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No Red Carpet, Just Films! James River Film Festival Is Back

Every spring, I look forward to one of Richmond’s best film traditions, the James River Film Festival. With the mantra “Eclectic Celluloid for the Cinematic Soul,” the James River Film Society curates programs spanning a wide range of subjects and styles. It’s always...

Babe Improv Might Be The Funniest Thing in Richmond Right Now

There’s a moment during a Babe Improv set where you realize two things at once. First, they have no idea what they’re about to do next. Second, it’s all going to work out somehow. That tightrope is what makes it work, and when you have two people this in sync, it...

Hemp Retailers Say New Virginia Cannabis Law Would Shut Them Down

With a major cannabis bill now awaiting Governor Abigail Spanberger’s decision, Virginia hemp retailers, farmers, and small business advocates are urging her to step in before it becomes law. The Cannabis Small Business Association (CSBA) and a coalition of hemp...

The Man Who Sold Richmond on a Flying Squirrel

Editor’s note: With Richmond’s new CarMax Park opening soon, it felt like the right time to revisit how the Flying Squirrels first took root in the city. We had the chance to speak with Chuck Domino, the veteran minor league baseball operator during that transition....

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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