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Editor’s Note: RVA Magazine is proud to partner with Virginia PrideFest, happening this Saturday, September 12, and to produce the annual Pride Guide celebrating Richmond and Virginia’s LGBTQ+ community. You can download the 2026 Pride Guide HERE. We’d also like to...

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Far-Right “Remigration” Propaganda Targets Bhatti Campaign

Several campaign signs for Democratic congressional candidate Salaam Bhatti were vandalized over the weekend with professionally printed flyers telling him to "return to your homeland" in multiple languages. The flyers also featured the hashtag #Remigration, a term...

Everything We Did Was A Bad Idea

Editor's Note: Writer's Block is a space for Virginia writers to share personal essays, fiction, memoir, and works that fall somewhere in between. We’re standing on some corner in downtown Richmond: me, my two friends, a pair of women, and their male friend we had met...

RVA Live Music | Pavement, The Fighting Jamesons, TV Star, TV Battle Stations

We've got one of the biggest indie rock bands of the last 30 years rolling through Richmond, some stompy Irish punk, a stacked Sunday bill full of rising bands, and a new TV Battle Stations track. Let's get into it. -- Tony Got a show coming up? New single? Simply...

In Plan 9 We Trust

This weekend, Plan 9 Music marks 45 years in Richmond with a party at Hardywood Park Craft Brewery. Over the past four and a half decades, the Richmond institution weathered some of the most turbulent periods in music history. It closed stores, sold its warehouse and...

RVA Pro Wrestling is on a Tear Right Now

Last year, Dogwood Dell was packed out for RVA Pro Wrestling. They threw down in front of more than 3,000 people. Since then, they've just been on a heater with sold out shows at Hardywood, pop ups that bring in bigger and bigger crowds, and quietly a small wrestling...

Review | SAFETY! Swings Big But Falls Just Short

WARNING: This review contains baseball metaphors. Cadence Theatre’s Pipeline New Works Program is at the plate again, with its last batter, Witchduck, staring at home from third base. It is literally the first swing ever for the new musical, SAFETY!, at Firehouse...

Photos | The Strokes at Allianz Amphitheatre

The Strokes are the most important rock band of the 21st century. In 2001, they changed the dial from grunge to garage, and singlehandedly sent every record label on a scavenger hunt for their sauce. If you weren’t around back then you might think I’m exaggerating....

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Hey Richmond, How Are We Betting on this Casino?

by RVA Staff | COMMUNITY, EAT DRINK, MUSIC, NIGHTLIFE, PINNED, RICHMOND NEWS, RICHMOND POLITICS

Ah, Richmond—where history, culture, and community converge. A city where the clash of new and old offers fertile ground for debate. Well, hold on to your seats, River City, because we're about to roll the dice on our future once again. Just three years ago, we...

A List Of Mass Shootings in The United States So Far in 2023

by RVA Staff | PINNED, POLITICS, RICHMOND NEWS

Another tragic mass shooting occurred yesterday, and like many of you, we find ourselves growing increasingly desensitized to these all-too-frequent events. As members of both the media and the Richmond community, we acknowledge that simply writing another opinion...

The Results Are In! The Final Votes For The RVAMAG & GayRVA Reader’s Poll 2022

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Richmond, VA is a great town and we had fun running the RVAMAG & GayRVA Reader’s Poll 2022 to get a feel on what our readers like to do and see. Thank you to the over 20,000+ people that checked out the poll and the 5000+ who voted. The following is a list of the...

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RVA Live Music | Punks for Presents, Erin Lunsford, Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters, Belly of the Heart

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It is the start of the most wonderful time of the year! Punks for Presents is back with their first show of the year, lots of other exciting acts gearing up for a weekend in town, keep your eyes open and your ears even more. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply...

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Dispatch from the Lewis Ginter Picket Line

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An on-the-ground account of the strike that prompted Jesse Welles and Graham Nash to cancel their Richmond performances. Tensions escalated as Jesse Welles called off his performance at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden yesterday amid an ongoing union fight for higher...

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Opinion | It’s Time to Rethink Primaries

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Editor's Note: The views expressed are those of the author. Lisa Vedernikova Khanna ran for Congress in Virginia's 1st Congressional District and previously served as Chief of Staff at the Democratic National Committee. This essay reflects her perspective and personal...

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RVA Pro Wrestling is on a Tear Right Now

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A preview of IllumiNATION at Virginia Museum of History & Culture tonight

“Everything’s Made Up. So Let’s Fix It.” — Salaam Bhatti

Salaam Bhatti Interview: Campaign Finance, Community, and “We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For”

Home Front on Chaos, Community, and Watch It Die

It’s Still Our City Ep. 20 | Katie Davis, Salvation Tattoo

Hand-Painted Ghanaian Movie Posters Take Over Studio Two Three

TO THE RVA MAG YOUTUBE CHANNEL FOR THE LATEST VIDEOS

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Hey Richmond, How Are We Betting on this Casino?

A List Of Mass Shootings in The United States So Far in 2023

The Results Are In! The Final Votes For The RVAMAG & GayRVA Reader’s Poll 2022

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Dispatch from the Lewis Ginter Picket Line

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