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Richmond Artists Unite for ‘Fall of Freedom’ at Antennae Gallery

Fall of Freedom bills itself as “an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation.” The organizers aren’t pulling punches: they argue that democracy is under attack, threats to free expression are rising, dissent is...

Baltik’s Bagel Earns People’s Choice in the Heart of NYC

Every so often Richmond grabs a win that feels almost improbable, and this weekend we got one: Baltik’s Bagel came back from New York BagelFest with the People’s Choice Award. Yes, a Forest Hill Avenue shop walked into a competition packed with 25 of the “best bagel...

GIANTS! Makes the Case for a New Era in Richmond Art

The GIANTS! Exhibition Preview Party was last night at VMFA, and for the first time in my 20+ years moving within Richmond’s arts scene, I saw a mix of people I honestly didn’t expect to ever share the same room. High-end collectors, street artists, curators, younger...

How a Charlottesville Surgeon Found Purpose in Ukraine

Every morning at 9 a.m. in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, the world stops. Cars freeze in the streets, trams halt mid-track, and pedestrians stand silent as the national anthem plays. It lasts a minute, a ritual pause to remember the dead and remind the living what they’re...

Writer’s Block | The Poetry of Mary Beth Cox

Writer’s Block is RVA Magazine’s Sunday series highlighting contemporary writers working in Richmond and across the Commonwealth. Each week, we feature original poems, short stories, or essays. Just real voices writing right now. This week we’re featuring two...

Best of RVA Missed Connections: September 26 – October 1

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...

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Skull Asteroid Headed to Earth After Halloween

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...

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Best of RVA Missed Connections: September 19 – 24

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...

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RVA Missed Connections September 11-September 18

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...

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Hurricane Florence has all the Best Events

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...

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Best of RVA Missed Connections September 4-September 11

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...

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Ventriloquist and His Puppet Harass Shoppers at Richmond Mall

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...

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Campaign to Stop Killer Robots Just Faced a Serious Set Back

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...

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