Most Richmonders haven’t heard about it, but the City of Richmond is rewriting the rules that will determine what can be built, and where, for decades to come. It’s called the Zoning Code Refresh, and right now, it’s quietly moving through the public comment stage. If...
RVA Underground #5 RVA Underground #5 RVA Mag presents the RVA Underground Podcast, Episode #5, featuring Daniel Jones and Terreal Brown. Each episode, your hosts will give you a variety of tracks they feel worthy of your attention, and will also feature a guest mix by a local DJ or producer. Check out the episode below, and let us know what you...
Netflix has made a lot of slam dunks recently when it comes to original content - Orange is the New Black, The Killing, House of Cards Knights of Sidonia (look it up anime nerds, you wont be disappointed!) - and now they have a new notch to put in their belt: BoJack Horsemen. Netflix has made a lot of slam dunks recently when it comes to original...
Renowned local tattoo artist Amy Black is celebrated not only for her exquisite nipple tattoos for mastectomy patients but also for her versatile artistic skills. One poignant example is her recent project for a family member of the late American journalist James Hayes Foley. After being kidnapped, Foley tragically lost his life when ISIS, the...
Ryan Kent is a poet, which makes sense because he's probably better known around this town as a singer. The lyrics he writes for his band, Gritter, are probably similar to a lot of lyrics, in that if you separated them from the music and wrote them down on a piece of paper, they'd look just like poetry. But Kent has more to say than what can...
This Thursday night, The Midnight Suggestion brings another great night of alternative comedy to RVA with the appearance of Myq Kaplan, accompanied by Zach Sherwin and Jim Zarling, at Gallery 5. Myq (pronounced Mike) Kaplan is perhaps best known for his appearance as a finalist on the 2010 season of Last Comic Standing. However, he's got a lot...
In a spectacle as grand and theatrical as the man himself, Dave Brockie, better known as Oderus Urungus, was sent off in a Viking funeral at Hadad’s Lake in Richmond, Virginia. The ceremony, held during the 2014 GWAR B-Q, saw Brockie’s stage-worn Oderus Urungus costume set ablaze on a boat, launched into the lake, and ignited with a flaming...
RVA Underground #4 RVA Underground #4 RVA Mag presents the RVA Underground Podcast, Episode #4, featuring Daniel Jones and Terreal Brown. Each episode, your hosts will give you a variety of tracks they feel worthy of your attention, and will also feature a guest mix by a featured DJ or producer. Check out the episode below, and let us know what...
From the depths of hell—or, more accurately, Richmond’s most infamous water park—the GWARMY rose once again to take over Hadad’s Lake. This wasn’t just any summer gathering; this was GWAR-B-Q 2014, a festival of metal, mayhem, and madness, bigger and more chaotic than ever before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7iwdxWgn74 A...
RVA Mag presents the RVA Underground Podcast, Episode #3, featuring Daniel Jones and Terreal Brown. RVA Mag presents the RVA Underground Podcast, Episode #3, featuring Daniel Jones and Terreal Brown. Each episode, your hosts will give you a variety of tracks they feel worthy of your attention, and will also feature a guest mix by a featured DJ or...
