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City Creatives: Original Torpedo Factory artist, Susan Sanders, still creating custom...

By Kaitlin Murphy The Torpedo Factory Art Center is a must-visit landmark in Old Town and has been for 50 years. Located in a former...

Our View: A creative city

This week the third Alexandria Times City Creatives section is part of our April 6 edition. We launched City Creatives this time last year...

City Creatives: Behind the Scenes: Alexandria actress discusses her life and...

By Kim Jackson Pat Nicklin is passionate about her first love – performing on a stage. Her month-long run as the lead in the...

City Creatives: Moving forward: Local Motion Project merges dancing and teaching...

By Olivia Anderson | [email protected] At a recent Local Motion Project dance rehearsal, nine women clad in earth-toned flowy dresses leapt, darted and splayed across the...

City Creatives: Women who altered history: Local author tells how Vietnam...

By Kerry Boyd Anderson  Local Alexandria author Taylor Baldwin Kiland has a forthcoming book featuring a group of women who changed history. “Unwavering: The Wives Who...

City Creatives | He’s got the beat: Crooked Beat owner overcomes...

By Andrew Dunbar  Bill Daly, unsurprisingly, is a lifelong lover of music. Daly’s record collection and knowledge of bands were turning heads long before he...

Baffin Records works to make music accessible

By Olivia Anderson | [email protected] When one thinks of Alexandria, images of the town’s waterfront and quaint brick buildings might come to mind. Yet as...

Our View: Remembering our arts roots

The 20-page City Creatives arts section that appeared in last week’s Alexandria Times is evidence of just how far our city has come as...

City creatives: Vi Trinh

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] Vi Trinh can’t stop thinking about the internet. As a post-grad artist-in-residence at the Torpedo Factory, Trinh is fascinated by the...

City creatives: Patrick Kirwin

By Luke Anderson | [email protected] It takes a skilled artist to create art that tricks the eye. It takes an especially skilled artist to do...