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Best of VA Missed Connections February 26 – March 3
Valentine's Day is less than a month in the rearview, and already the Missed Connections are full of regret. In particular, there's apparently a turtle out there looking to form a mutual Cupid's-arrow-removal pact. This is one time I think y'all might be extending the metaphor a bit too far. But at least it's entertaining, right? Sometimes you...
Best of VA Missed Connections February 19 – February 25
In the depths of winter, it seems the Missed Connections are getting truly bizarre, and none of it is more bizarre than the person who wants to switch bodies with someone in a nursing home. That's a pretty strange obsession there, friend, but hey… keep 'em coming. This is why we head back to Craigslist every single week. This week also brings us...
Best Of VA Missed Connections February 12 – February 18
It's wintertime here in RVA, and we've all gotta keep warm, whether we're doing so by wearing vegan leather, eating Hot Pockets, or paging through the Missed Connections looking for a friendly person to cuddle up to. If you're a sexy barber, a tatted-up security guard, or a frequently-flying Spongebob fan, someone's looking to cuddle with you...
Best Of VA Missed Connections February 5 – February 11
Valentine's Day is almost here, and the Missed Connections are here to prove that all some of us really want is someone to make us feel special. Meanwhile, others of us are total creeps who have no idea what constitutes appropriate public behavior. Just because we're laughing at your Craigslist post doesn't mean we approve in any way, you...
Hitting Cancer Below The Belt
Richmond-based nonprofit HCB2 works to prevent colorectal cancer through education, support, and the Boxer Brief 5K. When Rich Conklin passed away in January of 2011 due to colorectal cancer, his wife Mindy Conklin, who was a county mental health therapist, found she needed to take a step back from her work. “During that time I thought, you know...
Best of VA Missed Connections January 29 – February 4
It's time for another week of Missed Connections from around Virginia -- where, in a lot of places, blue-tailed lizards are more than just a metaphor. If you grew up in the country, you know what I'm talking about; growing up, it was always hilarious when a lizard foiled my hungry cat and left him holding onto a little blue tail with one claw....
VCU ASPiRE: Engaging Beyond Campus
VCU's ASPiRE program helps students at Richmond's largest college discover, engage, and make a difference in the city outside their campus. VCU ASPiRE is a program at Virginia Commonwealth University that focuses on students learning about the history of Richmond, with the aim of sparking community engagement for areas of the city that are in...
Best Of VA Missed Connections January 22 – January 28
Welcome to this week's Missed Connections, where the kind of sensible dating advice you'd expect to be a no-brainer ("pee first") turns out to be a strike against you. Of course, this is why dating over the internet turned out to be such a great idea -- because we're all total weirdos, and it's much easier to admit that from the other side of a...
Best Of VA Missed Connections January 15 – January 21
All the crazies in the world were either in Richmond or tweeting about it on social media yesterday, and the Missed Connections this week aren't exactly sane either. Is this what we have to look forward to in 2020? At least while the world burns we'll have plenty of Craigslist posts to burst into uncomprehending laughter over, right? Not sure...
