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RVA ON TAP: The Big Release

What’s happening, craft beer lovers of RVA?! Welcome to this week’s RVA On Tap, RVA Magazine’s weekly column for all your craft beer-related events, releases, festivals, and all the booze news your hearts desire.  If you missed the last column, you can check that...

Sacrifice For Squalor

At Fort Lee and around the nation, military families are plagued by unsafe housing. Here's how some Virginians are trying to solve the problem. In the span of a career in the armed services, military families will move six to nine times. Each time, the family must...

Best Of VA Missed Connections July 31 – August 6

It's summertime -- time to be at the pool, time to get your car washed, time to try your luck at the Missed Connections. This week's crop is sure to hit home if you've ever been ghosted without warning… and haven't we all at one point or another? We've also got some...

Colorado Becomes 18th State to Ban Conversion Therapy

Colorado's added their name to the list of states that will no longer allow conversion therapy for minors. When will Virginia join the campaign? Today, Colorado House Bill 19-1129: Prohibit Conversion Therapy for Minors, goes into effect. Sponsored by Representatives...

Dude, Where’s my Bolt?

E-scooters may be here to stay, but with concerns about accidents, underage driving, and even "jailbreaking" scooters for free rides, it seems there are still issues that need to be dealt with. Everyone remembers Bird scooters... In the dumpster. In your yard. On...

Chance the Rapper’s The Big Day Is an Album Worth Diving Into

Wedded bliss has brought the Chicago prodigy a bit of backlash, but this lengthy "debut" has frequent high points that are worth digging for. Chance the Rapper returned last week after a 3-year hiatus, with a 22-track body of work entitled The Big Day. The project is...

Gender Reveal Parties Are Out Of Control and The Originator Agrees

After the baby celebrated in the original gender reveal party that went viral turned out to be gender non-conforming, party inventor Jenna Karuvinidis had some second thoughts about the trend. Have you ever had a party to celebrate the revelation of your newborn...

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The Faces of St. Mary’s Hospital

A day in the life of an ER physician: unlike most of us, photographer Chris Johnson knows what goes on behind the scenes in the emergency room. Lately, it’s been a bit… quiet.  Between the emergency room and his kids, ages 6 and 9, Chris Johnson doesn’t have...

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Bringing Down Monuments With Zines

An interactive protest: Richmond artist Anna Gahagan’s latest zine pushes for social and racial equality, detailing confederate monuments, police mazes, and the road to justice.  As protesters continue taking to the streets after 62 days of demonstrations, artists...

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Is Folklore Queer?

The new Taylor Swift album has launched a fresh round of fan speculation about the singer-songwriter’s relationship with LGBTQ identity. But is there any validity to all of it? And honestly, should we even care? It’s been a long quarantine, and whether...

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