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…
December 2008
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…