The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ 600-car parking deck is now open. The $14-million deck is part of VMFA’s $113.2-million expansion, which will also result in a 50 percent increase in the museum’s gallery space and a new 4-acre sculpture garden. The deck was funded in part by $8.5 million from the state. The fee [...]
Check out Vacant Richmond, a new website that launched today. It puts the city’s list of vacant properties on a google map and provides you with contact information for city officials — to get something done. Check out some of the vacant properties around us. Full disclosure: I helped build VacantRichmond.
Support the victim’s families by knitting. What could be better? Please knit 8″x8″ squares [Color choices for squares: Maroon, Burnt Orange, White, Black] … through the month of May. We will be making blankets to give to the victim’s families. Heal in the process … call for details. 540.961.4462. mosaicyarnshop.blogspot.com Our very own The Yarn [...]
From Urban Richmond?. Boaz & Ruth, a local non-profit store will be opening a location for 3 months at 3445 W. Cary St (across from the McDonald’s) in the old Martha’s Mixtures building. Boaz and Ruth provides reentry job training.
The VMFA is doing some ruff making … What’s a ruff? It’s a wheel-shaped collar that was popular in the late-16th and early-17th centuries. They were most often made of fine fabrics and sometimes edged with lace. They were worn primarily by powerful and wealthy men and women … the ruff-making activities that VMFA is [...]
I also talked to Leut. El-Amin about what residents can and should do to prevent crime. She said the number one thing is to report anything suspicious. She said if you see anything, anything at all to please call 646.5100 to report it. She also said not to feel like you are bothering the police. [...]
I got a hold of Leut. El-Amin yesterday to talk about all of the commotion earlier this month. She said that a neighbor called in to report some suspicious people sitting in a car. The officers arrived and spotted a handgun on the floor boards. Once of the individuals was arrested the other let go [...]
Here are the enhanced details. I’d particularly check it out if you are across from the school. The Stuart Avenue Players of Saint Gertrude & Benedictine High Schools will present “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde on Thursday April 19, Friday April 20, and Saturday April 21, 2007 at 7:30 pm each night. [...]
Did you know some Carytown businesses have blogs? THEY DO. Some of them are actually a pleasure to read. Check out a quick selection below: Carytown Bicycle Company pink’s blog The Yarn Lounge: it’s hip to knit
This is pretty awesome… Basketball season isn’t over yet in Richmond. The inaugural Commonwealth College Challenge will be played April 21 at Benedictine High School. The game will match seven seniors from the Atlantic Coast Conference against a team… more via InRich.com
Via chopsueybooks.com To celebrate our upcoming 5 Year Anniversity, we will hold our annual 24 Hour Bookman on from noon to noon, Saturday, April 14th through Sunday, April 15th. This day long celebration will host poets, fiction writers, musicians, films, tea ceremonies, miniature golf, and, if we’re luck, a llama. If there is anything you [...]
Via Richmond.com via Urban Richmond? The hardest thing to make is a chair…It looks simple, but it’s really hard. That is such a great quote. Read the full article here. Update: Owen Suter breifly contemplated closing their Carytown store but decided against it. They remain open for business at 3101 Ellwood Avenue.
Read the whole story on the RTD and tell us how it affects you. Some tidbits via the RTD: The problem is that $100,000 houses are getting harder to find in Richmond, testified more than a dozen speakers who said soaring assessments have raised their taxes so high they may have to leave the city. [...]
Courtesy of Brian Eno.
From the Carytown Bicycle Company blog: We are opening up at 10am Monday Morning. The address is 3224 West Cary. If you are traveling down Cary St. we are on the left hand side one door down from Dooley St. This is about two blocks before Cary Court (where Subway and Smoothie King are). Things [...]
photo credit: Jake Lyell I’ve said this time and time again, but last year I should have tried to make money off of it — in order to win an Academy Award for Best or Best Supporting Actor or Actress nowadays, you must be impersonating a real figure in a biopic about that figure. If [...]
I found a small white dog today at the corner of Sheppard and Parkwood. It has a blue collar and looks like a poodle. If anyone is missing this dog, please call 350-4900 or 355-5069.
