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About Fan District Hub

located in Richmond

Put simply, the purpose of the Fan District Hub is to serve its neighborhood by providing the modern equivalent to its precursor — the kiosk bearing posted notices in a town square. The Hub’s mission is to be a useful alternative source of information, a “community blog.” Even as that rather new term’s definition evolves, the Hub is also striving to be a lean online magazine, of a sort, published to entertain and engage its urban-centric readers — folks who live, work, study, and enjoying recreating in the Fan District. The Fan District is more than a bunch of nice buildings. In many ways it is the cultural epicenter of the greater Richmond area, with Virginia Commonwealth University as the biggest player in that quaking metaphor. Having lived in the Fan for most of my life, I hope some of my experience in alternative media — managing a movie theater in the neighborhood, the Biograph, and publishing a Fan-based magazine, SLANT — will prove useful in this new endeavor. Still, the Hub’s success will depend in great part on the emergence of reliable volunteers providing information to the site.

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posted on
January 29th, 2012
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Fan District Hub
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Richmond

How About 139 Worthwhile Films?

Why another list of old movies?

My lofty hope is that a reader might be persuaded to take a chance on one or two on this list, titles they’ve previously overlooked or forgott ...

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posted on
January 28th, 2012
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Fan District Hub
based in
Richmond

Biograph Times: Managing

by F.T. Rea

Once I began to understand more fully what an opportunity my job offered, I wanted the Biograph Theatre to be a place both detached from its surroundings and a good neighbor; l ...

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posted on
January 27th, 2012
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Fan District Hub
based in
Richmond

Remembering an old cinema; building a new one

At Richmond Magazine Harry Kollatz focuses his blog, The Hat, on the Biograph Theatre’s 40th anniversary celebration and perhaps a new artsy cinema in the works:

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posted on
January 20th, 2012
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Fan District Hub
based in
Richmond

Rams 69, W&M 68 (OT)!

The VCU men’s basketball team survived in overtime on Thursday night. The Wm. & Mary Tribe came scary close to upsetting the Rams on their Broad Street home court: VCU 69, W&M 68. ...

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posted on
January 10th, 2012
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Fan District Hub
based in
Richmond

CAA Notes: Jan 9

The information below is from Rob Washburn, Assoc. Commissioner/Communications of the Colonial Athletic Association:

PLAYER OF THE WEEK:

Keith Rendleman, UNCW, Jr., F ...

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