Editor’s Note: This story includes remarks from a national webinar hosted by the Hemp Industry & Farmers of America (HIFA) on Friday, November 8, 2025, before Senator Mitch McConnell’s hemp amendment was inserted into the government funding package over the...
As previously reported in RVA Mag, local provocateur Goad KC planned a semi-satirical event titled "Yell At The Lee Statue While Drinking Out Of A Container In A Brown Bag" for 2:00 PM on Monday afternoon. "I had to work in the morning and tonight, so this was the perfect time," he explained at the event, sipping an unidentified beverage inside a...
All sorts of organizations do fundraisers. Girl scouts sell cookies, high school and college clubs try to sell you donuts and middle schoolers sell magazines. The Wizengamot Quidditch Club of VCU, however, has found a unique way to get funds: selling part of their president’s body as real estate for a tattoo. The club launched their crowdfunding...
*Only the most ridiculous parts of this story are true. In what can only be described as the apex of neo-Confederate resistance, local Richmond residents on October 23 are planning on gathering once again in the shadow of Lee Monument - this time to yell at the statue, while drinking out of a container in a brown bag. This comes on the heels of...
The statue celebrating Jefferson Davis on Monument Avenue has been tagged with "racist" for the second time in as many days, after crews from Virginia Beach cleaned the same word from a previous tagging late Monday night. This time, however, the penmanship was better and a second line was added along the bottom of the pedestal with the words "Ban...
RVA Mag is back with a brand new Missed Connections, and its spicer than ever. From a stay-at-home dad crush, to a steamy encounter at the YMCA, a 25-year-old virgin looking for love, and Facebook rivals taking their beef to Craigslist, there's not a dull moment in this week's batch. Ovation Theater Late Comer - m4w (1100 Alverser Dr, Midlothian,...
The Jefferson Davis statue has been vandalized again, this time with the word "racist" scrawled in red over the pedestal bearing the name of the former President of the Confederacy. The statue has been vandalized at least three times since 2011, when someone painted "No Hero" on the base. In 2015, "Black Lives Matter" was written on the back of...
It's a long-standing tradition at Richmond's tattoo shops, but what makes someone wait in line for a $13 tattoo? Customers lined up by All-For-One, one of many shops along with Lucky 13 offering specials on Friday the 13th "It's really about the community," one heavily-tattooed visitor tells me. She skipped work to be here, and asks that I not...
Just like last week, this batch of RVA Missed Connections does not disappoint and is full of curious souls looking for love or just a good time. Sparks fly at a Short Pump Irish pub and a local vet, the search for a long lost VCU flame continues, there's a flirty encounter at the State Fair, and sock fetish guy just won't quit. Check out all...
*This is a developing story. White nationalist Richard Spencer just led another torchlit rally at Emancipation Park in Charlottesville. Spencer, who is one of the most recognizable faces of the alt-right and white nationalist movement held a similar rally in May to protest the removal of a statue glorifying Confederate General Robert E. Lee....
