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Powerful Moments Outshine the Structure in ‘Sanctuary City’

I flew in under the wire to catch 5th Wall Theatre’s final performance of Martyna Majok’s Sanctuary City at Richmond Triangle Players' impressive stage in Scott’s Addition. This play is a curious hybrid, a bifurcated cryptid if you will, as its first and second acts...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe is The Godmother of Rock N Roll

Richmond has a way of letting history slip through the cracks. Some stories get enshrined, others get forgotten, and too often, the ones that matter most fall into the latter category. Sister Rosetta Tharpe is one of those names that any one who loves music history...

New York Developer Eyes Massive High-Rise Project in Richmond

According to Richmond Bizsense, a new high-rise could soon reshape Richmond’s skyline as a mystery developer from New York considers building a 35-to-40-story mixed-use tower on a prime state-owned lot at 703 E. Main Street. The project, which would be among the...

It’s Still Our City | Ep. 5 Destructo Disk

"Destructo Disk, an alternative punk band originally from Winchester, VA, has quickly become a Richmond staple. It’s wild to think they’ve only been tearing it up here for a few years—they’ve covered serious ground in no time. If you haven’t checked them out yet, do...

The Richmond 34 Sat Down. What Are We Standing Up For?

Sixty-five years ago, a group of brave young Black Richmonders walked into a department store, sat down at a lunch counter, and refused to leave. That’s what they did. That’s what got them arrested. They just sat in a segregated space where their presence alone was...

Detroit 67 Is Ablaze at the Firehouse

I’ve given up on trying to write reviews of plays I see at the Firehouse Theatre immediately after leaving the show. Maybe I’m slow, but there is always so much to process that “sleeping on it” is the only way I’m going to unpack the turmoil they’ve left me with as I...

Best Of VA Missed Connections May 20 – May 26

The kinksters are out and about in this week's Missed Connections, and they're getting downright bold. People looking to get tied up, people who want to buy poppers, people who want to hook up with a cop… all kinds of crazy desires are getting aired out here! There's even a guy who wants to pay women to clean their houses, or so he says. Am I the...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections May 13 – May 19

Welcome to Missed Connections, where the fact that it's been a really tough year so far is finally starting to dawn on certain of our fearless posters. Let's be honest, at this point the only hope we have is for some positive changes on Election Day in November. If that doesn't happen, 2020 is pretty much unsalvageable. But until we know one way...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections May 6 – May 12

It's another week of Missed Connections, where every week seems to bring some new outbreak of crazy. Will the coming reopening calm us all down a bit before the inevitable second wave of infections? We shall see, but for this week, things remain a bit… off in the MC world. Your most clear demonstration is what certainly seems to be a recruiting...

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Gears Missed

At a time when expensive corporate products are less than hugely popular, Virginia's motorcycle culture is finding new life in vintage shops around the state. On a side road in Virginia, the reflective façade of high-rise office buildings breaks into a dusty sun-soaked street, where the sidewalk briefly gives way to a dirt shoulder lined with...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections April 29 – May 5

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections, where we all know shit happens, and sometimes, farts happen too. There's no shame in it, either, even if certain passive-aggressive MC posters are dead set on shaming you for it. Let em rip, y'all! It's still far less lethal than COVID-19. Beyond all that weirdness, the MCs this week are all about...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections April 22 – April 28

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections, where quarantine seems to be eroding some people's grasp on reality. I mean, I know witches are real, both of the Wiccan and pagan varieties. But if you're looking to change your age and/or gender, that's not really how witchcraft works here in the real world. Gender transitions are real and possible...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections April 15 – April 21

It's time for another installment of Missed Connections, where this week makes clearer than ever that everyone is kinda getting tired of being so bummed about coronavirus all the time. Sure, we're all still on quarantine, and nobody wants to get the COVID… but if we're all stuck sitting on the couch in front of the TV anyway, can't we at least...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections April 8 – April 14

It's a month into the quarantine and we're all getting a little messy -- what better place to air that kind of thing out than Missed Connections? From speculation about side chicks to sadness over the death of John Prine, this week's has a bit of a different feel than usual -- probably because people are mostly not having the chance to miss any...

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