Editor’s Note: This story includes remarks from a national webinar hosted by the Hemp Industry & Farmers of America (HIFA) on Friday, November 8, 2025, before Senator Mitch McConnell’s hemp amendment was inserted into the government funding package over the...
Sammi Lanzetta is the front woman of Venus Guytrap, a radical feminist and generally a RVA rabble rouser who deserves your attention - so we gave her a platform here at RVA Mag to dispense advice on love and everything else you need help with. Sammi Lanzetta is the front woman of Venus Guytrap, a radical feminist and generally a RVA rabble rouser...
It's 1989 and there's a pulsing electronic soundtrack flowing over the screams of high school kids as they're being chased by demons in a dingy Richmond basement. It's 1989 and there's a pulsing electronic soundtrack flowing over the screams of high school kids as they're being chased by demons in a dingy Richmond basement. This isn't a nightmare...
Stand up comic, famed and beloved Saturday Night Live cast member, writer, actor and producer Chris Rock will bring his Total Black Out Tour to Altria Theater in March. Stand up comic, famed and beloved Saturday Night Live cast member, writer, actor and producer Chris Rock will bring his Total Black Out Tour to Altria Theater in March. This man...
The legendary anime Princess Mononoke is reaching its 20th anniversary next year and movie theaters around the country, including at least one in the RVA area, are celebrating with a limited The legendary anime Princess Mononoke is reaching its 20th anniversary next year and movie theaters around the country, including at least one in the RVA...
Divorce is hard. The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach’s 2005 semi-autobiographical film about a Reagan-era, bohemian Brooklyn family dealing with a painful and confusing separation, is a humorous composition of a wounded family in denial of martial dissolution. Divorce is hard. The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach’s 2005 semi-autobiographical...
Christine follows the lead-up and death of Christine Chubbuck, a Sarasota TV journalist who committed live, on-camera suicide in 1974. Before shooting herself, Chubbuck read a sardonic statement wherein her death would be incongruent to the “blood and guts” reporting her station had been weaving to. While shocking, her public statement of media...
If being crass were a science, then the Virginia-bred movie star Danny McBride would have a PhD. If being crass were a science, then the Virginia-bred movie star Danny McBride would have a PhD. McBride returned to his home state over the weekend to a sell-out crowd for the 2016 Virginia Film Festival’s special presentation of his and frequent...
Richmond-based electronic artist London Perry or Dazeases, as most of the city has come to know her, has dropped a new video for “Medusa,” just prior to the release of her upcoming album, Crumbs. Richmond-based electronic artist London Perry or Dazeases, as most of the city has come to know her, has dropped a new video for “Medusa,” just prior to...
In the giant grab-bag of comedy ventures that Netflix chooses to reproduce, resurrect or freshly launch, a Christopher Guest mockumentary movie seems like a damn good idea. Since the 80s, Guest has been doing this form of comedy since the “This is…Spinal Tap” days to his directorial debut of 1996’s “Waiting for Guffman” which combined documentary...
