Nearly a decade after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis is back in the headlines and this time, she’s asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 ruling that made marriage...
A dazzling look at all Richmond's favorite botanical garden has to offer this holiday season. Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is inviting everyone to their annual light show, Dominion Energy GardenFest of Lights. The show, which displays over one million lights, runs until January 7. This year’s theme is Bringing Art to Light. The exhibits display...
Christmas is coming, and we all need someone to cuddle up to, so if you're lonely this holiday season, maybe you can find a boo in this week's Missed Connections. This week we've got a lot of late-night hangout spots representing, from hipster hot spots like Bandito's and 3rd Street Diner to the traditional points of wee-hours commerce like...
Richmond's thriving martial arts community offers plentiful opportunities for self-improvement -- provided you find the right gym. As long as there’s been civilization, individuals have waged war. In Egypt: 3400-year-old paintings hang, detailed with ancient grappling techniques from early societies. Fifteen hundred years later, a Minoan painter...
It's been a messy couple of days out there on the streets, Richmond -- and if at any point you shared a laugh with an intriguing stranger over how poorly everyone else was driving, this week's Missed Connections might be for you. Those of you who are good samaritans shoveling people's cars out of the snow might also find you've picked up a secret...
Deep in the heart of Church Hill, where cobblestone boulevards give way to single-letter street names, the local Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club is in the midst of extensive renovation and expansion, a process that critics say comes at the expense of the area’s black community. “This is textbook gentrification at it's best. Anyone that...
Chesterfield Power Station stores 15 million tons of coal ash on its premises, and environmental groups are worried about it. The coal ash's close proximity to the James River has caused concern among environmental organizations that a severe flooding event could send the ash spilling into the river. The ash ponds are located less than a...
Hey there, lonely people... are the holiday blues getting you down? Are you looking for love in all the wrong places? Well maybe this week, missed connections is the right place for you. This will be especially true if you're a manager at a pizza place, or someone who'd proudly call yourself a redneck. And if you want to meet the man you could've...
Roughly 170,000 tons of trash incinerator ash is disposed of at Henrico’s Old Dominion Landfill every year. The landfill is located on Charles City Road in a populated area at the border of Richmond’s east end, just past city limits. Incinerator ash contains toxic heavy metals like lead and mercury, as well as furans and dioxins that pose...
A Richmond-based pharmaceutical company raised the price of a life-saving opioid overdose antidote by 600 percent between 2015 and 2017, at the peak of the U.S. opioid epidemic, according to a Senate subcommittee report. The report accused the company, kaléo, of brazenly exploiting the U.S. opioid epidemic, and of capitalizing on government...
