A Creek Runs Through It

Developers and Richmond planners like to call them “ditches,” but Richmond is replete with magnificent creeks, including Wildcat, San Pablo, Rheem, Garrity, Baxter and Cerritos. To learn more, come join me at the Second Quadrennial Contra Costa County...

Support the Plunge and Remember Nick Armington

The Baltic Restaurant is hosting a Crab Feed fundraiser benefiting the Richmond Plunge on November 30th, from 3 p.m. until 7 p.m. Included in this family style crab feed is a wine tasting of Noah’s wine with the winemaker present, canap”s, music by the Hot...

Where Death and Danger Lurk

As expected, last night”s City Council meeting drew some 500 vocal, mostly Latino, attendees, with over 60 signing up to make a plea for changing Richmond”s Zoning Ordinance to allow substantially higher fences in the front yards of residences. Since 1949,...

Richmond’s Rosie Park in 31 Million Mailboxes

At a time when good news is hard to find in Richmond, it is a bit of extraordinary good fortune that Ford Motor Company, in partnership with the National Park Foundation, published a five-page, full color advertisement in the November 10 edition of Time magazine in...