December 2008

  Two contests designed to challenge youth and allow them to show off their skills were recently announced.   Healthy Choices, Healthy Living, Healthy Generations Hip Hop/Rap Contest   The…

by Cesca Janece Waterfield   As co-owners of Neely’s Bar-B-Que, husband and wife Patrick and Gina Neely run one of the most successful restaurants in the South. As if that…

by Cesca Janece Waterfield     When Barack Obama came to the restaurant where Mary Walker is a cook “He didn’t have time to eat,” she says. “He got his…

by Erika Townsend     With New Year’s celebrations winding down and inauguration celebrations gearing up, the season of new beginnings is in full swing. We are on the cusp…

Charlie Murphy, Eddie’s older brother, has been a working comedian for twenty years, and a busy stand-up comic for six. He’s also appeared in a number of feature films, lending…

PICTURED: The Lighting of the Candles   2009 Capital City Kwanzaa Festival Sunday, December 27, 2 – 9pm The Showplace, 3000 Mechanicsville Turnpike, Richmond, VA The Elegba Folklore Society, Richmond’s…

by Cesca Janece Waterfield     Mike Gales, who’s played with George Clinton’s Parliament since ’97, recently signed an agreement with Blunt Logic Records. With distribution as part of the…

by Linda Pate     Several books that I have read during the year 2008 opened my eyes to new knowledge made me laugh, cry, and at times gave me…

Take a bit of cheerfulness a pinch of laughter too Next, take a cup of thoughtfulness And add them through and through Add to this, tranquility, a verse of “Silent…

by Erika Townsend     Along with holiday cheer, usually come some holiday frustrations. We are in constant search of the perfect gifts for loved ones. We fight for spaces…