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‘Support Local, Vote Local’ RVA Magazine’s 2025 Readers’ Poll Is Now Closed!

‘Support Local, Vote Local’ RVA Magazine’s 2025 Readers’ Poll Is Now Closed!

Editor’s note: The results are in and can be found HERE! Let the groans begin, Richmond, it’s that time again: our semi annual Support Local, Vote Local Poll. We’ve all been through it lately. Another election, another pile of headlines designed to grind your...




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Richmond Is a Top Ten City for Seasonal Allergies.

If you’ve lived here long enough, you know the moment. Your car suddenly looks like it’s been dusted with powdered mustard. Your eyes itch. Your sinuses start to close up. Spring in Richmond has arrived, and with it comes the pollen. After several weeks of freezing or...

Ring, Richmond, and the Feeling of Being Watched

Walk through just about any neighborhood in Richmond and you’ll see them. The small blue-lit doorbells tucked into brick row houses in Church Hill. The newer setups in Manchester townhomes and Scott’s Addition apartments. For a lot of us, buying a Ring camera was...

DAY 8 & 9 | What It’s Like to Judge the Richmond Cannabis Cup

Editor's Note: We are an official media sponsor for February Fire which will be held February 28th at Homegrown VA. Weed has been the diadem of rebellious youth for generations, a product so diametrically opposed to the capitalist urge that its use conjures images of...

2 Killed, 9 Shot in Shockoe Bottom After Bars Closed

On the first warm weekend of 2026, in the early hours of Saturday, Feb. 21, at least nine people were shot on North 18th Street in Shockoe Bottom. Two people, 23-year-old Genesis Tamar Jones and 42-year-old Dominic Antoine Jackson, were killed, and seven others were...

Starting the Dream in Richmond’s Local Music Scene

Editor’s Note: This piece was written by a student at Randolph-Macon College as part of a feature writing course. Thank you to the students and to Professor Seth Clabough, Ph.D., for organizing the project. Gavin Lawton remembers the exact moment he decided music was...

The Good Road: Craig Martin on Challenging Myths Through Travel

When Richmond producer Craig Martin talks about The Good Road, he does not start with ratings or distribution. He starts with a pitch he heard on a flight more than a decade ago. “The first words out of his mouth,” Craig said of his business partner and co-host Earl...

Transphobic School Board Member Creates Hostile Environment

Gloucester County School Locked Down Over Armed Militia Members Last week, four people were arrested after bringing firearms to a school board meeting in Gloucester, Virginia. Those four came from outside the county at the request of a black sheep among the school board members, Darren Post. Darren Post may sound like the pseudonym of a Facebook...

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Ask a Queer: Uncovering the 4th of July Magic at Daddy’s Grotto

There wasn't much red, white, and blue at Daddy's Grotto on the 4th of July, but there were plenty of cool queer people in bathing suits. The elusive backyard space offered the following to partygoers: a small but mighty above-ground pool, stir-fry meals, quality company, free alcohol on tap, and music from a range of different artists. The party...

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Daddy's Grotto 2023, photo by Haley Bartel

Mahlina Shoats Is A Survivor

I was at a concert when Jonathan Facka called me. Of course, I did not hear my phone ring, so he immediately followed up with a text message. "I wanna pitch you something," was all that he would let on. The next morning, completely oblivious to whatever he was going to ask of me, I called him and listened to him give me the footnotes to a...

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Mahlina Shoats 2023 by Daniel Jones @danieljonesfoto

Threads, the ‘Twitter Killer’? Why We’re Taking the Leap

As a seasoned magazine and an early bird on Twitter, we know first-hand how Twitter initially revolutionized the social media realm. It was great and we grew our audience because of it. However, navigating Twitter's complexities has become increasingly challenging over the years. Misinformation, coupled with the rise of anonymous trolls, the...

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Threads, Elon Musk and Twitter, image by Kimberly Frost

In The Heat Of The Night Vol. 3: Don’t Sleep

We are working with the ingenious brewmasters at Bingo! Beer Co. and sending our team of photographers is set to roam the buzzing streets of the city, weekend after weekend, immersing ourselves in the vibrant vein of nightlife that surges past the bewitching hour of 10 pm. This week, our crew of CJ Payne, Jody Adams, and Mike Avey plunged into...

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Kate Raudenbush And Her Oasis Of Lyrical Sculpture In Richmond

Nestled within the verdant embrace of the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, Virginia, Incanto: An Oasis of Lyrical Sculpture, a new exhibition by renowned artist Kate Raudenbush, offers a harmonious marriage of art and nature. A culmination of meticulous craftsmanship and imaginative storytelling, the large-scale sculptures intricately...

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Kate Raudenbush Interview Incanto 2