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Richmond Is a Top Ten City for Seasonal Allergies.

If you’ve lived here long enough, you know the moment. Your car suddenly looks like it’s been dusted with powdered mustard. Your eyes itch. Your sinuses start to close up. Spring in Richmond has arrived, and with it comes the pollen. After several weeks of freezing or...

Ring, Richmond, and the Feeling of Being Watched

Walk through just about any neighborhood in Richmond and you’ll see them. The small blue-lit doorbells tucked into brick row houses in Church Hill. The newer setups in Manchester townhomes and Scott’s Addition apartments. For a lot of us, buying a Ring camera was...

DAY 8 & 9 | What It’s Like to Judge the Richmond Cannabis Cup

Editor's Note: We are an official media sponsor for February Fire which will be held February 28th at Homegrown VA. Weed has been the diadem of rebellious youth for generations, a product so diametrically opposed to the capitalist urge that its use conjures images of...

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...

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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