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Best of Craigslist missed connections 12/30-1/7

New year means new missed connections, and it seems that the gym is not the only place where people carry out their resolutions. Some people may want to take a second look at what they’ve resolved to do. A new year means a new chance at love, so look below and see if...

R-Words 2014 Season Recap: A Time to Kill

Humans tend to suppress difficult times in their memory. Places, people, and things connected to these dark times, when encountered, tend to precipitate flashes in our brains, bolstering the suspicion that, yes, I was surgically engineered in a lab as a military...

GWARbar opens its doors, is covered in blood

Talks of GWAR getting their own restaurant had been circulating for several years, but as of the first of this year, there is now a shiny temple to GWAR, with some pretty good food to boot. Talks of GWAR getting their own restaurant had been circulating for several...

U.Va. President Seeks Leniency for McDonnell

When former Governor Bob McDonnell enters a federal court room for sentencing today, he'll have about 400 voices urging leniency for his corruption charge. When former Governor Bob McDonnell enters a federal court room for sentencing today, he'll have about 400 voices...

RVA Mag’s top stories of 2014 – A year in Review

Richmond, oh Richmond. How we have learned from and loved one another over the last year. Richmond, oh Richmond. How we have learned from and loved one another over the last year. Sure, there were some fights, some tears, but there were some times to celebrate as...

BIG TIME OPEN AIR MUSIC FESTIVAL COMING TO SUFFOLK?

Music festivals have a way of taking out-of-the-way places and making them into major cultural destinations. A Maury High grad has a vision for just such a one-day open air live music event that could--if executed well--turn into Hampton Roads' version of Firefly or,...

Your guide to RVA NYE 2015 at Brown’s Island

Get ready for an all new way to celebrate the new year, Richmond. Celebrate the end of 2014 with a new 50-foot ball-drop, tons of RVA craft booze, and 15,000 of your new best friends. We're taking over Brown's Island, and you are all invited. Get ready for an all new...

Best of RVA Missed Connections 12/23-29

You might think the holiday weekend would kill the action on Craigslist over the past weekend, but you'd be wrong--it was business as usual on the Missed Connections, only with slightly more travel references. You might think the holiday weekend would kill the action...

CBS Gives Carytown Gunmen A Soapbox

Local CBS 6 got the story someone should have done a few weeks ago - the group of men who walk up and down Carytown with 'long guns' - rifles or shotguns - an American flag, and low hanging balls. Local CBS 6 got the story someone should have done a few weeks ago - the group of men who walk up and down Carytown with 'long guns' - rifles or...

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Local Group Hopes to Turn Crumbling Stone Pier into Cross-river Park

Anyone who has spent time at Browns Island or Bell Isle notices the Richmond-Petersburg Railway line, which was destroyed during the Civil War, with the crumbling stone pier still jutting out of the whitewater rapids of downtown Richmond. Anyone who has spent time at Browns Island or Bell Isle notices the Richmond-Petersburg Railway line, which...

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RVA Missed Connections: 6/23-6/30

It's starting to warm up again here in the River City - I'm not sure if that affects local missed connections, but there does seem to be an influx of folks burn'n with desire. It's starting to warm up again here in the River City - I'm not sure if that affects local missed connections, but there does seem to be an influx of folks burn'n with...

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Alchemy Coffee Aims For Permanent Location On VCU Campus

Take heart, coffee connoisseurs and food-truck junkies - your favorite tear-drop coffee cart, Alchemy Coffee, is m Take heart, coffee connoisseurs and food-truck junkies - your favorite tear-drop coffee cart, Alchemy Coffee, is moving indoors and opening a permanent location later this summer in the VCU Arts Depot building at 814 W. Grace Street....

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One Way Richmond Says Goodbye

This past weekend, on the very day marking their fifth anniversary, One Way Richmond said its farewells to this city. This past weekend, on the very day marking their fifth anniversary, One Way Richmond said its farewells to this city. This unique, informative, and always opinionated website was mostly the work of one man, John Lewis Morgan, who...

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