Fire Benjamin Johnson. Then, lock him up!
Benjamin Johnson, Richmond’s director of Emergency Management, needs to go. Nothing less than immediate termination will do.
When Johnson signed on with the city 34 months ago, his contract included a $500 monthly allowance for the use of his personal car, plus a parking spot for said car. When he joined, due to the many glitches [...]
Braves or Kickers?
Good stuff coming up at Virginia Historical Society
Virginia Historical Society’s new exhibition, “Heads and Tales,” opens April 26th.
Heads and Tales presents portraits of five people with compelling personal stories—a woman who inspired the English poet Alexander Pope; a royal governor who was murdered by a mob; a Federalist politician struggling against the tide in Jeffersonian Virginia; a patron of the arts who [...]
Richmond School Board’s $9 million warehouses near The Boulevard
Style Weekly reports that the Richmond School Board owns two warehouses in the Boulevard area that are worth a combined $9 MM. What are they storing in these warehouses? Perhaps unruly students?
One of the warehouses is identified as being on Arlington Road, which is right across the Boulevard from the Diamond. This seems like prime [...]
2008 Carytown 10K – Sunday, May 18th
Now that the Monument Avenue 10 K is complete, it’s time to focus on the next local race. And it’s just around the corner – the Carytown 10K is on May 18th.From RRRC.org…
The course starts and ends at Cary Court in Carytown and is run mostly on Cary Street and Grove Avenue. The course is [...]
Six questions to test your financial literacy
With all the discussion over at RVANews around saving for the car tax payment which is due May 1st to Richmond, here’s an interesting test of your financial literacy. US News & World Report gave this 6-question test to 12th graders around the country, and the average score was 52%.
How well do you measure up?
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No museum-area strip club after all
Sam Moore, the owner of Velvet, has cancelled plans of putting a semi-nude club across from the Childrens Museum of Richmond in the old Julian’s building. The building is said to be for sale again.
Skybus GROUNDED
No more $10 flights out of Richmond. Skybus has ceased all operations, including cancelling all daily flights to Columbus from Richmond. Skybus had also scheduled to add a flight from Richmond to St. Augustine, Florida next month.
From Skybus.com…
Skybus struggled to overcome the combination of rising jet fuel costs and a slowing economic environment. These two [...]
Donnie Darko @ the Byrd WITH THE DIRECTOR?!
For five bones you can watch the director’s cut of Donnie Darko introduced by the director himself, Midlothian native Richard Kelly.
The fun starts at 11.30pm this Saturday (April 5th, 2k8).
Making strides in graffiti prosecutions
photo by: zappowbang
There was some great discussion about graffiti and general neighborhood safety in the Byrd Park Murder post.
Police Lieutenant El-Amin passed along this encouraging news about cracking down on graffiti in the area…
Street closures for Monument Avenue 10K
Monument Ave. is really the only street affected west of the Boulevard. To get around, use I-195 or head up to Staples Mill Road, both of which are not-too-inconvenient detours.
Also – don’t bother parking your car on Monument starting Friday afternoon. There will be an army of tow trucks to move your car for you.
From Richmondgov.com
Monument Avenue/Franklin [...]
Richmond Braves opening day is today
I’m guessing it won’t be a sellout.
Game time is 4pm vs. Rochester.
Kroger to offer $4 prescriptions everywhere but Carytown
Kroger is scaling up it’s $4 prescription program to offer it across all Virgina stores with pharmacies. The move is in response to Wal-Mart slashing prescription prices.
About 300 generic drugs on Kroger’s list will be available for $4 for a 30-day supply.
As for Carytown – that location is excluded because it doesn’t have a pharmacy.
River City Cellar looking to expand
Via:
River City Cellars: Expanding into the former Urban Artifacts space in Carytown; its new wine bar should be open by fall. 2931 W. Cary St. 355-1375.
Do you bring your own bags to the grocery store?
(Food) Bank hold-up
RTD has the story of a man living out of the Red Carpet Inn near The Diamond stealing food from a Central Virginia Foodbank dropbox on Rhoadmiller Street, a stone’s throw from Scott’s Addition.
The man had about 250 pounds of food in his room, including $420 worth of peanut butter and jelly. The room was also [...]
Clothing drive for young mothers Saturday @ The Byrd
VCU students will collect donations of baby clothes, supplies, and toys for young, needy mothers on Saturday from 3:30 PM – 9:30 PM. Also, The Byrd will be screening Juno, which has also created awareness and focus around young motherhood.
Source: CT
How annoying is the inets today?
Vigil Wednesday @ Byrd Park
A vigil for Tyler Binsted, the man shot and killed in Byrd Park last week, will be held at 8:30 pm Wednesday night. The gathering will be at the Roundhouse near Fountain Lake.
Source: RTD
