While the Mayor and friends were busy celebrating the AAA bond rating upgrade atop City Hall, inside the lower levels the city continues to fall apart. Most notably, the meals tax fiasco that we were told was being handled and improved is showing more and different...
The 11th Annual Jewish Food Festival came to Richmond’s Weinstein Jewish Community Center on the 14th and 15th of January, bringing good music, good food, and wonderful people. This festival featured all different kinds of traditional Jewish food, with various vegan and vegetarian options as well. At the festival, you could choose from 4...
In this week's collection of the top Missed Connections stories on Craigslist, we have some old school laundromat lust, a seductive encounter at the salad bar, a sex partygoer looking to heat things up again, and some wholesome no frills love at Cracker Barrel. Check out what all the fuss is about below. 22 years ago this month - m4w (The Fan) ...
A recent Craigslist post caught our eye with its unusual request—a restaurant in Richmond's Fan District is on the hunt for an "exorcist." Yes, you read that right. It seems this small local spot is dealing with what they've described as a "demonic attack," and they're calling on anyone with the chops for casting out otherworldly spirits to help...
While many Americans used the holiday to kick back or play golf, others spent Martin Luther King Jr. day volunteering as part of a national day of service. In Richmond, nearly 100 volunteers used the day off to do restoration work at the East End Cemetery, a historic Black cemetery on the Henrico border. The cemetery, established in 1897 next to...
New year, same naughty, sketchy, peculiarly romantic encounters for the people over in Missed Connections this week. In this batch, we have more sock and foot fetishes, of course, sparks fly at a 90s party at The National, along with New York Deli, and Tarrant's Cafe. All that and more, below. I Saw U Peeking 😉 - m4w (bedroom) u could of waved...
Imagine a scenario where armed militia comes to your neighborhood. They indiscriminately shoot, kill, and rape as a tactic of war. They are hardened men who have been living and fighting in the bush for years on end. There is no compassion in their cause, only cruelty. Some of them are children, recruited to kill by men looking to control vast...
We are just a few days into 2018 and the folks of Missed Connections are already providing us with enough entertainment for the whole year. Sparks fly at Cary St. Cafe, we've got more foot fetishes, a man has a few gigs for a pregnant woman living at the Richmond Inn, and if you're looking for a discreet encounter, a Chester man has declared...
The holidays are a time for us to come together with our loved ones...or lurk on Craigslist in search of your latest fling or rendezvous. The people of Missed Connections are serving up the romance and wonderfully weird yet again this week from a flirtation over tomatoes at Ellwood Thompson's, to a man looking to reignite a threesome, sparks fly...
My earliest memories are of life in India in the 1980’s. In Ahmedabad, Gujarat all walks of life live together in very dense concentrations. The extraordinarily wealthy and the extremely poor and homeless all share the same walkways, parks, and public spaces. I grew up wondering how it was possible for me to get meals and water anytime I wanted,...
