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Best of RVA Missed Connections 2/7/18 – 2/13/18
In this week of RVA Missed Connections, we have an interesting collection of experiences from a man looking for a secret sugar daddy, to a Fancy Biscuit Flirtation, to a bald guy fetish, a mom with a face tat at McDonald's gets a secret admirer and two people "bumping" at the VMFA. All that and more below. Secret Sugar Daddy - m4m (Richmond)...
Opinion: The Beautiful Blackness of the Obamas’ Portraits
It’s Monday morning, I am about to rush out of my house when a friend tips me off that the Obamas' portraits are about to be revealed. I turn to CNN and wait for my whole life to be given to me. Thank you to the political gods that knew I needed a touch of the Obamas to start my week. I see Michelle walking up with painter Amy Sherald to slowly...
Design Competition in Charlottesville Seeks to Raise New Monuments, Challenge Confederate Monuments
The weekend of August 11-13, 2017 was a weekend that has pushed its way into history and not the good kind. In order to protest the removal of the statue commemorating Robert E. Lee in Emancipation Park, the city of Charlottesville had become the unwilling home of the white supremacist Unite the Right Rally this past summer. Masked as the...
Richmond City Council Passes Controversial Meals Tax Increase, 7-2
After a lengthy and heated deliberation, Richmond’s hotly contested meal’s tax was decided Monday night, with it passing City Council in a 7-2 vote. Councilpersons Andreas Addison, Parker Agelasto, Mike Jones, President Chris Hilbert, Vice President Cynthia Newbille, Reva Trammel, and Ellen Robertson voted in favor of Mayor Stoney’s proposed meal...
Seeking Refuge: An RVA Mag Documentary Series on Syrian Refugees
Syria is the great humanitarian disaster of our generation. According to Human Rights Watch's World Report for 2017, almost 500,000 civilians have been killed with another 100,000 detained or disappeared since the start of the civil conflict in 2011. The majority of the conflict has taken place in dense urban environments, which has led to an...
Review: RVA Environmental Film Festival
Rising sea levels are a threat and its detrimental effects can be seen both abroad in our own backyard. Two short documentaries screened in Richmond over the weekend captured this very issue. EPA director Scott Pruitt recently said that the rapidly occurring climate warming “may not be a bad thing” should probably have watched Adaptation...
Scott’s Addition Coffee Roaster Brews Up Plans For Expansion in Shockoe Bottom
A local coffee roaster has been brewing up plans for expansion-and with the help of an Indiegogo campaign, the company will serve up a cafe and coffee bar to residents in Shockoe Bottom this spring. It’s been two years since Ironclad Coffee Roasters stirred the community awake with their West Moore Street facility in Scott’s Addition, and have...
In Case You Forgot, Today is National Pizza Day
Today is a national holiday of the highest order. What is it you ask? Some kind of remembrance day whereby we honor those who came before us? Hardly. Today is National Pizza Day. While this holiday might be "unofficial" it certainly lives in the hearts and minds of American everywhere. According to the Pizza Joint, a website which tracks pizza...
Local Activist Launches Black Panther Challenge Campaign in Richmond
A Richmond youth activist has launched a local crowdfunding campaign for the #BlackPantherChallenge, which was started by Frederick Joseph and went viral recently to help raise funds for children in the Harlem Boys & Girls Club to see Marvel’s “Black Panther” film, coming out Feb. 16. Lance Cooper is the Youth Program Director for the SM...
