On Sunday, the Commonwealth Chorale, presented its 2008 program of the eternally-popular "Messiah" by George Frideric Handel (born Georg Frideric Handel in Germany, he became a British citizen and resident later in his adult life) at Farmville's United Methodist Church. The English Oratorio is one of the best-known works' [...]
Despite all my love for other places, there is one thing about Richmond that I absolutely adore and have since I was child - the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. As a teenager, I used to drive into the city just to go walk the galleries at the museum; [...]
Driving through Colonial Heights these days, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of tornado damage from a storm that hit 7 months ago. The area eerily saw a similar path of destruction 15 years ago, but unlike Suffolk, the damage was relatively minor. Here are a few photos' [...]
Last month, Wired simply said to stop trying with it's "Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004" article. It's been nearly two years since the original South of the James blog ended, -- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; [...]
Last year, it was announced that upscale grocer, The Fresh Market, would be adding a second Richmond area outlet in Midlothian. Situated in the former Barnes & Noble space on Huguenot Road, the store is primed to be both an example of the creative reuse of real estate and of [...]
According to the Roanoke Times, family food favorite Western Sizzlin netted a 19% increase in profits during the last quarter despite lower sales. The Roanoke-based chain now has 7 spots in Virginia, significantly down from a decade ago, and it's main rival, Golden Corral, currently dots more' [...]
So, my better half kicked her floral design hobby into a side gig (Fleuraworks is the company name) a few months back. She's done a couple of weddings (pictures forthcoming), some individual arrangements for holidays, and a number of door hangings for churches in southern Virginia. Currently, she's got some [...]
It could be said that food resurrected this blog. Having set aside the mouse for over a year, I walked into one of my favorite local haunts and saw an old restaurant review that I'd done plastered up on the wall. It was right beside the "real" reviews by the' [...]
It's probably due to the fact that I feel too old to give a crap, but the overnight mash-up of Sirius and XM channels seems to be going relatively okay for me. I became part of the satellite radio family after keeping the party going once my 3-month trial' [...]
A good friend recently tipped me to the fact that the upscale Dixie lifestyle mag, Garden & Gun (motto: Soul of the New South), has featured the wonderful Biscuitville chain in its latest issue. Giving it props in their "100 Southern Foods You Absolutely," [...] So, despite my best efforts, it looks like Starbucks suffered a major profit-loss in the Q4 reporting period. Apparently, despite making a number of changes to their offerings and operations, the company sputtered along with lower same-store sales and revenue reductions. Back in the summer, the java giant [...]
So, the local Food Lion on Hull Street posted a sign noting that, come 2009, it will make the transition from the friendly, neighborhood value spot into an upscale Bloom. Called "a different kind of grocery store," the Bloom chain has a number of stores in the Commonwealth. [...]
So, Media General bought Richmond.com and the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth (see the comments) ensured. Sure, it's a shake-up in the local media scene, but it makes sense to me. Look, the geodomain game is quite popular, and Virginia seems to be ahead of the' [...]
Dipping into the world of business blogging (again), it's good to see Richmond blogfather Jim Bacon ramp up the productivity at the Boomer Consumer blog. Ostensibly, this is a site to promote the services and insights of The Boomer Project, a market research outfit north of the River,' [...]
Sometimes, I hate being right. Really. Nearly 4 years ago, I penned a piece for the Black Athlete Sports Network titled, "From Good To Great: Why the Legend Of Tyrone Willingham Must Become Reality." In that piece, I explored the career of the then newly-fired-turned-hired Washington Huskies football coach. [...]
These days, blogging in the political realm in on the verge of being cliched or at least passe. Everybody - campaigns, media companies, political parties, lobbyists and average Joes (plumbers and otherwise) - is hitting the blogosphere to drop news, give opinion, attack opponents or just mouth off. I'm not' [...]
I'm always looking for good, and interesting, lunch spots, especially in and around downtown Richmond (and good coffee, too). Well, I recently swung by the relatively new eat spot - Aurora (401 E. Grace St) - to check out their offerings. Last week, Style offered a snippet into' [...]
Ok, I'm really being driven batty listening to or reading sports media. The continuous butchering of the English language by sportswriters, commentators, and others is reaching infuriating proportions. Part of the reason I briefly took up sports-writing (2004-06) was to prevent myself from being driven insane. Granted, I'm not a [...]
So, apparently, the lovely folks at the University of Georgia have determined that certain kinds of Facebook users - those who "choose glamorous, self-promoting pictures for their main profile photos" - are prime candidates for narcissism. Needless to say, I was shocked when I read this, some 3 weeks [...]
When I packed up that other blog, the one thing I truly regretted was ending my nascent wine-blogging. Folks that know me have dealt with my wannabe connoisseurship for 10 years (only since I've been legal). I hope to turn this site into a repository for reviews on the glasses' [...]
Now, it may seem rather arrogant of me to borrow from Capt. Smith when writing a freakin' blog post. But, that's the beauty of the 'sphere. We can (within reason for some of us) assume terribly presumptuous postures in exercising that free speech thing. Anyway, enough pontification.
This is my [...]
Ok, so I lamely attempted to start up my own food-n-fun blog called Eat.Drink.Play.Richmond. My thinking was that since my other half hadn’t really updated her blog in awhile, I would hang out my own shingle and see if I could do better. Well, I was wrong and after one [...]
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First, let me start by saying this isn't about food or anything all that entertaining. Its more about getting older. . .
Basically, I am not good for birthdays. Ask people who know me an some will tell you how I actually celebrate the day after my birthday because [...]
