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Customer Service and Quality Ink: Lucky 13’s Winning Combination

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...

Richmond After Hours: Riding with the Richmond Police Department

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...

Longest ‘Yea Boi’ being Planned at Lee Statue in October

*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 -...

Co-working space Gather to expand to Short Pump

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...

Best of RVA Craigslist Missed Connections 3/25-4/1

The warm weather is here and everyone’s got spring fever. Your long lost love might be thinking about you too. Or maybe that girl in the Taco Bell drive-thru also thinks you’re her future soul mate. People are looking for love, or at least a good time, everywhere you look in RVA. Check out the best of this week’s missed connections and maybe get...

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That Time We Hung Out with Pharrell, Chad Hugo & Clipse

This year, RVA Magazine will be celebrating our 10 Year Anniversary--and in honor of our first decade of publication, we'll be taking a look back and some of our favorite articles we've run over the past 10 years. Today, we revisit our interview with Pharrell Williams, the cover story from our Summer 2010 issue. It is around 3:30PM and we're in...

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Best of Craigslist missed connections 12/30-1/7

New year means new missed connections, and it seems that the gym is not the only place where people carry out their resolutions. Some people may want to take a second look at what they’ve resolved to do. A new year means a new chance at love, so look below and see if you’ve been noticed. But be careful--not everyone may be as clean as they seem....

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Richmond Mural Project 2014 Interviews: Soho Design House

Soho Design House were in Richmond this summer for the Richmond Mural Project, but that's not because they were doing a mural. Instead, this unique company was producing rugs from the artwork of several different RMP muralists. Soho Design House were in Richmond this summer for the Richmond Mural Project, but that's not because they were doing a...

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Best of RVA Craigslist Missed Connections 7/28-8/4

August love folks... it's not too late to snatch up a summer Betty or Benny and try and stay cool through theses hot nights. Grab a beer, kick on the song below, and cruise our Best of Craigslist below and maybe you'll be the subject of someone's love-lost. Smashley - m4w 8/4 You have tattoos and work at a music store. I wanna bass dat ass girl....

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Best of RVA Craigslist Missed Connections 7/22-7/28

If you're single and live in RVA, perhaps the river is where you should go. It sure seems like theres a lot of bunnies and foxes down there, or maybe that's just what this week's CL missed connections seem to suggest. Either way, take a gander at our "best of" for the week and post your own and maybe your future-true love will rise from the...

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Musicians Wanted – Best of Craigslist Bandmate posts July 2014

After the success of our Craigslist missed connections posts, we thought we'd set our sights on one of RVA's other loneliest pursuits - forming a band. So once a month, we'll round up some of the best CL ads seeking musicians. Maybe you'll find your next jam-mate, or the perfect bass player. Or maybe you'll find out how racist and homophobic some...

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