Ah, street cleaning. Exactly what most of us like to ponder in July when temperatures soar! If you’re the City of Richmond, that’s an accurate statement. The city’s street cleaning schedule has just been released. Highland Park: August 20 through August 24 Bellevue, Sherwood Park and Washington Park: September 10 through September 14 Northside and [...]
The VCU School of the Arts weblog has details on the host of VCU-affiliated jazz performers set to cool down hot summer nights at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens’ ‘Flowers After Five’ event. “Flowers After Five” takes place every Thursday evening — through September 27 — starting at 5:00 with music and wine sampling from [...]
The Times-Dispatch/Discover Richmond weblog has the scoop on a $100,000 gift from CarMax to renovate two public basketball courts at Pine Camp Arts and Community Center off of Chamberlayne Avenue, and kick off a new summer basketball league for area youth: Richmond Mayor L. Douglas Wilder and CarMax CEO Tom Folliard announced a new partnership [...]
Over at Style Weekly, one of Deveron Timberlake’s readers issues a call for the new owners of Dot’s Back Inn to think about another change in their business: A reader responds to our recent item that “wise diners predicted weeks ago that Dot’s Back Inn would jump on the brunch bandwagon.” T.F. writes: “Now, if [...]
Jon Baliles, whose River City Rapids website provides an ongoing look at what’s going on around Richmond, cautions Richmonders looking for a quick fix along the Boulevard corridor — especially on the heels of recent newspaper articles on Mayor Wilder’s ideas for growth. Despite the proclamations earlier this week by the RMA that the Braves [...]
Many residents in North Richmond woke to a thunderous ripple of explosions just after 12:30 a.m. Friday morning as a rain-delayed, extra-inning Richmond Braves game concluded with a major fireworks display. Today’s Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that the Braves management are apologetic about the very early morning wake-up call, but felt they had no choice but [...]
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch comes news that Richmond Steel will be vacating their North Boulevard site at the end of July, and plans are moving forward to convert the Art Deco building into a 16-screen cinema and shopping complex: Richmond Steel Inc. is vacating its steel-assembly building, built in 1907 at North Boulevard and Leigh [...]
Urban Richmond, a local weblog focused on development and planning issues, has a good summary of a recent Times-Dispatch article on the Richmond Braves’ plans to stay at or near the Diamond, their current stadium on North Boulevard, and Mayor Wilder’s vision for 60 acres of city-owned land surrounding the site. The Times-Dispatch article also [...]
Lakeside’s Fin & Feather is more than a spot to pick up a goldfish — it features its own Water Garden Center with all you need to design, install and maintain your own backyard pond, waterfall or babbling brook. Style Weekly’s monthly Home supplement recently featured Fin & Feather: This design was inspired by Crabtree [...]
Hunter Lange, which sits near the corner of Lakeside Avenue and Hilliard Road, was recently featured in Style Weekly’s monthly Home supplement: Hunter Lange has an abundance of old furniture and garden accessories sure to delight shabby-chic aficionados. “I don’t like anything new,” Jones says, but heavy, dark antiques aren’t her style either. “It’s cheerful,” [...]
