National rankings say Richmond is thriving. But talk to the people living and working here, and a more complicated picture emerges. Richmond has been named one of the best cities to live in America. Again. A global marketing firm ranked 100 U.S. cities, and Richmond...
The humidity of a southern June hung over us as we slogged through the facsimile of an old mining town. We approached rustic shacks for shade, only to find doors clawed in, furniture smashed, and baby brontosauruses running amok. Ahead, a building loomed with its front sign smeared and off-kilter, lettered in a bright rectal green: The Slime...
Be careful out there singles of Richmond, we hear it’s a rough time to find a soulmate, and the writers of Missed Connections are here to tell us just how tough it is. Wear flannels, glasses, and have a beard? (AKA every dude in Richmond?) Well, you’ve got a couple on the hunt for you. This week also features a Richmonder lamenting about the one...
Finding the "American Dream" had always been a fantasy for this small town Ghanaian girl. I grew up in Mankessim, Ghana, and believed that leaving for America would result in a better, more prosperous life, but feared the unfamiliar. When I left my home at 16, it was jarring, but I was longing to see my mother, who had left nine years earlier to...
We're back with an all-new RVA Missed Connections to get you through the rest of the week. In this batch, sparks fly at a local salad bar (Ellwood's perhaps?), a woman on a tinder date at The Graduate Hotel has a secret admirer, and someone creepily snapping photos of a person walking their German Shepherd at Belle Isle has high hopes for an...
Trying to reconnect with old friends or lovers? Looking for the perfect place for your inebriated midnight ramblings? Missed Connections is your place. In addition to those lovely contributions, we’ve got a girl looking for some queer love at Hardywood, another hoping to score with an Uber driver, and someone missing a bearded face with those...
There’s a certain sound that rings out when PVC slams into human flesh. Listening back to the audio, it’s painful to hear the moment when my swings with the pipe intensified, his once sharp exhales regressing to animalistic grunts. From the sound of it, I fell into a violent groove, belting the vinyl pipe turned instrument of destruction across...
In the wake of the shooting of Marcus-David Peters, who was shot and killed by a Richmond Police Officer on I-95 after appearing unstable, demands from community organizers and local citizens have introduced the notion of using restorative justice within law enforcement reformation. These demands have forced RPD (Richmond Police Department) and...
Friendship and/or romance was found in New York Deli yesterday, and if you’re from Oklahoma, you may have unknowingly found your true love at a doctor’s office. Along with a dude who should’ve stayed on an elevator at Riverfront Plaza, a couple looking to find that cutie from the Ludacris concert, and another dude creeping on a young woman at...
It’s only been five days since the Red Hen’s owner Stephanie Wilkinson refused service to White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family in quiet Lexington, Virginia. What followed next was five days of raucous outroar of epic, nay, biblical proportions. Not wanting to miss the action, RVA Magazine arrived in Lexington on...
