Local “news site” Church Hill People’s News, in a lame attempt at seasonal humor, posted several half-assed April Fools stories early this morning. “I’ve been spending too much time with middle school kids”, site author Murden said when called on his juvenile prank. [via]

Style Weekly has a piece on Que Pasa which looks at the food (”real slow-cooked goodness”) and the different hurdles that the restaurant has had to overcome to even open the doors. In other news, a sign that reads “Patrick Henry Grill and Pub coming soon” has sprouted on the location formerly known as Acapella.

The Church Hill Flickr Group has 74 members and almost 1,900 photos of the area. Check out the pictures and then sign up and share yours!

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Tricycle Garden’s Spring Seedling Plant Sale is this Saturday, April 5th, from 10am-1pm @ the Tricycle Garden’s Church Hill Garden (2300 Block of Jefferson Avenue). Cool season crops, all $3/six-pack: lettuces, kale, chinese cabbage, swiss chard, and broccoli.

Just a few blocks away from last week’s wreck&run, neighbors on the 900 block of 26th Street had a rude surprise around 9:30AM this morning when an SUV was driven up over the curb and to the porch of one of the new houses. The driver fled, leaving the engine running…

Style Weekly’s offshoot belle profiles Jennie Dotts, former executive director of ACORN and now making connections at Old House Authority.

Beginning Computer Classes for Adults; open mic @ Poe’s Pub; CAPS Meeting / Public Safety Meeting; Unity Civic League; Church Hill Academy Open House; Union Hill April clean-up; MORE…

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A second Union Hill clean-up has been set for next Saturday (4/12). Jen & Tracy have graciously agreed once again to provide the awesome coffee and to allow use of the parking lot at the stucco building on the corner of Jefferson & 22nd Streets. Meet there between 8:00-8:45AM, have coffee and breakfast treats, and then help clean up Union Hill.

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Feels Like Drowning (previously), a short film by Church Hill resident Lucas Krost, will be going to the Cannes Film Festival. [via]

Feels Like Drowning tells of a couple, played by Jackie Lamptey and Tyhm Kennedy returning from an airport and heading to a hotel, interspersed with scenes of an Arabic prisoner (Shahan Jafri) being waterboarded. It was written by local authors David Robbins, Dean King, Jim Daab, Hector Stockton and Krost, and former Richmonder Charles Slack.

The short film will be shown at the festival in France with about 10 others from around the world. Krost, who is producing and creating the visual effects for the locally filmed movie “Border Town,” will be at the screening and a reception, and hopes to catch some of the other featured movies at the festival.

A previously somewhat contentious (but conveniently located!) house on Broad Street is for sale.

David Seward presented a list of Tough Trees for Central Virginia (xls/pdf) during one of the last classes of the Richmond Tree Steward Program. It makes a nice companion to the Department of Urban Forestry’s Approved Tree Planting List (xls/pdf).

7th District’s City Council Representative Delores L. McQuinn and Better Housing Coalition will be hosting a meeting regarding the rezoning of the former Beckstoffers millwork site this Thursday, April 10 @6:30PM at Good Shepherd Baptist Church (1127 N 28th Street).

Please join us to hear about this exciting mixed-use development opportunity and participate in a community discussion.

WCVE Commentator Brooks Smith has a notion of where Chimborazo Park might have earned its name…

Curiosity about the ongoing activity next to the new restaurant yet to open on 25th Street be sated: Cannes-bound Lucas Krost is producing and creating the visual effects for the movie Border Town, and some of the scenes are being filmed in the store front there. Look for them on Monument Avenue tomorrow…

7th District School Board representative Keith West has launched Save Richmond Public Schools as part of a “grassroots organization conceived to elect a better School Board”. The group is “seeking candidates for every district”; the representatives elected this year will serve 4-year terms. [via]

“There has been such a number of colossal failures over the years, the only reasonable thing to do is put a new group in place,” says West, who has said he’s not likely to run again for his own post. He calls his Web [sic] site “a long overdue effort to recruit qualified people to be on the Richmond School Board.”