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Richmond New Year’s Eve 2025-2026! The Ultimate Rundown

Richmond has its own way of ringing in the New Year. A little backward glance, a little chaos, and just enough polish to feel intentional. You can lean into loud live shows, dress up for something splashy, or keep it simple with a solid drink and good company. However...

Photo | Nettspend x Vans Keep It Local at Laurel Skatepark

Richmond's Nettspend and Vans turned Laurel Skatepark into a canned food drive that was part skate scene, part community pull-up, built around a simple ask: bring something that helps someone else eat. For readers who may not know him yet, Nettspend is one of...

The Best of RVA Magazine 2025

As we close out the year, here’s a look at some of the most impactful stories we published in 2025. Over the past year, we covered Richmond as a living system under pressure, focusing on the people, culture, and policies that shape daily life and determine who gets...

How a New Richmonder is Fostering Community Through Tiramisu

Editor’s note: Since this story was originally written, Alex Na hosted another free tiramisu drop over the weekend, continuing to build a following around his community dessert project. This feature was submitted by Jordan Smith, a journalism student at the Richard T....

Full Metal Christmas: 2019 Edition

Our own John Reinhold gets a big kick out of finding and rocking out to heavy metal Christmas songs every holiday season. Here's his latest collection of horns-up holiday anthems to spice up your Yuletide. We have been doing these Metal Christmas rundowns for a few years now. They always bring me a lot of joy, as I find some of the best metal...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections December 11 – December 17

Christmas time is here, and New Years Eve will be here soon after. But y'all, please do not find your ride home from the holiday season's wild parties in the Missed Connections. This ain't the Edgar Winter Group, and there's no such thing as a free ride. OK, now that we've got that warning out of the way, let's enjoy the week's highlights, from...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections December 4 – December 10

Christmas is coming, and tensions are running high -- especially in this week's Missed Connections. If you've got a camera and a talent for portraits, commissions for naughty holiday pictures are just a Craigslist ad away. You know you wanna -- just think about all those Christmas gifts one photoshoot could pay for. There's plenty more on offer...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections November 27 – December 3

This week's Missed Connections is all about the river hangs -- and I gotta tell y'all, it seems like a bit late to me. I know this is a southern city, and it stays warm pretty deep into the fall, but nonetheless, post-Thanksgiving seems a bit late for a barefoot day at the river. And yet here we are -- not only is some guy running around with no...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections November 20 – November 26

It's the Tuesday before Thanksgiving and everybody's a little punchy, eagerly awaiting the long weekend and massive amounts of food we're all gonna scarf down between now and Cyber Monday. So with that in mind, dive into a wild and wooly week of Missed Connections. In this edition, we've got people seeking everything from literal ice queens to...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections November 13 – November 19

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections, in which we learn that the heart wants what it wants, even when that thing might not be what's best for you. We also learn that the recent colder temperatures might just be afflicting our MC posters' fingers, as ads are more terse than ever this week. We're guessing lots of you are just hurrying to...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections November 6 – November 12

We voted last week here in Virginia and this seems to have had an effect on the Missed Connections this week. So if you worked at the polls last Tuesday and found yourself eyeing a handsome young voter, then you just might have a post waiting for you below. We've also got flexible dead ringers for Drew Barrymore, lusty UberEats drivers, and...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections October 30 – November 5

It's voting day here in the Commonwealth, and the connection with your polling place is definitely one you should not miss if you're a registered voter. You can learn where you vote by entering your voter registration information at Virginia's Citizen Portal, and you can figure out who's on your ballot (so you can cram in some last-minute...

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Best of VA Missed Connections October 23 – October 29

Halloween's almost here, but this week Missed Connections is more about kicking dope rhymes than it is about costumery. If you can come up with a more creative couplet than one that pairs "beautiful" with "cuticles," you just might find the hottie of your dreams. Sexist stereotypes and extremely obvious marijuana references won't win anyone...

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