From the Born Ugly magazine website:
And come celebrate (translation get drunk and injured) with us at Holly Street Park in Richmond on May 9th at 4pm. We’ll be dragging out launch ramps (and plenty of other janky ramps and rails) for our Issue #1 Launch Launch Jam.
Sunday, May 10th
Hollywood Cemetery Walking Tour
2-4pm
A two-hour walk through this picturesque property along the James River, which is the final resting place for two U.S. presidents, Civil War generals, philanthropist Lewis Ginter and thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers. Meet your guide just beyond the stone house at the cemetery entrance at Cherry and Albemarle streets. Please park on the street. $10 ($5 History Center members).
PDF of new one is located here.
There’s been other posts about Grace Arents, but its still great to see Harry Kollatz Jr.’s recent column in Richmond Magazine.
I like the title: “The Invisible Philanthropist: Grace Arents, a shy heiress, transformed her city”.
John Richmond and Caroline Cox host a veggie potluck dinner and environmental documentary. Everyone is welcome.
May 7th, Thursday
location- William Byrd Community House
224 South Cherry Street Richmond, Virginia 23220
Vegetarian dinner is at 6pm. Documentary (Its TBA at the moment) is at 7pm.
Come to both if you can- but if you can only make either the dinner or the documentary we’d still love to see you.
Bring your own place settings to lower landfill content.
A neighbor was at City Hall last night during a budget hearing at City Council saw Executive Director Robert Bolling of the William Byrd Community House petitioning the City Council for funds.
Speaking of WBCH, don’t forget the Byrd Market tonight.
City of Richmond
Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Facilities
For Immediate Release
March 31, 2009
Contact: Christy Everson
804-646-5944
Take me back to the senior prom
If you are age 55 or older, Richmond’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities invites you to take a trip down memory lane at the 2009 Spring Senior Prom.
The prom will be held May 7 at the Landmark Theater from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Entertainment includes performers singing “old school” tunes that you are sure to remember, and you’ll have a blast dancing the night away to music from the 1950s through today.
Hors d’oeuvres will be served, and you can bring appetizers for your table.
Reservations are only $24 for a table of eight. The deadline to make reservations is April 10.
For more information or to make reservations, call 646-1999. Call today, and come May 7 you’ll be singing “come on let’s twist again” and having fun doing the electric slide!
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I took a walk on Belle Island this morning to try to get away from other problems and look what I find on its river rocks:
Fortunately, I have learned to separate the Grateful Dead’s music from some of its more idiotic fans, but honestly, do you really think Jerry Garcia would appreciate this lame tribute in a struggling, urban public park and natural preserve?
These people should be caught, prosecuted, and made to clean up the James RIver Park EVERY weekend for a couple of years. If they are college kids, they should be kicked out of college immediately and if they are high schools students, they should not be allowed the chance to attend college. If they are adults they should be sentenced for a couple of decades of cleaning the park.
For the second time in only a few weeks, the ex-Chuckwagon, ex-Hollywood Grill restaurant has tagged by graffiti vandals. The current owners, who also operate the Pescado’s seafood restaurant on the Southside, have been doing lots of work on the building in preparation for opening, including installing new windows. Sadly, those were also marred last night by the graffiti.
There have been several troubling reports of vandalism against the community in the last week, which include ripped fences and stolen signs from Hollywood Cemetery, broken bottles on sidewalks, and now this.
Rumor has it that Bread & Puppet Theater will be gracing us with their presence again this Sunday around 2:30 or so, depending on the weather. There were hoping to do it in Monroe Park, but the March of Dimes are doing an event there, so they are going to try for Pleasants Park.
Spread the word and save me a grassy spot.