The Big Buzz at the Berry Burke
The big buzz this week is around 525 at the Berry Burke. This will be the second small plate-focused restaurant to hit the East Grace corridor near Centerstage.
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Pasture Opens Next Week
Update via Twitter: Pasture Opens to the public next week. Today is a soft opening for guests. via Richmond.com: Pasture, located between 4th and 5th on Grace Street, officially opens the Wednesday before Thanksgiving next week. The former Montaldo’s building, owned by legal eagle cum restaurateur Ry Marchant, is a sparse runway for Jason Alley’s Southern Foodways [...]
Ribbon Cutting on Grace Street
WHO: Mayor Dwight Jones Peter Chapman, DCAO, Economic and Community Development Michael Glass, 214 East Grace Street Associates, LLC, Managing Partner WHAT: Celebrate the beginning of adaptive rehabilitation on Broad & Grace Streets WHEN: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 2:30 p.m. WHERE: 214 East Grace St BACKGROUND: In April of this year, Mayor Jones announced a new [...]
Stuck inside of Richmond with the Memphis Blues Again
Artist Brett Busang returns to Greater Jackson Ward to unveil new show of works painted during his recent stint in Memphis. While not exactly being the glamour city of the Mississippi, Bretts paint strokes can be kind to the most ordinary of settings. Brett ventures into the neighborhoods of Memphis and finds the drama of [...]
Unfinished Business on Grace Street
These two buildings stand in stark contract to the recently completed renovations on the 200 block of Grace Street. Only recently the far building has a small tree growing out of the 3rd floor balcony.
Banner City
In the past few weeks new banners have gone up on Grace and other streets downtown. Before that, the Arts District RVA banners went up on Broad Street. What do you think of the banners? Me, I like them. I think they are an upgrade from the “Live, Love and Learn” banners they replaced. Now for [...]
Brett’s Comic Pile
Located on East Grace Street for last two years, Brett’s Comic Pile operates mostly as an online business.
Saturday Lunch and Sunday Brunch @ Chez Foushee
Now, with the Sunday brunch, the restaurant is open seven days a week.
The Mystery Artist is Revealed!
While the real 24/7 Gallery is now just a memory, I learned via Graffiti Richmond that the artist, Larry Lorca, has preserved his work on Flickr. Up until now his name was a mystery (to me), though now that I think about it I’ve started to see his work elsewhere. Here’s an excerpt from Graffiti [...]
Knitorious M.E.G Bombs Grace Street
Knitorious M.E.G. dropped this yarn bomb* at this Grace Street storefront at . What a joyous piece of insanity. Love it.
A Strange Place to Start
The Mayor’s new ArtBusiness Initiative has picked a couple of sad sack buildings to get started with.
