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,...
Deep in the heart of Church Hill, where cobblestone boulevards give way to single-letter street names, the local Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club is in the midst of extensive renovation and expansion, a process that critics say comes at the expense of the area’s black community. “This is textbook gentrification at it's best. Anyone that...
Chesterfield Power Station stores 15 million tons of coal ash on its premises, and environmental groups are worried about it. The coal ash's close proximity to the James River has caused concern among environmental organizations that a severe flooding event could send the ash spilling into the river. The ash ponds are located less than a...
Hey there, lonely people... are the holiday blues getting you down? Are you looking for love in all the wrong places? Well maybe this week, missed connections is the right place for you. This will be especially true if you're a manager at a pizza place, or someone who'd proudly call yourself a redneck. And if you want to meet the man you could've...
Roughly 170,000 tons of trash incinerator ash is disposed of at Henrico’s Old Dominion Landfill every year. The landfill is located on Charles City Road in a populated area at the border of Richmond’s east end, just past city limits. Incinerator ash contains toxic heavy metals like lead and mercury, as well as furans and dioxins that pose...
A Richmond-based pharmaceutical company raised the price of a life-saving opioid overdose antidote by 600 percent between 2015 and 2017, at the peak of the U.S. opioid epidemic, according to a Senate subcommittee report. The report accused the company, kaléo, of brazenly exploiting the U.S. opioid epidemic, and of capitalizing on government...
Looks like the holiday season kicked off with some serious weirdness. If you're haunting chain restaurants and frequenting Wawa lately, this week's Missed Connections might have a message for you... and this week's posters aren't holding anything back. From drunken mistakes involving bodily functions gone wrong, to gay cruising at a Chick-Fil-A...
It's a holiday -- one of the greatest ones, in fact, and we're all looking forward to getting together with the people we love to eat some delicious food and maybe watch some football. Hopefully you're doing so as well! RVA Magazine will be back to regularly scheduled content tomorrow, but until then, eat some turkey, or tofurkey, or even ham, if...
Monument Avenue features statues commemorating five Civil War-era political and military figures, all of whom were on the Confederate side of that conflict. These statues stand at the center of a longstanding controversy that has heated up considerably over the last year or so. Feelings were greatly inflamed after the tragic events surrounding...
It's a short week, and we're all hurrying to get through it and get to the long Thanksgiving weekend already. But before you make your Black Friday shopping plans, you might want to find some loving. That's where Missed Connections comes in. This week, we've got all sorts of hanky-panky going on, from military gym rats and dog park habitues to...
