The annual student art shows, the May All Media show, and shows of new work by both Richard Becker and Christopher Wynn all open this Friday @7PM at Art Works.

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Savor and Scoot Richmond (Manchester United) are hosting an after-work party this Fourth Friday. Live music at Savor (201 West 7th Street) from 5-7PM, with Guy Crittenden studio having an open house. After 7PM, walk over to Artworks for the Fourth Friday and then back to Scoot Richmond around 8-ish for a showing of “Shawn of the Dead” a la drive-in on their parking lot. Scooters, bikes, motorcycles and trucks that are willing to let people sit out back will be given parking priority. Also, this is grand opening week @ Savor, save 10% off purchases.

prettynpync has put up a set of photos from today’s Spring Bada-bing at Plant Zero.

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.

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]

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Richmond Business & Commercial News reminded us about Walk Score, a site that “calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc.”, part of an effort to recognize the benefits to our health, the environment, and our communities of living in walkable neighborhoods. This site puts a number on how easy it is to go day-to-day without relying in a car in Shockoe Slip, Shockoe Bottom, and Tobacco Row; Manchester is still a little ways out.

Richmond.com alerts us to the soon-to-open Savor, in the Corrugated Box Building, 201 W. 7th St. The restaurant’s focus will be on breakfast & lunch (pastries, salads, sandwiches, etc), but they’ll also offer dinner to go.

Opening is projected for next week (paperwork pending, ‘course).

Art Exhibits that honor Women’s History Month and Earth Day at Art Works On March 28th. Swing into spring with an exhibit to honor Women’s History Month by Tess LiVolsi Amoruso and Tess Sweet and a precursor exhibit, GO FISH to celebrate Earth Day. The reception starts at 7PM with live music. Free and open to the public.

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Works by over 50 artists, show juried by Brooks Johnson, Curator of Photography and 21st-Century Art, Chrysler Museum of Art for the Artspace National Juried Printmaking and Photography Exhibition 2008. March 28 through April 20.

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REMINDER! Come out to the Earth Day Richmond 2008 organizing meeting at Gallery5 (200 W. Marshall Street) TONIGHT at 6PM to express your opinions and learn how you or your organization can become more involved in Earth Day 2008. [via]

Would you or your organization like to be a part of Earth Day Richmond 2008? Would you like to join in on a weekend bike rally to Earth Day? Do you have great ideas on greening Richmond? Then come out to the Earth Day organizing meeting at Gallery5 on Wednesday March 12th at 6:00 PM to express your opinions and learn how you or your organization can become more involved in Earth Day 2008. [via]

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Local playwright and editor of Average Girl Magazine, Rebekah Pierce, releases her first film ‘The Briefcase’ at Art Works this Saturday @ 4:30PM. Free and open to the public. For further information, call 274-8976 or via email. Get a sneak peek at the video on YouTube.

Slam Richmond will be hosting an open mic and workshop tonight at Artspace. Poetry Workshop conducted by Nuyorican Poet Kessed, 5PM; Open Minds Open Mic with Urbana Word Champ Kessed, 8PM. [via]

The Richmond Craft Mafia’s 2008 Spring Bada-bing has been set for April 20th @ Plant Zero. Join artists & designers from across the country selling high quality, original handmade goods for the 3rd installment of the largest indie craft show in VA. [via]

Known now for the fishing and as one end of the Manchester Slave Trail, Ancarrow’s Landing takes its name as the former site of Newton Ancarrow’s old speedboat-manufacturing factory.

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From the New York Times’ recently opened archive comes an account of flooding in Rockett’s, Shockoe, and Manchester before the turn of the last century:

The rush of the increased volume of water and ice from the upper James River [...] has resulted in in one of the heaviest floods ever known here. The wharves at Rockett’s, the landing place for steamers, and the streets for blocks around are under water, and the Virginia Navigation Company’s wharf has been swept away.

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Richmond’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities is offering guided walks on the Slave Trail every Saturday in February at 9:30AM. The walks are led by the department’s James River Park System staff and cost $5 per person. I got up and out early this past Saturday to experience this for myself…

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This Saturday at ArtSpace, SlamRichmond hosts a poetry workshop with NY poet Ainsley Burroughs @5PM ($5), followed by the SlamRichmond Qualifier 3 @8PM.

It’s time once again to celebrate another year of Virginia’s favorite craft beer. The party will be Sunday Feb.10 from 3-8PM @ Legend Brewery. Tickets will be available at the door for $15/person and will include 3 food/beer tickets. Live music by Whiskey Rebellion, The Greater Richmond Pipe & Drum Corp, and Cyrus McCormick.

The first of 6 scheduled neighborhood-specific meetings on the Downtown Plan took place tonight at the The Bankquet Place (1120 Hull Street). The 2-hour meeting included an overview of the process so far, the plan as it pertains to Manchester, and a lively Q&A session.

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