Every morning at 9 a.m. in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, the world stops. Cars freeze in the streets, trams halt mid-track, and pedestrians stand silent as the national anthem plays. It lasts a minute, a ritual pause to remember the dead and remind the living what they’re...
Stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director - the list of David Cross' talents are near endless. He's done it all, from entertaining on stage with his unique brand of political comedy, to small screen portrayals of iconic characters like Tobias Fünke in the Emmy-award winning TV series Arrested Development. On the big screen, he's recently been in...
Be careful out there singles of Richmond, we hear it’s a rough time to find a soulmate, and the writers of Missed Connections are here to tell us just how tough it is. Wear flannels, glasses, and have a beard? (AKA every dude in Richmond?) Well, you’ve got a couple on the hunt for you. This week also features a Richmonder lamenting about the one...
With so much to do in our own River City, it can be hard to get out and see the rest of Virginia, but it’s always rewarding. With that in mind, stories in our 33rd issue take us outside of Richmond to find the best in arts, music, and news throughout the Commonwealth and beyond. A visit to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Virginia Beach inspired...
Virginia has experienced some ecological anomalies this summer: giant terror plants, an increase in snake reports, great white sharks off the coast, but now it has all come full circle with a report out of Virginia Beach this past week. According to Wavy TV 10, James Hopper had a rude awakening Thursday, when he strolled into the bathroom for his...
The tents begin to pop up in the parking lot of a rural fairgrounds on Wednesday evening, the night before the largest free medical clinic in Virginia opens. It would be 10 hours before the gates would open to the 2,000 or so people, many sleeping in their cars, some from as far away as West Virginia and North Carolina, to obtain the only medical...
The white supremacist Chris Cantwell, a major figure during last year's disastrous Unite the Right rally now known as the "Crying Nazi," has been barred from entering the Commonwealth for the next five years. On Friday, he plead guilty to assault and battery for spraying two anti-racist activists with pepper spray on the eve of the rally....
A quadruple shooting in the parking lot at Club Infuzion last Friday, which left one dead and three injured, forced the Scott’s Addition nightclub and restaurant to shut down operations this week. But is this the last we’ve seen of the popular hip hop venue? According to the Richmond Police Department, around 2:00 a.m., officers were called to...
Philip Van Cleave, President of the Virginia Citizens Defense League and “Friendly Grown Up,” wants to arm your toddler with pistols, machine guns, and grenade launchers. Van Cleave was apparently duped by filmmaker and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen on the inaugural episode of Cohen’s new television series, “Who is America?” The clip, which has...
This story was originally published on GayRVA. After the horrific 2016 shooting at the Pulse nightclub, Richmond’s LGBTQ community tried to come together for unity, but instead, found division. Vigils were organized locally by leading LGBTQ advocacy groups, but as happens all too often in American society at large, Black and Latinx leaders felt...
