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2026 Launch of Roanoke-Based Digital Publication

16 Blocks Magazine – Blacksburg

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16 Blocks Zine Flip Book Collection (2023-2024)

Free Print Copies DIGITIZED in Full Size, Full Color, and Cell Friendly for your viewing pleasure. Issue #42 September 2023 Inaugurating the reLaunch of 16 Blocks Magazine in free print copy form! Issue #48 October 2024 This is a POST IN PROGRESS, More Archived Flipbooks COMING SOON!

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Coloring Book Pages for Adults (and kids)

Carolina Goat Yoga I’m Tracie Adams I was born in Arkansas and raised on a small farm off dirt road called Tater Lane in Austin, Arkansas. Horses were always a huge passion from the time I was 5 yrs old that’s all I talked about. I got my first horse

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Print Issue #49 Abbra Abbra Cadabra [FULL LENGTH]

AVAILABLE NOW!!! @ your favorite downtown eateries, bars, coffeeshops, gathering spots, etc. in downtown Roanoke and Blacksburg. Have a good spot for our distro team to leave free print copies, DM us here

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About Us

16 Blocks is a non-profit and independent free print and digital publication and creator of public artworks. From neighborhoods to city districts worldwide, most of what can be physically experienced in a place is within four square blocks, walking distance, mostly within earshot and line of sight. 16 Blocks symbolizes

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Puff Puff PASS — Theresa Priest of The Good Vibes Shop Interview with Hart Fowler

We interviewed Theresa in our Studio Room C in downtown Blacksburg in response to the continued coverage by Cardinal News reporting that has left much of her side out of the picture. We interviewed Theresa in our Studio Room C in downtown Blacksburg in response to the continued coverage by

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Operation UpCyle: The Continuing Saga of Stella Rose

Second life as we’re taking the spirit of Stella Rose Piano electrified for street performance as a troubadour to downtown streets. FULL PLAYLIST Decorating the piano was one of our first public art volunteer efforts, and had met with excellent reception. Noticing the piano’s absence, receiving an email that the

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An Afternoon with Charlie Brouwer

Rick Baldwin speaks with the Floyd artist.

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16 Blocks Print Zine Flip Book Collection (2023-2024)

Free Print Copies DIGITIZED in Full Size, Full Color, and Cell Friendly for your viewing pleasure. Issue #42 September 2023 Inaugurating the reLaunch of 16 Blocks Magazine in free print copy form! Issue #48 October 2024 This is a POST IN PROGRESS, More Archived Flipbooks COMING SOON!

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Meeting Virginia Artist P Buckley Moss (1933-2024)

We did not take a picture with P Buckley Moss when Creative Director Rita Brame and I walked the few blocks from the magazine office in Downtown Blacksburg to her gallery in the Kent Square Building on a Spring Sunday earlier this year.   I had recently played her excellent piano

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Political Local [Video]: Councilman Liam Watson on Election Recount

The first part of our interview introducing the rookie Councilman about his plans for serving Blacksburg was about the recount.

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Welcome to Issue #47: Publisher Hart Fowler

16 Blocks is a homegrown, free print publication and creator of public artworks, and also a metaphorical microcosm meaning the interconnectedness of neighbors and travelers from all walks of life along with those who came before, allied in a shared community experience and celebration of our time, our place. Dear Reader,

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Downtown Blacksburg Reports: Draper Block Improvements

The short and the long of what we have gathered on the Post Covid story of the oldest block in the town.

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Souvenir Music

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16 Blocks TV

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UPDATES – Wasena Skate Park and Star City Punkcasters

Councilman Liam Watson from the Archives

Featured in Print #51 Out Now!!!

Hot off the Press!

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Outdoor Piano Project

Support our Sponsors: Moss Arts Center

Aurora In Flight: Cover Drawing by Rita Brame

Professional Street Performer and Co-Founder of BUSK ROANOKE! Jefferson Rose @ Aurora Studio

Jefferson Rose speaks on developing Roanoke’s downtown street performance game to suit the city’s growing array of talented troubadours and street performers. Hart Fowler is the director of 16 Blocks Magazine and freelance journalist. CUTS Rose writes: “Buskers who do a circle show, try to find the best “Core Audience”

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16 Blocks ArtWorks: Murals, Electrical Boxes, and a Piano

The Local Jam mural, Stella Rose Outdoor Piano, Blacksburg Utility Boxes, and Nook Looks

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Sponsored by Roots Realty

Cover Artist Rita Brame – Publisher Hart Fowler

Featured Artist: Joe Casso

Gargantuan-Sized Mural on Salem Ave in Downtown Roanoke

Roanoke Fashion Week 2025: City Vibez

Creative: Words, Image, Motion – HELP WANTED

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Print #50

A Day in the Life

A Day in the Life by Roanoke Poet ‘Onward’ read her poem “A Day in the Life for Star City Poet’s Society Inaugural Poetry Open Mic at Big Lick Brewing Company last month. This is currently in Print Issue #50.Robyn Lowery was misattributed in the print edition. A Day in

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DogTown Christmas

Print #50 Dogtown Roadhouse Christmas This large-sized original drawing by Rita Brame was originally scheduled to be the cover of Print Issue #50, and choosing “Alice in Roanoke Land” was a tough call. Dogtown has been a beacon for traveling and local band for decades now, a prime example of the multiple lives

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Jon Murrill – Roanoke Muralist

Roanoke Muralist Jon Murrill is heading to Brazil to reciprocate and share his homegrown art with the people of South America. He spoke with us about the power of collaboration, excerpted here. These collaborations have been great for me because I’m somebody that’s relatively new to being a professional muralist.

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Roanoke Artist Elaine Fleck

Roanoke Featured Artist Elain Fleck current “Sylvanus”and recent “Turkey Vultures Find the Spot” He is a Roman god who is a protector of forests, and he is modeled here by Old Southwestand green activist Terry McGuire. The inspiration for this painting comes from my involvement in an organization this year

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Alice in Roanoke Land – Cover Art by Rita Brame

SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS

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Artists in Passing

The Martian Chronicler

Nikki Giovanni is ready for liftoff.

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Flip-Thru #50

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Print Sponsorship Opportunities (48-Sept/59-Nov)

Artists In Their Words

Aritst Joe Casso

The artist recently made Christiansburg home, leaving his native Baltimore and homelessness and heroin addiction behind with a restart through drawing and painting. He has found painting on everything he can afford as essential through the darkest times of recovery. In his time off from work, he is selling his

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Puff Puff Pass: Youngkin and Retail Weed II?

Will the lame-duck Governor Just Say No again? But everyone else is doin it… We spoke with Del Obenshain in the Spring of 2024, excellent reporting here from Markus Schmidt from Virginia Mercury updating the second go of the bill on the Governor’s desk. . [EXCERPTED] With no legal marketplace, Virginians

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The Mission

Independent Local Community Based Journalism

Good Vibes is a sponsor of 16 Blocks Magazine, and also of The Local Jam mural in Blacksburg

Politic Local

Blacksburg Town Councilman Liam Watson Op-Ed

The embattled 24-year-old Councilman is publicly voicing his concerns over Blacksburg policy more and more, being the lone Nay vote on a measure to raise resources for local emergency services by charging out-of-town uninsured patients. The trial date for his Election Fraud case is looming,with the jury trial set for

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POLITIC LOCAL – Blacksburg

Our coverage of the working of local governance was began in an effort to fill the void left by the shuttering and downsizing of traditional media sources. Grandstanding, Politicking, or being the voice of the uninsured and humble poor?The embattled 24-year-old Councilman Liam Watson is publicly voicing his concerns over

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NEW SECTION: Roanoke Artists

Jon Murrill – Roanoke Muralist

Roanoke Muralist Jon Murrill is heading to Brazil to reciprocate and share his homegrown art with the people of South America. He spoke with us about the power of collaboration, excerpted here. These collaborations have been great for me because I’m somebody that’s relatively new to being a professional muralist.

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Public Artworks

Professional Street Performer and Co-Founder of BUSK ROANOKE! Jefferson Rose @ Aurora Studio

Jefferson Rose speaks on developing Roanoke’s downtown street performance game to suit the city’s growing array of talented troubadours and street performers. Hart Fowler is the director of 16 Blocks Magazine and freelance journalist. CUTS Rose writes: “Buskers who do a circle show, try to find the best “Core Audience”

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16 Blocks ArtWorks: Murals, Electrical Boxes, and a Piano

The Local Jam mural, Stella Rose Outdoor Piano, Blacksburg Utility Boxes, and Nook Looks

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Print Publications

Print Publications (42-49)

Issue #49 out now!!!

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Steppin Out 2024 Souvenir Guide

We produced this Print and Multimedia Souvenir Special Edition for Virginia is for Lovers and Downtown Blacksburg Inc in Aug 2024.

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RENT-U-MENTARY Dear Councilman Watson

2024-03-08
By: admin
On: March 8, 2024
In: Blacksburg Featured Posts, Politic Local
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Our first interview with the rookie Blacksburg Councilman. Hart Fowler: The rent and housing problem is ridiculous in Blacksburg. What can bedone about it? People that live here making even a decent wage can’t afford to live here.Is it just way the way it goes with rent, which is itContinue Reading

About Roanoke Souvenir Magazine

2026-03-09
By: admin
On: March 9, 2026
In: Roanoke Souvenir Featured Posts, Uncategorized
With: 0 Comments

Souvenirs invite memories to surface and moments to linger. Due to an overwhelming amount of support and encouragement we have received over the last year, and the cosmopolitan renaissance underway in the Roanoke metro area, I am proud to announce the rebrand of 16 Blocks Magazine as Roanoke Souvenir Magazine.Continue Reading

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