UPDATE! Thursday, May 29, 2025 -- 2:30 p.m. The City of Richmond has officially lifted the boil water advisory issued earlier this week, declaring the water safe to drink following two successful rounds of quality testing. The advisory, which had been in place since...
Jason Kessler, the disgraced white supremacist and University of Virginia graduate behind the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville this summer, has started an organization called New Byzantium. Kessler, in his announcement from late September, claims, "I’m proud to announce the formation of the New Byzantium, a premier organization for...
*This is a developing story. The Charlottesville Police Department (CPD) has issued a warrant for DeAndre Harris, the African American man from Suffolk who was the victim of a vicious assault by white supremacists at Unite the Right on August 12. Harris was assaulted at the Market Street Parking Garage by six white supremacists who pushed him to...
Richmond proudly showcased its community of over 70 inventors and makers Saturday at the Science Museum of Virginia, in celebration of the Fourth Annual RVA Makerfest. Tables jammed with interactive demonstrations lined the train tracks of the science museum, which was once a train station. Blacksmiths, woodworkers, robotics teams, glassblowers,...
In this era of worldwide climate change, environmental education has become more important than ever. Over the past 50 years, scientists have observed increasing occurrences of summer heat waves, winter freezes, tornadoes and tropical cyclones that have devastated our earth. Experts have recorded warmer and more acidic ocean waters, a pattern of...
The debate over removing Confederate statues hit a potential roadblock yesterday. A circuit-court judge in Charlottesville handed down a ruling signaling that the Commonwealth's laws protecting war memorials could be retroactively applied to Virginia's Confederate monuments. This ruling effectively allows the lawsuit filed by groups such...
Over the past few years, over a dozen tattoo shops have cropped up throughout the growing Broad Street pocket and its surrounding areas -- from high-end boutique shops to budget tattoo joints, members of the Richmond tattoo scene are increasingly rubbing elbows. You might expect that all this competition would be bad for business, but Lucky 13...
Richmond After Hours: The Police What goes on when the rest of Richmond hunkers down? By shadowing late-night shifts in the shadows of late nights, we learn a little more about what makes this city tick. Series 1: Richmond Police in Shockoe Bottom 11:00pm Uber drivers block the road intermittently as bar-goers flood the streets, headed to their...
*This story has been updated. In a stunning development surrounding the Monument Avenue debate, Richmond is bracing for yet another demonstration at the statue of Robert E. Lee on October 7. According to sources close to RVA Mag - along with a Facebook event page - demonstrators plan on gathering in solidarity to let out the longest "Yea Boi"...
Freelance workers and small businesses in the Short Pump area looking for a space to work and collaborate will soon have a better option than their local coffee shop or paying a hefty rent of a large office property. Gather, a Richmond-based co-working space, is set to open their third location at West Broad Village. Gather originally opened its...
