Editor's note: Redfern Hemp Co. is a current sponsor of RVA Magazine. This story was produced independently and without editorial control or influence. RVA Magazine began covering Virginia’s cannabis industry earlier this year, and support from Redfern and several...
It was a few months ago that Christian Gordon had an experience he says changed his life. After escaping a high-speed collision by swerving into a ditch, just out of harm’s way, Gordon found himself shaken but uninjured. Just ahead of his near accident was a small church, which he entered to do something unusual for him; give thanks to God....
In 2015, Richmond was the third most tattooed city in the country. Over the past few years, over a dozen shops have cropped up along Broad Street and judging from looking around VCU's campus and basically any bar in Richmond, body art is something that will always be a part of the city's culture. With so many well done, beautiful tattoos around...
The US incarcerates more people per capita than any other country in the world and the systematic racism, class-based inequalities, and economic engines which drive these things are well documented - making their continued existence a deeply shameful reminder of how regressive the US still is on crime and punishment. According to a Prison Policy...
In a summer full of ecological terrors, from gigantic hogweed terror plants to snakes emerging from toilets, to an increase in snake sightings throughout the Commonwealth, along with great whites being pinged off the coast; now a dusky shark washed up on the shore of Resort City. Coincidence? Only if you believe in that kind of thing. According...
The best of RVA Missed Connections is back to help get you through the work week. In this batch, we've got creepy window peep shows, a woman at Chick-Fil-A lusts after a man in a construction vest, sparks fly at Murphy's Law and Floydfest, and one poster hopes things get steamy with his encounter at Brewer's Cafe. All that and more below. Chick...
Students at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill toppled the Confederate monument known as "Silent Sam" on Monday night. According to WRAL, nearly 200 student protestors assembled at the Peace and Justice Plaza at around 7 p.m. to call for removal of the statue. A short time later they marched to the statue, and by 9:30 p.m. it lay on...
Every so often what we see in the movies crosses over into the 3D realm which mere mortals currently reside; free from the shackles that bind the laws of the physical universe to our everyday lives. The cinematic masterpiece "The Last Action Hero" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger proved just how possible this can be. As summer transitions to fall,...
An image made in the likeness of the dark lord himself, aka, Lucifer: The Fallen, The Morning Star, The Great Deceiver, Old Nick, Mayor of Hell, Apollyon, briefly appeared outside the Capitol building in Little Rock, Arkansas, yesterday, and it was magnificent. The "Satan Went Down to Arkansas" rally, held by the Temple of Satan (bless them),...
Under cover of darkness, electric scooter company Bird dropped off their titular rental vehicles last night, primarily along Franklin, Main, and Broad streets. Placed in groups of three, which the company calls nests in their pun-heavy marketing materials, the new scooters are motorized and can be unlocked with an app--think bike share--and...
