2009: April – June

The second quarter of 2009 saw quite a bit of controversy in our fair city. Controversy and some really sweet/memorable content in these parts. Have a look…

December 29, 2009; 2:00 PM • by Valerie Catrow

The second quarter of 2009 saw quite a bit of controversy in our fair city. Controversy and some really sweet/memorable content in these parts. Have a look…

While we love Richmond, things were just… well, kind of wonky for a while last Spring. First there was Carol A. O. Wolf’s Save Our Schools post on screwy reporting of SOL scores. Then there was that whole thing where the cops shut down Rumors, shedding light on the admission tax situation in Richmond. And in a magnificent Q2 finale, we had the amazing real estate tax cluster-eff, covered by Hills & Heights.

There was also a huge debate over the “questionable” content of Theatre IV’s Annie that we just didn’t see coming. Well, ok, we kind of saw it coming once someone brought CenterStage into the conversation.

Speaking of the arts, although they couldn’t be classified as Richmond-specific, we also experienced the untimely deaths of Michael Jackson and Billy Mays. And don’t you dare tell me that Billy Mays wasn’t an artist.

As far as our original, created by and for RVANews content, Q2 marked the launch of our events section, along with the introduction of Live at Ipanema and GWAR, Me, and the Unrushing Grip of Death.

And while we’re on the subject of introductions, we also got to meet VCU’s new basketball coach, Shaka Smart, and you readers were first exposed to the delightfully twisted psyche of Christopher Elford in his debut feature, Memos from the desk of: The Founding Fathers.

Tomorrow we’ll talk about July through September, AKA the time in Richmond when all people can say is “It’s… just so… it’s not the heat, really. It’s the humidity.”

(Read our review of Q1 here.)

As the editor of RVANews, Valerie Catrow spends most of her time wrangling people over email and muttering to herself about the content calendar. She also contributes to our parenting column while maintaining her own blog, Made in Richmond. It should be noted that she loves tots, both the potato and child varieties.

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