Am I correct that this going to be like Taking Back Sunday/Brand New/My Chemical Romance era emo exclusively and not like Mineral/Christie Front Drive/Texas Is The Reason/American Football era?

An explorer with no roof rack? When you park it in your garage at night, does the garage have to ask if it’s in yet?

Ok that drags a bit in the middle so I’d suggest you save the awkward backseat coitus for mid-movie, so you don’t need to get there especially early.

Depends on if you plan to commit fornication during the film or you want to get it out of the way before. What are you going to see?

I usually find just saying "go to hell" is more succinct and adequately gets my point across but you do you.

I have to ask Ann for consent first, but preliminarily: sure.

I was there for the first ever night game at the big house — the last second comeback vs Notre Dame. Loudest I’ve ever heard the Big House and I was previously there for “Henne to Manningham” vs Penn State. A night game against a real opponent (not Hawaii) in Ann Arbor is a scene.

Michigan v Michigan State football game Saturday, then Lions/Dolphins (the Detroit Lions are scarier than anything else anyone can see this Halloween), then returning to Richmond for the Oregon Hill parade on the day itself.

This stuff is really good and its not all just straight heat but interesting flavors as well. Really enjoyed the several I've bought.

Its nice but its definitely not one of the larger ones in the area. Wouldn't be my first recommendation for one trying to find "local gifts." Try like a Makers Market or maybe the Bryan Park farmers market.

> Ask me how I know.

How do you know?

If they see you, they will kick you out, yes. That said, I smell marijuana at every concert I go to. A vape may be more discreet?

I'm not trying to be an asshole, I just truly am asking because I think I'm missing something very elemental: if G5 wants to do this, and the performance group wants to do it, and the city is not stopping them from doing it, then what's the petition for/about? It sounds like everyone is on the same page.

This is like me petitioning that the NFL play some football games this Sunday and someone put them on television.

Yeah, I'm with you: I can't sign this mostly because I am given no insight into why this stopped. Are you petitioning G5 to do this after they made a decision they didn't want this group performing anymore? If so, why? Did the city shut it down because of a safety concern? If so, I feel like it would be irresponsible for me to sign a petition without knowing what the safety concern/issue is. Like I just don't even understand WHO is being petitioned here.

I toast but eat them with only cream cheese. Not at all a bagel sandwich guy, personally.

The boiling is where it’s at for me!

Yeah, it’s perfectly fine. On par with Nate’s or maybe a little better. Definitely a good bagel, but Cupertino’s/Bodos still take the trophies home in the Vanderbilt Virginia Bagel Cup.

Best in Richmond metro by a pretty wide margin. (No offense to Nate’s.) Bodos out in Charlottesville takes the Best in State title though.

Can I get a Whiteness?!

Jeni reliably opens for me. Try buying her dinner first.

I would just say the legalized cocaine != crack houses the same way the end of prohibition did not mean every single neighborhood has a house selling cheap bathtub gin with people passing out in the yard. Regulations can still exist (like we have with tobacco or alcohol), I'm not suggesting we let heroin users tie off on school playgrounds with no interventions like some libertarian fever dream.

> I really think the terrible outcome of the football training facility deal factored into people's votes against that.

I agree with you on this. Dwight Jones had so many straight up boondoggles where he gave away parts of the city to developers and "Richmond" got nothing back (Dominion Energy Center, WFT Training Camp, etc) that people were, and still are, very reticent to see any major development approved by the time Stoney got into office, through no real fault of Stoney. I think this poisoned his Navy Hill plans as well. He inherited a very bad climate for trying to get a signature redevelopment project through, gambling-concerns aside.

I'm totally in favor of the legalization of cocaine and the taxation thereof. So is The Economist.

> [W]hat’s with the skill games at gas stations? Is it like slot machines and if so how do people get paid?

Not an expert but I believe they differ slightly from slot machines and must by law. I believe there was a first round of machines that were more slot machine like and you pushed a button and you won and lost and those are now illegal. The new machines, as I understand it, require two button presses and must require some "skill" to make it a "skill game" and not "a random press game." (They are still mostly random and hew to a fairly homogenized set out of outcomes, as I understand it.) I think from what I've seen at my local corner store (Clay St Market), small payouts the store pays like lotto and if you actually win a ton you get a ticket to redeem from the manufacturer but how one does that I do not know.

Just to be clear, I have no issue with anyone playing poker for money (it's not personally my thing so I cannot tell you any answers to your questions), this place is just quite controversial as you can see by the articles. It's also not a topic that's really been discussed on this subreddit before, so I thought it interesting to discuss.

Not trying to dissuade you from going.

For those unaware, Pops Poker is a poker hall of questionable legality in /r/BonAir that is not shut down because the owner is connected to the state "Bingo" board and they hire offduty RVA police for security.

https://richmondfreepress.com/news/2021/nov/18/legal-or-not/