Top eight moments from last night’s Eight Track show

Many many thanks to all those who came out last night to the “show”. Beautiful music all the way around, a truly magical blend of song. Top eight moments: 8. Lets be honest, Reggie Pace kinda reminds me of Sly Stone 7. Line out that door.... (more...)

Chief Monroe, RIP: Charlotte

Another high-profile position is left vacant. Wilder blames City Council. So, business as usual, really. Richmond Police Chief Rodney Monroe will bid farewell to the River City when he takes command of Charlotte’s police department next month. ... (more...)

Eight Track winner’s show tomorrow

Remember the Eight Track? Maybe you’ll remember it as the time your ears were melted off with incredible local music? Or maybe you’ll remember it as a couple weeks ago? Either way the winner’s show is tomorrow at Cous Cous @ 8.30. It... (more...)

Armed man on UR campus

From NBC12: Richmond, Henrico and University of Richmond Police have responded to a report of an armed person on the U-of-R campus. A university spokesman says that students and faculty are being told to stay where they are and to lock their doors. Police... (more...)

Notes from the school board meeting re: charter school

What follows is the raw unedited version of the notes I took at the 4.30pm School Board meeting. The purpose of the meeting was for the Review Committee (sometimes abbreviated as RC) to present their recommendation on the Patrick Henry Initiative (PHI). The... (more...)

School board to discuss Patrick Henry at 4.30pm

The RPS school board has decided to discuss the Patrick Henry Initiative at its 4.30pm meeting today. Typically the school board reserves the 4.30 meeting to discuss boring legal business that does not concern parents or citizens — its 6.00pm meeting... (more...)

The Mayor’s shiny new website

Anyone seen the mayor’s shiny new website? It looks like someone in the mayor’s office is trying to move beyond the stale, hard to use, fugly Richmond City website template. Blogs, news, and videos — what more could you want. I wonder... (more...)

The Sounds of Richmond are in Brooklyn?

Style Weekly’s Music Issue 2008 came out this week and one of their featured artists said to be contributing to “The Sounds of Richmond” is Emily Easterly, a Richmond defector who now lives in Brooklyn. Granted, she did get here start... (more...)

Top Chef Fantasy League: the ketchup edition

Morimoto’s Monkfish Mayonnaise (125) Team SplinterHead (95) Literate Eater (76) Hello Winners! (73) The Crushinators (70) Tard Strength (38) The Insane With Angers (32) Kool (24) Dice it up (23) This! After two weeks! Sam’s Monkfishes still... (more...)

I tend to plan ahead

I love how Richmond-natives-and-recently-reunited Denali refuses to be outdone by the bands that are now finally beginning to trickle into town (thanks to our new fancy venues). On the contrary! For their reunion show this July 5, they grabbed The Great... (more...)

on reporting local news

I put up 2 stories on Church Hill People’s News last weekend that ended up being picked up by 2 of the local TV stations this weekend. Last Sunday’s Sunny Market now even more gross and Monday’s neighbor vs neighbor became nb12’s... (more...)

Free Kickers tickets

Throughout today you might see a Richmond Kickers ad floating around. Today we are giving away a bunch of family four packs to Satuday’s season opener. All you have to do is click the ad and fill out your name/email. Boom tickets.

Opinionation

Economic stimulus “package”

You’ve probably seen this already, but this article contains a chart that lets you know when your money will show up in your mailbox/bank account. Also, in case you heard this bogus story on NPR, do not panic (like I did). It was an April Fool’s... (more...)

Style Weekly, sometimes you kill me

I am delighted by the Hipster’s Dilemma. It comes with a handy chart at which I just snorted aloud whilst reading. Way to keep your finger on the pulse, Style. I know tons of hipsters who are actually tearing their hair out trying to be in two places... (more...)

TCFL2k8: Week 4

DAMN YOU MONKFISH MAYONNAISE! I will continue my bottom feeding until Mark rises above the lesser, American, competition and defeats everyone with Southern (hemisphere) charm and wit. Morimoto’s Monkfish Mayonnaise (76) Team SplinterHead (63) The... (more...)

Here’s to you, Ms. Jewell-Sherman

Richmond’s school superintendent, Deborah Jewell-Sherman is stepping down from her post at the end of this contract year. Will this make things better? Worse? More of the same? Aaaaaaaand go!

As promised: TCFL scores (aka Sam keeps winning)

Gah people. If Sam wins one more thing in life I might just go over and punch him in the face. Here’s this week’s scores: Morimoto’s Monkfish Mayonnaise (50) Tard Strength (46) Hello Winners! (31) Team SplinterHead (29) Literate Eater... (more...)

Ugh Personal Property Tax

I think we should have more time to pay the personal property tax. I mean, 30 days. That’s one paycheck for me. It would be nice to spread it out over two month’s pay. Yeah, yeah, I should have set money aside for it. But still.

Ugh Top Chef.

I have not forgotten. I will tabulate the scores tonight. I promise!

a medium-sized self-congratulatory moment (AKA “we’re #1″, or, “take that Dallas!”)

In a very recently released report (PDF), the Project for Excellence in Journalism says that Richmond ranks #1 in community/citizen journalism. If you are reading this, you’re part of what has helped make this happen. Cool, eh? The report, which... (more...)

I know one of you has got to be a French film savant

If so, please peruse the schedule of films at this year’s annual French Film Festival, and tell me how to prioritize. I don’t even know where to begin, and I can’t go to the entire thing! OR CAN I?? (NO.)

Top Chef Fantasy League: Week 2 scores

Hello hello! I’ve used my archaic Chinese abacus to compute this week’s Top Chef scores. My fingers ache from the process. This week’s top players were Andrew and Mark. Mark won the Quick Fire and placed in the top three with his something... (more...)

Eight Track week two is up

This week’s incredible, edible, ineffably sublime local musical selection has been released into the wild! Open your ears, jackass, and let the good times roll. Week 2, starring: Josh Small Supa Fly Floosies David Schultz and The Skyline Coald... (more...)

BREAKING NEWS - Men get better jobs than women! Who knew?!?

Entertainment Weekly Online posted this well-intentioned but ridiculous article posing the idiotic question “Do we need more women movie critics?” Of course, the specific profession in question here is close to my heart, but it seriously terrifies... (more...)