The Parham Papers, is the work of private investigator-turned-journalist Christa Motley. Since 2022, she’s been documenting how the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences (VARR), the state’s accrediting body for sober living programs, operated in the shadows,...
Volunteers for "Will The Stones Whisper Their Names," a project of the Louisa County Historical Society, climb hills and trek through forests to locate and document African American burial grounds from centuries past. Gloria Gilmore recalled a man telling her, “When I was a little boy … we used to pick strawberries up a path that led to a...
Despite Virginia’s strict gambling laws, restaurants, bars, and gas stations are adding so-called “skill machines” to draw people who wish to wager money in an attempt to win big. Because the results aren’t left entirely up to chance, these slot-style machines lie in a gambling gray area. It sits a few blocks from the bustle of Carytown, under a...
The first warm weekend of the year happened only days ago, so of course the Missed Connections are heating up along with the weather. This is definitely the week for redheads, too, so if you're a carrot top, keep an eye out -- your Craigslist Prince Charming just might be looking for you. We've also got a run on sweatpants this time around, which...
After living abroad for a decade, a hometown Richmonder will take one GRTC bus route a month to explore neighborhoods at opposite ends of the track -- and showcase what’s near and dear to locals’ hearts at each stop along the way. What would New York be without the subway, or San Francisco without its streetcars? Just hearing the phrase “mind the...
I hope you all planted your potatoes last weekend, because spring is here, and it's about time! We're all ready for the sun to shine on us again, and as this week's Missed Connections makes clear, a lot of people were out, about, and checking all the beautiful people out this past weekend, both at Shamrock the Block and other fine outdoor...
Building on a package of new laws to reduce evictions, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Thursday that he has approved creation of a program to help low-income tenants facing eviction. The Eviction Diversion Pilot Program will begin in Richmond, Hampton, Petersburg and Danville in July 2020. The program is the result of identical bills sponsored by...
Before this St. Patrick's Day weekend, dig into some census data showing the presence of Irish ancestry around the Commonwealth. Irish eyes are smiling in Virginia. From Lee County to Louisa, Rockbridge to Rappahannock, Virginia is home to about 790,000 people with Irish heritage, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That is about 9.5 percent of...
Farting in Walmart may not be the best look, but ratting someone out in the Missed Connections might just be the worst one. Can you imagine the arrogance it takes to attempt to spin that into a meet-cute? Well, if you read this week's missed connections, you won't have to. You will get some entertaining reads, though, and not just the one where...
Winter is taking its sweet time about drawing to a close, and from the look of this week's Missed Connections, the times are hard out there. We all know about people who come to this section looking for companionship, but when you have to hit Craigslist just to ask for somewhere to take a shower, well... things are getting pretty desperate....
