The RTD has a great story about a new landlord in town, Campus Apartments (aka Campus Pierce Arrow, LLC), which now owns 23 rental properties on and around The Boulevard. With VCU creeping further away from it’s hub, encroaching Oregon Hill and taking over a large part of the fan, any rental company that wants [...]
Richmond Police chief Monroe announced that the porn investigation on city computers had reached a conclusion, revealing hundreds of hits to pornographic websites had been found. None appeared to be accessing child pornography. That wraps up the police department’s investigation, and the results will be forwarded to the city for administrative action. In the private [...]
John Murden over at Carver & Jackson Ward Newsattended City Council President Bill Pantele’s meeting on Tuesday and wrote up a great summary. One of the interesting questions was about Richard’s Rendezvous joining Paper Moon in Scott’s Addition. I hadn’t heard anything about that. If you have a tip, let us know.
Via Jim-nasium: Fan parking is strictly prohibited on Maplewood Avenue. Fans must park in one of the UR Stadium Lots and not in the residential areas. Please be courtesy to our UR Stadium neighbors! More details here.
University of Richmond hosts University of New Hampshire this Saturday @ 3:30 pm at the U of R Stadium. The Spiders have a top notch football team this year. They lost their opener to higher-division IA Vanderbilt, but came back and crushed their last two opponents to stand at 2-1. Richmond has a great shot [...]
The RTD reports that Stacy Wiggins pleaded guilty to threatening to bomb The Diamond, receiving a 10 year sentence, 9 of which were suspended. The RTD reports that he was fired for lying about how much ice cream he sold. My question. Was it Dippin’ Dots? Seriously, that’s so not the “ice cream of the [...]
Saw this on Craigslist today: Fully furnished operating Fresh fish and seafood market for sale. Has been in business for years located in the heart of Carytown. For more info call James 804-241-0263 or 804-822-1174 It may be a hoax, but maybe Carytown Seafood is looking to leave Carytown? Maybe they are focusing on their [...]
On October 6th from 5PM to 8PM, there will be a celebration of the Constitution of the United States at Dogwood Dell. We the People, a Concert for the Constitution, will be a free party bringing together people who believe their constitutionally guaranteed rights are important. There will be bands and partying and the constitution, [...]
The Carytown Ben & Jerry’s is now open, complete with a mural of Carytown inside. This is the chain’s 2nd try at success on Cary Street – the 1999 venture lasted a year. Ben & Jerry’s is planning a second location in downtown Short Pump in “West Broad Village,” the newest megamall. Some high caliber stores [...]
You can’t make this stuff up. From the office of the press secretary to the mayor: The City’s continuing investigation of inappropriate usage of City equipment now indicates a pattern of “porn site” usage on the City Hall computer located in the office of Council President William Pantele. Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Harry Black has [...]
From tipster Shelley: Though the Carytown website still as of this AM says to look out for a restaurant named, “Gas Grill” at the former Thai Curry House/Chopstix location, there were a handful of business cards on the door jam this AM with the following info… Cajun Bankok Spicy Cuisine 3129 West Cary St. “From [...]
From the RTD A local ad firm, Siddall, is running a guerilla marketing campaign in Carytown for the State Fair. The campain includes “Missing-pet-style posters asking “Have You Seen?” with photos of what appear to be cast members from ‘Babe’” and “three restaurant-style sidewalk chalkboards, though a closer look reveals foods you can typically get [...]
Marketwatch rated Richmond as the 3rd best business center in the country, topping big cities like New York and LA and regional giants like Charlotte and DC. They rated cities based on concentration of large companies, population growth, unemployment, and job growth. From Marketwatch: This city is in the bottom 10 in size, but placed first in concentration [...]
Did the Richmond-Times Dispatch publish a paper today? It’s 7:30 am and Google reader, which I have plugged into RTD’s nifty RSS feeds, has nothing from them. I visited their website: no news. Maybe it’s just a slow news day. Does anyone read the “print” edition anymore? I had a weekend subscription for about two [...]
The deets: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 SunTrust Riverview Building 1001 Semmes Avenue 1st floor Conference Room 6:00 – 9:00 P.M. Maybe someone can ask him on his recent decision to support the performing arts center.
Style Weekly broke the news that the former owners of Bambino’s Pizza were trying their hand at a new pizza venture called “Buon Giornio Pizza” just down the street from their old establishment. “Giorno” (from the popular frozen pizza) means day, but I’m not sure what “Giornio” means. Has anyone been there or seen it [...]
photo credit: Jake Lyell For someone who has never seen an episode of this apparently life-altering cartoon, Transformers sure isn’t a difficult movie to follow. And even if I wasn’t following the basic (er, only) premise – (bad guys want to take over the universe, good guys try to stop them) – I wouldn’t have [...]
Carytown’s own Jean-Jacques Bakery was recently featured in Style Weekly. The store serves up fresh bread, pastries, and cookies weekdays and Saturdays. But the big draw is their custom cakes, which can be designed in all shapes and sizes. Jean-Jacques specializes in custom cakes, for weddings, birthdays, or any special occasion. The bakery won Richmond [...]
