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$BLINGO$ vs BINGO
Our friends Brandon and Karen host BLINGO! every Thursday at Sticky Rice. Its speed bingo with prizes.
Electric Tickle Machine at WEIRD
The second episode of WEIRD and New York Deli is happening this Saturday and features Electric Tickle Machine out of New York and Sprankle Sprankle of Richmond, VA along with deejays JFKreuz and ETM Members. Free to the public; NSFW image (titties!) below the break.
The new Born Ugly is out on the streets.
The guys at Born Ugly have put out of their newest issue. Check it out at bornuglymag.com.
VCU Stands Together Against Hate!
Unless you were living under a rock... a hate group made several stops in Richmond today. There were many different protests...
Hate makes cents for local protest website!
Pennies In Protest are showing the Westboro Baptist Church that despite their best efforts, their presence in Richmond is resulting in good things for the organizations they most want to harm.
If you choose to donate to Pennies In Protest, all of the money collected will be split evenly between the following four targets of The Westboro Baptist Church's hate protests in Richmond, Va on 3/2/10.
Virginia Holocaust Museum 2000 E. Cary St.
The Jerusalem Connection 210 Giant Dr
Univ. of Richmond Hillel 5403 Monument Ave.
Hermitage High School Gay Student Union 8301 Hungary Spring Rd
At press time they have raised almost $7,000 lets double that number today!
The local skate scene= legit.
The local scene has seen its profile lifted in recent months with a combination of great ideas and talent coming together.
Total F#%king Asshats: The Westboro Baptist Church Comes To RVA (via GayRVA)
In the realm of asshats, there is plenty of diversity; from douchebags who hit on your significant other in a bar when you're right fucking there to bloggers who use terminology for vaginal irrigation as pejoratives, people cutting you off in traffic to shave a split second off of their travel time, and of course the generic "using a cell phone loudly in line for something" asshole.
Then, of course, there are people who making being vile, disgusting excuses for humans their every day life. Enter Fred Phelps, and his bag of dicks from the Westboro Baptist "Church." From Gay RVA:
According to the website of anti-homosexual propagandist Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church, a team of picketers will be making their way through Richmond on Tuesday, March 2. The picketing schedule posted on GodHatesFags.com begins the day at the Virginia Holocaust Museum. Anti-Semitic descriptions of each event accompany the calendar with stops at the University of Richmond Hillel at the JCC, and the Jerusalem Connection.
Dreams Of Vietnam
The young people of the Vietnam Student Association are imaging a new Vietnam on March 6th at Thomas Jefferson High School.
UNITED BLOOD 4: Hardcore Festival in RVA
Coming up this March 26-27, United Blood is a hardcore festival. This will be it's fourth year. We're going to have more coverage of this as it gets closer, however, here's two questions that Colin (who run the event with his partner-in-crime Dave) were kind enough to answer for us:
WEIRD @ NEW YORK DELI
Weird is a monthly dance party starting Feburary 20th at New York Deli, hosted by Anna Johnson and Meghan Worsham.
Weird has a two band, two DJ format. Ideally we would like to have one local band open, followed by a truly excellent out-of-town band (the same goes for our DJs). Our main goal is to move as far away as possible from tired Top 40 jams. We think people here are thirsting for an awesome, original dance party with amazing bands and DJs and are confident that Weird is going to be a huge success.
Robel Teklemariam, The Man That Slides On Ice.
UPDATE: Robel is in the Men's 15k Cross Country Skiing event TODAY at 3:30PM!!
SHOP RVA
Shop RVA like all other movements, began as an idea. What started out as an assignment in a graphic design class called Design Rebels became something more.
The Kung Fu Effect
Recent conversations about why I practice Moy Yat Ving Tsun Kung Fu (pronounced “Wing Chun”) have lead me to make the same statement: “Kung Fu has helped me with a lot of things in my life, most of which aren’t about fighting.” But isn’t fighting what Kung Fu is all about?
Snowmageddon.
Tag your photos #rvamag and they will automatically be included on the RVAMAG.com front page Flickr box.
Thank you to local photographer Dean Freeman.
Check out the whole set via RVAFlickr
Strange Matter: The 929 West Grace Street Saga Continues
The re-vamping of 929 West Grace street (formerly Twisters, 929 Cafe, The Nanci Raygun, Bagel Czar...
RVA TV 'Last Friday' February 2010
Last Friday' brings you interviews, art, music and the events that make up Richmond's First Fridays. This episode is our best yet and features the debut of our new host Anna Wittel.
Check out past episodes here:
Last Friday January from RVA TV on Vimeo.
Last Friday December from RVA TV on Vimeo.
DayByDay on HBO 02/19
Richmond boys DayByDay to premiere on HBO's Funny Or Die February 19th.
A Gay Edict for Straight Bars
Gay bars are gay bars. Is there even such a thing as straight bars? Is an establishment that is not expressly LGBT-oriented a de facto hetero establishment?
From Gay RVA, an op-ed by Cameron Parker:
Why should straight bars try to reel in the gays? Well, for several reasons. Although the Richmond bar scene is already pretty progressive, it seems to be timidly so. When Richmonders feel comfortable in their drinking environment, word spreads like wildfire and people flock to those bars.
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