These are the people shaping, advancing and steering Richmond arts in new directions. All ages, shapes and styles. They’re showing us new things — how to fool the DMV, how to become 41 people. They’re going new places — into houses that power the city, onto a bottle of Mountain Dew. They’re opening doors or, if there aren’t doors, knocking through walls and putting in doors. And behind those doors, the big secret, the thing you notice when you read between the lines of these profiles, are the connections between them all. And how all the doors lead to the same house. One that powers the city. — Brandon Reynolds
1. Balls to the Firewall: daybyday (or: Will Carsola and Dave Stewart)
2. The Sliceman Cometh: d.l. Hopkins
3. Modern Lifestyle: Starrene Foster
4. Recording in His Underwear: Lance Koehler
5. What Do You Want to Be when You Grow Up?: Scott Wichman
6. The Discovery of America: Ana Innes King
7. The Screening with No Name: Mike Jones and James Parrish
8. Performing Arts Center Ultra-Light: Alan Schintzius, Peter Szijarto and Juliana Szijarto
9. World Explorer: Adam Juresko
10. The Little Subculture That Could: Amanda Robinson, Jeremy Parker (and Tony Harris)
11. Town Hallmark: Marlene Paul
12. Background Noisemaker: Chris Bopst
13. In Every Picture: Robert Meganck
14. Touring the Past: Josh Small
15. Hand-Eye Coordination: Ashley Kistler
16. Man of Verses: David Wojahn
17. Nudity, Drugs and High Ceilings: Carol Piersol
18. Running an Experiment: Heide Trepanier
19. The Hairiest Man in Used-Book Activism: Ward Teft
20. Dance Party: Christina Fitch and Jessica Fulbright
21. Green Giant: Patrick Farley
22. The Gift That Keeps on Giving: Grant Mudge
23. First Aid Drum Kit: Brian Jones
24. Another Set of Eyes: Elizabeth King
25. Fringe Element: Derome Scott Smith
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