Move Forward
Individually and collectively, Greater Richmond is always moving. This issue of Grid magazine is dedicated to those creating, making, and doing in 2014. It’s dedicated to growing together. To kick things off we went straight to the people making things happen. We asked a handful of makers and doers to share their plans for moving […]
Summit Avenue Rising
Summit Avenue’s coffee shop and its beer brewery alone, Mac Gambill half-jokes, cover two key pillars of his lifestyle these days. Lured to Scott’s Addition by its industrial-turned-mixed use properties and its hip, young professional vibe, the 27-year-old signed a lease at the Ambience Lofts in January. After graduating college in 2010, he moved to […]
A Sign of Change
When we think of painters, two people come to mind. There are those who climb ladders and lay drop cloth to put color on a wall in a home, office building, or some other commercial space. We also think of the artist who expresses himself through canvas and paint. But there are also those who […]
Moving the Region Forward
It’s one thing to set goals. It’s another thing to resolve to carry through on meaningful goals-ones that truly move us forward. Several weeks into 2014, many Richmonders are already breaking or revising the resolutions made for the year ahead. Grid magazine, however, tracked down a handful of Richmonders committed to moving the region forward […]
Isley Brewing Company
You know how you might sit around drinking beers with a buddy and talk about opening a brewery? But you never actually do it, because it’s a crazy idea. And you haven’t even thought about all of the necessary requirements you would need, like taking something like this rsa training melbourne course, as well as […]
The RVA Card: Everything’s Better Linked Together
By Becky Carey You know that happy feeling when you swipe your loyalty card at the grocery store and the total on the register shrinks, or remember when you used your college ID to score deals on or around campus? That savings experience is now available to Richmonders at select local businesses. The RVA Card is […]
Pop-Up Shops: A Genre-Bending Success
Farmers’ markets and food trucks may have fused with the city’s DNA, but Richmonders have started embracing an even more ephemeral way to buy: pop-up shops. If you are thinking of starting your own Instagrammable worthy clothing shop, planning your pop up shop might just be the way to success! Trafficking in everything from shirts […]
The Southern Slow Cooker
Richmonders like cookbooks, especially when they’re written by one of us. Kendra Bailey Morris, an accomplished local chef and food writer, has taught hundreds of classes, appeared in print, radio, and TV locally and nationally, and writes a popular food blog, called Fatback and Foie Gras. She can now add “author of The Southern Slow […]
The Lair: Come to Meet Your Monster
Jason Williams and Chris Mullenix have spent the last year working on a concept to bring the monsters home. Theirs is a unique business model. It’s a mash-up, which is part restaurant, part commissary for a growing fleet of monster-themed food trucks. Occupying the former Caribbean Mingles location across from the Jefferson Hotel, the rambling […]
The Brownie Lady
A while back, my boyfriend told me that baking represented love to him. At the time, I thought it was just a thinly veiled attempt to get me to bake more to satisfy his raging sweet tooth. Apparently, however, he isn’t the only one who feels that way. Teresa Rogers started baking about 15 years […]