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Lowest U.S. Drinking Rate in 90 Years, Richmond Still Going Out

Pour one out, or maybe just crack open a seltzer, for America’s drinking habit. According to Gallup’s 2025 Consumption Habits survey, only 54% of U.S. adults now say they drink alcohol. That’s the lowest level Gallup has recorded in nearly 90 years of polling, down...

Richmond Invests $9 Million in Affordable Housing and Home Repairs

The City of Richmond has awarded more than $9 million through its Affordable Housing Trust Fund (AHTF) to support eight development projects expected to deliver nearly 600 new or preserved affordable housing units across the city. The funding also includes $2.2...

ACA Rate Hike of 20.5% Could Price Out Richmond Creatives

Richmond’s creative economy has always been powered by risk-takers like musicians, painters, actors, writers, photographers, makers, and the small business owners who keep the city’s galleries, venues, and shops alive. Many piece together a living from passion...

Life Wrote These Lines: Local Musicians Against AI

I was recently reflecting on a line I am particularly proud of. The tail half is: “I’ll go to the funeral if I get off of work.” As I am prone to do, it got me thinking about my abrasive hatred towards AI, especially in art. But I have to justify myself, if a computer...

The Lost Cause Boys’ Club

“The rebel yell, reinforced by a glorification of the lost cause was everywhere manifest,” reported John Mitchell Jr., editor of the Richmond Planet, an African American weekly newspaper, at the time of the Robert E. Lee monument’s unveiling.  It was the spring...

This Huge Terror Plant Has Now Come to Virginia

Giant hogweed is the stuff of nightmares. While having a towering stalk which supports a benign looking white flower flanked by crispy green shrubbery, this terror plant actually causes skin burns, phototoxicity, and giant blisters that can last for months if its toxic sap so much as grazes a person's skin. Among that litany of botanical...

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Best of RVA Missed Connections 6/12/18-6/19/18

It's a hot one out there Richmond, and the people of RVA Missed Connections are cranking the heat up, even more, this week. Sparks fly at Bev's Homemade Ice Cream, a man is falling over himself to get next to the "goddess" at Boulevard, Burgers, & Brews, and two music lovers flirt outside The National after the Cold War Kids concert. oh, and...

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Best of RVA Missed Connections 6/5/18-6/12/18

Get your popcorn ready Richmond, the best of RVA Missed Connections is back again with your weekly pick-me-up. This time we have a flirty encounter at Carytown Burgers & Fries, a woman can't stop lusting after a tattooed dad walking his dog at Texas Beach, and a concerned citizen hopes to connect with a bald woman he saw joyriding on her...

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Vespa Invasion! Italian Vintage meets Richmond Grime

RVA Mag traveled out to Richmond International Raceway to check out this year’s annual AmeriVespa held here in the River City. The event, sponsored by the National Vespa Club of America and Richmond’s own 7 Hills Scooter Club, featured moto-enthusiasts from across the globe and yes, every kind of Vespa imaginable. The end result of this merry...

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Tank Tweets and other Tank News from Richmond

There has been a lot of tension in Richmond recently. Everybody can feel it, everybody knows why. This city has a mess of critical issues to deal with right now: how the police apply lethal force, rapidly accelerating rents and housing costs, and public schools that lack essentials like toilet paper and soap. From a certain perspective,...

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Best of RVA Missed Connections 5/29/18-6/5/18

Buckle up Richmond, we're back with an exciting new batch of RVA Missed Connections for your weekly dose of entertainment. This go around, tie-dye clad souls bond at a shrimp fest in Mechanicsville, a woman in a yellow tube top at Capitol Waffle Shop attracts a secret admirer, a hangover prevents a guy from reaching out to his Lamplighter love, ...

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Best of RVA Missed Connections 5/22/18-5/29/18

Hope everyone had a nice long weekend, if not, then sit down for your weekly entertainment, because the people of RVA Missed Connections sure enjoyed themselves. In this batch, The Hof continues to be the hot spot for spicy encounters, sparks fly between two karaoke singers at Ipanema Cafe, a man becomes mesmerized with a Mellow Mushroom...

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Best of RVA Missed Connections 5/15/18-5/22/18

Missed Connections is finally back with a little spice to it. We've missed you, guys. In this batch, sparks fly at Casa Del Barco and Coppola's Deli, two strangers browsing through Fan-tastic's Thrift come together, and then there's also some talks of Cannibalism thrown in, of course.  Stay weird, Richmond. petite brunette, pretty smile (Cary...

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Welcome to Virginia’s Interstellar Panspermia Society

If you’ve ever wondered what the meaning of life is, you’re not alone. If you came to the conclusion that the purpose of life is to spread life itself to other planets across the universe, then you’re in the good company of VCU Professor Michael Mautner - a research fellow with the Center for the Study of Biological Complexity. Early on in his...

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