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Space Age: Weekend Playlist by The Big Payback’s Kelli Strawbridge

Every Friday night, RVA Mag drops one scorcher of a playlist curated by influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week, we're bringing you a collection of jams spanning all genres, courtesy of Kelli Strawbridge. Chances are, no matter what corner of the...

RVA Reader: Mama Tried, by Clay Blancett

My girl and I talked it over and decided that since I was the one making hay in the sunshine, the registration stickers that came earlier in the week should go on my truck, and we’d use her car more at night. The sun was out, the sky was blue, but those streets out...

How A Richmond Company Made Big Money Off The Opioid Epidemic

A Richmond-based pharmaceutical company raised the price of a life-saving opioid overdose antidote by 600 percent between 2015 and 2017, at the peak of the U.S. opioid epidemic, according to a Senate subcommittee report. The report accused the company, kaléo, of...

A Satirical Masquerade: The Art of Massa Lemu

According to artist Massa Lemu, it is the year of the dupe. Lemu describes election season in his home country, Malawi, as a time of trickery and deceit, during which the elite makes their way to the ground from their “ivory towers,” as Lemu puts it. While he isn’t...

VA Shows You Must See This Week: November 28 – December 4

FEATURED SHOW Tuesday, December 4, 6 PM Negative Approach, Battlemaster, Shadow Age, True Body, Slump, Unmaker, Serqet, Gumming, Loud Night @ Strange Matter - $15 (order tickets HERE) The holiday season is here, but for the Richmond music scene, it's a sad time, as...

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True Body’s Heavenly Rhythms

For Richmond gothic punk quintet True Body, expressing themselves through music helps them find true freedom amid a repressive cultural environment. True Body in its truest form has no body at all. Aside from the bodies of five musicians and their instruments, the...

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10,000 Years In Virginia

Through English settlers, Jim Crow, and the road to federal recognition, Virginia’s Pamunkey Indian Tribe stands strong. If you haven’t spent much time in the river country of Virginia’s Tidewater region, you might mistake it for a standard-issue rural community....

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