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Photos | Warriors in Bloom at Agecroft Hall

For one weekend, Agecroft Hall stopped being a museum and became a kingdom.  What began as a fundraiser to help launch Richmond's first Renaissance Faire has grown into a destination of its own. Warriors in Bloom, created by the folks at Virago Alley, returned with...

Dispatch from the Lewis Ginter Picket Line

An on-the-ground account of the strike that prompted Jesse Welles and Graham Nash to cancel their Richmond performances. Tensions escalated as Jesse Welles called off his performance at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden yesterday amid an ongoing union fight for higher...

Far-Right “Remigration” Propaganda Targets Bhatti Campaign

Several campaign signs for Democratic congressional candidate Salaam Bhatti were vandalized over the weekend with professionally printed flyers telling him to "return to your homeland" in multiple languages. The flyers also featured the hashtag #Remigration, a term...

In Plan 9 We Trust

This weekend, Plan 9 Music marks 45 years in Richmond with a party at Hardywood Park Craft Brewery. Over the past four and a half decades, the Richmond institution weathered some of the most turbulent periods in music history. It closed stores, sold its warehouse and...

RVA Pro Wrestling is on a Tear Right Now

Last year, Dogwood Dell was packed out for RVA Pro Wrestling. They threw down in front of more than 3,000 people. Since then, they've just been on a heater with sold out shows at Hardywood, pop ups that bring in bigger and bigger crowds, and quietly a small wrestling...

Richmond is a Big World Cup Town

Richmond may not be hosting a World Cup match, but plenty of people here are watching. According to television ratings reported by Sports Business Journal, Richmond-Petersburg ranked among Fox Sports’ top 10 local markets during the opening portion of the tournament....

Good Day RVA is Back and Bringing Friends Along

For four nights this weekend, bands from different generations of Richmond's music scene are taking over Get Tight Lounge. Called Tonal Recall, the series is part reunion show, part showcase and part excuse for a bunch of old friends to get back in the same room. ...

Best Of VA Missed Connections: October 13 – October 19

Welcome to Missed Connections on a crisp fall morning that reminds us all how soon Halloweek will be upon us! If you don't have a costume, don't worry -- you might just have enough resemblance to a somewhat obscure movie star that you don't need one. As for Craigslist, it's got the usual supply of awkward comedy gold, from intentional upskirts in...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections: October 6 – October 12

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections here in the good ol' Commonwealth, where every now and then we get a pretty strong reminder that our newly cosmopolitan state still has some powerful backwoods DNA lurking just beneath the surface. When you see a pretty girl shopping at Lowes with a gun on her hip, you remember… oh yeah, this is still...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections: September 29 – October 5

If you're someone from the massive service economy that seems to be the only thing keeping America afloat these days, rest assured, someone appreciates you -- and whether you're a flight attendant, a security guard, an auto parts store employee, or a priest, you might find that appreciative person in this week's Missed Connections. Alternately,...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections: September 22 – September 28

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections, where sometimes all we need to get through the week without losing our mind is an extra slice of pizza. Reader, I do not have any pizza to share with you this week, but I do have a fine crop of fresh pickings from Craigslist with which to hopefully bring you a smile. For example, the air is cooling...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections: September 15 – September 21

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections, where… I gotta say, y'all crack me up. I mean, from people assuming casual eye contact across a busy street was imbued with deep meaning to dudes saying they didn't approach women in person because they were afraid it would seem creepy, then immediately follow that up with a request for a "discreet...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections: September 8 – September 14

Back for another round of Missed Connections, where the real ones know the deal: the week of circa-Labor Day cooler temps is over. Time for another month of sweat-soaked workout clothes and window units running 24/7. We can at least take comfort in the kind of heat Craigslist is bringing this week -- the kind that doesn't actually raise the...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections: September 1 – September 7

Labor Day has come and gone. Extended unemployment benefits have ended. The Supreme Court killed the eviction moratorium. And COVID numbers are on the rise once again. Depending on your situation, it might just be time to panic. But for now, let's escape all that and read the Missed Connections for a bit, shall we? We had to dig pretty deep this...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections: August 25 – August 31

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections, one of the last ones before the unofficial end of summer, aka Labor Day weekend. We actually had a pretty slim crop of Craigslist gems this week; perhaps it's because people wanted to take advantage of one of the last weekends of the summer, but if you ask me, there was probably a Craigslist outage...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections August 18 – August 24

Welcome to Missed Connections, where this week we find a secret underground of adults playing dirty versions of kids' games… or so it seems (there's only so much you can say in a Craigslist ad). It seems like it might be taking place at a neighborhood Wawa, which is surprising. The most outrageous thing I ever see at Wawa is a really, really long...

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