archive for April, 2008
April 1, 2008
no, not really :)
Local “news site” River District News, in a lame attempt at seasonal humor, posted several half-assed April Fools stories early this morning. “I’ve been spending too much time with middle school kids”, site author Murden said when called on his juvenile prank. [via]
April 2, 2008
Loft Tour this Saturday
Venture Richmond’s Downtown Loft Tour featuring 13 lofts in 9 buildings across 5 downtown neighborhoods is this Saturday, April 5, from 10AM to 4PM. Advance tickets are $20 and include a charter bus from location to location. [via]
April 4, 2008
Manchester National Juried Fine Art Exhibition 2008
12 12 Gallery’s Manchester National Juried Fine Art Exhibition is the gallery’s first all media show for 2008. Juror and Curator N. Elizabeth Schlatter, Deputy Director and Curator, University of Richmond Museums, selected 53 works from 46 artists from a total of 593 images from 132 artists. Awards presentation and artists’ reception on Sunday, April 6th, from 2-5PM. The exhibition runs through Sunday, May 4th.
April 6, 2008
this week’s calendar
open mic @ Poe’s Pub; James River Writers meet&greet; Martinis for Mutts; Mini Flicks & Stories; 6th District Town Meeting; Bikes in the Bottom; MORE…
April 8, 2008
Friday Cheers 2008
Venture Richmond’s FREE signature summer concert series, Friday Cheers, is back on Brown’s Island for its 24th season and includes the Easy Star All-Stars, Carbon Leaf, Sam Bus, Arrested Development, Dr. Dog, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, and the Spam Allstars.
April 9, 2008
Civil War Sampler bus tour - 4/12/08
The Valentine Richmond History Center’s Civil War Sampler Bus Tour will be Saturday, April 12 from 1-5PM. Explore the unique role Richmond played as the Capital of the Confederacy and learn about Chimborazo, Libby Prison, the infamous Belle Isle and the Evacuation Fire. Starting in the city, the tour winds through Church Hill, Shockoe Bottom, the Court End and the canal area, stopping at Soldiers and Sailors Monument, and the Tredegar Iron Works. The tour also visits Hollywood Cemetery and then out Monument Avenue to the battlefields, with stops at Gaines Mill and Cold Harbor.
April 11, 2008
lunchtime bug talk today
Arthur Evans, author of What’s Bugging You?: A Fond Look at the Animals We Love to Hate and An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles, will talk today at at Fountain Bookstore about bugs and his collected essays about them from his years at the Times-Dispatch. Fountain Bookstore, 12:30PM
April 12, 2008
6th District Town Meeting
The regularly scheduled 6th District Town Meeting will be today, Saturday April 12, from noon to 1PM at the Bank of America building (12th & Main Streets) 18th Floor. This event repeats every month on the second Saturday. For more information, call (804) 646-7964 or (804) 646-5348.
April 12, 2008
Spring Bada-Bing vendors announced
The vendor list for next Sunday’s Spring Bada-Bing has been announced and tops out at over 50 vendors of jewelry, clothing, perfume, pottery, soap, books, photography, greeting cards, and more from up and down the East Coast. The Richmond Craft Mafia’s Spring Bada-Bing will be held at Plant Zero on Sunday April 20th from 11AM-4PM. [via]
April 13, 2008
MUSE April events
The April calendar for MUSE CREATIVE WORKSPACE (6 N 19th Street) has been announced and includes performances by solo pianist David Schaffer-Gottschalk, Ashby Anderson’s The Historic Richmond Jazz Suite, new works of visual artist Nicole Elise Black and musical artist Creative Music Ensemble, and a panel discussion on the state of jazz in America.
April 13, 2008
this week’s RDN calendar
It’s one of those weeks where EVERYTHING is going on: Bikes in the Bottom; Toots and the Maytals; open mic @ Poe’s Pub; The New Pornographers ; Mini Flicks & Stories; River District Canal Cruises (Friday-Sunday); Duchess of York; Earth Day; Historic Richmond Jazz Suite; Richmond Craft Mafia’s Spring Bada-bing; Shockoe Bottom Neighborhood Meeting; MORE…
April 14, 2008
Headman rededication is tomorrow
The fourteen-foot tall bronze Headman statue with its wooden bateau and twenty-three-foot long bronze sweep is being renovated and will be rededicated on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. on Brown’s Island in downtown Richmond. Mayor L. Douglas Wilder will speak at the event.
April 14, 2008
The Historic Richmond Jazz Suite @ Muse Creative Workspace
The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia will host Ashby Anderson’s The Historic Richmond Jazz Suite at 3:00PM Sunday, April 20th, at Muse Creative Workspace (6 North 19th Street).
April 15, 2008
Earth Day & 14th Street Fish Festival info
Earth Day & 14th Street Fish Festival: Come out this Saturday from 10AM-4PM to the south end of the Mayo Bridge (14th Street Bridge), the celebration spreads from the floodwall up to Art Works. Check out the 2 stages of music, arts&crafts, environmental education, trees ad urban forestry info, green transportation activities, and even pony rides for the kids.
April 15, 2008
GRTC central transfer station coming to Main Street?
Style Weekly’s Main Street Station Bus Plan Riles Up Bottom Merchants has the details about GRTC’s plans to put the central transfer station in the unused warehouse space behind Main Street Station. GRTC sees this city-owned property as central and efficient; some local business owners have concerns.
April 17, 2008
Thursday Fresh Market opens today
The Thursday Fresh Market at the 17th Street Farmers’ Market opens today. Farm fresh and homegrown straight from the region’s farms to your home; homemade and handcrafted right here by highly artistic Richmonders. For more information call 804-646-0310 or visit 17thstreetfarmersmarket.com. Free admission, 8:30am-2pm
April 17, 2008
a new guide to Richmond
The National Park Service recently launched Richmond, Virginia - Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary as a guide to “one of the oldest and most historically and architecturally rich communities in the United States”. The site features information on destinations all around Richmond, including the Falls of the James, Shockoe Valley and Riverfront, and South Richmond.
April 18, 2008
good words on the loft tour
Cesca Waterfield’s Live It | Richmond’s Lofty Standard Of Living in this week’s Brick gives some coverage to the downtown loft tour from a few weeks back:
“I loved seeing the creative reuse of these buildings. I was really impressed by the mixture of adaptive reuse and new construction at the Reserve,” Daab points out. “But the greatest part of the tour was when I realized later that my Saturday consisted of touring beautiful loft living spaces, attending an intimate acoustic concert in a new gallery space, and [sharing] a meal and drinks with friends in a tavern, all within blocks of each other in an area of the city that would have been deserted on a Saturday night just a few years ago.”
April 18, 2008
City receives Tree City USA Award
The City of Richmond is receiving its 17th Tree City USA award from The National Arbor Day Foundation. The award will be given during a ceremony that will include a Tree City flag presentation, a tree planting and a give-away of free tree seedlings to festival attendees by the Virginia Department of Forestry.
The award ceremony will be held Saturday, April 19, 11AM, at the City ShowMobile Stage, 2nd and Decatur streets, during the Richmond Earth Day 2008 Festival in Manchester.
