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...
Every Man For Himself 1980 (France) Director: Jean-Luc Godard Spine #744 Criterion Collection Blu-Ray, DVD, and Hulu-Plus Godard called Every Man For Himself his “second first film,” in that he was beginning a new chapter in his filmmaking career, setting up and experimenting with his own rules again. He was done making left-wing experimental...
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....
The official lineup has been released for Richmond Mural Project 2015 and Art Whino is bringing a diverse group to our city from July 13th-24th featuring internationally known artists from Berlin to Singapore. The official lineup has been released for Richmond Mural Project 2015 and Art Whino is bringing a diverse group to our city from July...
“It reminds me of that old joke- you know, a guy walks into a psychiatrist's office and says, hey doc, my brother's crazy! He thinks he's a chicken. Then the doc says, why don't you turn him in? Then the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. I guess that's how I feel about relationships. They're totally crazy, irrational, and absurd, but we keep...
"All forms of sport are just watered down versions of war." -Josh (the Warmaster) Barnett, UFC Champion Athletes are some of the most powerful human beings in existence. Their entire lives are made up of constant struggles to be the best they can possibly be in their chosen sport. While many of us pursue our passions in one form another, few...
This year, RVA Magazine will be celebrating our 10 Year Anniversary--and in honor of our first decade of publication, we'll be taking a look back and some of our favorite articles we've run over the past 10 years. Today, we revisit our interview with Pharrell Williams, the cover story from our Summer 2010 issue. It is around 3:30PM and we're in...
Ladies and gentlemen, we're proud to present the debut of a new film review column here at RVA Magazine. Kyle Shearin will be covering the latest releases from the Criterion Collection. Today we present reviews of two of their four Janaury 2015 releases. Ladies and gentlemen, we're proud to present the debut of a new film review column here at...
In 2012, the Los Angeles Film Festival premiered A Band Called Death, an American documentary by Mark Christopher Covino and Jeff Howlett that introduced the masses not just to a band that started the punk music genre, but to the nearly four-decade journey that it took for three brothers from Detroit to have their sound heard and appreciated for...
As a holiday, Thanksgiving gets a bad rap. I’ll never condemn a holiday that pretty much guarantees you a good meal, some football, and some enforced reflection and hopefully gratitude onto others. As a holiday, Thanksgiving gets a bad rap. I’ll never condemn a holiday that pretty much guarantees you a good meal, some football, and some enforced...
