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Happy Thanksgiving From Your Friends At RVA Magazine!

It's a holiday -- one of the greatest ones, in fact, and we're all looking forward to getting together with the people we love to eat some delicious food and maybe watch some football. Hopefully you're doing so as well! RVA Magazine will be back to regularly scheduled...

Best of RVA Missed Connections: November 14 – November 20

It's a short week, and we're all hurrying to get through it and get to the long Thanksgiving weekend already. But before you make your Black Friday shopping plans, you might want to find some loving. That's where Missed Connections comes in. This week, we've got all...

Controversy/History Confronts Richmond School Segregation

School segregation in Richmond City and its surrounding counties is a persistent problem. 64 years after Brown v. Board of Education, the demographic makeup of schools in the area is still largely divided along racial and economic lines. Controversy/History, a monthly...

Best Of RVA Missed Connections: November 7 – November 13

Apparently a lot of hearts were set aflame this week, and more than a little of it happened at shows, from hot pit action at Good Riddance in Norfolk to some serious closeness in the pit at GWAR. Whether or not you rocked out with some cuties this past week, though,...

Dungeons & Dragons is No Longer the Strangest Thing

Dragons, Orcs, and Pabst Blue Ribbons, oh my. Dungeons & Dragons is having one hell of a resurgence lately in the River City. From game nights at local breweries, to live shows at comedy theaters, to your coworker organizing a campaign at his gross apartment, the...

Best of RVA Missed Connections: October 31 – November 6

The weather is turning chilly here in Richmond, and it's the perfect time to find a sweetheart and curl up by a warm fire. But only if you promise to be careful -- if you roll into the fire while you're testing out jiu jitsu techniques on each other, we won't be held...

The Compassion Experience:

Despite the subfreezing weather, the lot behind Hill City Church was bustling, dozens of people waited in the cold for their turn to enter the 1,700 square-foot mobile exhibit space known as The Compassion Experience.   The Compassion Experience is a self-guided immersive tour that takes visitors through the lives of impoverished children—now...

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Best of RVA Missed Connections 1/10/18-1/16/18

In this week's collection of the top Missed Connections stories on Craigslist, we have some old school laundromat lust, a seductive encounter at the salad bar, a sex partygoer looking to heat things up again, and some wholesome no frills love at Cracker Barrel. Check out what all the fuss is about below. 22 years ago this month - m4w (The Fan) ...

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Haunted in the Heart of RVA: Restaurant Seeks Exorcist

A recent Craigslist post caught our eye with its unusual request—a restaurant in Richmond's Fan District is on the hunt for an "exorcist." Yes, you read that right. It seems this small local spot is dealing with what they've described as a "demonic attack," and they're calling on anyone with the chops for casting out otherworldly spirits to help...

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Inside the Heating Crisis at Richmond’s Courts

A heating crisis in Richmond's public housing has local families struggling to stay warm during this brutally cold winter. Residents alleged decades of mismanagement by the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority, which was created in 1940 to administer and manage housing for low-income city residents. “Welcome to poverty,” Sha Randa Taylor...

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Best of RVA Missed Connections 1/4/18-1/9/18

New year, same naughty, sketchy, peculiarly romantic encounters for the people over in Missed Connections this week. In this batch, we have more sock and foot fetishes, of course, sparks fly at a 90s party at The National,  along with New York Deli, and Tarrant's Cafe. All that and more, below. I Saw U Peeking 😉 - m4w (bedroom) u could of waved...

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RVA #31: Anatomy of a Shooting

Sunday, October 8 12:30 a.m. Wonderland, Shockoe Bottom Ryan hadn’t planned on going out that night. Hanging out at home seemed just as viable of an option, but after being visited by a friend, he was convinced. His friend’s band, Torino Death Ride, was playing at the classic Richmond haunt for metal and hardcore rock: Wonderland. Originally...

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Best of RVA Missed Connections 12/26/17-1/3/18

We are just a few days into 2018 and the folks of Missed Connections are already providing us with enough entertainment for the whole year. Sparks fly at Cary St. Cafe, we've got more foot fetishes, a man has a few gigs for a pregnant woman living at the Richmond Inn, and if you're looking for a discreet encounter, a Chester man has declared...

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Best of RVA Missed Connections 12/19/17/-12/127/17

The holidays are a time for us to come together with our loved ones...or lurk on Craigslist in search of your latest fling or rendezvous. The people of Missed Connections are serving up the romance and wonderfully weird yet again this week from a flirtation over tomatoes at Ellwood Thompson's, to a man looking to reignite a threesome, sparks fly...

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