Fall of Freedom bills itself as “an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation.” The organizers aren’t pulling punches: they argue that democracy is under attack, threats to free expression are rising, dissent is...
The best of RVA Missed Connections is back to help get you through the work week. In this batch, we've got creepy window peep shows, a woman at Chick-Fil-A lusts after a man in a construction vest, sparks fly at Murphy's Law and Floydfest, and one poster hopes things get steamy with his encounter at Brewer's Cafe. All that and more below. Chick...
Students at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill toppled the Confederate monument known as "Silent Sam" on Monday night. According to WRAL, nearly 200 student protestors assembled at the Peace and Justice Plaza at around 7 p.m. to call for removal of the statue. A short time later they marched to the statue, and by 9:30 p.m. it lay on...
Every so often what we see in the movies crosses over into the 3D realm which mere mortals currently reside; free from the shackles that bind the laws of the physical universe to our everyday lives. The cinematic masterpiece "The Last Action Hero" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger proved just how possible this can be. As summer transitions to fall,...
An image made in the likeness of the dark lord himself, aka, Lucifer: The Fallen, The Morning Star, The Great Deceiver, Old Nick, Mayor of Hell, Apollyon, briefly appeared outside the Capitol building in Little Rock, Arkansas, yesterday, and it was magnificent. The "Satan Went Down to Arkansas" rally, held by the Temple of Satan (bless them),...
Under cover of darkness, electric scooter company Bird dropped off their titular rental vehicles last night, primarily along Franklin, Main, and Broad streets. Placed in groups of three, which the company calls nests in their pun-heavy marketing materials, the new scooters are motorized and can be unlocked with an app--think bike share--and...
The queen of soul has only been gone a few hours and already there has been an altercation over her place in pop-culture, which left one person shot and critically injured. According to WTKR, police in Suffolk, Virginia, responded to a gunshot victim at around 10:45 am this morning. The cause: An argument over who played the queen in a movie....
Video has just surfaced of Mike Ness, legendary frontman of California punk band Social Distortion, taking swings at a concertgoer over an on-stage disagreement about politics last month at the Ace of Spades club in Sacramento, California. The clip shows 56-year-old Ness making aggressive hand gestures towards someone in the audience before...
It's a wild and weird time yet again in our weekly batch of RVA Missed Connections. This go around, we've got someone in search of "lady Voyeur", stinky feet and cowboy boots are apparently a turn on at Brown's Island, sparks fly at the bar at Buckhead's, and a random kiss is shared at Chester's I Don't Know Sports Grille. Dive in Richmond....
In Richmond’s 7th District, three candidates are running in a November special election for the school board seat vacated by Nadine Marsh-Carter after the death of her husband in 2017. Schools in the district suffer from chronic underfunding and maintenance issues, placing them amongst the most-dilapidated in the city. A majority of students...
