Richmonder Ryan McCreary was graduating high school when vaping became a fad. Like many modern smokers looking to transition, he spent a year vaping as an alternative, using a small battery-powered vape pen to get his tobacco fix. He acknowledges the youth appeal of...
Tarot, Reiki, and Incense: Investigating the Paranormal at Psychic Saturday
The cards don’t tell me when I’m going to die—which is a bit anticlimactic—but they do give me further insight into the mysterious world of the paranormal. Welcome to Psychic Saturday. As a budding paranormal investigator, I'd found myself at Psychic Saturday, a small...
The Peculiar and Spectral History of Swannanoa Palace
RVA Mag set off one downcast Sunday in June to uncover the mysteries of Swannanoa, the Afton, Virginia mountain palace of the famous Dooley family. Before reaching Swannanoa, I was almost certain that Dee Dee, the attendant at the Waynesboro Shell Station, would be...
Faces of Survival: Virginia Holocaust Museum Wants You to Remember What Survivors of Genocide Looks Like
In an age when 22 percent of American millennials said they haven’t heard of the Holocaust or are confused as to what the historical event was, “Faces of Survival” meets the viewer head on with a powerful reminder of what modern genocide looks like. The Virginia...
Activists and Family Take to the Streets to March for Justice in the Police Killing of Marcus Peters
“Help, not death." That was the chant that permeated today’s march that ended at the Richmond Police Department (RPD) headquarters, where hundreds of people demanded justice and reformation for Marcus Peters - an unarmed black man in mental distress who was shot and...
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