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‘Support Local, Vote Local’ RVA Magazine’s 2025 Readers’ Poll Is Now Closed!

‘Support Local, Vote Local’ RVA Magazine’s 2025 Readers’ Poll Is Now Closed!

Editor’s note: The results are in and can be found HERE! Let the groans begin, Richmond, it’s that time again: our semi annual Support Local, Vote Local Poll. We’ve all been through it lately. Another election, another pile of headlines designed to grind your...




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The Hustle Season Podcast: Ep. 194 It’s A Vibe Part 2

RVA Magazine is proud to showcase The Hustle Season Podcast every weekend. Produced in Richmond, VA; homegrown musicians Kelli Strawbridge, Reggie Pace, James Seretis (La Cocina’s engineer) & Gabriel Santamaria bring their irreverent, outspoken and at times...

Best Of VA Missed Connections: July 7 – July 13

It's Tuesday, and that means it's time once again to review the past week of wackiness via the ever-faithful Missed Connections! This week, we will learn that some Home Depot encounters are more pleasant than others, and that, even if you're not road-raging, cars can...

The Hustle Season Podcast: Ep. 193 Blink 182 B-Side

RVA Magazine is proud to showcase The Hustle Season Podcast every weekend. Produced at La Cocina Studio in Richmond, VA; homegrown musicians Kelli Strawbridge, Reggie Pace, James Seretis (La Cocina’s engineer) & Gabriel Santamaria bring their irreverent, outspoken...

Best of VA Missed Connections June 30 – July 6

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections, where it's summer, it's hot, and it's only going to get hotter. Lake Mead is dry and it's 115 degrees in British Columbia, but your uncle still says climate change is a hoax. Are we all doomed? Maybe so. But let's at...

The Hustle Season Podcast: Ep. 192 Sad But True

RVA Magazine is proud to showcase The Hustle Season Podcast every weekend. Produced at La Cocina Studio in Richmond, VA; homegrown musicians Kelli Strawbridge, Reggie Pace, James Seretis (La Cocina’s engineer) & Gabriel Santamaria bring their irreverent, outspoken...

The Hustle Season Podcast: Ep. 191 Yo-Yo Nah

RVA Magazine is proud to showcase The Hustle Season Podcast every weekend. Produced at La Cocina Studio in Richmond, VA; homegrown musicians Kelli Strawbridge, Reggie Pace, James Seretis (La Cocina’s engineer) & Gabriel Santamaria bring their irreverent, outspoken...

Best of VA Missed Connections: June 23 – June 29

Welcome to Missed Connections, where the heat of the late-June days is reflected by the content of the posting happening. At least it is this week. That said, it is Craigslist, so things always come out a little weird. And sometimes, more than a little creepy. For...

The Hustle Season Podcast: Ep. 190 Fart Of The Problem

RVA Magazine is proud to showcase The Hustle Season Podcast every weekend. Produced at La Cocina Studio in Richmond, VA; homegrown musicians Kelli Strawbridge, Reggie Pace, James Seretis (La Cocina’s engineer) & Gabriel Santamaria bring their irreverent, outspoken...

Best Of VA Missed Connections September 18 – September 24

Missed Connections often brings out the weirdest qualities of humanity, but every once in a while, it brings out the best. Such is the case this week, as you'll soon see. And of course, we agree with the poster -- catcalling women on the street is completely unacceptable. Meanwhile, it seems that the action was hot in the campgrounds around the...

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MAYOR PETE VISITS THE CHEATS MOVEMENT PODCAST

On this episode of The Cheats Movement on WRIR, Cheats talks with Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (Mayor Pete) about his recent visit to Virginia and his 2020 campaign. He also talks with poet Roscoe Burnems on his upcoming poetry and comedy special "Traumedy." Gigi Broadway and Cheats go back and forth on the merits of a Sunday wedding and...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections September 11 – September 17

I don't know about y'all, but buffets of any kind are a particular weakness of mine. I never would have associated them with Missed Connections, but this week, we'll all learn that some people very much do. Digging in at Golden Corral is just the thing to get some people all hot and bothered, apparently. I guess I get it -- the mac and cheese is...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections September 4 – September 10

It's Missed Connections time once again, and I don't know about all you other Scooby Doo fans out there, but I always thought Velma was much more intriguing than Daphne. I guess I'm not the only one, because we have some sexy librarian lust happening in the MC's this week that'll bring back fond memories of everybody's adorable mystery-solving...

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Your Room Is Ready At The Hotel Greene

Whether you're a mini-golf fan or you love the mysteriously fascinating hotels of bygone eras, the Hotel Greene is sure to delight you when you stop in. What would happen if Kelsey Grammer’s Frasier Crane moved to Richmond, VA and felt like playing some mini-golf while slumbering in the mind of Wes Anderson?  The Hotel Greene is exactly what...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections August 28 – September 3

School's back in here in Richmond, and if you're riding the bus, you just might find yourself in the Missed Connections this week. After all, we've all gotta get there somehow. We've got a bunch of fun stuff in the good ol' MCs this week, from house flippers who want to flip more than just houses to athletic hikers and flirty Food Lion shoppers....

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Best of VA Missed Connections August 21 – August 27

The longer summer goes on, the weirder it gets here in the Missed Connections. From people who smoke Netflix to unashamed beer belly rubbers in the hardware store, everyone's letting it all hang out this week. And don't get us wrong, we're all for it! If nothing else, it makes for some entertaining reading. We've got all kinds of stuff going on...

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Fear And Loathing In Henrico County: CRT Edition

This month, Henrico residents encountered what might be the weirdest secret Santa ever. But hey, at least the singer for Those Manic Seas is keeping busy. I’ve received a lot of strange, unsolicited gifts in my life. A pot holder, a tiny nativity set, a picture of a family I don’t know in a frame from the 80s. But a television from the 80s, from...

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