In Virginia, teen drug use isn’t some distant statistic, it’s here, and it’s part of daily life. Nearly one in five teens in the state reports smoking marijuana within the past month, and Chesterfield County is no exception. What’s more troubling is how casual it’s...
Look alive Richmond, Missed Connections is back with a whole new batch of spicy encounters for your weekly dose of entertainment. This go around, a woman is looking for her lost catch from Plenty Of Fish, love blooms at Boulevard Flowers, and a Lidi cashier checks out a girl with tattoos. All that and more below. your dog in a hot vehicle......
There is a side to kung fu that many Americans don’t see. Beyond the cinematic image of towering figures like Bruce Lee, the discipline is rooted in a deep tradition, something that was on full display at a rare international kung fu event held at the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center last weekend. Nearly 200 students and teachers, referred to by...
The Monument Avenue Commission, tasked with evaluating the fate of the statuary on Monument Avenue, held its first public community meeting since its contentious, chaotic first meeting last summer. The meeting proceeded relatively peacefully despite two sets of outbursts from pro-monument attendees, with the first occurring near the halfway point...
Anonymous individuals have started an online petition asking Mayor Levar Stoney to rename Richmond's beloved neighborhood Carytown to Garytown. The organizers identify themselves as "an organization focused on bringing about real change to the Richmond Metro Area," and make the dubious claim that a name change "would provide real, lasting,...
What should have been a birthday celebration with family last Sunday soon turned into a harrowing encounter between a Chesterfield family and the Richmond Police Department (RPD) and has raised questions about how police apply force against people with special needs. On the evening of May 6, as the RPD was responding to reports of a hit-and-run,...
Outside the offices of Dominion’s annual shareholder meeting, protesters gathered on the corner of the opposing street, chanting in opposition to the pipelines tearing through people’s homes and livelihood in the western part of the Commonwealth. “Our fields, our forests, our rivers, no pipeline!” they chant, the group huddles tight on the corner...
RICHMOND – Robin Foster had worked with abused and neglected children for years, but it wasn’t until she came face to face with a trafficking victim that she fully recognized the dimensions of the crisis that brought a 17-year-old to a hospital emergency room early one morning. The teen came to the hospital complaining of a sore throat but ran...
RICHMOND – On a hot Saturday in April, volunteers work under a bright sun and the noise of buzzing insects to find and remove unchecked nature and neglect from the graves of thousands of African-Americans, from everyday citizens to some of the most important leaders in local, state and national history. The neighboring Evergreen and East End...
Encounters over in Missed Connections are finally starting to spice back up again since it's been moved to a different section. This week, a Redskins fan admires a woman's peacock tattoo at Wolfgang's Gym, a biker attempts to show off for a fellow driver by popping a wheelie, sparks continue to fly at The Hofgarden as well as REI, and two...
