Sister Sites About Richmond

Here at Richmond VA Presents, we try to bring you information on a variety of subjects.  We bring you the best of Richmond, be it restaurants, places to go, bands, or whatever strikes our fancy.

While this format has worked out pretty well on this site, we’ve realized that, at times,  some people want more specific information.  Sometimes people need a little more than the grab-bag of wonderfulness they get on this site (and the remarkable humility of its writer) and want a site they can go to for something specific.  Well, don’t say we don’t listen, Richmond.

If you want only restaurant reviews and information about food in our fair city, check out Eating in Richmond, a site managed by one Mr. David Mattera – a guy who knows his stuff when it comes to food.  Not only does David mention and review specific restaurants, he also chooses a subject and gives you an overview of what the city has to offer.  Check it out.  He’ll make you hungry.

For a look at the business side of the Richmond mullet, take a look at Richmond VA Business, a site managed by one Mr. Michael Fletcher, a local writer and consultant.  He tells you all the things you want to know about businesses in Richmond.  From posts about local celebrities (they chuckle when I call them that) to posts about 101-year old companies, Fletcher speaks with intelligence and authority.

When you want to read about things to do around Richmond, you can scoot over to Richmond VA Life, a site devoted to the funner things in town.  One cool thing about this site is that it is always accepting submissions from readers.  If you have an interesting picture of something Richmond-related, you can email it to the site admin and he might very well post it.

If you have young ‘uns, add Richmond For Kids to the list of sites you read.  It covers good places to take the kids out to eat, cool places kids want to go, and pretty much all things Richmond kids.

And, finally, for those social media peeps out there, we bring you Socially Richmond.  Socially Richmond is a group effort by a bunch of people that I don’t know.  You might or might not know them.  But you will (if you ever poke a toe in the Twitter pool) know the people featured on the site.

These (and many other) sites are supported by Big Oak Inc., an ethical SEO Company located in Richmond, Virginia.  Not only are they ethical, they are also awesome, and super-nice.  And I don’t just say that because they let me write on this website.  I’m a card-carrying fan.

If you have ideas or suggestions for any of these sites (including this one right here) you can contact me at marketing@richmondvapresents.com and I’ll get the word out.

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Traveling the Richmond Blogosphere

Anyone who writes for a living, writes for pleasure, or writes because they are simply COMPELLED to do so knows that it feels great to have readers.  I mean, I don’t know any bloggers, for instance, who get mad when people read their blogs.  Why put it out there if you don’t want people to read it?  We all wanna be the next Dooce, you know.

Richmond has some truly amazing bloggers who deserve tons of recognition.  I was going to pick a top 3, and that was impossible, so then I thought about writing a Top Ten list, but that was still too hard.  There are too many great writers who have top-notch blogs.  Rather than hide anybody’s light under a barrel, I’m going to give you a comprehensive idea of some local bloggers, and will do some follow-up features on some of said bloggers in the not-too-distant future.  Sound good to you?

Some of Richmond’s best blogs are about…Richmond!  One in particular, Tobacco Avenue, is Richmond’s answer to The Onion and is full of  smart, insightful, clever comedic commentary.  Another one, Buttermilk & Molasses, talks about Richmond-type-stuff plus a whole lot more.

A couple of Richmond bloggers write about writing – Fiction Matters and Alicia Farrell are two sites where you can go to get a wealth of information on the craft of writing.   What’s an Azalea writes about her life, art, and poetry, while Kindness Girl writes about her life and her personal mission – to bring goodness and kindness to the world.

Young House Love is a blog about the joys of home ownership.  They bought a house in 2006 and have been documenting the process of turning a house into a home.  They’ve been featured in The Nest, on HGTV, in The New York Times, on RealSimple.com, and lots of other places.  They’re kind of a big deal.

Home Slice is a “30-something mother of girls born 23 months apart” and is a from Michigan, but calls Richmond her home.  She writes about being a Stay-At-Home mom, business owner, and what her life is like.  She’s a delight to read.

Cafe Darkness is a delightful mish-mosh of humor, pondering, advice, and commentary co-authored by The Barista and The Lone Wolf, two forces to be reckoned with.

For a blog more on the humor side of things, check out Jack Goes Forth, a guy who is so committed to his blog that he got fired over it – and then they talked about it on TV!  He’s a 25-year-old bartender who talks about his job and his drunken and sexual (and sometimes both) escapades ala Tucker Max, but in Richmond.

Matt on Fire has documented his progress from laid-off corporation worker to successful freelance writer.  He has a penchant for hockey, but luckily doesn’t blog about it often.  What he does blog about is his life, which is touching, hilarious, and fun to read.

The Checkout Girl is a Richmond treasure.  She is from someplace crazy, like Saturn, or California, which is just CRAZY, but she’s taken the Richmond blog scene by storm and we’re lucky to have her.  She entertains us with tales from her job in an upscale store (unknown, to protect identities and such) and I, for one, wait with baited breath for every new installment of her column, 100 Bad Dates on rvanews.com.

Do you know of anyone we left out?  Comment here and we’ll write them up in the next installment.  Want a whole RichmondVAPresents post all to yourself?  Email me and I’ll take you out for coffee and interview you.

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