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ACA Rate Hike of 20.5% Could Price Out Richmond Creatives

Richmond’s creative economy has always been powered by risk-takers like musicians, painters, actors, writers, photographers, makers, and the small business owners who keep the city’s galleries, venues, and shops alive. Many piece together a living from passion...

Life Wrote These Lines: Local Musicians Against AI

I was recently reflecting on a line I am particularly proud of. The tail half is: “I’ll go to the funeral if I get off of work.” As I am prone to do, it got me thinking about my abrasive hatred towards AI, especially in art. But I have to justify myself, if a computer...

The Lost Cause Boys’ Club

“The rebel yell, reinforced by a glorification of the lost cause was everywhere manifest,” reported John Mitchell Jr., editor of the Richmond Planet, an African American weekly newspaper, at the time of the Robert E. Lee monument’s unveiling.  It was the spring...

Rest Easy, Adam Turck

When RVA Magazine approached me about becoming their regular theatre critic, I was tickled at the idea. I hadn't been too involved in the local scene, but I had been very critical - of everything, always. I was curious as to the state of quality.  Regional...

Writer’s Block | Poems by Kaylee Walton

A Sunday series from RVA Magazine featuring writers from Richmond and VirginiaWriter’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...

Best Of VA Missed Connections: November 10 – November 16

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections, where we find lurkers everywhere. At the stoplight, at the PTA meeting, at the junkyard, and as always, at the grocery store. We've even got married people creeping on also-married yoga instructors down the block. I'll bet yoga instructors and personal trainers get that kind of thing all the time. By...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections: November 3 – November 9

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections, where we learn the thing we've always known about moving: it sucks to do it alone. In fact, it sucks so bad that you might resort to Craigslist and fake a romantic connection with someone who broke their arm just to see if their friend with the truck is still available. I mean… maybe that's what's...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections: October 24 – November 1

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections, where we can all learn, once again, that Halloween brings out the freaks (or, at least, the freak inside each one of us). From plantation ghosts to sexy Velmas, the costumes take all forms, and everybody's into it. But it's not all Halloween hijinks this week. We've also got dogs orchestrating a...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections October 20 – October 26

Hey, welcome to another week of Missed Connections, where the looming shadow of Halloween envelops our entire week. If you're still trying to figure out what sort of costume you're gonna wear this year, you might need a momentary escape from these sartorial anxieties. Rest assured, that's exactly what we've got for you in this week's installment...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections: October 13 – October 19

Welcome to Missed Connections on a crisp fall morning that reminds us all how soon Halloweek will be upon us! If you don't have a costume, don't worry -- you might just have enough resemblance to a somewhat obscure movie star that you don't need one. As for Craigslist, it's got the usual supply of awkward comedy gold, from intentional upskirts in...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections: October 6 – October 12

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections here in the good ol' Commonwealth, where every now and then we get a pretty strong reminder that our newly cosmopolitan state still has some powerful backwoods DNA lurking just beneath the surface. When you see a pretty girl shopping at Lowes with a gun on her hip, you remember… oh yeah, this is still...

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A Balanced Solution

Richmond Hydroponics brings Virginia's first commercially available cannabis fertilizer to market. S. Preston Duncan takes a trip behind the scenes.  In a small airplane hangar of a greenhouse on a wide plot of farmland just upriver from the city, Josh Fitzhugh is battling whiteflies on a 9-foot cannabis indica plant. Just by its silhouette...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections: September 29 – October 5

If you're someone from the massive service economy that seems to be the only thing keeping America afloat these days, rest assured, someone appreciates you -- and whether you're a flight attendant, a security guard, an auto parts store employee, or a priest, you might find that appreciative person in this week's Missed Connections. Alternately,...

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