The City of Richmond has awarded more than $9 million through its Affordable Housing Trust Fund (AHTF) to support eight development projects expected to deliver nearly 600 new or preserved affordable housing units across the city. The funding also includes $2.2...
This weekend, I attended Art 180, Performing Statistics, and RISE for Youth's joint event, the Juvenile Justice Parade. It was organized by black and brown youth, all of whom have faced personal discrimination and many of whom have been personally sent through the school-to-prison-pipeline. Chants spanned from "Fund education, not incarceration,...
There’s been a recent, yet not new, trend in people calling the police on black. Whether it be for falling asleep in their own dorm, brushing their backpack up against a white woman in a store accidentally, waiting for a business meeting in Starbucks, or having a barbeque at the lake -- black Americans have had the police called on them for many...
Richmond residents from Broad Street to North 9th were witness to a parade of costumed protesters Wednesday, warning of “a place where the air is so polluted it causes headaches, nosebleeds and illness. A place where your water is the color of toxic mud.” “On this Halloween day, you may think we are giving the details of a horror story,” said...
*This article originally appeared in RVA Mag #34, on the streets now at all your favorite spots. At 1.3 million feet above the earth, astronaut Leland Melvin caught a glimpse of his hometown every 90 minutes. “It’s this surreal moment, seeing a sunrise or sunset again in 45 minutes,” Melvin said. “Flying over Virginia, looking at the University...
The cool crisp casual air of October is full of mischief and missed connections. The perfect combination for an all-hallows meet up in the most auspicious of locations: including one of the most prestigious houses at Hogwarts. This week, you'll also find a guy with a leather fetish (hellbent for leather) in Culpepper, and a man looking to connect...
Welcome, RVA Mag readers, to the greatest time of the entire year: We’re about to get all kinds of spooky in this. I have worked hard to gather to you, my dear Halloween-excited ghouls, a laundry list of the top five best haunted houses (and one creepy-cool anniversary party) in Richmond and across Virginia. Red Vein Haunted House - Richmond, VA...
In a huge win for the community, Charlottesville has a skate plaza forming: A 2 million-dollar skate plaza, to be exact. With its location inside a pedestrian park, it's an unusual landmark for the city. But for the skate rats of Central Virginia, it's a welcome one. The city's previous skate park on McIntire Road sat in a parking lot, equipped...
What a week for those tenacious lost souls looking to touch fate and spark intrepid romances. One never knows where Cupid's Arrow might find them: At a convenience store, at the tractor supply, or perhaps as the manager of Red Lobster makes sure "everything is operating smoothly." Smooth, indeed. Into this week's dance with destiny, you'll find a...
The Carnival of 5 Fires, hosted by Gallery5 every October, celebrated its 12th year with the Pyro Circus on First Friday this month. The event, organized by the Party Liberation Front, shut down the 200 block of W. Marshall St. last week for its exhibition of music, dancing, and a whole lot of fire. This year's Carnival of 5 Fires included fire...
