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Inside Hillary Clinton's Richmond Campaign Office | Gay RVA

By Brad Kutner, August 17, 2016

It’s been a hot August in Richmond, but the Hilary Clinton campaign office, located in Scott’s Addition across from Richard’s Gentlemen’s club, is surprisingly cool; there’s more than enough people in the room to increase temperatures from body heat alone.

The office, in line with most Scott’s Addition buildings, is a converted garage with giant roll up doors still intact as if a 96 Mercury Grand Marquis could roll in for body work at any moment. There’s colorful handprinted signs on the walls with every opportunity for “Hillary” and “RVA” to be slammed together for the sake of aesthetic and promotional value. With about 15 people making phone calls or talking in groups, it’s not exactly a quiet place, and things appear to be getting done.

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Game On! | Richmond Magazine

We like to play in Richmond. League games, table games, arcade games, games with balls, games we can't pronounce. This is how we play.

by Samantha WillisJackie KruszewskiJason TesauroTina GriegoBartholomew Broadbent, June 20, 2016

Richmond is a playground. We’ve got your league games, social games, childhood games, table games, arcade games, board games, mind games. We’ve got games we can’t pronounce and games that are excuses to drink, and hyper-competitive, smile-through-bared-teeth, this-is-not-really-a-game games. So many games we can’t list them all. (So, show us what you’ve got at yourgame@richmondmag.com.) We may have grown up, but we didn’t get old.

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