Richmond has $3 million up for grabs—money meant to improve the city, boost its neighborhoods, and maybe even change a few lives. But here’s the twist: for once, city hall isn’t the ones calling the shots. Instead, they’re turning to the people, asking a deceptively...
It’s crazy to think that just 200 yards can be the difference between getting locked up and being fined for enjoying a fatty with friends while overlooking the Potomac. With criminal marijuana laws going up in smoke back in February 2015 due to Initiative 71 - which legalized marijuana for those over 21 - there has been tremendous attention...
When it comes to enjoying cannabis, nothing is more iconic, more universal, than the weed brownie. The only thing I love more on 4/20 than a finely-rolled marijuana cigarette is a cannabis-laced brownie confection. With my schedule tied up through the weekend, I decided I’d celebrate the holiday a bit early this year- and spend the afternoon perf...
From fanny pack flirtations at Walmart to Waffle House hookups, to two friends lusting over a tattooed waiter at The Daily Kitchen & Bar in Carytown, this batch of Missed Connections is sure to brighten up your week. Check out all these and more below. Laburnum Kroger - Red Shirt Fanny Pack (Laburnum) You got a missed connections grilllll....
Given the right occasion and generally temperate forecast, there is no time better spent than on the activities we genuinely love; such as hurling garbage at climate deniers, consuming ‘the gluten’ at a bakery across the street from a police station, uninterrupted passion with your significant other or even someone else’s significant other. In...
It’s a beautiful early spring afternoon, and members of Les Boulesfrogs, Church Hill’s only pétanque club, are gathered at Chimborazo Park. Nineteen members and three newcomers, including this reporter, are here to play the bocce-like French game, where teams take turns launching steel boules at a small wooden ball called the cochonnet...
It seems it's going to take a bit before Missed Connections is brimming over with a ton of juicy, weird, and random encounters now that it's in a new section on Craigslist, but it is still alive and well, with sparks flying at The Franklin Inn, karaoke singers share a sweet dance at Sticky Rice, and two gamers connect over The Gauntlet game at...
This batch of Missed Connections may be brief, but its spicy as ever as sparks fly between a man with a broken leg and a vet in a cowboy hat, a man admires a woman from afar at an Easter Vigil at Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, a handsome Firebird's waiter is generous with his prime rib, and one poor soul longs for their former flame from Buffalo...
Following a new sex-trafficking bill that was just passed, Craigslist took down all of their personal ads, which seeks to "subject websites to criminal and civil liability when third parties (users) misuse online personals unlawfully" according to a statement the site recently released. While it's wonderful that Congress is taking action for...
It's a dreary day out there, which may have you down in the dumps, but the folks over at Missed Connections are always the perfect pick-me-up. This week, we've got a stressed out doughnut girl, sparks fly over a guy in a turtleneck at The Circuit, a man is searching for his "Daddy Bear" from the Bianco Del Rio show, and a woman dressed as Harley...
