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So You Want a Virginia Cannabis License? Read This First.

by RVA Staff | CANNABIS CULTURE, COMMUNITY, CULTURE

Editor’s Note: Following our recent coverage of Virginia’s cannabis market, where independent retailers face mounting pressure from enforcement and monopolistic lobbying, Max Jackson, founder of Cannabis Wise Guys and a presenter at the...

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The 2013 Richmond Mural Project Kickstarter Campaign

Ladies and gentlemen, the Richmond Mural Project is one step closer to being a reality. A sequel to Art Whino's 2012 G40 Mural Project, which brought dozens of new murals to RVA throughout April of last year, this new mural project hopes bring us 20 new murals from 10...

GayRVA: A Life or Death Situation: The Transformation of a Tattoo Artist

“You don’t see a lot of gay people in tattoo shops, especially transgender people, so it was a big deal to me,” said Abel Killian, leaning on a stool in Lucky 13 Tattoo’s back office space. He stands out in a shop filled with burly dudes with massive beards – he’s...

Richmond’s Rich Ink: Exploring Local Tattoo Art at The Valentine

As a former history major who wrote my senior thesis about theater as a form of edification for Richmond society (what was I smoking?), I felt like a hypocrite for not visiting the Valentine History Center since moving to RVA. Having heard heaps of praise about what...

The G40 Art Summit Takes Over First Friday in Richmond

The G40 Art Summit presented by Art Whino and RVA Magazine celebrated its opening here in RVA on April 6 as part of the First Friday Art Walk. Over the course of that weekend, several big events were held at multiple spaces along Broad St, centered around the...

Giant Murals Project Under Way In Downtown Richmond [RTD REPOST]

We made the paper! Here is a snippet of the front page story featured in the Richmond Times Dispatch today about the G40. Downtown Richmond is being transformed into an outdoor art gallery. Artists from around the world have begun painting murals on buildings in the...

Teddy Blanks Returns for Tribute to Late Bandmate Ross Harman

Ross Harman was one half of the indie electro-pop duo The Gaskets, who left their stamp on Richmond's music scene throughout most of the 00s with several albums' worth of great material and tons of great live shows, which inspired a rabid cult following around town....

Did the Richmond Tattoo Festival Lose Its Charm? Attendees Weigh In

The 19th annual Richmond Tattoo Arts Festival was held on November 18-20, 2011. Shockingly, despite having lived in Richmond for eight years, this was my first time checking it out. However, I went with friends who have been many times before. The new location at the...

RVATV: New DayByDay Video

These two RVA guys, Dave Stewart and Will Carsola, took their act to LA almost 4 years ago, once they secured some work with Fuel TV producing skits for a show called Stupidface. The guys quickly got noticed and they secured a management agency that got their videos...

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