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Best Of VA Missed Connections January 23 – January 29

Are food and infatuation intrinsically connected? If you read the Missed Connections week after week, it sure starts to seem that way. So it's no surprise that this week brings us a very cuisine-oriented edition of our weekly trawl through Craigslist. There are...

RVA On Tap: Arrogant Bastards Unite!

What’s happening, craft beer lovers of RVA?! Welcome to this week’s RVA On Tap, RVA Magazine’s weekly column for all your craft beer-related events, releases, festivals, and all the booze news your hearts desire.  If you missed the last column, you can check that out...

Best Of VA Missed Connections January 16 – January 22

If you need meat, you go to the market (shout out to Ray Manzarek). And maybe you go to the Missed Connections, to catch the attention of that cutie you ran into by the steaks. But if meat isn't what you're shopping for, that's OK -- we've got interactions of all...

Fighting The System With Carole Leonard of Prison Reform Movement

*This article originally appeared in RVA Mag #35, on the streets now at all your favorite spots. Earlier this year, administrators at Nottoway Correctional Facility issued a ban on the use of tampons and menstrual cups during prison visitations. Criminal justice...

Best of VA Missed Connections January 9 – January 15

Trading spouses isn't just for mediocre reality TV anymore! Now it's found a new home -- in this week's Missed Connections. But you don't have to be already-married to find romance here, though it will help if you like to wear open-toed high heels in the winter (which...

Best of VA Missed Connections: January 2 – January 8

We're starting 2019 off right here in Virginia, and this week's missed connections reflect that fact. From people checking on your coffee orders to good samaritans making sure you got the license plate number of the guy who hit your car, everyone's looking out. And if...

Losing Lifeblood: Rural Appalachia Survives After Coal

*This article originally appeared in RVA Mag #35, on the streets now at all your favorite spots. For Erastus Adkins, a once-resident of Wayne County, West Virginia, the coalfields were a way of life. With 11 children to feed, Adkins worked in the mines from the age of...

Best of RVA Missed Connections December 26 – January 1

So this is the new year; I don't feel any different. And neither do the Missed Connections -- they just keep rolling along for another year, giving us intriguing windows into the lives of strangers (some of whom are pretty weird). That said, if you're looking to...

The Politicians Who Take Money from The NRA in Virginia

Another day, another mass casualty attack, this time at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Florida. While the names of all the victims have not yet been released to the public, law enforcement is slowly starting to release some details. What is known as of this morning, is that 17 teachers and kids have been killed with...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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)...

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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...

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