UPDATE: It appears Video Fan will NOT be closing after all  Our community site Fan of the Fan is reporting that Video Fan, the long-time indy video rental store, will be closing.  Last June, I wrote a profile of the store and some of its employees. Back then, the owner had hoped to make it through a few more years. It’s sad that it won’t happen. 
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UPDATE: It appears Video Fan will NOT be closing after all 

Our community site Fan of the Fan is reporting that Video Fan, the long-time indy video rental store, will be closing. 

Last June, I wrote a profile of the store and some of its employees. Back then, the owner had hoped to make it through a few more years. It’s sad that it won’t happen. 

My article about the origin of the RVA sticker and where you can pick them up.
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My article about the origin of the RVA sticker and where you can pick them up.

Source: rvanews.com

Did you know that Richmond has its very own independent wrestling organization? I spent the entire day with them a while back and wrote about what I saw.
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Did you know that Richmond has its very own independent wrestling organization? I spent the entire day with them a while back and wrote about what I saw.

Richmond, VA-based sushi restaurant, Sticky Rice, launched one of their sushi rolls into outer Space by way of a weather balloon. 

Teaser for my article on Richmond’s Fan Free Clinic: One of the oldest community clinics in Virginia is in the Fan District. While HIV and AIDS can easily be thought of as mere abstract ideas, they are real health concerns for many residents of the city. What one organization is doing to help, and what two people with HIV have to say to Richmond.
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Teaser for my article on Richmond’s Fan Free Clinic:

One of the oldest community clinics in Virginia is in the Fan District. While HIV and AIDS can easily be thought of as mere abstract ideas, they are real health concerns for many residents of the city. What one organization is doing to help, and what two people with HIV have to say to Richmond.

Although 2011 was the second least deadly year since 1964, that does not mean that Richmond was free of sensational crimes. Here’s a recap of some of the more notable crimes that remain unsolved.
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Although 2011 was the second least deadly year since 1964, that does not mean that Richmond was free of sensational crimes. Here’s a recap of some of the more notable crimes that remain unsolved.


The mayor, new bicycle coordinator, VCU officials, and others spoke about how and why they plan to make Richmond a stand-out bike-friendly city. There were some interesting ideas.
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The mayor, new bicycle coordinator, VCU officials, and others spoke about how and why they plan to make Richmond a stand-out bike-friendly city. There were some interesting ideas.

I have an article on the upcoming Bank Transfer Day might affect a local bank and credit union. Here’s a tidbit:  If the Bank of America fee was worrisome, the proposed Wells Fargo hit many Richmonders in a sensitive area. Wells Fargo completed their $12.7 billion acquisition of Wachovia in early 2009 before rebranding the existing Wachovia bank branches and ATMs throughout the Richmond region this August (to say nothing of their brief rebranding of the Richmond Times-Dispatch). Many local Wachovia customers were dissatisfied with the switch, while others complained for a variety of issues (read about some of these here, here, here, and here). The now worldwide Occupy movement (it did begin as Occupy Wall Street, after all) transformed these grumblings into outright public scorn for large banking institutions. Chief among protester complaints is that the financial institutions that precipitated our global recession received public dollars from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)—money that the individuals who suffered from the banks’ malfeasance never saw.
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I have an article on the upcoming Bank Transfer Day might affect a local bank and credit union. Here’s a tidbit: 

If the Bank of America fee was worrisome, the proposed Wells Fargo hit many Richmonders in a sensitive area. Wells Fargo completed their $12.7 billion acquisition of Wachovia in early 2009 before rebranding the existing Wachovia bank branches and ATMs throughout the Richmond region this August (to say nothing of their brief rebranding of the Richmond Times-Dispatch). Many local Wachovia customers were dissatisfied with the switch, while others complained for a variety of issues (read about some of these here, here, here, and here).

The now worldwide Occupy movement (it did begin as Occupy Wall Street, after all) transformed these grumblings into outright public scorn for large banking institutions. Chief among protester complaints is that the financial institutions that precipitated our global recession received public dollars from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)—money that the individuals who suffered from the banks’ malfeasance never saw.