Writer’s Block is RVA Magazine’s Sunday series highlighting contemporary writers working in Richmond and across the Commonwealth. Each week, we feature original poems, short stories, or essays. Just real voices writing right now. This week we’re featuring two...
We may be gearing up to stuff our faces this holiday season, but this week's batch of RVA Missed Connections are up to their usual antics. A post wouldn't be complete without a tantalizing sock fetish and two people in dire need of relationship advice. Rachel from Wawa has an admirer and sparks fly at City Beach on Cary Street. Check out those...
“Shoot! Fire the first shot of the race war, baby!” The man smiles as he shouts. He wears a blue button-down, blue baseball helmet, and carries a Vanguard America-Texas flag. A small gas-mask hangs from his neck as he stands behind the metal cordon inside Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, VA. Other young white men surround him, holding...
According to the police in Staunton, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) distributed recruitment flyers on residents' cars yesterday. Local resident Lydia Roberts posted the flyer left on her car to Facebook. The flyer was headed with "Black Lives Matter" followed by the text, "are killing white people and police officers in the name of justice for the...
Do you or someone you know have the writing chops to seek out and deliver compelling stories on the latest in music, art, food, beer, politics and current events in Richmond? Well, you’re in luck, because the editors of RVA Mag and GayRVA.com are in need of editorial and video interns for our upcoming spring session! We’re looking to fill about...
After a series of postponements, the Monument Avenue Commission met for the first time since the violent alt-right rally in Charlottesville on August 12, for a working meeting without public comment. Half of the 10 commissioners met before some 80 citizens and covered state laws concerning the preservation of monuments, an online exhibit by the...
In this week's Missed Connections it seems cuffing season has come early. From uber drivers to strangers in elevators, everyone is looking for someone and this week their search for someone to keep them warm this holiday season has taken them to Craigslist. Eavesdropping on a serious conversation. - m4w (Harrison St.) Didn't mean to. But y'all...
“We must teach each child the values of empathy and communication that are at the core of the kindness, mindfulness, integrity, and leadership, which can only be taught by example.” Those words were spoken by First Lady Melania Trump two months ago at the United Nations. Does she know who her husband is? In Virginia and across the country,...
Democrats swept today's election in Virginia with an unprecedented victory for the Governorship, LT Governorship, and Attorney General seats, along with potentially picking up 12 delegate seats in the General Assembly. In addition, the first transgender woman, Danica Roem, was elected to the General Assembly unseating her anti-LGBTQ rival, Bob...
The Virginia Pilot is reporting that the ACLU is claiming that some person(s) or organization(s) have been calling voters and telling them their polling location has changed. Director of strategic communications Bill Farrar has said that there has been a multitude of reports supporting this, but that it was hard to determine whether or not they...
