Citizens of conscience, everything you are feeling is valid. How can we even begin to process the range of emotions experienced in the past 24 hours? What happened yesterday, January 6, 2021, is a day that will forever be seared into our collective memories. On this...
Best of VA Missed Connections December 23 – December 29
Welcome to Missed Connections in Richmond, Virginia, where the once-fertile fields of Craigslist are drying up to the point that we are now harvesting choice morsels from neighboring DC. OK yes, this is the kind of thing I once said I'd never do, but when people are...
Showing Donald Trump The “Mom Face”
Last month, Richmonder Tara Morand's frustration with the current president spurred her into action with an unusual protest -- walking from Richmond to Washington DC to show Trump her disapproving "mom face." The weekend before the Fourth of July, Tara Morand, a...
Inside The District of Columbia’s Fight For Voting Representation & Statehood
The residents of Washington DC have gone over 200 years without representation in Congress. But recently, their long fight for voting rights is gaining some momentum. When the colonies broke off from British control to become the United States, one of their rallying...
Shredding At Pulaski
The pristine marble of Washington DC's Freedom Plaza has made it a favorite spot year after year for street skaters in the DMV and all over the world. Tattooed on Mikey Payne’s right knee is “13th and E”: the address of Washington, D.C.’s Freedom Plaza. As a teenager,...
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