Whiskey Dinner: Reservoir Distillery and Perch
Mike Ledesma, a Richmond executive chef and restauranteur, is teaming up with Reservoir, a Richmond based spirits company in Scott’s Addition, to create a special pairing menu with neat pours and Reservoir cocktails by Beth Dixon. Reservoir co-founders, Dave Cuttino and Jay Carpenter, will serve as guides for the special collaboration on May 30 at Perch located at 2918 […]
The Wild Beasts / Not a Wildflower
Page Bond Gallery will host an opening reception for The Wild Beasts: Photography by Peter Cochrane and Not a Wallflower: Paintings by Laurie Fisher on Thursday, June 6. The exhibitions will be on view through July 3, 2019. As an artist and author, Peter Cochrane probes themes of queer politics, autobiographical and ancestral trauma and recovery, and the fabrication of histories through […]
Music to our Ears
Just in time for summer, the Valentine has announced its free Music in the Garden concert series, kicking off on Thursday, June 6 with Deau Eyes & Justin Golden. Hosted in the beautiful Valentine Garden, the concert series is free and family-friendly. This year’s lineup offers performances by talented local musicians, all representing different genres, approaches and styles. The […]
Field Studies by Sarah Gayle Carter
Sarah Gayle Carter used to design things — custom rugs mostly. Also mirrors, lamps, plates, furniture, and even scarves. The years spent in the high end home furnishings market earned her international acclaim. But most of all, Carter says it trained her eye and taught her about the detail and discipline required to develop design […]
Chef Joe Sparatta and Hardywood and Team Up
Chef Joe Sparatta is at it again. As one of Richmond’s most celebrated chefs, Sparatta has been in hot demand ever since opening Heritage, which has racked up awards and accolades from the moment it opened in 2012. Last week, Hardywood Park Craft Brewery announced a headline grabbing partnership with Sparatta at the helm of […]
Building Sanctuary Reefs in the Piankatank River
This week, on Gwynn’s Island, Virginia Oyster Shell Recycling Program (VOSRP), a program under the VCU Rice Rivers Center, added 16 million oyster larvae purchased from private hatcheries, like Cherrystone Aquafarms, to setting tanks in partnership with J&W Seafood – Gourmet Market. In the coming weeks, the larvae will attach to shells that will then be added to restored sanctuary reefs, designated areas […]
Where Craft Meets Culture
Eric Jackson is on a mission to uncap everything in RVA. A recent Atlanta transplant, Jackson is known in craft beer circles for his popular blog, Uncap Everything. Having landed in Richmond earlier this year, Jackson wasted no time getting to know all things beer, art, and culture in the river city. And he’s about […]
Richmond Night Market Reprograms the Energy of Shockoe Bottom
Folks say that every 20 years or so, familiar things take on new forms. Fashion and music, gentrification, love and war — new life spins into being from older cycles. I am remembering summertime in Shockoe Bottom, circa the late 1990s and early 2000s, when I was transitioning into womanhood. Weekly trips with my homegirls […]
Richmond Legends Benefiting World Pediatric Project
World Pediatric Project (WPP), a nonprofit humanitarian organization headquartered in Richmond, is offering an opportunity to meet and to be inspired by local leaders as part of a unique fundraising initiative designed to help heal critically ill children in Central America and the Caribbean region. The first-ever “Richmond Legends Series” is an online auction organized […]
Tourism ‘Touchdown:’ RVA Champions Honored for Bringing Conferences to Region
When longtime youth sports coach and volunteer Royal Cousins wanted to bring the Central Virginia American Youth Football Conference’s state tournament to the region in 2017, he turned to Henrico County Parks and Recreation for assistance, who then connected him with Richmond Region Tourism. The event was a success, so he turned to the Richmond Region […]