A Sunday series from RVA Magazine featuring writers from Richmond and VirginiaWriter’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...
Wacken Open Air Festival in southwest Germany is the largest gathering of heavy metal bands in the world. This year, scions of the heavy metal world like Judas Priest, Sepultura, Dimmu Borgir, and Nightwish converged once again to bring planet Earth the heaviest music in the known universe. Which is precisely the kind of event that two aging...
“I miss my house. I really would not have traded it for a piece of plywood if this were not important,” shouted Red Terry, high above her property in a tree-sit on Bent Mountain this past April. Theresa “Red” Terry lives in an “active crime scene,” according to law enforcement. Along with other activists, she and her daughter, Minor Terry, are...
*This story has been updated The statue glorifying Confederate General Robert E. Lee, which sits on Monument Ave. in Richmond, was vandalized in the early hours of the morning. Dark red paint was splashed all over the plinth of the statue with the letters BLM written on the base - seemingly an acronym for the group Black Lives Matter. Two capitol...
First, it was escape rooms, then arcade bars, then ball pit bars and now adrenalin junkies are on to the next latest craze: axe throwing. Because throwing darts is for old people and sitting around getting drunk is boring apparently. The trend has popped up in Brooklyn, Hartford, Detroit, Philly, Washington, D.C. and has now made its way to...
Richmonder Ryan McCreary was graduating high school when vaping became a fad. Like many modern smokers looking to transition, he spent a year vaping as an alternative, using a small battery-powered vape pen to get his tobacco fix. He acknowledges the youth appeal of e-cigarettes, especially the flash-drive-sized Juuls, but argues that it isn’t...
According to this meme, Mamasai Mamakusu is the hijab-wearing principal of a Richmond high school, and she's here for your crosses. It's fake, of course, just one of the many creations of Christopher Blair, a satire writer whose pieces keeps showing up in your social media feeds thanks to your most gullible friends. Blair currently runs America's...
Environmentalists rejoiced as the Federal Appeals Court struck down two important decisions that had allowed the Mountain Valley Pipeline natural gas line to cut through the Jefferson National Forest this past Friday. The decision, which comes after years of cases and appeals against the federal agencies approving the construction of the...
As the one year anniversary of Charlottesville rapidly approaches, the phrase “domestic terrorism” will inevitably be on everyone’s mind. Virginia experienced something deeply traumatic last summer when white supremacist James Fields, Jr., drove his car into a group of anti-fascists, killing Heather Heyer and wounding 30 others. There is a...
Grab your popcorn Richmond, because this batch of RVA Missed Connections is sure to provide your dose of entertainment this week. Sparks fly over drinks at 23rd & Main, a New Orleans native catches the eye of a man at the Christopher Titus show at Richmond FunnyBone, a sad soul searches for his long-lost "turtle fan", and things get steamy at...
