Pizzalore

Last weekend I went to the Wayside Center For Popular Education and cooked for about 200 people at the Wayside Commons Party ! It was awesome. The Wayside Center is a great place for activists, organizers and all citizens to connect, make friends, learn, grow and relax - what could be more worthy of  celebration!? The menu didn't include pizza, but  rather some delicious lamb tacos from the Southwood Alliance , cucumber salad from Root Force Collective Farm , and  lots of other yummy ho-made things from me and the kitchen volunteers. quiche, apple cobbler, cheese grits, chili and more! Whew! It was a lot of work for a great cause and I was happy to do it but by the end of the weekend I was kitchened out! I took a dip in the creek and then headed to Dr. Ho's Humble Pie for pizza with my friends!  JP and his friend from Norfolk Food Not Bombs , Niels and Emily from Root Force, Jeff and his son Ammon (who is planning C'villes first Horror Film Festival - The Blue Ri...

I have spent the better part of the last month or so raising money for the Wayside Center For Popular Education . As part of their first annual fundraiser, The Wayside Cup the Center invited people to form teams and find creative ways to raise money and then participate in a field day event. The team with the most points would win. I formed Team Totally Awesome, and I have to say we were off to a great start. As team captain I pledged to raise $1000 and we made over $500 at our first fund raising event- a Cut-A-Thon hosted by the lovely ladies at Salon Bleu in Richmond. Next we had a very successful bake sale at the South of the James Farmer's Market. We parked our bake sale boat right next to our friends and teammates from Root Force Collective Farm. It was another success and that night we celebrated at the benefit show where B.Ultra & Basic (pictured), Pixeltank , and El Radon played their amazing music. Some very skilled hula hoopers from RVA HoOp Lovers also perform...