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I Was To Inherit A Capitalist Nation

The ceilings were all collapsing. The moldering roof was seeping through to the drywall and paint inside. What was once a small emerald speck of mold above the shower had turned into a fuzzy kaleidoscope of blacks and pinks and grays and greens that coated the entire...

DAY 8 & 9 | What It’s Like to Judge the Richmond Cannabis Cup

Editor's Note: We are an official media sponsor for February Fire which will be held February 28th at Homegrown VA. Weed has been the diadem of rebellious youth for generations, a product so diametrically opposed to the capitalist urge that its use conjures images of...

2 Killed, 9 Shot in Shockoe Bottom After Bars Closed

On the first warm weekend of 2026, in the early hours of Saturday, Feb. 21, at least nine people were shot on North 18th Street in Shockoe Bottom. Two people, 23-year-old Genesis Tamar Jones and 42-year-old Dominic Antoine Jackson, were killed, and seven others were...

Starting the Dream in Richmond’s Local Music Scene

Editor’s Note: This piece was written by a student at Randolph-Macon College as part of a feature writing course. Thank you to the students and to Professor Seth Clabough, Ph.D., for organizing the project. Gavin Lawton remembers the exact moment he decided music was...

The Good Road: Craig Martin on Challenging Myths Through Travel

When Richmond producer Craig Martin talks about The Good Road, he does not start with ratings or distribution. He starts with a pitch he heard on a flight more than a decade ago. “The first words out of his mouth,” Craig said of his business partner and co-host Earl...

Obama asks Netflix for ‘House of Cards’ a Day Early… Again

In what seems to be becoming an annual tradition, the most powerful man in the free world has reached out to the world's largest distributor of digital content and asked for a snow-day favor. As President Obama awoke this morning, along side the many other Americans buried in the latest snow storm, he put a call in to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings....

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Zach Galifianakis Gives Obama His Weirdest Interview Yet

President Barack Obama has done network interviews, cable news, town halls, Reddit AMAs, and enough press conferences to fill a lifetime. But nothing could have prepared him for Zach Galifianakis. In a new episode of the wonderfully awkward Funny or Die series Between Two Ferns, Obama sits down with Galifianakis for what might be the most...

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Richmond Famous & The Craigslist Show

RVA's premier spot for alternative comedy, the Richmond Comedy Coalition, is bringing you two hilarious shows this January at Gallery 5. Event 1: Richmond Famous with Kevin Clay Kevin Clay, editor and publisher of GayRVA.com—the city's go-to for LGBT news and entertainment—is a native of Richmond and a VCU School of Mass Communications graduate....

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Doug Stanhope Hates the Funny Bone, but Loves You!

His website describes him as such: Doug Stanhope is a stand-up comic. Has been since 1990. His material ranges from true-life graphic perversion to volatile social criticism. Doug is vulgar, opinionated, brutally honest and shockingly uninhibited and is certainly not for everybody. His website describes him as such: Doug Stanhope is a stand-up...

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