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The Metropolitan Richmond Sports Backers has again been recognized as the leader in its industry, receiving the National Association of Sports Commission’s (NASC) 2009 Member of the Year award. The NASC made the announcement yesterday during its annual Sport Event Symposium in Denver, CO, citing the organization’s accomplishment of generating over $61 million of economic […]
Children in the After School Program operated by the City’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities held bake sales, collected pennies, threw pizza parties, held disco dances, sold Bit O’ Honey candy, hired themselves out for chores, and undertook a variety of other activities to raise $2,000 to purchase bees, bee hives and beekeeper […]
When Union Theological Seminary decided to divest itself of its FM radio station, WRFK, there was a groundswell of reaction from listeners who feared they would lose their favorite station and their hookup to NPR. It all worked out OK, but that wasn’t known when the demonstration pictured above took place at UTS in the […]
From Richmond BizSense:
These days restaurants are using cheaper prices as a tool to take a bite out of the recession.
“It’s not just Friday’s, everybody’s doing it,” said Bill Vaughn, chief executive officer for the United Restaurant Group, which owns six T.G.I. Friday’s in the Richmond market and 32 along the East Coast. “Casual dining is […]
Richmond independent radio station WRIR’s Broad Street studios now house a new “Live Room,” designed to host musicians, panel discussion groups, and other broadcast production opportunities.
In addition to direct live broadcast, Live Room events can be recorded for later broadcast or non-broadcast distribution via podcast or other media. Sight lines and remote audio controls allow […]
The traveling show that has been selling the concept of building a baseball stadium in Shockoe Bottom stopped off at Hill Middle School last week. Richmond.com has a piece up that I wrote about the event.
Tougher questions were asked. A man brought up Bostic’s history with Richmond Baseball Initiative, the group that effectively put the […]
Gerald Donato and his wife Joan Gaustad in Shockoe Bottom
Originally from Chicago, artist Jerry Donato taught painting and printmaking at VCU for 36 years. Throughout the 1980s he was a regular at the Happy Hour gatherings in the Power Corner of the much-missed Texas-Wisconsin Border Cafe (1982-97). That’s the time in which we got to […]
The grand opening of Michael Signer’s office in Richmond at 10 N. Robinson St. will take place on Mon., May 4. From 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. drinks and refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public.
Signer, a Democrat from Arlington, is on the ballot for his party’s primary on […]
From the Richmond Police Department are two crimes reports from the Fan and nearby:
Robbery: Apr. 25, at 12:40 a.m., in the 3000 block of Parkwood Avenue, a male reported he was assaulted and robbed by two unknown males with a gun.
Assault: Apr. 25, at 11:46 p.m., in the 1600 block of Monument Ave., a male reported he […]
Writing for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Karin Kapsidelis profiles the incoming president of VCU, Michael Rao.
Rao, whose father was from India, and his wife, Monica, who grew up there, represent a minority in a community that is very much of the majority. Mount Pleasant is known as a classic college town, but of its 26,200 residents, […]
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