A recent report by Radio IQ suggests Virginia lawmakers are once again inching toward a legal recreational marijuana market, this time through the state budget process. Following Governor Abigail Spanberger's veto, Senate Democrats have threatened to fold retail...
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 other companies in the industry helps make continued reporting on issues like this...
What started as a Twitter joke has officially entered the city’s canon. The Valentine announced this week that the now-famous “Richmond Gun Hole”, a gun-shaped indentation in the sidewalk on South Addison Street, will be part of the museum’s “This Is Richmond, Virginia” exhibition when it reopens with new additions later this month. According to...
This weekend, Richmond Shakespeare opens Witch at the Theatre Gym inside the Virginia Repertory Theatre, running October 23 – November 9. Directed by longtime company associate Andrew Gall, the darkly comic play reimagines a 17th-century tale through a sharp, modern lens asking what we give up to get what we want, and what it costs to be...
When InLight returns to Richmond this weekend, it won’t just illuminate Abner Clay Park, it’ll transform it into another universe. This Friday and Saturday nights, from 7 to 11 p.m., 1708 Gallery presents Super!Giant!Jump!Star!, a two-night celebration of light, sound, and movement centered entirely on one...
It’s 1983 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and I didn’t go to class much. I took Theater 101 as an elective because I thought it would be easy (it wasn’t). One Tuesday in October, the professor ditched the day’s syllabus and spent the next 75 minutes dissecting the Talking Heads concert held in the campus basketball arena the...
Editor’s Note: Following our recent coverage of Virginia’s cannabis market, where independent retailers face mounting pressure from enforcement and monopolistic lobbying, Max Jackson, founder of Cannabis Wise Guys and a presenter at the recent Virginia Cannabis Oversight Commission, has the following outline what new operators...
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) nonprofit founded by local artists Prabir Mehta and Ruchi Gupta. For both, the...
Michael Eugene Archer, better known to the world as D’Angelo, has passed away. The Richmond-born singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist didn’t just help create neo-soul, he refined it. His music, “thick as molasses,” as Rolling Stone once wrote, carried a voice “instantly classic, almost out of time.” It was D’Angelo who inspired Motown...
In Virginia, teen drug use isn’t some distant statistic, it’s here, and it’s part of daily life. Nearly one in five teens in the state reports smoking marijuana within the past month, and Chesterfield County is no exception. What’s more troubling is how casual it’s all become. As a teenager myself, I see it every day: friends joking about coke in...
