Here’s my conversation with Dr. Danny Avula, candidate for Mayor of Richmond VA. This completes the set of all my conversations with Richmond’s prospective Mayors for November 2024. One of these people is going to be leading the city next year. Who it’s going to be is...
Regency Square Mall has started to undergo a $30 million renovation to refresh its look and bring in new retailers. Joint owners Thalhimer and Rebkee received approval from the Henrico County Planning Commission to begin the project, which started in April. The mall was constructed in 1974. Steven Bonniville, the mall’s general manager,...
Local bike courier, Quickness RVA, is making it easier for Richmond residents to receive locally-sourced, sustainable prepared meals at their doorsteps. Ellwood Thompson's has partnered with Quickness RVA by creating a meal menu, which includes a selection of 13 sandwiches and wraps, such as The Drunken Sailor, the Bacon, Spinach and Tomato Wrap,...
Hollywood Cemetery flaunts pristine iron gates, beautiful mausoleums and monuments, and majestic views of the James River. This gorgeous scenery is sorely lacking at two other historic cemeteries less than 15 minutes down the road. When created in the 1800s, Evergreen and East End cemeteries were envisioned as high-end resting places for...
After almost six months of sweat, tears, and conscientious underwater gardening, our bay grasses, as part of the Chesapeake Bay foundation's Grasses for the Masses program, made a new and more appropriate home on a beautiful shore off the Rappahannock river, a small and seemingly untouched area of forest with the stillest water I’ve ever seen....
RICHMOND – Already this year, Richmond has seen three double homicides: On Feb. 16, Deborah Walker, 55, and her daughter Shaquenda Walker, 24, were shot and killed in their home on Coalter Street. On March 29, a triple shooting in Jackson Ward left Mikkaisha Smoot, 16, and Taliek Brown, 15, dead after both were taken off life support at VCU...
We have a little bad news! If you read last week’s update, you might’ve known that we were slated to plant our grasses on Monday, at Chickahominy Riverfront Park in Williamsburg. This past weekend’s rain, however, had other plans for us. Unfortunately, the seriousness of flood warnings - even if it seemed pretty chill at the time - caused our...
The weather is warming, the plants are blooming, and many of us may already feel the pull to be outside more. Why not hop on our bicycles and save money on gas while we’re at it? Bon Secours and Sportsbackers kicked off their Fourth Annual RVA Bike Month last week and for the entire month of May, bicycle-themed events and celebrations will take...
I’m about to be an empty nester. That’s right - even though I knew the planting would be right around the corner, time has gotten away from us here at RVA Mag, and we’ll be saying farewell to our grasses on Monday. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation kindly reached out to us earlier this week about setting up a planting area and time where growers for...
Food delivery is nothing new: we’ve all ordered many a late-night General Tso’s or drunken pizza right to our door. This kind of convenience was unmatched until we saw the rise of national companies over recent years, like GrubHub, OrderUp, and most recently, UberEats. And while these delivery services have set the bar in terms of making...
