A bit of Richmond music news making national headlines this morning. Music fans in Richmond, and we at the mag, have a well-documented love for Lucy Dacus, a homegrown talent. But apparently, she shares no love for former President Barak Obama. Each summer, the former...
The Honorable Mayor Dwight C. Jones City Hall, Richmond, Va. From Save Richmond Dear Mayor Jones: Congratulations once again on being elected mayor of the City of Richmond. We trust that, four months after being sworn into office, you’ve finally finished unpacking all of your boxes and have placed all the personal photos and plaques of...
Long before the campaign rallies, the presidential debates, and the White House, Barack Obama was just another college freshman trying to figure out who he wanted to become. A newly released collection of photographs offers a rare glimpse into that version of Obama during his freshman year at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Taken in the early...
The Moral Laboratory I opened my kitchen cabinet, and begrudged my lack of plastic wrap. Aluminum foil is good for sandwiches, but last night, I needed to be capable of creating a one-way seal on my mouth in order to fill my head and neck as full of water as possible. At least, that's the by-the-book way to carry out a waterboarding. All sorts of...
This past First Friday in May, Richmond experienced an eventful International Worker’s Day, also known as May Day, a day that many Americans might not be familiar with. The streets were filled with passionate marchers advocating for workers’ rights. The Worker's Rights March commenced with a peaceful assembly. However, to avoid passing through an...
Brewed in the bars and backyard ramps of Richmond, Virginia, Born Ugly is the voice and visual of the everyday skateboarder. With content focused on the lives of people that skateboard for the love of it, and not a paycheck, Born Ugly sets itself apart from the homogenized glut of skateboard mags currently saturating skate shop counters. Add to...
"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." -Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father, Virginian, and international baller. We pull in to a sun baked parking lot full of SUVs with...
