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2 Killed, 9 Shot in Shockoe Bottom After Bars Closed

On the first warm weekend of 2026, in the early hours of Saturday, Feb. 21, at least nine people were shot on North 18th Street in Shockoe Bottom. Two people, 23-year-old Genesis Tamar Jones and 42-year-old Dominic Antoine Jackson, were killed, and seven others were...

Starting the Dream in Richmond’s Local Music Scene

Editor’s Note: This piece was written by a student at Randolph-Macon College as part of a feature writing course. Thank you to the students and to Professor Seth Clabough, Ph.D., for organizing the project. Gavin Lawton remembers the exact moment he decided music was...

The Good Road: Craig Martin on Challenging Myths Through Travel

When Richmond producer Craig Martin talks about The Good Road, he does not start with ratings or distribution. He starts with a pitch he heard on a flight more than a decade ago. “The first words out of his mouth,” Craig said of his business partner and co-host Earl...

Prison Work And Court Fines: A Reform Proposal For Virginia

Editor’s Note: This article is based on reporting by Julianna Brown of Capital News Service, a student-powered newsroom at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Robertson School of Communication. RVA Magazine has edited and expanded the reporting for our audience. For...

It’s Still Our City | Ep. 17 Justin Torone of Rest In Pieces

"Established in 2014 by Justin Torone & Alaina Gearhart, what started as a personal interest and collection, quickly evolved into the shop we have today in the historic neighborhood of Oregon Hill. Conveniently located just a few blocks away from the famous...

Best Of VA Missed Connections February 12 – February 18

It's wintertime here in RVA, and we've all gotta keep warm, whether we're doing so by wearing vegan leather, eating Hot Pockets, or paging through the Missed Connections looking for a friendly person to cuddle up to. If you're a sexy barber, a tatted-up security guard, or a frequently-flying Spongebob fan, someone's looking to cuddle with you...

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Unexplained Hauntings At Randolph-Macon College

Randolph-Macon College, a tiny, ancient university half an hour north of Richmond, has played host to more than its share of paranormal incidents over the years. “I think there’s something in the building...” Spirits, apparitions, ghosts, and the unknown. Some people believe that there is something in this world that cannot be fully explained....

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Best Of VA Missed Connections February 5 – February 11

Valentine's Day is almost here, and the Missed Connections are here to prove that all some of us really want is someone to make us feel special. Meanwhile, others of us are total creeps who have no idea what constitutes appropriate public behavior. Just because we're laughing at your Craigslist post doesn't mean we approve in any way, you...

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Best of VA Missed Connections January 29 – February 4

It's time for another week of Missed Connections from around Virginia -- where, in a lot of places, blue-tailed lizards are more than just a metaphor. If you grew up in the country, you know what I'm talking about; growing up, it was always hilarious when a lizard foiled my hungry cat and left him holding onto a little blue tail with one claw....

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Best Of VA Missed Connections January 22 – January 28

Welcome to this week's Missed Connections, where the kind of sensible dating advice you'd expect to be a no-brainer ("pee first") turns out to be a strike against you. Of course, this is why dating over the internet turned out to be such a great idea -- because we're all total weirdos, and it's much easier to admit that from the other side of a...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections January 15 – January 21

All the crazies in the world were either in Richmond or tweeting about it on social media yesterday, and the Missed Connections this week aren't exactly sane either. Is this what we have to look forward to in 2020? At least while the world burns we'll have plenty of Craigslist posts to burst into uncomprehending laughter over, right? Not sure...

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Best of VA Missed Connections January 8 – January 14

Welcome to another installment of Missed Connections, where this week we learn that cutting your finger so bad you end up in the ER means you definitely know how to have fun! Does your nurse want to have fun with you? Or has she seen too many trainwrecks while she's on shift to even consider it? You'll never know if you don't post! We've got a...

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Best of VA Missed Connections January 1 – January 7

New year, new you, and new Missed Connections! Our first weekly installment of the roaring (20)20's finds a lot of positive sentiment marking the dawn of a new decade. It's a remarkable wave of goodwill to start the year off, but how long will it last? Well, keep reading, because if you guessed "not even til the end of this week," you're...

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Best of VA Missed Connections December 24 – December 31

Since we last brought you our weekly Missed Connections roundup, we've moved from Merry Christmas to Happy New Year, and from freezing temps to a surprising post-solstice return of springlike conditions. That's led quite a few people to break out the warm weather clothing, which can include sandals… the mere thought of with draws weirdos...

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