I recently bought my first bicycle in more than a decade. Like most people, I started my search online, comparing models, reading reviews, and trying to figure out what kind of rider I actually wanted to be. Eventually I visited several local bike shops before...
Youthful enthusiasm on the streets of Virginia, as car culture connects with a new generation of young drivers who love being behind the wheel. Occasionally while driving through the streets of Richmond, the low rumble of a modified exhaust will cause eyes to roll. It’s not a classic car, but something newer that eventually zips past everyone...
With RVA SK8 Club, the Richmond Area Skateboarding Alliance is passing on their knowledge to the skateboard-loving youth of Richmond's elementary schools. Skateboarding isn’t the most conventional sport — within skate culture, plenty don’t acknowledge it as a sport at all. However, as the popularity of mainstream competitions such as the X-Games,...
A new proposal from Major League Baseball would radically restructure the minor leagues, and many now fear for the future of Richmond’s beloved baseball team. Baseball and the city of Richmond have been synonymous since the game’s introduction to the city almost 140 years ago. There have been only a few years between 1880 and today in which the...
With golf balls, grill food, and community service, Drive Shack is setting the par for driving ranges in the River City. Driving up Route 288 just before it meets I-64, Richmonders have watched an impressive-looking structure grow over the last several months, and awaited their chance to go inside. Drive Shack, the brand-new driving range in...
When women cyclists struggled to find gear without making special orders, the women behind Carytown Bicycle Co. took the situation into their hands -- and made their own. When Emma Troy, a mechanic at Carytown Bicycle Co., first started going on group rides, she felt like she had to be someone she wasn’t in order to fit in. “For the longest time,...
*This article originally appeared in RVA Mag #34, on the streets now at all your favorite spots. For Reggie Barnett, Jr., prison was just another place where he didn’t fit in. Raised in the boxing gym, he failed to find a place in the ring or his neighborhood. Arrested for marijuana possession at 18, he found himself pulled into a downward...
The world loves an underdog story -- and IPAs, White Claws, and costumes. Oh, and also pinball. The Richmond Pinball Collective, a non-profit social club, held their first Gal-O-Ween Women’s Pinball Tournament this weekend with players coming from all over the Commonwealth. Also in attendance were members of the Richmond chapter of Belles &...
WWE professional wrestler and Richmond native Mickie James has been lighting up arenas for over a decade. On Oct. 28 the five-time Women’s Champion will make WWE history when she stars in Evolution, the league’s first all-women pay-per-view wrestling event. The event is a major step for women in the world of professional wrestling. Historically,...
Most people don't realize that the history of NASCAR is the history of bootlegging and blockade-running during the era of alcohol prohibition in the US, between 1920 and 1933. The outlaw origins of the sport started with drivers in Appalachia, including Virginia. These bootleggers would modify their cars for speed and handling in order to account...
