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Forget Flavor Flav the reality tv clown and hold in your mind just how perfect Nation of Millions was and is: Public Enemy is at The Hat Factory this Saturday, September 10. $30 adv/$35 day-of. I saw PE at the Flood Zone back in the mid-90s. In my memory, Kepone opened up for’em but I [...]

The notorious Westboro Baptist Church has a day of protest planned for several Richmond locations on September 26, including a stop at Trinity Baptist Church on Fendall Avenue. WBC to picket the Trinity Baptist Church Dog Kennel where they lie to the people for filthy lucre. “For there are many unruly and vain talkers and [...]

On September 25th Bryan Park is celebrating its 100th year anniversary! Crazy! They’ll be all sorts of bands, vendors, and “more.” You can check out the entire list over on the Friends of Byrd Park website. The eponymous Joseph Bryan practice law in Richmond and eventually purchased a huge swath of land named “Laburnum” — [...]

by Michael McPeak Following up on the September Church Hill Association Newsletter article on the Citizens Request System (CRS), I decided to use it to make two requests of the City on 23 August – one, a Priority request and the other, a regular one (anything not defined as “Priority” by the City). The Priority [...]

The Asbury United Methodist Church 2010 Homecoming Street Festival will be held this coming Sunday (Sep.12) from noon-4:30PM at Asbury UMC (324 North 29th Street): The celebration is planned as a street festival where neighboring streets around N. 29th Street will be blocked off to accommodate the events including entertainment of all kinds – gospel [...]

With the Fall season coming soon, neighborhood groups are thankfully recognizing the need to clean up the neighborhood. SynerGeo will be hosting a work day on Saturday, Sept. 11th at 10am. They will be having about 18 adults. They will split into two teams and one will pick up trash in Oregon Hill, and the [...]

The City of Richmond’s Office of Special Capital Projects, along with Richmond Public Schools, will present updates on the Building a Better Richmond – Schools Capital Improvement Program to construct new schools for Broad Rock Elementary, Oak Grove Elementary, MLK Middle and Huguenot High on meetings at the schools through out the month. The MLK [...]

The agenda for the City Planning Commission meeting scheduled for Monday, September 7, 2010 (PDF) at 1:30PM included this: Ord.No2010-128: To authorize the special use of the property known as 715 Mosby Street for the purpose of constructing a mixed-use building with up to three (3) units for commercial uses and two (2) units for [...]

The 2nd Annual Tricycle Gardens Harvest Dinner will be October 2, 2010, at the Robinson Theater. They’ll be roasting a hog on-site, will have restaurants cooking, too, like last year, wine, beer, a signature Tricycle Gardens cocktail, silent auction and bluegrass from Scattered, Smothered and Covered. The BIG NEWS is our upcoming 2nd Annual Harvest [...]

This is your first reminder. Prepare yourself for traffic, traffic, and more traffic. And, also sweet sweet NASCAR!