While the history of NASCAR may lie in the bootlegging, blockade-running days of Prohibition in Appalachia, today’s races marry the sport’s moonshining, outlaw-racing origins with the modern world. Racing in 2019 invites folks to fly their own flags alongside the...
RVA ON TAP: 25 Legendary Years, Beer Fests at NASCAR, and the Wild & Weird
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 out...
800 Horsepower: Behind the Scenes, Under the Lights
Most people don't realize that the history of NASCAR is the history of bootlegging and blockade-running during the era of alcohol prohibition in the US, between 1920 and 1933. The outlaw origins of the sport started with drivers in Appalachia, including Virginia....
Tempers flare and protests erupt during Trump’s rally at RIR Wednesday night
News of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s rally served as an interesting addition to midterm week at VCU. News of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s rally served as an interesting addition to midterm week at VCU. Students were...
Central VA Celtic Festival provides plenty of whiskey, haggis, bagpipers, and caber toss
Most people would be confounded by the sound of bagpipes wafting through the morning air, but for me, it is the music of my forebears, and my cue to drink whiskey and porter. Most people would be confounded by the sound of bagpipes wafting through the morning air, but...
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