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March 10, 2010
Legend Brewing’s St. Patrick’s Day Celebration
Title: Legend Brewing’s St. Patrick’s Day Celebration Location: Legend Brewing Co, Richmond VA Link out: Click here Description: Type: Party – Night of Mayhem Start Time: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 3:00pm End Time: Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 12:00am Location: Legend Pub Join us on Saint Patrick’s Day for a true Irish Celebration. Ben Pruett and our new General Manager Darragh [...]

Café Rustica/Wine and Beer Westpark Beer Dinner
Title: Café Rustica/Wine and Beer Westpark Beer Dinner Location: Café Rustica, Richmond VA Link out: Click here Description: 6:30 Monday March 15th Café Rustica Beer Dinner! $45 ++ Here’s the menu. Please confirm with me by Sunday evening. Jever Pilsner-ROASTED Rappahannock River Oysters with Mignonette Schneider Weisen Edel-Weisse-Pickled Herring Salad Ayinger Ur-Weisse- Local Bratwurst, doctored Sauerkraut, Grainy Mustard Weltenburger Asam Bock-Sauerbratten with Spaetzel Monschof [...]

Oberon Festival
Title: Oberon Festival Location: Mekong Authentic Vietnamese Cuisine, Richmond VA Link out: Click here Description: Type: Party – Night of Mayhem Date: Monday, March 29, 2010 Time: 4:45pm – 11:00pm Location: Mekong Restaurant Street: 6004 WEST BROAD STREET City/Town: Henrico, VA Bell’s famous Summer beer the OBERON will be tap at Mekong on Monday the 29 of March… Derek Zemonski will be here with us.. Count [...]

Magic Hat Beer Dinner at State Theatre
Title: Magic Hat Beer Dinner at State Theatre Location: State Theatre, Falls Church VA Link out: Click here Description: The State Theatre teams up with Magic Hat Brewery to host a beer dinner featuring Magic Hat’s “Spring Fever” variety pack of seasonal offerings. The theme of the dinner will be Mardi Gras, with plenty of N’awlins recipes. There [...]

Gov. Bob McDonnell signs HB 787 & HB 756 … offshore drilling
Governor McDonnell signs HB787 and HB756, legislation to allow for offshore oil and natural gas exploration, production and development as well as allocate 80% of future offshore royalties and revenues to transportation and the remaining 20% to the Vir…

Western Augusta County … Ramsey’s Draft
Bob at The Journey calls Ramsey’s Draft Wilderness “the wild western side of Augusta County” … and that’s why many of us live in the less-populated part of the county. His photo of a bold mountain stream from melting snows shows water tables, thankfu…

Put on a Happy Face … or Two
Under the circumstances, it seems both odd and wrong to chide Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell for being two-faced, especially given that I like the result. Today Governor McDonnell reversed his long-held position that only the General Assembly possess…

Fantagraphics Manga Line Launches With Moto Hagio Book
Fantagraphics has announced that they will launch a manga imprint in September of this year. Their first book will be A Drunken Dream and Other Stories, a collection of works by Moto Hagio, the shojo pioneer. Her work is historic but little of it has been translated in English so far. The books will read [...]

Mini Eco Film Fest on the 24th
Wild Virginia is hosting an environmental film festival at Vinegar Hill in a couple of weeks, showing a whole mess of short films on that theme.

When does a company’s “goodwill” create a conflict of interest?
Someone sent me a copy of a flier for the Caroline County Optimist Club’s Winter Sports Festival. For those unaware, the Director of the Optimist Club is County Administrator Percy Ashcraft and the club’s President is Percy Ashcraft’s wife. Its Recording Secretary is Karen Jenkins, who is the county’s “public information officer” as well. Now, if [...]

Usher in All Black
Earlier today Usher was spotted in West Hollywood wearing an all-black and slightly grungy look. If you are feeling this look: skully cap, v-neck tee, jeans, light jacket, strap boots, two-finger ring and stud belt – get something similar below:

Aquamarine
03/10/10An aquamarine beauty in honor of all the March babies!It’s as pretty a flower as ever I’ve seen!Signed Kay Adams, A2040Bitz Collection, $65

Amazon Glitch Followup
The Amazon glitch over the weekend that priced just about every comic collection distributed by Diamond Book Distributors at $14.99 or less — a category that includes Marvel, IDW, Dark Horse, Top Shelf, and Image — has some additional fallout. As reported by TechCrunch, those who had orders canceled have received email stating We’re sorry [...]

On Not Saying Please or Thank you to Republicans
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Jason Guard.  Guard works in adult literacy and GED services. He serves on the board of the Virginia Organizing Project, although his views are completely his own. He goes by @RVAfoodie on Twitter and writes a blog at http://www.RVAfoodie.com. Virginia has taken another two steps backward under the [...]

SONiA & Disappear Fear Come To Ashland
Baltimore-based singer & songwriter SONiA has performed in Israeli bomb shelters and Palestinian villages and now brings her music back to Ashland to celebrate the release of her 14th album GayRVA caught up with Baltimore-based SONiA to talk about her travels, music and new CD “Blood, Bones, and Baltimore.” GayRVA: How did you end up performing in [...]

McDonnell Signs Executive Directive #1, EV Says Work Continues
A statement released today from Equality Virginia CEO Jon Blair: Equality Virginia is gratified that the Governor has responded positively to our call for action. The Governor took a major positive step forward today toward assuring that gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender workers will not be subject to discrimination in state employment. Equality [...]

Some mellow Chris Rice….
Love this simple tune, a little something for my sweetie as we approach our wedding anniversary….

Foreclosures in Chesterfield and Henrico UP, in the City of Richmond DOWN – What’s Going On?
BizSense reported yesterday that foreclosures in Chesterfield and Henrico Counties were up significantly this week, while foreclosures in Richmond were down over 50%. Is this evidence of the “death of suburbia as we know it?” I’m not sure. I think…

UPDATED: Governor Issues Executive Directive On Discrimination (LG and AG respond)
Today Governor Bob McDonnell’s office released Executive Directive One on state standards on discrimination in the workplace: Employment discrimination of any kind will not be tolerated by this Administration. The Virginia Human Rights Act recogn…

The horror, the horror: Catherine Crabill running for Congress.
Virtucon broke the story yesterday. How crazy does someone have to be to put his or her signature to paper in support of this woman?



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