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NYE Noise Demo Outside of Richmond Jail

A few hours before midnight, about two dozen protesters held a noise demonstration outside of the Richmond City Justice Center where the city’s jail is located. This annual event in Richmond happens every December 31st, going back a few years. The focus of the...

Should Richmond Have an Official New Year’s Eve Party?

As we coast into the NYE weekend, let’s ask a question. Flashback to 2007: our magazine ignited Carytown with back to back DIY New Year’s parties that became a part of the city history. It was super fun. This celebration continued for a few more years, even as we...

The RVA MAG What to Do in Richmond This New Year’s Weekend List

It becomes truly difficult to do anything during this week of limbo; this odd liminal space between years where so many have time to spare and a beautiful apathy takes hold over the minds of the populous. In this period of relaxation and stagnation, one can become a...

You Voted! Here Are Richmond’s Favorites Things in 2023

We asked and you responded with thousands of votes cast over 10 days. Thank you. Now, without further delay, we present the results of the Favorite Things Reader’s Poll 2023. Or before you jump in, you can take a look back at last year's results HERE. 👋 Also, if you...

Richmond The Rudolph Killer

Originally posted on Jon Balie's RVA 5x5 Substack, which you can follow HERE.The Dominion Energy Richmond Christmas Parade is a fun, annual rite for many; not as well-known as some other parades, perhaps, but it is still a fun morning filling up and filing down Broad...

Best of RVA Craigslist missed connections 1/5/16

The new year is here, and with that comes new heart breaks, unrequited love and missed connections. Here are the ‘best of” RVA Craigslist’s newly aching hearts along with some of the same old classic lustfully weird Internet people. (Some things never change) Waffle House Cutie (moon baby) - m4w (Chesterfield) You came in with one of your lady...

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A look back at Richmond Mural Project 2015

Alright folks, that's it - we've wrapped up the 2015 Richmond Mural Project. Alright folks, that's it - we've wrapped up the 2015 Richmond Mural Project. We've got an awesome prize - one of 3 hand painted collab pieces - lined up for people who take photos of the new murals and tag them #RMP2015 on instagram, so get out there and start taking...

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Best of RVA Craigslist Missed Connections 4/28-5/1

Nothing will make you lose help like missed connections. People here in this world want to fuck bus drivers, lick dirty feet clean, talk about hot tubs, hit on strangers and just general awfulness. It tires you out. I’m gonna go take a nap, here’s the best of missed connections. Ben Folds Show - The National - 5/2 - End of Concert Exchanged Looks...

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Best of RVA Craigslist Missed Connections 4/21-4/27

This week feels like deja vu all over again. We do this most weeks, and most of the time and the missed connections are similar because they all fall into the same couple tropes: i saw a hot guy, i saw a hot girl, there was a pretty employee who was nice to me because its their job, i love my ex, i hate my ex, ONE IN ALL CAPS, weird phrasing,...

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Best of RVA Craigslist Missed Connections 4/14-20

This missed connections gig is a job hazard- today alone there were four whose pictures were just straight up porn. They also leave you wondering certain things like why would a 42-year-old man try to get with someone starting as a VCU freshman this year? How does one get ‘sort of’ hit by a train? What is the underground world of furries like?...

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Best of RVA Craigslist Missed Connections 4/7-4/13

Contributors here at RVAMag read extremely large amount of missed connections every week to bring this column to you, but this week’s take the cake for just being the most fucking creepy batch in a long while. Normally, one or two questionable posts rear their ugly heads, but this week most everything I’ve got is depressingly creepy. There are...

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Best of RVA Craigslist Missed Connections 3/25-4/1

The warm weather is here and everyone’s got spring fever. Your long lost love might be thinking about you too. Or maybe that girl in the Taco Bell drive-thru also thinks you’re her future soul mate. People are looking for love, or at least a good time, everywhere you look in RVA. Check out the best of this week’s missed connections and maybe get...

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