As Shockoe Bottom has continued to be ground zero for unmanaged nightlife, armed youth, and disappearing oversight business owners and community leaders warn that Richmond’s failure to act isn’t just bad policy, it’s a dangerous gamble with the city’s future....
Akasha's "Neophyte" Album Akasha's "Neophyte" Album New Album is up for download from our local producer George Rollins(aka Akasha). This album features his newest creations along with some collaborations with some local and regional talent. I have gone through an initiation of learning whats necessary to become a producer, and now only my own...
As spring slips further and further away and summer's heat takes hold, it's obviously doing a number on RVA love birds - at least this week's best-of-craigslist-missed-connections would suggest as much. We had hot moms at the Children's Museum, hot dads at the WaWa, and lot's of lost love being thrust onto the internet in the hopes that it finds...
Former Daily Show correspondent John Oliver has been making waves with his new weekly HBO show, Last Week Tonight, and it looks like Virginia, and the recent Eric Cantor loss, have finally landed on his radar. Former Daily Show correspondent John Oliver has been making waves with his new weekly HBO show, Last Week Tonight, and it looks like...
Thursday, June 12th, The Broadberry presents An Evening of Comedy with Sara Schaefer and Eliza Skinner featuring Jennifer Lemons. Thursday, June 12th, The Broadberry presents An Evening of Comedy with Sara Schaefer and Eliza Skinner featuring Jennifer Lemons. The doors open at 6:30 and the show starts at 7:30. Tickets are $25, and all proceeds...
We're back again, and this time we got a few more choice requests for love (or otherwise) from the passed week. It's not easy finding the right man or woman in your life, but maybe yours is just a missed connection away. And make sure to head over to Craigslist and post your own missed connections - we'll be doing this every week and we'd love to...
Somewhere between creepy and endearing lies Craiglist Missed Connections. Perhaps its the anonymous nature of the post, or the ease with which we let things slide through our fingers, but MC's seem to be both romantic and a lazy, last ditch effort to find love that could have been.Either way, it makes for good reading. So take a look at the...
You can tell the scientists at South Korea's Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology really love their job, regardless of how valuable its real-world applications might be--because even though I can't imagine why we'd need a robotic replica of a velociraptor in the world, they have built one [link is in Korean]. You can tell the...
Some books are crafted by writers, and some are written by storytellers. Land Of The Free by Woodrow "Pack" Landfair (born in Richmond, Virginia) is a book written by a story, which is to say any attempt to unravel the various parallel and intertwining plot lines from one another, the factual from the fantastical, or the narrative from the...
In the face of certain rejection by Richmond City Council, Mayor Dwight Jones withdrew his proposal to redevelop Shockoe Bottom shortly before council’s Tuesday night meeting. In the face of certain rejection by Richmond City Council, Mayor Dwight Jones withdrew his proposal to redevelop Shockoe Bottom shortly before council’s Tuesday night...
