Caramelized OpiNIONS, a blog for Jason Guard’s writing that is self-described as “food blog, frugality, and uncouth social action”, pokes a stick at the “inflamed polarization” that is the racial divide across much of Richmond.
A message from Percy Lee Strickland (CEO of CHAT): Just don’t want you to miss the awesome pig pickin that my family will be putting on at the Lighthouse (601 N. 31st Street) from 5-7pm on Saturday, January 31st. It is really designed to a fun way to hang out and thank the many volunteers [...]
Hills and Heights has the word on a crucial public meeting about the RPS financials for next year: The FY2010 financial plan was developed based on input received at four public meetings. We would like that input to continue; therefore, we urge parents and others to attend the next public hearing scheduled for Feb. 2 [...]
Recycling; stormwater utility assessment meeting (CANCELLED); Schools Closed; Tuesday St. John’s Knitting Circle; Beginning Computer Classes for Adults; Open Mic @ Honey Whyte’s; New Visions Civic Association meeting; MORE…
Folks that know stuff are saying that Cynthia Newbille has removed herself from consideration for the City Council 7th District seat appointment.
The Valentine Richmond History Center will be hosting a Valentine’s Day Bus Tour & Cocktails on February 14th, from 3-6PM: History mingles with a touch of romance on this two-hour bus tour led by Harry Kollatz, Jr., followed by cocktails and hors-d’oeuvres at Patrick Henry’s Pub & Grille. More details. Reserve your seat today: (804) [...]
Northside’s Chandler Middle School on Brookland Park Boulevard is slated to close after this school year due to “failure to meet federal academic standards”, with a majority of the students to be transferred to Martin Luther King Jr. MS. The fully accredited Martin Luther King MS was formed at the beginning of the 2004/2005 school [...]
F.T.Rea has posted some new footage featuring Billy Price and the Keystone Rhythm Band and some behind-the-scenes footage from the 1985 High on the Hog, the long-running annual party on Libby Hill. (See also: Memphis Rockabilly Band and Billy Price and the Keystone Rhythm Band from the same source.)
Hey folks! Two of our posts have been nominated in the RVA News Richmond Blog Awards 2008 for Best Comment Thread: March’s Style profiles Pinkney-Eppes and September’s King’s Maidens? 3700 East Broad? WTF?. Check out the other nominees and take a moment to vote for yourself (essentially).
Walter Parks gave an overview of changes to the Cedar-Broad development at this week’s Friends of Jefferson Park meeting.
The RTD reports that a bill giving local governments more power to act on abandoned and blighted buildings was passed by a Virginia Senate committee yesterday and now moves to the full Senate: Sponsored by Sen. Mamie E. Locke, D-Hampton, Senate Bill 1094 effectively would let localities consider such buildings a danger to public safety [...]
At the risk of both becoming ALL POLITICS ALL THE TIME and completely closing the circle: Style Weekly’s Ghosting the Machine is a look at the recent controversy around the appointment to fill the vacant City Council 7th District seat and some of the bigger picture of the new challenges to “old-time machine politics”.
Silver’s Richmond City Council Reporter & Telegraph has a look into City Council’s deliberations concerning the appointment and just how closed to the public this process will. Read his take and then listen for yourself: At forty seconds into this recording Valerie Salaam, Council policy advisor (one of Council’s four policies advisors), describes the process [...]
A good neighbor, a fixture here in the Church hill area and volunteer at St.John’s Church, Danny Athans has died. Danny worked with Ed Harris at St. John’s Realty back in the day then took over the company when Ed died. Danny ran and owned(?) St.John’s until his death. St. John’s Realty has been our [...]
