Last Friday afternoon, students from several Richmond schools marched down Broad St to Capitol Square, as part of the Youth Strike 4 Climate worldwide protest. An estimated 1.4 million students in 123 countries played hooky this past Friday, demanding public action...
Bibliophilia Finds The Comedic Potential of Romance Novels
Fallout's semi-regular event, Bibliophilia, seeks the humor in sex scenes from pulp romance novels and legendarily bad fanfic My Immortal. It's not too hard to find. Most comedy acts don’t include the phrases, “feeling his desire harden,” or, “spinning out the golden...
The Redemption of Christian Picciolini: How a Former Skinhead Became a Leader in the Fight To End Hate
*This article originally appeared in RVA Mag #34, on the streets now at all your favorite spots. He stood in an alley on the south side of Chicago, smoking a joint. His parents didn’t know where he was, or if they did, they were most likely too busy working to be...
RVA Global: Ten Things You Never See in Richmond, But See in India Every Day
Bangalore, the capital of India's southern Karnataka state is an incredibly beautiful, vibrant, confusing, contradictory, and stunning piece of the country. As a friend once told me, "India will attack your senses." He was very, very correct. Living here for one month...
Marcus-David Peters Shooting Declared an “Act of Justifiable Homicide” by Commonwealth Attorney
In a report released Friday morning, Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael N. Herring said he will not pursue criminal charges against the officer who shot and killed Marcus-David Peters on I-95 on May 14. Herring described the event as “an act of justifiable...
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