Writer’s Block is RVA Magazine’s Sunday series highlighting contemporary writers working in Richmond and across the Commonwealth. Each week, we feature original poems, short stories, or essays. Just real voices writing right now. This week we’re featuring two...
This is girl power at its finest. The Virginia Capitol Foundation’s latest project is finally underway, as the first four bronze statues for the Virginia Women’s Monument were commissioned this week. Voices from the Garden: The Virginia Women’s Monument will ultimately feature 12 important women from Virginia’s history who represent the struggles...
A sophomore studying social work at James Madison University has called out her school for blatantly mishandling its investigation of a fellow JMU student accused of raping her during a school trip to Ghana last year. The accuser, who will be referred to by CW, said the assault occurred June 21, 2017, during a study abroad trip while intoxicated...
We're back with an all-new RVA Missed Connections to get you through the rest of the week. In this batch, sparks fly at a local salad bar (Ellwood's perhaps?), a woman on a tinder date at The Graduate Hotel has a secret admirer, and someone creepily snapping photos of a person walking their German Shepherd at Belle Isle has high hopes for an...
What makes a school safe? Three state delegates say it’s more than checkpoints and metal detectors, and that their colleagues in the Virginia House aren’t doing enough to keep kids safe. Delegates Schuyler VanValkenburg of the 72nd District, Mike Mullin of the 93rd District, and Jeff Bourne of the 71st District have issued a set of policy...
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 craft market and metaphysical fair hosted by Richmond Moon Market at Champion...
One of the newly-launched GRTC Pulse buses was in a collision with a pickup truck that was making a left-hand turn through the dedicated bus lane on West Broad Street, around 5:50 this evening, at the intersection of Broad and N Allen Ave. According to Carrie Rose Pace, GRTC Director of Communications, five passengers claimed injury and requested...
Trying to reconnect with old friends or lovers? Looking for the perfect place for your inebriated midnight ramblings? Missed Connections is your place. In addition to those lovely contributions, we’ve got a girl looking for some queer love at Hardywood, another hoping to score with an Uber driver, and someone missing a bearded face with those...
America is in need of some leadership–at least according to Mallory Hagan. Hagan is the Democratic candidate for Alabama’s 3rd district in their upcoming House elections, but most people know her as the former Miss America. Hagan was crowned Miss America in 2013 as Miss New York 2012, but says the title burdened her with certain stereotypes that...
It’s a familiar trope, you’re at your job typing, sweating, and working away trying to get a group project completed for your boss. You’ve been staying up late, drinking way too much coffee, and buzzing around the office to complete the final touches. Then as you walk to your bosses office to present the project, your devilishly handsome and...
