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Archive for August 2007

A second public date for Downtown Plan

The city’s Department of Community Development has announced another public meeting to discuss the update to the Downtown Master Plan. The meeting will be held the evening of Thursday, September 27, with specific time and place to be announced. Keep up with the city’s efforts to develop a new Downtown Plan at Buttermilk & Molasses’ [...]

War on mosquitoes launched by City

The City of Richmond has engaged in a six-week sewer assault in an effort to keep West Nile Virus at bay: Beginning the week of Aug. 6, the City of Richmond Department of Public Utilities will launch a citywide effort to reduce and eliminate the existence of mosquitoes with West Nile Virus infection. In response [...]

Times-Dispatch roams the Kitchen

Kitchen 64 gets a second print review in a week several months into its run as one of North Side’s most popular restaurants, as the Times-Dispatch’s Weekend food critic cheers its arrival on the dining scene: After a few visits, I’ve determined Kitchen 64 is not perfect, is never going to be perfect but couldn’t [...]

Style checks out the harvest at Zed Cafe

North Side’s favorite food critic-on-the-street, Deveron Timberlake, updates the world on changes at Lakeside’s Zed Cafe. Zed CafĂ© is poised for a new level of success now that Executive Chef Bill Foster is running the kitchen. The Culinary Institute of America-trained chef worked with Jimmy Sneed and Dale Reitzer for nine years and did a [...]

Welcome to North Richmond News

North Richmond News is a community, or micro, weblog focused on keeping residents of some North Richmond neighborhoods more connected to the news, information and community resources that fall close to home. During our inaugural launch, we intend to focus primarily on the area stretching from the Diamond to Lewis Ginter and from BoulevardHermitage/Lakeside corridor [...]

We’ve got polls!

Thanks to the stellar efforts of Richmond Magazine’s favorite community blogger, John Murden of Church Hill People’s News, North Richmond News now has a poll feature. Our first poll comes on the heels of some very passionate response to our posts on North Side’s latest restaurant additions. Check it out — on the upper left [...]

MacArthur merchants organize for National Night Out

As neighborhoods across the country throw block parties and turn on the porch lights on August 7 in a national initiative to make the community connection to public safety, the merchants on MacArthur Avenue have their own plans for National Night Out: Tuesday, August 7th is National Night Out and the MacArthur Merchants will be [...]

Style tackles Kitchen 64

Style Magazine got out of the gate rather fast with their review of Kitchen 64, one of North Richmond’s newest dining additions. For a broader range of perspectives on Kitchen 64, check out our handy list of weblog reviews — and all of the comments our readers added to the mix!

Rock the block at Spring Park Historic Site in Lakeside

Just across the Henrico County line off of Lakeside Avenue is one of Richmond’s hidden parks — the Spring Park Historic Site on Park Street (behind the Bank of America on Lakeside). On August 10, Henrico Parks and Recreation will Rock the Block at Spring Park from 6:00 until 8:00 pm: Come out and join [...]

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