This Saturday, culture will spill across the steps of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture as Richmond celebrates its first Diwali Music & Arts Festival, a full-day gathering of color, rhythm, and connection hosted by The Rith Initiative, a new 501(c)(3)...
After more than half a century, Petersburg City Council has approved a motion to reopen Wilcox Lake, which was previously closed in 1958 to prevent desegregation in the area. City Councilwoman Treska Wilson-Smith brought the motion forward this year, after previously attempting to pass it five years prior. “The council of 1958 made a decision to...
Activists in the Richmond area came together near Congressman Dave Brat’s office today to protest his support for President Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policies. Standing across the street from the business park that houses Brat’s office, protestors created a stir along West Broad Street close to Short Pump in Henrico. Organized by...
Flavor Flav, reality-TV firebrand and founding member of hip-hop group Public Enemy, will be throwing the first pitch at the Flying Squirrels game tonight, as well as conduct a meet-and-greet from 5:15 to 6 p.m. at Parney’s Pub before the game. The theme of the night is “Old School Hip-Hop.” Tickets for the meet and greet are $40 and include a...
Giant hogweed is the stuff of nightmares. While having a towering stalk which supports a benign looking white flower flanked by crispy green shrubbery, this terror plant actually causes skin burns, phototoxicity, and giant blisters that can last for months if its toxic sap so much as grazes a person's skin. Among that litany of botanical...
*This story has been updated. Around mid-afternoon, a man barricaded himself in a room on the 15th floor of the Omni Hotel in Shockoe Slip. Police quickly surrounded the hotel after the man busted out one of the double-sided windows in the room. According to CBS 6, the man wrote "help" on a directory page, which fell out of the open window. RVA...
It's a hot one out there Richmond, and the people of RVA Missed Connections are cranking the heat up, even more, this week. Sparks fly at Bev's Homemade Ice Cream, a man is falling over himself to get next to the "goddess" at Boulevard, Burgers, & Brews, and two music lovers flirt outside The National after the Cold War Kids concert. oh, and...
After a razor-thin victory in the Republican primary, Corey Stewart will face Sen. Tim Kaine this November. Unlike Rep. David Brat and other Tea Party candidates, Stewart won't have the backing of the Koch Brothers' well-funded political action committee, Americans For Prosperity. The libertarian group will not run ads or deploy staff for...
The surprisingly contentious GRTC Pulse bus line is finally opening, and while it still has critics, it’s also building support among the people who actually ride it. You can't miss the new Pulse stations all over Broad Street, and they’ve inspired some controversy in the surrounding communities. Until this assignment, I too was critical, but had...
Fresh off a disastrous appearance on CNN, GOP Senate candidate Corey Stewart took to Twitter to claim his primary win as a mandate to "kick @timkaine's teeth in." Stewart is the current chair of the Prince William Board of Supervisors, but has struggled to win office outside of his county. He notably lost the Republican primary for the office of...
