A Sunday series from RVA Magazine featuring writers from Richmond and VirginiaWriter’s Block is RVA Magazine’s Sunday series highlighting contemporary writers working in Richmond and across the Commonwealth. Each week, we feature original poems, short stories, or...
This Saturday, August 30th, the Air Sex Championship is coming, literally and figuratively, to Strange Matter in Richmond, VA. This Saturday, August 30th, the Air Sex Championship is coming, literally and figuratively, to Strange Matter in Richmond, VA. After six years of performing and three stops in Richmond (all presented by the Coalition...
Leave it to Japan to take cat jokes on the internet to another level. Leave it to Japan to take cat jokes on the internet to another level. Below are a series of videos released as part of Japanese Pizza Hut's "Pizza Cat" campaign. It's as brilliant as it sounds. The concept appears to be a Pizza Hut shop run entirely by cats. The imagery would...
Introducing the fifth EQ Presents Stay Tuned Podcast. Introducing the fifth EQ Presents Stay Tuned Podcast. In case you aren't familiar, EQ Produktions is a Richmond, VA based promotional and production company that brings a fusion of both jam and electronica music together for your enjoyment! Over the next few weeks we will highlight some of EQ...
RVA Underground #5 RVA Underground #5 RVA Mag presents the RVA Underground Podcast, Episode #5, featuring Daniel Jones and Terreal Brown. Each episode, your hosts will give you a variety of tracks they feel worthy of your attention, and will also feature a guest mix by a local DJ or producer. Check out the episode below, and let us know what you...
Netflix has made a lot of slam dunks recently when it comes to original content - Orange is the New Black, The Killing, House of Cards Knights of Sidonia (look it up anime nerds, you wont be disappointed!) - and now they have a new notch to put in their belt: BoJack Horsemen. Netflix has made a lot of slam dunks recently when it comes to original...
Renowned local tattoo artist Amy Black is celebrated not only for her exquisite nipple tattoos for mastectomy patients but also for her versatile artistic skills. One poignant example is her recent project for a family member of the late American journalist James Hayes Foley. After being kidnapped, Foley tragically lost his life when ISIS, the...
Ryan Kent is a poet, which makes sense because he's probably better known around this town as a singer. The lyrics he writes for his band, Gritter, are probably similar to a lot of lyrics, in that if you separated them from the music and wrote them down on a piece of paper, they'd look just like poetry. But Kent has more to say than what can...
This Thursday night, The Midnight Suggestion brings another great night of alternative comedy to RVA with the appearance of Myq Kaplan, accompanied by Zach Sherwin and Jim Zarling, at Gallery 5. Myq (pronounced Mike) Kaplan is perhaps best known for his appearance as a finalist on the 2010 season of Last Comic Standing. However, he's got a lot...
In a spectacle as grand and theatrical as the man himself, Dave Brockie, better known as Oderus Urungus, was sent off in a Viking funeral at Hadad’s Lake in Richmond, Virginia. The ceremony, held during the 2014 GWAR B-Q, saw Brockie’s stage-worn Oderus Urungus costume set ablaze on a boat, launched into the lake, and ignited with a flaming...
