Thursday, November 1, 2012
The channel is off the air due to Superstorm Sandy.
The Clarendon-based Arlington Independent Media is off the air for the foreseable future after a power outage affected the channel's servers. The full message from AIM's newsletter: We hope all of our members and friends made it through Hurricane Sandy safe and sound! While thankfully we did not experience flooding or facility damage at AIM, we did, much like most of Clarendon, experience major power outages. At some point during the storm these power hits caused damage to the server that programs the channel. The server could take a few days to repair and AIM will be off the air during that time. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause our producers and viewers. We will notify you when the channel is up and running again and …
Friday, October 12, 2012
Candidates talk Columbia Pike trolley, affordable housing, the cost of doing business here, taxes, the Artisphere and more.
From walking and biking to the proposed Columbia Pike trolley, from the cost of living in Arlington to the cost of doing business here, the three candidates for one seat on the Arlington County Board covered a wide range of topics Thursday night at a Patch-Arlington Independent Media forum. Democratic incumbent Libby Garvey faced Green Party candidate Audrey Clement and Republican Matt Wavro in the hour-long live event at AIM's studio in Clarendon. Patch will feature the video above regularly in the weeks leading up to the November election. Read more: Arlington Board Candidates Talk Trolley, Housing and More in Live Forum Presidential Contest Casts Shadow over Local Board Race Board Candidates Differ on Best Columbia Pike Transit System …
Monday, October 8, 2012
Event will air at 7 p.m. Thursday, replay several more times before the November election.
Patch and Arlington Independent Media will host a forum for Arlington County Board candidates that will be broadcast live at 7 p.m. Thursday. AIM will rebroadcast the forum multiple times before the November election. Patch also will feature the video on its Arlington County and Clarendon-Courthouse sites. Next month, voters will determine who represents them from the federal to the local level. Arlington County Board member Libby Garvey, a Democrat, faces opposition from Republican Matt Wavro and Green Party candidate Audrey Clement. Garvey won a special election earlier this year to fill the unexpired term of Barbara Favola, who ascended to the state Senate. That term expires at the end of this year. Candidates will be allowed to bring …
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Five things to know about what's going on in and around Arlington.
1. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and former Democratic President Bill Clinton will be in Northern Virginia this week for a pair of fundraisers. McLean Patch previewed the events last week. 2. Voice Box returns to Arlington Independent Media. This episode's guests will discuss what's in place to help Arlington's needy. The live show airs 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Some studio seats are available. Or watch it live here. 3. CityBiz offers a few details about the days leading up to the Arlington County Board's approval of Boeing's new East Coast headquarters in northern Crystal City, near the Pentagon. The CityBiz story offers information from Monument Realty's perspective. 4. Get half-price burgers all day at Spider Kelly's today, per …
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
County will use testimony in negotiations with cable provider.
Arlington Independent Media enjoyed a strong show of support Tuesday night when residents, artists and a wide range of professionals told story after story about how the nonprofit public access channel benefited the community. Their stories will be analyzed and used as legal evidence of what Arlington needs in the long process of renewing a franchise agreement with Comcast Cable. “There are many places in this country where average citizens cannot compete with corporate media,” said Rob Parrish, an Arlington filmmaker and video artist. “But here… our citizens that make programs are right next to CNN, CBS, Fox and the rest. That is wonderful thing, and it needs to be nurtured, expanded. We need to strengthen AIM so that those kind of voices…
Friday, October 1, 2010
Six extraordinary teens produced two documentaries on The Arts in Arlington and The Ballston-Rossyln Corridor for the Document Arlington Project.
Arlington Independent Media celebrated the premiere of the 2010 Document Arlington Project, Thursday, with documentaries on The Arts in Arlington and the Rosslyn-Ballston Corridor. The Document Arlington Project is a partnership between Arlington Independent Media and the Arlington Public Schools Humanities Project. "The Humanities Project brings artists into schools and five years ago the director of the Humanities Project and I were trying to talk about some way to do a cooperation or partnership," said Jackie Steven, Director of Community Programming at AIM. "She was particularly interested in oral history, which is something I had done a lot of. So we just schemed up this idea of sort of creating a summer job program for kids. As well …
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Voice Box's panel of school officials discuss Arlington school funding and budget cuts for the upcoming year.
Arlington Independent Media's (AIM) staff-produced monthly show, Voice Box, is back this week discussing Arlington Public Schools. "Voice Box is a local program with a global perspective," said Ned Dickert, AIM Communication Coordinator. "Tackling a wide range of issues from immigration, to transportation, to housing, to carrying concealed weapons on college campuses, Voice Box examines topics that have both regional and national impacts." September's Voice Box, which is hosted by Christian Dorsey, will be filmed on Sept 16, from 7:30-8:30 p.m. The panel will include Arlington's Public Schools Superintendent, Dr. Patrick Murphy; Assistant Superintendent Finance/Management, Mary Beth Chambers and Arlington County School Board Member, Sally …
Jason Spencer
3:21 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012
After talking with AIM, we've decided to give each candidate 2 minutes for their opening statement and 2 minutes for their closing. The candidates were notified of this change earlier this week. more ›