Yeah, I had to drive a little further because of that.

I could walk to IBEW Local 666. I mean, I don't, because crossing East Nine Mile Road there would suck with the lack of sidewalks on the IBEW Local 666 side . . . but I could.

As soon as there’s riots and mass organized shoplifting in Short Pump or Midlothian then you’ll know RVA is well on its way to being Austin or Portland.

My union endorsed this guy, leading to a weird situation where since our hall was the polling place Henrico had to very quickly find a new one to avoid any perceived conflict of interest, which honestly makes sense.

https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/richmond/tractor-trailer-crash-closes-all-lanes-on-powhite-parkway-near-forest-hill-avenue-exit/

Here's a link. Really sad.

they changed it to from 15 over

I would agree if it weren't for the many speed traps/counties. Even the recent change to 85+ and 20 over is more in line with the state but when you consider speed limits have been 80 since the 70s

Hopewell's million dollar mile just south of here has drawn the ire of the nation, including our own senators.

I haven't gone since around 2018 or 2019.

I’ve often had a good time hanging out in goth bars back in Texas where I’m from and fully intended to become a member of this one but luckily I found out that it doubles as a sex club, which is an establishment I have exactly zero interest in ever spending any time in, before I went over.

dang i’ve loved his art for a long time, was introduced through Drive By Truckers. we’ve got one of his Richmond Folk Festival prints framed. he’ll be missed

Satterwhites breakfast.

It's like the playground game. You run through the grass and when they chase you, you have to make it back to the sidewalk before they catch you and yell BASE

This is making me want to take a nice sprint through their grass next time I walk by.

Definitely true. Only a couple of their theaters have big screens for the biggest releases, and everything else gets a pretty small one. Richmond's theater choices in general suck ass. We don't have anything like a real, full sized curved rectangular imax screen.

I also doubt that teens are a big source of revenue at Bowtie compared to like Regal Short Pump given the age demographics of who lives nearby each. Regal could never do this - their Friday and Saturday and summer night shows are always packed with middle and high school kids - but Bowtie is more college students and older.

I'm not advocating it, I'm just wondering what sort of affect such an act would have.

Bed bugs don't instantly reproduce and don't travel in packs on people. We get them on homeless and poor patients fairly often where I work and at most you might see one or two of them drop off onto the floor or the chair they are sitting in.

Like you don't go to a movie and then bring home a dozen engorged bed bugs that just came off another person on your clothes, especially without noticing at all, and then discover many of them less than 24 hours later. That isn't how they work. Google results say it takes several weeks for them to lay eggs and for those to hatch and go through the several life cycle stages before becoming adult, blood sucking bugs.

It's possible but it's more likely they came in from somewhere days or weeks earlier. You can pick them up from any public chair you sit in if someone with bed bugs on their clothes sat there before you.

Why don’t they just put up a fence?

I mean the tenant is in violation of the lease (supposedly, I have never signed a lease that didn't lay out how long a "guest" can stay without informing the landlord) and the landlord can evict the tenant and their guest? But of course that is between the landlord and tenant, so not sure what you can do.

If it was a truly common occurrence, it would be shut down by the DoH immediately until fixed.

It's not common. Thousands of people go there daily and bed bugs aren't a thing. Any place you ever go with shared seating with the public and rapid turnover is liable to have them get on someone eventually. All it takes is the person before you having them, leaving one or two on the seat, and then they hop on you when you go to the next movie time 30 minutes later. They can't visually inspect and bug bomb movie theater seats in between shows.

I swear this is some dumb urban legend that started because it happened to one or two people once at some point in the last decade, and then just has been retold so many times people think it's happening all the time. There is no large entertainment venue anywhere that would get away with a literal bed bug infestation, especially for fucking years on end.

If the cops were called multiple times I thought it was relatively easy in Virginia to kick them out.

Republican Party of Virginia announces Stephen Imholt as loser for 9th Senate District seat

There's your headline. This district is safely blue (but still show up to vote, folks).

It must have really changed since COVID. Back when I used to go there often in the 2010s, the crowds were almost all college students and older since it's by the Diamond and not near the suburbs. It seemed like mostly people from the Fan, MD, and northside.

I hardly ever saw a lot of high school kids there.

Miserable

I’m sorry but I just have to point out that VA Lee Properties was never good. I paid out the ass for a cockroach infested apartment in 2010 with a literal rotted hole in the floor they said was supposed to be there “for the radiator to drain”. I could see into the basement of the building. The only good management I’ve ever had was from Fan Apartments, but they don’t own a lot of properties. They still had their issues though. Best bet is to look around for signs and ones that are being rented out by the owner

Being from Portland, and living through it’s decline, my guess is ten years.

The big differences that RVA has to Portland that may affect the development timeline, in comparison, are the highway infrastructure, the “dangerous” reputation, and the close proximity to other cities.

Once they start building “health food” stores on the South Side, you’ll know there’s an issue.

Also, as long as a popular comedian doesn’t create a show making fun of RVA subcultures titled, “Richmondlandia” things should develop reasonably.

I think SXSW is the reason why Austin blew up.

I fear IKEA