Editor’s note: Since this story was originally written, Alex Na hosted another free tiramisu drop over the weekend, continuing to build a following around his community dessert project. This feature was submitted by Jordan Smith, a journalism student at the Richard T....
Welcome to Missed Connections, where flirting always seems to equal awkwardness. But we all want to find companionship and happiness -- so sometimes there's no choice but to keep the awkwardness going. If you are prepared to deal with a little bumbling in pursuit of true love, maybe the Missed Connections will work out for you! This week, we've...
RVA Magazine is proud to showcase The Hustle Season Podcast every Saturday afternoon. Produced at La Cocina Studio in Richmond, VA; homegrown musicians Kelli Strawbridge, Reggie Pace, James Seretis (La Cocina’s engineer) & Gabriel Santamaria bring their irreverent, outspoken and at times thoughtful opinions to the masses. Focusing on pop...
Did you do well with pop quizzes back when you were in middle school? If so, you might just score a passing grade on this week's Missed Connections! You're going to need to remember what color shirt she was wearing, what car he was driving, and what hand they ate with, but fortunately that last one's easy -- if someone's even mentioning it, it's...
With golf balls, grill food, and community service, Drive Shack is setting the par for driving ranges in the River City. Driving up Route 288 just before it meets I-64, Richmonders have watched an impressive-looking structure grow over the last several months, and awaited their chance to go inside. Drive Shack, the brand-new driving range in...
RVA Magazine is proud to showcase The Hustle Season Podcast every Saturday afternoon. Produced at La Cocina Studio in Richmond, VA; homegrown musicians Kelli Strawbridge, Reggie Pace, James Seretis (La Cocina’s engineer) & Gabriel Santamaria bring their irreverent, outspoken and at times thoughtful opinions to the masses. Focusing on pop...
Last week, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring took to social media to voice his support for "legal, regulated adult use" of marijuana -- a sentiment that, according to a just-released study, more than half of Virginians support. Attorney General Mark Herring tweeted his support for the legalization of recreational marijuana in Virginia last...
When women cyclists struggled to find gear without making special orders, the women behind Carytown Bicycle Co. took the situation into their hands -- and made their own. When Emma Troy, a mechanic at Carytown Bicycle Co., first started going on group rides, she felt like she had to be someone she wasn’t in order to fit in. “For the longest time,...
There's a chill in the air this week, but if you need to warm up, things are always hot and heavy in the Missed Connections. We've got some pretty zany highlights this time around, but the wackiest of them all might be the couple who wants to test drive a sleeper-cab semi truck by getting down to business in the bunk. Either lot lizards have to...
The Yu-Gi-Oh tournament that came to the Greater Richmond Convention Center last month drew a far different sort of card fanatic than you'd find at the poker tables. When most people imagine a card game tournament, they might picture a group of stone-faced card sharks risking big bucks around a high-stakes poker table. But the card game...
