Susan Greenbaum at Richmond Public Library Park on Thursday
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‘Big Miracle’ Tomorrow Night
Community Movie Night
Friday, July 6
8:45 PM in Pleasants ParkRefreshments served:
Grilled hot dogs, chips, and beverage
“Deal of A Lifetime”: Landmark Theater Gets ‘Center Stage’d
Don Harrison, of SaveRichmond.com fame, has a back page editorial in this week’s Style magazine that revisits Center Stage saga and it’s next victim, the Mosque, sorry, the Landmark, no, sorry, the Altria Theater (?).
Excerpt:
Now I’m no forensic accountant, but the foundation’s financial track record and recent lack of success raising private dollars suggest that there might be other motives behind the Landmark project, which City Councilman Marty Jewell recently called “the deal of a lifetime.”
If it’s so great, why shield its true cost to taxpayers? It’s been reported that only $14 million in public dollars will be invested. But the figure actually is closer to $30 million. Included in what’s called the private-fundraising side is an estimated $18 million in state and federal historic tax credits, which the foundation plans to use to finance the deal. This deal also hands over millions in Landmark corporate naming rights to the foundation, and since the theater is a city-owned facility, this is public money that is being given away (the city could independently sell these rights). Meanwhile, the mayor insists that he can’t address the city’s high meals and admission tax rates because the city is hurting for revenue.
It’s Elementary – Community Movie Night
Tri State Gang Event Cancelled; But Gamelan Show This Evening
From VCU Library blog:
The “Tri-State Gang in Richmond” book talk with Selden Richardson, scheduled for Wednesday, June 20, has been cancelled because of the speaker’s illness. We apologize for the cancellation and hope to reschedule the event for later this summer. Stay tuned for updates.
In better news, from FaceBook event page:
Free Gamelan Show @ The Anderson Gallery @ 5 pm
The Richmond community group Gamelan Raga Kusuma presents music of the gamelan gong kebyar, the gamelan semara dana and the gamelan gender wayang with Balinese dancers from the Indonesian embassy. Check out the Gallery’s latest offerings and grab some $2 beers.
Hope to see you there! We’ll be playing outdoors in the shade during Richmond’s sweltering 100 degree heat.
2012 Girls of Summer Tonight At The Public Library
The Main Street branch of the Richmond Public Library holds Girls of Summer 2012 at 7pm. A literary girls night out at the library – a special conversation with friends Gigi Amateau, Meg Medina, and Wendy Shang, author of “The Great Wall of Lucy Wu.” It makes one perfect evening – library park, books, authors, friends and ice cream!
From the Richmond Public Library event page:
Local Richmond children’s authors Meg Medina and Gigi Amateau present their annual annotated reading list of 18 handpicked titles that celebrate strong girls in a fun-filled night for book-loving girls of every age.
This year’s live launch event at the Main Library will feature:
• Outdoor refreshments in the library park
• An intimate conversation with award-winning, middle grade Wendy Shang, author of The Great Wall of Lucy Wu
• Readers’ theater
• and book giveaways
• Plus, one lucky winner will win an entire collection of the 2012 Girls of Summer reading list.Tuesday, June 19, 2012
7 – 9 pm
Richmond Public Main Library
Library Park area (bring a lawn chair)The full list of reviews and author interviews will be available online at
www.girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com beginning June 20, 2012.
Scenes From Saturday’s Power Jam
Richmond Zine Fest’s Movie Night This Tuesday
The Flying Brick Library hosts a fundraiser for the next Richmond Zine Festival on Tuesday around 8 pm.
From Facebook event page:
Join us for a night of short documentaries and snacks!
There will be small bags of popcorn and cupcakes made with care by Becca (one of our newest Richmond Zine Fest organizers and creator of the food zine “‘A Monsterous Appetite for Cake”).
At dusk, we’ll view Grrlyshow by Kara Herold, All Night, All Day, and Occupy America by Mark Strandquist .
This is a fundraiser for Richmond Zine Fest 2012. All funds will go toward the cost of a venue and other fees involved with planning and publicizing a non-profit event for independent, alternative publishing. Thank you for supporting Richmond Zine Fest!
Summer Solstice Power Jam 2012 on Belle Island Tomorrow
From the Facebook event page:
A Free + Unplugged Show Featuring:
1 – 1:30 p.m. Herro Sugar
1:30 – 2 p.m. The Mothball Fleet
2 – 2:30 p.m. Paul Ivey & The Rubes
2:30 – 3 p.m. Bermuda Triangles
3 – 3:30 p.m. The Milkstains
3:30 – 4 p.m. Tyrannosaurus Awesome
4 – 4:30 p.m. The Garbers
4:30 – 5 p.m. Peace Beast
5 – 5:30 p.m. THE DOG SHOW (not a band, a real dog show)
5:30 – 6 p.m. Broken Pony
6 – 6:30 p.m. Black Liq
6:30 – 7 p.m. Nervous TicksHere’s some footage from 2010 (by Silver Persinger):
The Diamond Center: http://vimeo.com/14978251
Nervous Ticks: http://vimeo.com/12815648The power plant looks like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnRt_W5F_jQFun for all. No plugging in allowed. Bring your dogs and smiles. PICK UP YOUR TRASH, TOO.
Music!
Not exactly in the neighborhood, but at Ghostprint Gallery on Broad last night. At least one or two neighbors played in the group above though. “BorisBobby”
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