archive for October, 2007
October 24, 2007
Richmond’s Old & Historic Districts 1957-2007
The Virginia Center for Architecture will celebrate a pictorial exhibit highlighting 50 years of preservation of Richmond’s historic properties and neighborhoods. The exhibit will run from October 25th through November 17th. Speakers at the October 25th Opening Night will be Rachel Flynn, Mary Jane Massad Houge and Jack Zehmer. RSVP to lwood42@comcast.net if you will be attending. For more information call 644-3041 or check out the show flyer (PDF).
October 29, 2007
before/during/after on Leigh Street
Photographer F33 has a great before/during/after set of a house on Leigh Street.
October 30, 2007
senior housing coming to Leigh Street
richmond.com’s popular Ask the Mayor this week answers the question “Are there any plans for a senior apartment complex in the Downtown area?”, saying that “the former school complex at 21 East Leigh Street is being redeveloped into an independent-living senior community”. (UPDATED)
October 30, 2007
the art of Lucien Dulfan
RVA Magazine has a look at the artwork of Lucien Dulfan in anticipation of his show, “Big Bang - Last Straw”, opening this Friday at Gallery5.
October 31, 2007
serve healing and coffee
The RTD has a profile of Common Groundz, the coffee shop at 734 West Broad. Opened in April by recovering drug addicts, they are helping one another stay clean and hope they can encourage locals to get their buzz from caffeine instead of drugs or alcohol.
October 31, 2007
Harvest Fest @ Siegel Center
Delegate Jennifer McClellan invites you and your family to dress up & come out and play! The 2nd Annual Harvest Fest is this evening from 6-8PM at The Siegel Center. Join us for a free, fun, safe place to trick or treat Halloween night. See the flyer for more info.
October 31, 2007
2 other web sites
Hey folks! If you find CJWN to be interesting, there are 2 new sites that you might like to know about: River District News, covering Rocketts to Manchester, went live this morning. Also coming online today is RVA News, a new Richmond news site that pulls from all of the city’s neighborhood blogs (like this one) to represent Richmond as we all see it. Check’em out.
