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Love Thy Neighbor

There was a new guy that moved across the street from me, a new neighbor, and every time he saw me on the front porch puffing away, he asked to bum a smoke. It got so incessant that I had begun smoking in the backyard instead, not wishing to part with any of my...

The Richmond Animation Festival Doubles Down This Year

For the 4th Richmond Animation Festival, the program expands to two nights of screenings.  First, on Saturday, April 25th, the Shorts program curated by Jordan Bruner and Zack Williams will screen at Studio Two Three, and the feature screening of Julian Glander’s...

Writer’s Block | Two Poems by Cameron Ritter

Writer’s Block is RVA Magazine’s series highlighting contemporary writers working in Richmond and across the Commonwealth. Each week, we feature original poems, short stories, or essays. Just real voices writing right now. This week, we’re featuring two poems by...

The Era of Straight-Up Greed (Or, Can I Live?)

I stopped for gas the other day, it’s $4.19 a gallon. You swipe your card, you move on. That’s just the baseline price of existing now in Richmond. Inside, I grabbed a couple things without thinking. A two-pack of Reese’s and an iced tea. The kind of purchase made a...

Writer’s Block | Student Poets from PodiumRVA Speak Their Truth

A Sunday series from RVA Magazine featuring writers from Richmond and Virginia Writer’s Block is RVA Magazine’s Sunday series highlighting contemporary writers working in Richmond and across the Commonwealth. Each week, we feature original poems, short stories, or...

New Menu, Who Dis? Get Tight Gets Tighter.

Randy O’Dell has a posse. The co-owner of Get Tight Lounge, and owner of En Su Boca, and beloved bars and restaurants of RVA legend, has always known how to attract incredible talent in his kitchen and behind the bar. He’s joined forces with Drew Schlegel in keeping...

The Byrd Theatre Is Still Richmond’s Palace of Dreams

Christmas Eve, 1928. Richmond is cold and the city is dressed for the holiday. On West Cary Street, a crowd gathers outside a building that wasn't there six months ago; a French Empire facade rising up in the middle of a neighborhood that had no idea it was about to...

Best Of VA Missed Connections May 27 – June 2

Things are a little light in the world of the Missed Connections this week, it seems. Could that be because everyone's out on the streets speaking their mind? If so, that's definitely not a bad thing. And thankfully, there are still more than a few of the awkward potential meet-cutes we all come to Missed Connections for -- so get ready to dive...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections May 20 – May 26

The kinksters are out and about in this week's Missed Connections, and they're getting downright bold. People looking to get tied up, people who want to buy poppers, people who want to hook up with a cop… all kinds of crazy desires are getting aired out here! There's even a guy who wants to pay women to clean their houses, or so he says. Am I the...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections May 13 – May 19

Welcome to Missed Connections, where the fact that it's been a really tough year so far is finally starting to dawn on certain of our fearless posters. Let's be honest, at this point the only hope we have is for some positive changes on Election Day in November. If that doesn't happen, 2020 is pretty much unsalvageable. But until we know one way...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections May 6 – May 12

It's another week of Missed Connections, where every week seems to bring some new outbreak of crazy. Will the coming reopening calm us all down a bit before the inevitable second wave of infections? We shall see, but for this week, things remain a bit… off in the MC world. Your most clear demonstration is what certainly seems to be a recruiting...

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Gears Missed

At a time when expensive corporate products are less than hugely popular, Virginia's motorcycle culture is finding new life in vintage shops around the state. On a side road in Virginia, the reflective façade of high-rise office buildings breaks into a dusty sun-soaked street, where the sidewalk briefly gives way to a dirt shoulder lined with...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections April 29 – May 5

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections, where we all know shit happens, and sometimes, farts happen too. There's no shame in it, either, even if certain passive-aggressive MC posters are dead set on shaming you for it. Let em rip, y'all! It's still far less lethal than COVID-19. Beyond all that weirdness, the MCs this week are all about...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections April 22 – April 28

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections, where quarantine seems to be eroding some people's grasp on reality. I mean, I know witches are real, both of the Wiccan and pagan varieties. But if you're looking to change your age and/or gender, that's not really how witchcraft works here in the real world. Gender transitions are real and possible...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections April 15 – April 21

It's time for another installment of Missed Connections, where this week makes clearer than ever that everyone is kinda getting tired of being so bummed about coronavirus all the time. Sure, we're all still on quarantine, and nobody wants to get the COVID… but if we're all stuck sitting on the couch in front of the TV anyway, can't we at least...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections April 8 – April 14

It's a month into the quarantine and we're all getting a little messy -- what better place to air that kind of thing out than Missed Connections? From speculation about side chicks to sadness over the death of John Prine, this week's has a bit of a different feel than usual -- probably because people are mostly not having the chance to miss any...

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