http://the804.com/blog Blog of the804.com Richmond VA's Real Estate Guide Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:12:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now that the SEC results are official for the Richmond Mayoral race, I've compiled all the numbers by precincts (adding precinct station description so that you can see how your neighbors voted).  See Special Section: The Race for Richmond Mayor 2008.  It's been a pleasure tracking all the great stories ... http://the804.com/blog/?p=298 Media General-Richmond.com stories have been compiled. notes: Brilliant move by MEG.  The domain and SEO placement alone was worth the price (which hasn't been revealed btw).  Gatewayva? Inrich? Yuch.  The city paper finally gets the crown jewel of domain names, the city name itself.  Only a few major national papers have this ... http://the804.com/blog/?p=297 A couple of notable acts added David Allen Coe @ Toad's...Longhaired Redneck is one of my favorite songs of all time 'cause I can sing all those songs about Texas... Dropkick Murphies @ Toad's...Scorcese knows how to score a film.  When I think of Goodfellas, I think of Layla.  When I think ... http://the804.com/blog/?p=296 I've got all of the Virginia newspaper Presidential endorsements up on the Good Life with links (source courtesy of Editor and Publisher...though I'm the a-hole that tracked down all the hyperlinks).  Here is the tally: McCain, 11 | Obama, 6 | No Endorsement, 4 notes:  keep in mind the oligarchy of VA media ... http://the804.com/blog/?p=295 Everyone once in a blue moon, I get an email asking whether the Richmond Good Life (http://www.richmondgoodlife.com) has RSS...Nope...RGL is my homage to 1998 Internet (a simpler, better time).  Plain old vanilla HTML, and I'm not going to change it. OLD SCHOOL! For those speed/news junkies, I have compromised a bit by creating ... http://the804.com/blog/?p=294 Deep in the heart of the East End (Creighton and Laburnum) lies the real Comfort Food capital of Richmond (with all due respect to downtown Comfort).  On Wednesday night, I had the pleasure to have dinner at Lucille's Restaurant.  With all the economic turmoil news this week, I really needed ... http://the804.com/blog/?p=293 For many people, newspaper subscriptions have been downsized to just getting the Sunday edition (nothing better in this world than Sunday morning coffee, newspaper, and listening to music, preferably, jazz or songs about Sunday--Johnny Cash's Sunday Morning Coming Down or Velvet Underground's Sunday Morning).  I think newspapers know this, so they ... http://the804.com/blog/?p=292 Yep, I gave this category the meticulous Good Life treatment: Richmond VA Gyms/Health Clubs...slowly but surely building a local internet "yellow pages" that matters (at least to me)... I really liked this recent Lifehacker article: Get the Most Out of Your New Town.  I think the RGL covers a lot of these topics, ... http://the804.com/blog/?p=291 I was in Short Pump this afternoon to see if Jimmy Johns had opened.  I would have also checked out Whole Foods for my weekly groceries.  I was actually in the fancy Yorkville Whole Foods in Toronto last weekend trying to get rid of my Canadian money (didn't take long) before ... http://the804.com/blog/?p=290 Over at the Good Life, I've been re-arranging some things adding a new section tracking Technology news in Virginia (just like other topics I cover, I saw a gap that needed filling).  In true RGL fashion, the style is more TechMeme (ie, curated article dumps) than TechCrunch (ie, analysis...just too ... http://the804.com/blog/?p=289  .5 *Update* See first comment below... 1. NY Times breaks the VCU Tobacco Story...Times Dispatch reports the deal is not out of the ordinary and "David Ress, one of The Times-Dispatch's top investigative reporters -- and not one known for giving home-field preferences to local big-shots -- took a look at ... http://the804.com/blog/?p=288 Jiminy Cricket , I have not seen this much heat on a local restaurant since Lulu's or the Phoenician (see first quarter).  Despite its "off the beaten path" location, The Black Sheep is packing the people in driven by positive reviews of MSM, "self-important" blogs ;), and the subsequent word of mouth...and that's ... http://the804.com/blog/?p=287