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New Year’s Eve! Looking Back at Our Biggest Stories of 2024

So, it’s New Year’s Eve. The drinks are poured, the fireworks are loaded, and before the clock strikes midnight, let’s take a moment to sift through the rubble of the year that was. Richmond in 2024—messy, beautiful, endlessly fascinating. Thanks for sticking with us...

Farid Alan Schintzius, A Man of ‘Good Trouble’ Has Passed Away

“We need a little good trouble, don’t we?” Alan would say, his tall frame casting a shadow and that familiar twinkle in his eye. Farid Alan Schintzius passed away last Thursday, and I’ve been reflecting on the loss of someone I deeply admired. A true master of “good...

Perfect 100! Richmond’s Commitment To LGBTQ+ Rights

Richmond has achieved a perfect score of 100 on the 2024 Municipal Equality Index (MEI), a comprehensive assessment of LGBTQ+ inclusion in municipal policies, services, and laws. Released annually by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC), this year’s MEI...

How Should Richmond Spend $3 Million? Residents Now Have A Say

Richmond has $3 million up for grabs—money meant to improve the city, boost its neighborhoods, and maybe even change a few lives. But here’s the twist: for once, city hall isn’t the ones calling the shots. Instead, they’re turning to the people, asking a deceptively...

RVA Magazine endorses Jon Baliles for Mayor of Richmond

We are going to do something we have never done in our decade of publishing and it is not a decision we have come upon lightly but one that we state with conviction. We are going to do something we have never done in our decade of publishing and it is not a decision we have come upon lightly but one that we state with conviction. RVA Magazine is...

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