Editor’s note: As the holiday shopping season begins, we are encouraging Richmonders to support independent businesses, you can find a list of those in our ongoing “Support Local, Vote Local” 2025 Readers’ Poll, which highlights hundreds of local shops, restaurants,...
The first thing Abbie Arevalo Herrera is going to do when she eventually leaves sanctuary is thank God. “He’s the one who’s allowed me to have this experience, and I feel like I’m learning a lot, things I never imagined,” Arevalo Herrera said in Spanish. And then, she said with a pause, she’s going to the beach with her children. She finished the...
Last week, Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras met with community members for an open discussion on plans to improve Richmond Public Schools. Kamras called the discussion a "Trust Town Hall," announcing the event in an April 13 op-ed for the Richmond Times Dispatch. In the op-ed, Kamras wrote that the main issue he heard...
Here's the next installment of a monthly series in which a hometown Richmonder who has spent over a decade abroad explores the many different neighborhoods accessible by GRTC bus lines to find the ways GRTC connects us all. Bellevue: Bellevue positively radiates springtime cheer. Manicured lawns brimming with perky daffodils and blossoming...
After releasing his footage of white supremacist James Alex Fields driving into a crowd of protesters at Unite The Right, Brennan Gilmore became the target of massive online harassment -- spurred, the suit alleges, by online provocateur and Infowars host Alex Jones. On Aug. 12, 2017, Brennan Gilmore had his phone out and happened to be filming a...
Hopewell Mayor Jasmine Gore wants to reinvigorate the civic spirit of Richmond's southeastern neighbor by involving and inspiring its community. Hands full of a stack of binders as she rushes out of the small, mid-century elevator of Hopewell’s Municipal Building, Mayor Jasmine Gore gives the immediate impression that she has a lot to do and...
*This article originally appeared in RVA Mag #36, on the streets now at all your favorite spots. The most difficult part about traveling is the people you must leave behind. Other things can also go wrong: missing planes, losing luggage, items stolen, food sickness, uncomfortable weather, fear of strangers, looking like an outsider, feeling...
"In my ideal world, I'd want him to resign," said Vanessa Tyson, one of two women to accuse Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax of sexual assault. Vanessa Tyson and Meredith Watson, the two women who accused Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault earlier this year, granted interviews to CBS News this week. Those interviews aired Monday and Tuesday on...
A federal proposal to move the Ettrick Amtrak station to Colonial Heights has caused concern from both Congressional representatives and community advocates from Virginia State University. For over 30 years, Amtrak has served the Petersburg area through the train station located at 3516 South Street in Ettrick. A small community just west of...
Attempting to disassociate from the former Confederate president's legacy of racism and slavery, Arlington County is taking steps to rename their portion of Jefferson Davis Highway. And Attorney General Herring says they have the legal right to do so. The portion of Jefferson Davis Highway that runs through Arlington County could be renamed as...
