Other voices, other rooms

First, a note of thanks to all you folks out there reading Bull City Rising. It's been about a year since the site went live, and we're up to a readership of about 6,000 unique readers and 35,000 pageviews per month, with around 500 readers on any given day. Thanks for making BCR part of your Durham news and blogging habits.

Secondly, I wanted to take a moment as we occasionally do to highlight some of the other new voices and bloggers out there in the Bull City. What's powerful and interesting about blogs is the diversity of bringing many opinions and perspectives into the scene, and a local 'blogosphere' grows more powerful with every new blog that joins in.

First up: We talk a lot about downtown residential options here at BCR, but who's living them? Ryan Ananat, for one, who talks about what it's like living in one of the two first-occupied condos over at Trinity Lofts in his new blog Gritty Cute: Adventures of a Downtown Durham Homeowner. Ryan's hoping to highlight both residential life in Durham's city center as well as to give a perspective on the local arts scene, a topic for which more coverage is badly needed.

Next, you may know Rev. Carl Kenney from his pieces in the Independent Weekly; he's started up a new blog called Rev-Elution, bringing a unique view on issues of race, class and spirituality in the Bull City. His posts and insights on the Bell/Stith race are, in retrospect, among the more insightful ones out there.

Finally, local real estate agent Tamara Heyward with Maverick Properties -- a person involved in the sales of many downtown and near-downtown properties -- has a new blog, R.E. Market Durham. She's touched so far on national and regional housing trends but also brings some good insights for what's happening on-the-ground with Durham's downtown renovations and renewal.

Check these three blogs out if you get a chance; all now join the blogroll at left with Durham's other locally-focused bloggers.

Comments

[GK]

Kevin

Congratulations on your 1 year mark! You do a great job of capturing the myriad and unique aspects of politics, development, downtown, food, people, etc. in Durham with an even and insightful voice.

Gary

[Phil]

Happy birthday! Thanks for your writing.

[Valerie]

Congrats, BCR. You are an inspiration!

Gritty Cute is hilarious. In the Reading Log!

[Mike Woodard]

Kevin:

Congratulations on your anniversary! You've become a "must read" for me and many others in Durham. Keep up the good work...and here's to many more years.

Mike Woodard

[barry]

That's awesome, Kevin. Congratulations.

[Bull City Rising]

Thanks, everyone, for the kind words. And -- more importantly -- be sure to check out the other new blogs in town!