Whirr and Cloakroom at Strange Matter
By Alex Curran, guest columnist Photo by Ryan McLain There is an entire mythos behind the sonic power of shoegaze bands, whether it’s My Bloody Valentine’s ability to make people enter a trance-like state through continuously playing as loud as they possibly can, or the rumor that Whirr has the ability to make audience members […]
Brighter the Moon at the Canal Club
Written by Cort Olsen, Editor-in-Chief Photos courtesy of hcastenphoto.com Pop punk is like vanilla ice cream, there really is no way to screw it up and pretty much everyone likes vanilla ice cream. The down side of vanilla ice cream is it gets gets boring after a while. Pop punk is like feeling nostalgic […]
Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Scotland’s Independence Movement
By Angie Judson, guest columnist INK is taking a look through Scotland’s history on its independence, union, and current referendum that happened on the 18th of September. Scotland’s struggle with independence is no new story, they have been dealing with major changes in Government ruling for a few centuries now. Here’s a quick timeline of […]
DIVERS-CHROMA
By Jessica Morgan, guest columnist Photography by Aaron Ni’Jai Men don’t just wear “menswear” and women don’t just wear “womenswear”. The world of fashion no longer forces us to conform and fit into a box where we are solely identified by our sex. The boundaries of conventional “gender-wear” are beginning to diminish while men experiment […]