Carytown & Museum District News Events in Richmond Virginia, West of the Boulevard

If you haven’t been by Secco yet, check it out. Here is what Dana Craig from the RTD had to say.

Dining Out Review: Secco Wine Bar

July 22nd at 7pm

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Carytown South resident Harry Kollatz provided me with this story and some commentary along with it. I’d love to hear your feedback as I think this story has legs and will be around for a while.

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/business/2010/jul/01/VERI01-ar-261132/

I gotta agree with most of the commenters: we don’t need a fourth grocery in Carytown. But I was alerted that there’d be zilch imagination employed with this effort with the phrase: “Maryland Financial Realty.” Come here, not from here. Still, there’ve been meetings with folks over in the Museum District (I’m over in WoBSoC, too fashionably scruffy or scruffily fashionable), and that’s to their credit, I suppose. But really. Do they want another grocery? It’s mentioned as one possibility in the article.

Some other uses:

• Boutique hotel with adjacent entertainment venue, like a jazz or acoustic performance venue. A Carytown/Fan/Museum/Scott’s Addition/ information center, and perhaps a museum-style exhibit about this section of the city’;s history.

* Local retail, that is, a Richmond home-grown department store. Not a bazaar with stalls, but several notches up, using Carytown retailers. Also with some kind of natural garden or water amenity to soften that ugly suburban parking lot. A kids playing lot. That whole end of Carytown resembles a hunk of outer burbia that landed on us.

* Live/work studio spaces and affordable apartments, with natural aspects as mentioned above. A New Media center, too.

• Any variation on the above. Or failing all this, an Old Hipster Retirement Home. They can sit out front on rockers and compare tattoos .

This showed up on FACEBOOK.

The cleanup is slated for Sunday, August 1, 2010 (10:00am – 3:00pm).
The cleanup will start on the exit ramp from 195 to Cameron St and continue through Carytown.

Just in time for the Watermelon Festival.

RVANews features Ellwood Thompson’s cheesemonger, Dany Schutte, in her own words.

Never did I imagine in my youth that I would some day become a cheesemonger. A firewoman, police officer, even a minister, but nope, cheesemonger was not among the list. Actually, I wasn’t that interested in food, outside just eating it. Somewhere in my early to mid-twenties, while watching Jeff Smith (AKA The Frugal Gourmet on PBS) did the bulb above my head start to show some glow. Here was a man, a minister no less, teaching about food. Not just cook this, do that, but through story and history and sometimes even through ritual and mystery. He quoted Joseph Campbell frequently, and I was suddenly in love with cooking. I wanted to do this. I became a competent cook. Continue Reading at RVANews

UPDATE- The Dog and the Owner have been reunited! Happy Ending!

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The Byrd Theater is showing Date Night at 7:15 and 9:30. If you haven’t seen this movie, go to it. It is totally worth the $2.

Movieland has the new releases of Despicable Me and Predators. They could be fun ;)

Triangle Players is showing PULP. Continue reading »

The community gardens over at Thompson and Kensington are hosting 2 movie nights. The first night will be on July 10, and there is no charge. For more info, check out the HC Community Garden Blog.

For all you GRTC riders, the city council approved a 25 cent rate hike starting July 25th. The extra cost is to help defray the $50 million deficit at GRTC.

For more information, check out the piece at the RTD.

The Squirrels continue their tailspin. They have lost 5 out of their last 6 and they currently sit in 5th place in the division. The good news is that they are only 3.5 games behind 2nd place Bowie and a potential playoff spot.

The Revolution had a banner week. They were named the best franchise in the IFL. Coach Steve Criswell won the Coach of the Year and QB Bryan Randall was named the league’s MVP. The Revolution begin post-season play this upcoming Monday evening, against the Rochester Raiders. Due to the league best 13-1 record, the Revolution will have home field advantage throughout the entire playoffs. League MVP Bryan Randall and rest of the Revolution will take the field Monday, June 28th at 7:05 to begin the team’s run to the United Bowl.

The Kickers beat up on Real Maryland on Tuesday night to earn them the chance to face DC United of the MLS on June 30. This will be quite the challenge for Richmond, who has had success against DC United in the past; however, with the game being played at George Mason University, I would suspect that DC United will have the home crowd working for them.