If you are in the market for a glass eye in the same shade as your lover’s, some elaborate hair jewelry, or even an electric couch to use as a Victorian cure-all, then you need to head over to The Veiled Mirror. This Victorian antique store opened downtown in January,...
“I never would have thought that I would be the minority in my neighborhood,” said Sandra Bowman, a Black resident of Richmond’s East End. She told an interviewer last year that the recent arrival of white neighbors has led to changes. That shift has also brought frustration. “If a brick comes up in their sidewalk,” she said of...
Babe's of Carytown, the second oldest lesbian bar in the country, is a spot for everyone. However, when it opened as a steakhouse in 1978, it was not originally intended to be an LGBTQ+-centric establishment. The current owner, Vicky Hester, says that Babe’s became a predominantly lesbian bar in the late 1980s and has maintained that identity...
Richmond has seen a series of large-scale demonstrations in recent weeks, addressing issues such as President Donald Trump’s executive actions, federal spending cuts, and various other policies. These protests are set to continue, with the next major event, “Freedom Rising,” scheduled for Saturday, April 19th, at 12pm in Capitol Square. ...
When you think of Richmond’s heavy music scene, four names immediately come to mind: Lamb of God, GWAR, Avail, and Municipal Waste. These are the bands that have bled into the city’s veins and shaped the sound of this place over the last several decades. And this past weekend, Municipal Waste took a well-deserved victory lap to celebrate 25 years...
As part of the Big Dipper Innovation Summit, on Thursday, April 24th from 6–9pm at Common House Richmond, RVA Magazine’s co-publisher and editor-at-large, Landon Shroder, will moderate a featured panel: The Obsolescence of Culture: Can Authenticity Survive the Tech Revolution? The conversation will tackle one of the most pressing questions facing...
Oh, clean water. The thing you’ve been drinking since birth, something you take for granted—unless, of course, you live in a city like Richmond, where even something as basic as that can be too much to ask for at times. The federal government just made even that a little bit harder by pulling a $12 million grant for our water treatment plant, and...
On a slightly chilly morning earlier this month, the largest anti-abortion rally in Virginia was in preparation, the Virginia March for Life. Busses were unloading passengers from across the state. The Catholic fraternal organization Knights of Columbus were outside of The Family Foundation's headquarters with a large sign that read "Equality...
Michael Rao, VCU's President, issued a statement today on visas being revoked for two students and one alumni. In the letter, he claims VCU "stands with our international community," but offers no practical guidance as to what this means for international students currently living in Richmond. However, two days ago, VCU's Global Education Office...
Walking through Frida: Beyond the Myth at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts doesn’t feel like attending a documentary screening — it feels like slipping into Frida’s world. It disorients you into her mind. You step through doorways that feel like mirrors, gaze through archways into rooms you haven’t reached yet, and find yourself caught in a web...
