Bread & Puppet Theater will present The Divine Reality Comedy Circus in Monroe Park at 3pm on Sunday, October 28th! THE DIVINE REALITY COMEDY CIRCUS features famous rats leaving a sinking ship, the triumph of the small farmer, smart advice on where to get your water, a celebratory ballet by a flock of roosters, the [...]
Ethyl may have changed its name, but it still has a knack for ticking off its neighbors. An Oregon Hill resident took these pictures of Afton Chemical watering their campus despite the City’s mandatory, emergency water restrictions. This happened during 2002 drought also until enough citizens complained.
The Byrd House Market is open from 3:30-7PM. Only 2 markets left in the season!
I would like to annouce and add to the calendar our Oregon Hill Community dinner that will be on Monday, October 29th at 6pm. It will be at SynerGeo, corner of Albemarle and S.Laurel. We are asking eveyone to please join us and bring a dish or dessert to share with everyone!!! Come meet our [...]
City Councilperson Bruce Tyler (1st District) has an ordinance before council next Monday that addresses the panhandling problem at city intersections. This ordinance makes it illegal to solicit funds from city intersections without a permit. The permit will cost $25 and must be obtained from the police department. Anyone interested in acquiring one of these [...]
Vicente Fox (President of Mexico 2000-2006) will speak on November 3 at 8:00 PM at the Richmond Forum at the Landmark Theater.
The Virginia Film Office has a location library of shots with panoramas from around the neighborhood from what appears to be the early 1990s.
While Oregon Hill resident Charles Pool and the local Green Party press for water utility reform (with some but not enough success), and the local Sierra Club calls for more conservation, VCU continues to work on its new natatorium designs, not to be confused with old ones.
This past Friday, City Parks & Rec officials cracked open the historic gazebo at the Oregon Hill overlook. Its been a while since anyone has been inside. The top portion was not much to look at — an empty space that had been boarded up and covered on the inside with graffiti. Some of graffiti [...]
This is not why gazebo is historic.
