Grid launch party tonight at Savor
The Greater Richmond Grid, “Richmond’s newest magazine promoting the lifestyle, culture, and benefits of Richmond and the surrounding counties”, launches tonight at Manchester’s Savor from 6-8PM.
The Greater Richmond Grid, “Richmond’s newest magazine promoting the lifestyle, culture, and benefits of Richmond and the surrounding counties”, launches tonight at Manchester’s Savor from 6-8PM.
Wow, what an original idea. I’ve never seen anything like this in Richmond.
Clearly, millions will be made from this one-of-a-kind magazine.
Perhaps we should put together a pool on how many issues they’ll get out before folding.
Don’t be so cynical.
These are the same guys who publish the Sportssnackers, SBQ and that supermarket magazine, UGH! (or something like that).
In all seriousness, though, they could provide some useful competition to that very stale, and not so stylish, Style Weekly.
Richmond’s other lame publications could all use some healthy competition. We have the overtly Black-racist, Richmond Free Press, Richmond magazine (not sure if this gossip sheet is even published anymore), the unfortunate, Brick, as in, “I sh*t a brick!”, and of course the county weeklies whose sole reason for existing is to provide a place for local kids in face paint, to get pictures published.
GRIP, GRIT…GAG! Whatever monosyllabic name they choose, could be a big help to the region, if for no other reason, they might provide a comprehensive calendar of events. (Online and in print, please).
Right now, the various publications all carve out a niche and only list their pet events. The county weeklies will not even announce an event that is scheduled just across the county line. For example, the Henrico Citizen would not announce anything related to Dixie Days, even though the venue, Pole Green Park is just a few miles away from Henrico. The Chesterfield paper would not announce meetings of the Sons of Confederate Veterans that were held outside the county, even when most of the members resided in Chesterfield.
Another immediate value-added improvement this new publication could provide would be a policy of non-political correctness. Don’t censor views of citizens or refuse to announce activities of social or political groups that are deemed by Bobby Ukrop as not politically correct for Richmond.
Locals do not know that Richmond forgoes nearly a Billion dollars per year by shunning Confederate era tourism. This is just stupid. Can anyone imagine the folks in Plymouth, Mass. ignoring their Pilgrim heritage because the Pilgrims supposedly exploited and killed the Indians? What happened happened. Let’s get together here in the Twenty-first Century, and make money on Confederate era tourism.
One last suggestion: When listing events, provide cogent directions and a quick map. This could be done with a simple line-drawing map with numbers to correlate to the venues. Most of those who have moved here don’t know where the, “…old Thalhiemer’s building…” was and we don’t care, so don’t give directions based on extinct landmarks, either.
Good luck, GRIN, it’s a tough market out there, but there is always room for a good publication that serves the needs of the citizens.
I think it looks pretty cool. Can’t hurt to have a new mag around, tired of the same old thing.
I mostly agreed with J Tyler until “Locals do not know that Richmond forgoes nearly a Billion dollars per year by shunning Confederate era tourism. This is just stupid. Can anyone imagine the folks in Plymouth, Mass. ignoring their Pilgrim heritage because the Pilgrims supposedly exploited and killed the Indians? What happened happened. Let’s get together here in the Twenty-first Century, and make money on Confederate era tourism”.
Spoken like a true American…forget the cheating, killing and abuse of an entire race of people (pick one)….. Just Make Money!
I’m more interested in that billion dollar figure. How on earth did you arrive at that number?
#6. He heard it from the ghost of Judah Benjamin.
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