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RVA’s Summer Field Guide Hits The Streets Today

With Memorial Day Weekend in the books, summer in Richmond is officially here! To celebrate the liveliest season in the River City, RVA Magazine is proud to release the RVA Summer Field Guide: Our take on a solid season to get outdoors and enjoy the city’s best, out...

Best Of VA Missed Connections May 29 – June 4

It's that time once again -- time for the Missed Connections, where every week we hear from a broad swath of Virginia -- the hopeful, the forlorn, and of course, the kiiiinda creepy. This week, we learn that backyard showers are apparently not just for beach houses...

Best Of VA Missed Connections May 22 – May 28

It's really hot this week, y'all. I'm talking about the temperatures outside, but I could also be talking about the Missed Conections. Now that we're past Memorial Day weekend, I think we can all agree that it's officially summer in Virginia, and you can tell from...

Best Of VA Missed Connections May 15 – May 21

May is heating up, and once again we find ourselves with a bumper crop of Missed Connections. The indubitable star this week is a middle-aged dad who's out there living that American Beauty life -- and not in a good way. But the rest of you who are getting out there...

RIP Grumpy Cat: Our Memetastic Hearts Will Forever Belong To You

Today we celebrate the life of Grumpy Cat -- gone too soon from the world, but not from our hearts -- with a selection of our favorite Grumpy Cat memes. Today we learned that Grumpy Cat has passed away at the relatively young age (even for cats) of 7. The most famous...

Best of VA Missed Connections May 8 – May 14

Here we go with another spring edition of Missed Connections, in which we can plainly see that when the winter clothes went back into the closet, the tattoos went out on display once again. Based on this week's crop it seems like almost everyone in Richmond has...

Your Personal Guide to Richmond’s Thrift Shop Scene

Many consumers are turning to thrifting as an eco-friendly alternative to shopping at the mall. Numerous resale boutiques and thrift shops have popped up in the Richmond area over the past few years, giving people more options than ever. With warm weather creeping...

Best of VA Missed Connections May 1 – May 7

Welcome to this week's Missed Connections, where love is in the air and the creeps come out of their caves. Whether you're farting on your coworkers or drawn to them like magnets, rest assured you'll find a match (or please light one, if you're the former). From...

Best of RVA Missed Connections 3/6/18-3/13/18

We may have returned to a frosty winter wonderland, but it's always hot and steamy over in Missed Connections and its guaranteed to warm you right up. This week, we have a creepy ode to a "grilled cheese sandwich", a man with a foot fetish gets disappointed at "Red Robster", a former minister is looking to explore, and a man falls for a...

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Vintage Is For Lovers Market

Join us for the first "Vintage is for Lovers Market" at the historic Hippodrome Theater in Jackson Ward. We will gather some of Richmond’s best vintage vendors, artists and makers. This unique shopping experience is also for a good cause! $5 tickets get you in and 100% of the ticket proceeds will go to the Massey Cancer Center. Buy or at the...

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Belle & James to Relaunch as Southern Comfort Concept, ‘Belle’

Downtown Richmond's Belle & James will introduce a little southern charm to their area of the city this week as they relaunch with a new name and concept. The East Main Street French-American restaurant, which opened in 2014, has rebranded as "Belle," with their current chef Ro Alarahim at the helm to create a southern kitchen and bar serving...

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Photos: Richmond Women’s Strike

If the Women’s March in January was a guttural response to misogyny and Trumpism, then the Women’s Strike in Richmond yesterday was a well-calculated promise. Protesters in Richmond braved the painful cold Thursday to march down Broad Street to City Hall as they sang and chanted their demands for administration number forty-five for the 109th...

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Smart Sips featuring Sydney Lester of Chic Stripes at The Graduate

Do you have a closet full of clothes and nothing to wear? Does the idea of shopping make you need a glass of wine STAT? Would you love to make getting dressed every morning easy and stress free (who doesn't?)!? Join us for WINE and WISDOM from Sydney Lester of @chicstripes and learn how to create a capsule wardrobe. In this workshop you’ll learn...

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Legend Brewing Co 24th Anniversary!

24 years ago, Legend began as a small tasting room and pub off of an old gravel road called West 6th Street in Richmond's Historic Old Manchester District. Today, Legend hosts a 380 seat deck overlooking the city with 18 taps of Legend Beer flowing. It's that time of year again to shut it all down and bring out the big stage. Join us as we...

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