Mission

A message from Hub, Official Spoksecat for the Fan District Hub:

The mission statement below by the Fan District Hub’s editor/publisher attempts to put our intentions for this community blog into a few words. And, if you know this guy (see photo below), you probably also know that getting him to stick to a few words wasn’t easy.

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.