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Alone or just hungry? Celebrate Thanksgiving Downtown

The Giving Heart Foundation is having it’s traditional Thanksgiving feast again this year at the Convention Center. It is free for EVERYONE, students, homeless or anybody who is hungry and/or alone on Thanksgiving. The food is excellent and prepared by some of the best chefs in Richmond. If you know someone who is alone or […]

Current plans for the Black History Museum

Currently located at 00 West Clay Street in Jackson Ward, the Black History Museum is looking forward to the day they can move into their new location several blocks away at the Leigh Street Armory. Although the museum is still raising money, they plan on opening at their new location in 2015. In a recent […]

RVA on Ice Opens Today

Our own little bit of Rockefeller Center is opening on Saturday. via RVANews The fourth season of RVA On Ice begins this Saturday when the city’s downtown ice skating rink returns to the corner of Broad and 6th streets. General admission is $5.00, but only $4.00 for those aged 60 and up and those with […]

Booksgiving Book Giveaway at Main Library this Saturday

On Saturday, November 23, visit the Main Library’s Children’s Department between 10:00 a.m.—2:00 p.m. for the Booksgiving Book Giveaway. The library will be holding a book giveaway for children ages 0-18. This event is courtesy of the Literary Luminaries, Omicron Delta Kappa, and the Richmond Public Library.

Jackson Ward Says Goodbye to Charles Finley

Three hundred people crowded in to Sixth Mount Zion Church this afternoon to say goodbye to a friend, neighbor, mentor, activist and Educator led by a corp of brothers from Omega Psi Phi fraternity. Speakers, including former Council President Bill Pantele, current President Charles Samuels, Vice President Ellen Robertson and delegate Jennifer McClellen, spoke of […]

Last Minute – Jackson Ward Walk Through – This Afternoon

Chief Ray J. Tarasovic and the Department’s Command Staff will join Fourth Precinct Sector 413 Lt. Don Davenport for a walk through Jackson Ward this evening. Officers will meet at 5 p.m. today in Abner Clay Park, at the intersection of Brook Road and West Clay Street, and spread out through the neighborhood from there. […]

Richmond Public Library Buy-A-Book program

Are you looking for a unique gift for the book lovers on your holiday shopping list? Sponsor a library book in their honor through the Richmond Public Library Foundation Buy-A-Book program and help support your local library. From the Richmond Public Library: As we enter this season of generosity and good will, I would like […]

Love Bomb on 2nd Street

@knitoriousmeg: Love Bomb No. 24 2nd Street, #RVA – November 2013 #yarnbomb

Sauer’s Buying Property on Broad

From Virginia Business: Sauer Properties Inc. has purchased a six-acre site in Richmond two blocks from the Bon Secours Redskins Training Facility for $3.8 million. While the two parcels at 928 North Meadow and 1010 North Meadow Street are in a prime location for future redevelopment, a Sauer Properties spokesman says the firm has no […]

Another Shooting in Gilpin

AGGRAVATED ASSAULT (SHOOTING) 11/18/13 3:57 p.m. 1100 block of North 1st Street A male reported a known male shot him. His injuries are not life threatening. An arrest was made.

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