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Dragons, Dice, and Draft Beer! A Richmond Bar Crawl Quest

On June 28, Carytown will once again become a place where reality takes a smoke break. Wizards will be slouched on bar patios like it’s perfectly normal, elves will wander somewhere between Révéler and New York Deli, and if you squint hard enough, you might see a...

It’s Damn Hot in Richmond!

Let’s start here: don’t leave your baby in the car. Seriously. If your brain is cooked enough to forget a living being in a parked car during a Virginia summer, stay home. Put down the keys. This heat doesn’t mess around. A cracked window isn’t life support, not for...

Hollywood Cemetery: Presidents, Confederates, and A Vampire

In this city of the dead, I felt the weight of history bearing down upon me, the accumulated whispers of the past echoing through the hollows of my ears like a mournful sigh. No one needs teachings to realize that this ancient place wields some mystery. The James...

Writer’s Block | Poems by Anna Leonard

A Sunday series from RVA Magazine featuring writers from Richmond and VirginiaWriter’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...

Metro Sound Is Still Here. Richmond Just Keeps Making It Harder.

When Mark Szafranski bought the building at 117 West Broad Street in 1991, the property was in disrepair. Water seeped from the upper floors, the windows were falling in, and downtown Richmond was, at the time, more forgotten than revitalized. But Szafranski, a...

Waitress is the Show for Anyone Who has Ever Worked a Double

A woman works in a diner. The kind with refills, regulars, and fluorescent lights that never quite turn off. She’s married to a man who doesn’t deserve her. She bakes pies that are better than most people deserve. And she wants out. That’s Waitress, more or less....

Richmond Showed Up. Now the Real Work Begins. Get Involved.

Richmond showed up this weekend. We’ve got to hold our leaders accountable—applaud them when they get it right, and hit the streets when they don’t. But protest is just one part of the work. If you were out there—or even if you wanted to be—don’t let it end with the...

Best of RVA Craigslist Missed Connections 7/14-7/21

Just when the weather was cooling down, summer came back and smacked us all in the face like a disobedient child. Just when the weather was cooling down, summer came back and smacked us all in the face like a disobedient child. So now's the perfect time to find some AC and a lucky man or woman to get cool with - perhaps you'll find them below. So...

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Best of RVA Craigslist Missed Connections 7/7-7/14

It doesn't scare me when I stumble upon a missed connection for myself, what about you Icelandic superstar Bjork? Looks like she's down... and I think we all know that. So just consider Craigslist Missed connections the mountaintop we all go to the top of and throw batteries and sing a joyous tune and free ourselves from suffering. What I'm...

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Best of RVA Craigslist Missed Connections 6/30-7/7

Don't kid yourself... summer's not getting any cooler yet, and we all need a little steamy seduction in our lives. So yes, you can go for that... missed connections post. So unleash your inner Hall and/or Oates and check out these CL posts and maybe you'll find yourself some summer love. u recently gave me pro massage - m4m - 42 (richmond) 7/7 i...

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Best of Craigslist Missed Connections 6/17-6/23

In the words of Curtis Mayfield - Love me, right in the pocket... Let face it, funk and soul from the 70's should be the inspirado for every missed connections post - a little sexy, a hint of innuendo, and a whole-lotta-love. Take a look at this passed week's missed connections, and make sure you keep your heart, mind, and eyes open - your future...

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Best of RVA Craigslist Missed Connections 6/9-6/16

As spring slips further and further away and summer's heat takes hold, it's obviously doing a number on RVA love birds - at least this week's best-of-craigslist-missed-connections would suggest as much. We had hot moms at the Children's Museum, hot dads at the WaWa, and lot's of lost love being thrust onto the internet in the hopes that it finds...

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Best of RVA Craigslist Missed Connections 6/2-6/9

We're back again, and this time we got a few more choice requests for love (or otherwise) from the passed week. It's not easy finding the right man or woman in your life, but maybe yours is just a missed connection away. And make sure to head over to Craigslist and post your own missed connections - we'll be doing this every week and we'd love to...

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Best of RVA Craigslist Missed Connections for 5/25-6/1

Somewhere between creepy and endearing lies Craiglist Missed Connections. Perhaps its the anonymous nature of the post, or the ease with which we let things slide through our fingers, but MC's seem to be both romantic and a lazy, last ditch effort to find love that could have been.Either way, it makes for good reading. So take a look at the...

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Craigslist Post Dares To Ask “Whats In The Box?!”

Over on the RVA Subreddit, user Jankx came across an amazing Craiglist post (and a fantastic Se7en joke) so we really had no choice but to share. Over on the RVA Subreddit, user Jankx came across an amazing Craiglist post (and a fantastic Se7en joke) so we really had no choice but to share. Here's the text from the CL post: The rules: I throw...

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