Writer’s Block is RVA Magazine’s Sunday series highlighting contemporary writers working in Richmond and across the Commonwealth. Each week, we feature original poems, short stories, or essays. Just real voices writing right now. This week we’re featuring two...
Under cover of darkness, electric scooter company Bird dropped off their titular rental vehicles last night, primarily along Franklin, Main, and Broad streets. Placed in groups of three, which the company calls nests in their pun-heavy marketing materials, the new scooters are motorized and can be unlocked with an app--think bike share--and...
The queen of soul has only been gone a few hours and already there has been an altercation over her place in pop-culture, which left one person shot and critically injured. According to WTKR, police in Suffolk, Virginia, responded to a gunshot victim at around 10:45 am this morning. The cause: An argument over who played the queen in a movie....
Video has just surfaced of Mike Ness, legendary frontman of California punk band Social Distortion, taking swings at a concertgoer over an on-stage disagreement about politics last month at the Ace of Spades club in Sacramento, California. The clip shows 56-year-old Ness making aggressive hand gestures towards someone in the audience before...
It's a wild and weird time yet again in our weekly batch of RVA Missed Connections. This go around, we've got someone in search of "lady Voyeur", stinky feet and cowboy boots are apparently a turn on at Brown's Island, sparks fly at the bar at Buckhead's, and a random kiss is shared at Chester's I Don't Know Sports Grille. Dive in Richmond....
In Richmond’s 7th District, three candidates are running in a November special election for the school board seat vacated by Nadine Marsh-Carter after the death of her husband in 2017. Schools in the district suffer from chronic underfunding and maintenance issues, placing them amongst the most-dilapidated in the city. A majority of students...
Paper Moon, a strip club with locations in Scott's Addition and Southside, will host one of the most well-known names in the media circuit: adult entertainer Stephanie Clifford, known by her trade name Stormy Daniels, who had a salacious affair with Donald Trump in 2006, before he'd successfully run for office. Her story has been a central point...
In a staggering demonstration of solidarity, Washington, D.C. showed Jason Kessler and his supporters how they felt about him entering their city. It was a humiliating display for the alt-right and their white supremacist organizer. Thousands of anti-racist protesters arrived in Lafayette Park starting around 1 p.m Sunday, later filling the...
Ever dreamed of sailing down the James in sweet, Scandinavian style? Dream no more; one lucky buyer can now own a handmade, 17-foot long viking longboat, built to one-fourth scale of the originals. The boat is named Svanen, Norwegian for "The Swan," and bears a graceful, hand-carved swan for a bow. On Craigslist, the boat is pictured flying flags...
A year after Unite the Right, residents of Charlottesville took to the downtown mall to shop, eat lunch, and mourn the loss of Heather Heyer, a counter-protester killed by James Alex Fields, Jr., at the alt-right rally. Mandatory bag searches, described as “consensual” in a press release on the city website, were strictly enforced for people...
