“The rebel yell, reinforced by a glorification of the lost cause was everywhere manifest,” reported John Mitchell Jr., editor of the Richmond Planet, an African American weekly newspaper, at the time of the Robert E. Lee monument’s unveiling. It was the spring...
This week feels like deja vu all over again. We do this most weeks, and most of the time and the missed connections are similar because they all fall into the same couple tropes: i saw a hot guy, i saw a hot girl, there was a pretty employee who was nice to me because its their job, i love my ex, i hate my ex, ONE IN ALL CAPS, weird phrasing,...
This missed connections gig is a job hazard- today alone there were four whose pictures were just straight up porn. They also leave you wondering certain things like why would a 42-year-old man try to get with someone starting as a VCU freshman this year? How does one get ‘sort of’ hit by a train? What is the underground world of furries like?...
Believe it or not, RVA Mag was not the beginning. Much as we'd love to lay claim to having started it all, the history of independent press in Virginia goes back many years longer than the single decade we've been in operation--and Richmond-based author Dale Brumfield has chronicled a significant portion of that history in his new book,...
Contributors here at RVAMag read extremely large amount of missed connections every week to bring this column to you, but this week’s take the cake for just being the most fucking creepy batch in a long while. Normally, one or two questionable posts rear their ugly heads, but this week most everything I’ve got is depressingly creepy. There are...
It's safe to say that Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" makes up the foundation of Poe's reputation as the inventor of the horror genre as we know it today. Having inspired everything from a Simpsons Treehouse Of Horror episode to the name of Baltimore's NFL franchise, "The Raven" is a cultural touchstone known to schoolchildren the world over. But...
It's not hard to look up inside a 3 story Fan apartment and wonder what the hell is going on just 7-14(RVA's famed vaulted ceilings!) feet above your head as the sounds of all hell rain down below. It's not hard to look up inside a 3 story Fan apartment and wonder what the hell is going on just 7-14(RVA's famed vaulted ceilings!) feet above your...
Party Liberation Front DJ/producer Akasha is back with a brand new mix that's tearing up the charts over at Addictech. Party Liberation Front DJ/producer Akasha is back with a brand new mix that's tearing up the charts over at Addictech. The Pathfinder EP is currently topping the Addictech charts, in fact, and we're glad to see our PLF pal riding...
Last week was a banner week for missed connections and that is a truly hard act to follow. Last week was a banner week for missed connections and that is a truly hard act to follow. Luckily though, this farmer is ready to harvest with the beautiful weather outside. And while I pull corn off its stalks to prepare for the upcoming season, you...
Yesterday, Style Weekly published an article by Courthouse News Service correspondent Charly Himmel, reporting on a lawsuit filed against GWAR by William Brockie, father of the late frontman and founder Dave Brockie. The lawsuit alleges that GWAR members conspired to steal Dave Brockie’s personal belongings and even his cremated remains from his...
