North Richmond News’ crack reporting team will be away through the 4th of July holiday. While we’re away, feel free to: Email us at north.richmond.news@gmail.com with information, news and notices of interest to North Side residents. Comment away on previous posts. Think about buying an ad — only $5 for three months! Come back after [...]
Northside’s retail community recently expanded on the dining from with the openings of Kitchen 64 and the North Side Grille. From the looks of it, Nicola Flora — a floral shop on Bellevue Avenue — is now open and ready to take orders for your Fourth of July bouquets. Drop by and welcome Nicola Flora [...]
The latest edition of the Richmond Public Library’s Connections newsletter spotlights efforts to improve the Ginter Park branch on Westbrook Avenue: Richmond Public Library wants to improve its Ginter Park Branch! Located on Westbrook Avenue, the busy little branch hosts computer classes for adults, homework assistance for students, story time for families and checks out [...]
The Times-Dispatch has a brief spotlight on the latest art offering at Stir Crazy Café on MacArthur Avenue: Stir Crazy Café, in Richmond’s Bellevue area, is celebrating tea and friendship in a show featuring art made mostly from tea bags. Dale Keator, the artist, explains: “I’ve been enamored with tea bags since 9/11. They’re all [...]
Style Weekly’s Patrick Getlein settles down for a few meals at Tastebuds on MacArthur Avenue and finds the mood to his liking. An excerpt: Running late from work on a recent Friday, I called up Tastebuds and ordered a pizza marguerite — a midsized pie of handmade dough, fresh tomatoes, basil, mozzarella and fontina cheese [...]
Style Weekly’s Deveron Timberlake is always on top of the local dining scene, and this week alerts her readers to a a recent change for a North Side favorite: Wise diners predicted weeks ago that Dot’s Back Inn would jump on the brunch bandwagon. And it’s happening every weekend, with quite a lot of egg [...]
The 3rd District council liaison, Lisa Townes, sent a media advisory out today alerting residents of the Third Council District that Councilman Chris Hilbert will be holding a district meeting to discuss public safety, education, council decisions and city government this Wednesday, June 27. The meeting will begin at 6:00 in the second floor meeting [...]
A question landed in our email box today that we can’t answer. When in doubt, my mother always said, encourage people to use the Comments section to provide answers. Provide away! Question: what is the deal with orange surveyors flags all along the 4200 block of Seminary? Seem to be on all the front line [...]
Courtesy of Urban Richmond, a weblog with a greater attention to detail than I can muster this week, comes a more specific round-up of the development plans for the former Richmond Memorial Hospital property: The seven-story hospital building to be converted to: Approximately 60 units Largest to be 1800 sq. ft. Prices starting at $350,000 [...]
From this morning’s Street Beat column in the Times-Dispatch comes an update on a patchy street repair on Westbrook Avenue: Q. Many months ago, when the new area of Westminster Canterbury was being built, a portion of Westbrook Avenue in front of Glebe Close was dug up. I think they were doing some kind of [...]
