"Richmond at Night"

November 29, 2015

The McGlothlin Collection is on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art

The James W. and Frances Gibson McGlothlin's collection of American paintings is now on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. This collection everything it's been hyped to be.

"Kansas City Stomps" by Jelly Roll Morton

On this day in 1885, Jelly Roll Morton was born in New Orleans. Read more at Jazz on the Tube.

"Bees in the Sage"

Richmond Folk Festival, October 10, 2015

Sanders working to get on Virginia primary ballot

While walking around the Richmond Folk Festival yesterday, I encountered these Bernie Sanders volunteers doing a brisk business collecting signatures to get Sanders on Virginia's primary ballot.

Virginia is notorious for making it difficult to get on its ballot, so any signs of a candidate doing the hard work necessary to get on the ballot is a "tell" as to whether that candidate is serious.

Trump Triumphant

Donald Trump has survived his second Republican primary debate.

The image at the top of this post is a custom chart I created by making the following changes to the Pollster.com model:

1) I altered the time period to June 16, 2015 to the present.
2) I chose less smoothing.
3) I chose a percentage range of 0% to 45%.
4) I removed the individual poll plot points to produce cleaner trend lines.