I’ve made some behind-the-scenes updates. Please let me know if you notice anything broken or acting weird (on this site…).

Wanna help River District News really get good? Do you know of a restaurant opening soon? A building that will be restored or demolished? A great musician, poet, or artist that will be in town? Interested in writing about that concert that you went to?

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Six months into this thing, it seems like it’s really working. In our almost 250 posts, we caught the raid on Velvet and all of that mess, we broke how close Cafe Gutenberg came to closing, helped spread the word on the painting over of Trask’s Princess Diana mural, and offered many many many ways to to get out and enjoy yourself. Along the way, we’ve seen great new places like LuLu’s, GlobeHopper, Halligan, and Savor open the doors.

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Local “news site” River District News, in a lame attempt at seasonal humor, posted several half-assed April Fools stories early this morning. “I’ve been spending too much time with middle school kids”, site author Murden said when called on his juvenile prank. [via]

We’ll be doing some site maintenance over the next day or so that might knock out the lights for a while. If that happens, we ought to be back up within the day.

Changes at one of our sister sites had killed the neighborhood crime map for a few days there, but it’s all back now.

We’ve added a set of rotating photos from around the area to the right side of all of our pages. Images tagged with tobaccorow and richmond, manchester and richmond, or shockoe will be pulled in and displayed.

Our classifieds adverts are free and pretty useful. Anything listed through this site shows up at the top of the classifieds page (and on the left side of *all* of the pages), after that we pull in the Craig’s List info. Take the For Sale/Wanted for instance…

We’ve added a map of the crime in the area. Basically just don’t leave stuff in your car; it’s the red and yellow markers that you have to worry about…

Welcome to River District News! River District News focuses on activities and events at the neighborhood level for the Shockoe Bottom, Shockoe Slip, Manchester, Tobacco Row, and Rocketts areas, and on larger events with direct impact on our community. Let us know if you have something to share with the community or post on the calendar. Let us know also if you are interested in being a part of the site, we would like to have as many contributors as possible.