Editor’s Note: Following our recent coverage of Virginia’s cannabis market, where independent retailers face mounting pressure from enforcement and monopolistic lobbying, Max Jackson, founder of Cannabis Wise Guys and a presenter at the...
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 2/14-2/20
FEATURED SHOW Friday, February 16, 8 PM Kenneka Cook, The Flavor Project, Keilan Creech @ The Camel - $8 in advance/$10 day of show (order tickets HERE) Sometimes a wave is happening that you just can't deny or ignore. Kenneka Cook is riding one of those waves to total dominance over the RVA music scene right now, and we're lucky enough to get...
Black Union Soldiers Remembered By American Civil War Museum
At least four of the 180,000 African American soldiers who fought for the Union were buried in either East End or Evergreen cemetery on the outskirts of Richmond. Their stories were forgotten, in part because of the Jim Crow laws that disenfranchised Black Richmonders and their burial grounds. Two journalists, Brian and Erin Hollaway Palmer,...
Review: Video Party at Sediment Arts
Walking into local artist-run gallery Sediment Arts after seeing a very 80s neon pink and yellow flyer for “Video Party” I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. It said it was on tour and with little information online other than independent filmmakers would be showcasing short films in a variety of genres, I was intrigued and decided to venture in...
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...
