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Cover photo by Joey Harrison.
 RICHMOND
Richmond, Virginia, is a black hole. It is a sedative. It is gloriously lazy. It's the easiest place in the world to do nothing and still have the best fucking time in the world. We've heard so many times about how LA is laid-back and how Portland and Austin a...Read more |
  BEST FRIENDS DAY
Imagine a best friend who has a water park in their backyard, complete with water slides, rope swings, BBQ pits, and a lineup of awesome bands ranging from heavy metal to free jazz. Your phone rings: "Hey, dude, it's Richmond-motherfucking-Virginia, and I'm th...Read more |
 SLAUGHTERAMA
When you arrive on the banks of the James River, next to a munitions factory from the Civil War (that's not a smokestack, it's a cannonball forge), a walking bridge extends, hanging from a highway overpass. Open gates bid you forward, and cyclists of all color...Read more |
 JAMES CALLAHAN
To date, this is the second time I've interviewed artist James Callahan, the man behind Barf Comics and Nowhere Skateboards. The first one was never printed, as Richmond's Chew on This magazine went bankrupt three years ago. To be fair, maybe allocating...Read more |
 GWAR
Deep in the shadowy buttholes of Richmond, Virginia, lies the metal band GWAR—a group so fowl and demented it could only be led by a beast with a fish for a penis. Originally from Antarctica, he goes by the name of Oderus. Filmmakers Will Carsola and Dave...Read more |
 HIDDEN SPOTS
TEXAS BEACH
There are two things that almost any Richmonder will ask the moment you arrive within the city limits: "Do you want a beer?" (usually as it's being placed in your hand) and "Do you want to go to the river?" Should you agree, you'll most...Read more |
 DC
DC is a seriously weird place. Take a walk through Downtown on any given day and watch while the city wags its giant dick of power at you. From the Washington Monument to the Capitol building, it is impossible to ignore the absolute cockiness of American brute...Read more |
 THE WARRIOR PRINCE OF TENLEYTOWN
DC native Rajai Hakki was once featured in Vice's Photo Issue in an iconic shot by Ed Zipco, right after he had come home from Iraq. Hakki is in a hotel room, buck naked, reaching for a closet safe. Next to him lays a balled-up white sock, often miscons...Read more |
 MARION BARRY: GUARDIAN ANGEL OF PUNK ROCK
Marion Barry, the much maligned former mayor of Washington, DC, is mostly known as a punch line. As a synonym for "smoking crack," he embodied white America's media-based fantasy of 80s urban blacks—entitled, lazy, corrupt, drug addled, and taking advantage of...Read more |
 DC CAB
When you get into a DC cab, you will be understandably disappointed to find neither Mr. T nor Paul Rodriguez chauffeuring you around the Chocolate City. (Sorry, the 80s are over—Ian MacKaye and Henry Rollins don't work at the Georgetown Häagen-Dazs anymor...Read more |
 WHAT TO DO IN DC
For 10 months out of the year, DC is a fetid trench. It was literally built on reclaimed swampland, by a syphilis-ridden moron from France. For a while there, only Gary, Indiana, and Detroit rivaled it for per capita shooting deaths. And yet, you can't swing a...Read more |
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