Apologies for the delay. Just got back from attending a concert at Kirk Avenue Music Hall, a fine venue in downtown Roanoke. The artist: Chris Knight, an excellent songwriter from rural Kentucky. At the bottom of this post, you’ll find a video [...]
Merchants, Restaurateurs, Small Business Owners, Artists, and others involved in the community around Petersburg are invited to attend an Open House hosted by Petersburg Old Towne Merchants Group. The meeting will take place Wednesday, November 18, 2009, from 6:00 to 7:30pm. at Old Towne Catering Company, 9 West Old Street [...]
Merchants, Restaurateurs, Small Business Owners, Artists, and others involved in the community around Petersburg are invited to attend an Open House hosted by Petersburg Old Towne Merchants Group. The meeting will take place Wednesday, November 18, 2009, from 6:00 to 7:30pm. at Old Towne Catering Company, 9 West Old Street [...]
So many viewers of Lost in Austen have complained of not seeing Amanda (Jemima Rooper) sing Downtown in the American version of the DVD. Please enjoy.
If I wore a hat, I'd tip it to Harry Kollatz, Richmond Magazine's man about town and longtime urban observer.
Kollatz was quick to leap to downtown Richmond's defense last week after the Washington Post published a Mark Anthony travel story:
But this really got me: “We set out for' [...]
Something that looks really neat for downtown but will certainly never come to fruition was unveiled for Shockoe Bottom yesterday, a project heralded by city leaders as “really, really just the cat’s pajamas, totally for real.”
The thing, said to be a $100 million to $150 million [...]
It’s ironic that Richmond’s Downtown (which has seen over a billion dollars in investment), still lacks its own neighborhood blog. Oh, there is the River District News, which covers a sort of a contrived, loose neighborhood, and that includes parts of downtown.
In the meantime, OregonHill.net will continue to [...]
Mobile correspondent Joe spotted an M1 Abrams battle tank near the Boulevard exit on I-95. Says Joe: "large tank was spotted on I-95S near heading towards the [downtown] Richmond area. Be on the lookout for this menacing military vehicle this afternoon. "
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Last night, downtown Richmond actually looked like a real city with a thriving entertainment scene.
David Copperfield at CenterStage, David Cook at The National, a noticeable crowd at T-Miller’s and Gibson’s after both shows. Nice going, RIC.
Inside the Nat, about 800 people – many of them females college [...]
The City of Richmond has a dilemma. It wants to revive its downtown. It wants to cultivate an arts/nightlife scene around its convention center and other investments.
So, what does the City do? It moves aggressively to throw cold water on the First Friday Art Walk, which is easily the most [...]
You know, cynic that I sometimes am, I really wanted to hate it. But it's just too endearing in the way it captures the lifestyle of one segment of Richmond's more essential populations -- the younger, quasi-professional set who make the downtown hum at all hours of the day.
Yes, I'm' [...]
Promises to stear clear of the Doswell fart cloud
A new study released today by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has cited “serious design flaws” with the floodwall surrounding downtown Richmond, saying that while it is adequate enough to hold back rising river waters, it does nothing to keep hordes of Southside residents from entering the city.
The [...]
Not sure how many of you were able to score tickets to this game. But if you are going to be here in Blacksburg for Saturday’s Virginia Tech v. Nebraska game, there is an event downtown tomorrow that sounds like it could be pretty fun—a tailgate [...]
Foppish fatcats milling about (Left) did not resemble typical Benny’s fans
Saturday night Verdon Road resident Malcolm Whitehead drove around downtown Richmond for 30 minutes trying to find a parking space, then wondered why so many of Richmond’s more well-healed residents seemed to be so interested [...]
Yesterday, I attended the 912 Project’s March on Washington. Although I had attended the Richmond Tea Party on April 15th downtown, I went unaffiliated. Obviously, a whole lot of other folks went unaffiliated, too; because the U.S. Capital police, by their own admission, were caught [...]
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