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Color at Odds: Contrast In the Lines with Dathan Kane

2:45 PMJackson Ward85F Partly CloudyPlaylist: Butter on Spotify Soul Rotation was a galvanizing experience for my return to form in the creative hemisphere. A heartfelt experience, matched by an equally warm reception. I’ll admit since then there have been some...

Timmy Danger and Punks for Presents Wrestle for Charity

I found Timmy Danger lounging casually beside a fire pit, drinking a dark beer. It was a Friday afternoon in the dying days of summer, and the man whose last name is "Danger" was looking decidedly docile. He greeted me with a warm smile and a firm handshake wearing...

Goad Gatsby’s Dystopian Update For September 2023

Tracking the far-right extremists of Virginia. Explore his latest reporting HERE. Family behind proposed “Sage’s Law” files lawsuit. Earlier this year, Delegate Dave LaRock carried the bill that passed the House of Delegates by a partisan 52-48 vote but...

Richmond & The New High Times

It's no secret that America has a complicated history with mind-altering substances, but recent trends suggest that the nation may be turning over a new leaf, both figuratively and literally. According to the University of Michigan's annual Monitoring the Future...

Hey Richmond, How Are We Betting on this Casino?

Ah, Richmond—where history, culture, and community converge. A city where the clash of new and old offers fertile ground for debate. Well, hold on to your seats, River City, because we're about to roll the dice on our future once again. Just three years ago, we...

Your Artistic Passport To the 2023 First Fridays Fall Kickoff

Richmond, that vibrant crucible of culture and creativity, unfolds yet again in its monthly tradition: First Fridays. This season—ah, the dawn of Fall—the experience metamorphoses into an affair of citywide celebration nestled in the artsy nucleus of Broad Street and...

In the Heat of the Night Vol. 12: Neon Love Letter

Raise a Bingo Lager! to the electric pulse of our nightlife -- a frenetic dance fueled by the characters that make our scene a hotbed of unadulterated fun. Meet our photographer, Jody Adams, a fellow who's been pounding the pavement after-hours for months, with his...

Hadad’s Lake For Sale! A Tribute to Richmond’s Ragtag Disneyland

It's not every day a piece of a city's soul is put up for sale and we are a few weeks late on this piece of news. But here we are, at the edge of Hadad’s Lake, looking back at the ripples of history and community connection that this place has fostered over the years....

Best Of VA Missed Connections: November 24 – November 30

Looks like we all made it through another Thanksgiving -- and more importantly, another trip through the retail hellscape that is Black Friday. So today, if all you really want for "Giving Tuesday" is for someone to give you a kiss: never fear, Missed Connections are here. And from crushes on EMTs with nose piercings to guys from out in the...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections: November 17 – November 23

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections from around the Commonwealth, where I sometimes worry that we are getting entirely too fancy and losing touch with our roots. This week's bumper crop of wine tastings, Japanese restaurants, and the always-ritzy Starbucks definitely makes me a little nervous. But Richmond, you always come through, and...

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The Hustle Season Podcast: Ep. 210 Amateur Hour

RVA Magazine is proud to showcase The Hustle Season Podcast every weekend. Produced in Richmond, VA; homegrown musicians Kelli Strawbridge, Reggie Pace & James Seretis (podcast engineer/co-host) bring their irreverent, outspoken and at times thoughtful opinions to the masses. Focusing on music, pop culture...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections: November 10 – November 16

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections, where we find lurkers everywhere. At the stoplight, at the PTA meeting, at the junkyard, and as always, at the grocery store. We've even got married people creeping on also-married yoga instructors down the block. I'll bet yoga instructors and personal trainers get that kind of thing all the time. By...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections: November 3 – November 9

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections, where we learn the thing we've always known about moving: it sucks to do it alone. In fact, it sucks so bad that you might resort to Craigslist and fake a romantic connection with someone who broke their arm just to see if their friend with the truck is still available. I mean… maybe that's what's...

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The Hustle Season Podcast: Ep. 209 Megachurch Rap

RVA Magazine is proud to showcase The Hustle Season Podcast every weekend. Produced in Richmond, VA; homegrown musicians Kelli Strawbridge, Reggie Pace& James Seretis (podcast engineer/co-host) bring their irreverent, outspoken and at times thoughtful opinions to the masses. Focusing on music, pop culture both locally, nationally, sometimes...

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Best Of VA Missed Connections: October 24 – November 1

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections, where we can all learn, once again, that Halloween brings out the freaks (or, at least, the freak inside each one of us). From plantation ghosts to sexy Velmas, the costumes take all forms, and everybody's into it. But it's not all Halloween hijinks this week. We've also got dogs orchestrating a...

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The Hustle Season Podcast: Ep. 208 Another One

RVA Magazine is proud to showcase The Hustle Season Podcast every weekend. Produced in Richmond, VA; homegrown musicians Kelli Strawbridge, Reggie Pace & James Seretis (podcast engineer/co-host) bring their irreverent, outspoken and at times thoughtful opinions to the masses. Focusing on music, pop culture...

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Why Vote No On RVA Casino? Here are a few local opinions.

While the citizens of Richmond have been inundated with deeply-funded promotional materials touting the overwhelming benefits of the One Casino project, the voices of local residents who devote their lives to bettering the community have been largely drowned out. These are some of those voices, from the real people who make this city what it is,...

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