Looks like we all made it through another Thanksgiving -- and more importantly, another trip through the retail hellscape that is Black Friday. So today, if all you really want for "Giving Tuesday" is for someone to give you a kiss: never fear, Missed Connections are...
Missed Connections: Kismet, destiny, and fate; all of which can be life changing and earth shattering. You never know where one of these fortuitous encounters might happen -- in far off exotic locations, where love is all but inevitable, or, alternatively, on Route 10 in majestic Chesterfield County. Yet regardless of where you were this past...
According to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), an asteroid shaped like a skull will pass by the earth right after Halloween. The asteroid, known as 2015 TB145, is considered a "dead comet," which means it has had all of its gases burnt out after taking too many trips around the sun. Also known as "the great pumpkin" by NASA, the space rock is...
Autumn, that magical time of the year when the foliage comes alive with the scent of nature, the seasons take flight and remind us of our common humanity, and Richmonders take to the pages of Craigslist to pine for lost love, and, uh, mature tennis outfits. This week, let RVA Mag take you on a journey through to find that special blue-eyed...
While Virginia had its own political controversy with the mysterious cryptozoological phenomenon earlier this summer with the great Bigfoot Erotica scandal of 2018, peak Bigfoot has now been achieved in the contest for Minnesota's 3rd District. Apparently all that was needed for the creature to reveal its existence to the world was the ongoing...
Richmond may have made it through Hurricane Florence and multiple tornadoes in the past few days, but that didn't slow the people over in Missed Connections down one bit. This week, we've got sparks flying at Sidewalk Cafe and Baja Bean, hotel lobby hookups, and more. Get your popcorn ready, Richmond. Waitress at Sidewalk Cafe (Sidewalk Cafe) I...
Facebook: The last refuge of the drab and glib, a social platform that has become as boring as it has ostracized; no more news, no more slapdash over news, outrage that is limited by a new algorithm that no one understands. Where has all the Facebook shenanigans and tomfoolery gone? Well, look no further than the vast array of Hurricane Florence...
It looks as though most of the usual suspects in Missed Connections have gone into hibernation for Hurricane Florence that will soon be upon us, but there's a handful of hopeful souls still searching for their lost love out there. This week, a man is hoping to share a milkshake and some curly fries with a blonde he saw at Arby's, a man hopes...
In what can only be described as a most unusual "disturbing of the peace" case, police were called to Short Pump Town Center to deal with a man and his puppet outside of Kay Jewelers. According to WTVR, the man was yelling profanities at shoppers ventriloquist style or as the correspondent put it "talking smack". Apparently, the man left before...
The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots (SKR) is a non-profit organization comprised of groups like Human Rights Watch, Mines Action Canada, Nobel Women's Initiative, International Committee for Robots Arm Control, among others whose sole purpose is to "preemptively ban fully autonomous weapons." Or known another way, killer robots. The campaign was...
