Drinksgiving isn’t on any calendar, but it behaves like a holiday anyway predictable, chaotic, and oddly comforting, the way familiar mistakes often are. This year, instead of guessing which dive bars would be overflowing, we just asked the city. Our 2025 Support...
This week, RVA Magazine #34 hits the stands in Virginia with the print magazine's newest edition for the fall season. We're wrapping up the heat this year with another edition of the Commonwealth's best in music, arts, politics, and features: with perspectives on regional culture from across the state. On the beat all summer from outer space to...
Richmond’s newest campaign to offer intravenous drug users safer resources and greater care quietly kicked off this week, on Monday night in the Museum District. Led by Health Brigade, the group began its Comprehensive Harm Reduction Program, which includes a needle exchange program -- the second of its kind in Virginia so far. Established in...
What a week for those tenacious lost souls looking to touch fate and spark intrepid romances. One never knows where Cupid's Arrow might find them: At a convenience store, at the tractor supply, or perhaps as the manager of Red Lobster makes sure "everything is operating smoothly." Smooth, indeed. Into this week's dance with destiny, you'll find a...
1973's The Exorcist is the greatest horror movie of all time. The film, directed by William Friedkin, and starring Ellen Burstyn, Max Von Sydow, and Linda Blair, follows the demonic possession of a child in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. In the movie, Ellen Burstyn plays an actress filming a movie in Georgetown, when her child,...
Clad in maroon, hundreds of supporters gathered in Richmond today for the National March for Justice and Reformation. The march, planned on the birthday of Marcus-David Peters, was according to the event organizers a way to hold "elected officials and police departments accountable." Peters, a VCU graduate and a local high-school biology teacher,...
The Virginia League for Planned Parenthood (VLPP) and the Virginia Department of Health will provide uninsured patients with free long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC) through a Virginia LARC initiative. The initiative was approved in the two-year state budget by Governor Northam and the Virginia General Assembly. The LARC initiative is...
There are very few ways to make Limp Bizkit (LB) relevant again, let alone a situation in which lead singer Fred Durst looks cool. And few would suspect Insane Clown Posse, the clown posse labeled a “violent gang” by the FBI, to be the ones to do so. But here we are. Limp Bizkit was mid-set last Saturday at Rock Allegiance Festival in Camden, NJ...
A Stafford County Middle School has come under fire for isolating a transgender girl during active shooter training last week. According to a Facebook post by Equality Stafford on October 3, the incident occurred during a lock down drill. "One student was prevented from entering either the boys or girls locker room while the teachers discussed...
Is there anything more alluring than the thrill of traveling: the precipice of stepping into the unknown, the enchantment of far away lands, the freedom of an open road? Or just having some stranger at an airport of a roadside rest stop eyeball you up and down like a travel-sized toothpaste? Well, if that's your bag, then this week's Missed...
