Richmond is no stranger to infrastructure challenges, but the recent water crisis has brought the city’s water treatment plant under intense scrutiny. A winter storm that caused a power outage at the plant quickly escalated into a disaster, leaving thousands of...
Valentine's Day is almost here, and the Missed Connections are here to prove that all some of us really want is someone to make us feel special. Meanwhile, others of us are total creeps who have no idea what constitutes appropriate public behavior. Just because we're laughing at your Craigslist post doesn't mean we approve in any way, you...
Richmond-based nonprofit HCB2 works to prevent colorectal cancer through education, support, and the Boxer Brief 5K. When Rich Conklin passed away in January of 2011 due to colorectal cancer, his wife Mindy Conklin, who was a county mental health therapist, found she needed to take a step back from her work. “During that time I thought, you know...
It's time for another week of Missed Connections from around Virginia -- where, in a lot of places, blue-tailed lizards are more than just a metaphor. If you grew up in the country, you know what I'm talking about; growing up, it was always hilarious when a lizard foiled my hungry cat and left him holding onto a little blue tail with one claw....
VCU's ASPiRE program helps students at Richmond's largest college discover, engage, and make a difference in the city outside their campus. VCU ASPiRE is a program at Virginia Commonwealth University that focuses on students learning about the history of Richmond, with the aim of sparking community engagement for areas of the city that are in...
Welcome to this week's Missed Connections, where the kind of sensible dating advice you'd expect to be a no-brainer ("pee first") turns out to be a strike against you. Of course, this is why dating over the internet turned out to be such a great idea -- because we're all total weirdos, and it's much easier to admit that from the other side of a...
All the crazies in the world were either in Richmond or tweeting about it on social media yesterday, and the Missed Connections this week aren't exactly sane either. Is this what we have to look forward to in 2020? At least while the world burns we'll have plenty of Craigslist posts to burst into uncomprehending laughter over, right? Not sure...
Welcome to another installment of Missed Connections, where this week we learn that cutting your finger so bad you end up in the ER means you definitely know how to have fun! Does your nurse want to have fun with you? Or has she seen too many trainwrecks while she's on shift to even consider it? You'll never know if you don't post! We've got a...
New year, new you, and new Missed Connections! Our first weekly installment of the roaring (20)20's finds a lot of positive sentiment marking the dawn of a new decade. It's a remarkable wave of goodwill to start the year off, but how long will it last? Well, keep reading, because if you guessed "not even til the end of this week," you're...
This is not only the end of a year but a decade, and here at RVA Mag, we feel it would be eminently appropriate to kick off 2020 by looking back at all your favorite reads of the past year. From the important political stories of the year to the big cultural events around town and the biggest music and art news of 2019, it's all here, adding up...
