Play Smart
Since incorporating in April of 2009, Shaka Smart Basketball Camps’ mission has been to encourage high self-esteem and a lifelong love of fitness and nutrition through fun, high-quality basketball instruction and games. Back then, “Shaka who?” was a common refrain and just 63 campers attended our July session. One Final Four-run later and we have […]
Honoring Good Deeds: Hometown Heroes 2013
RVA is a community that gives, and when we see someone making an effort to build a better region we celebrate them. Such is the case with the annual Hometown Heroes Award by the law firm of Allen, Allen, Allen, & Allen. Launched in 2010 during the firm’s 100-year anniversary, the award honors first responders, […]
Pedaling for a Cause: Virginia Market Ride
During National Farmers Market Week this August, RVA resident Patrick Warner logged 500-miles on his bike as he made his way across Virginia, with stops at seven different farmers markets, as part of the Virginia Market Ride. Warner, a Richmond City Police Officer, participated in the lengthy ride to raise awareness and funds to increase […]
Getting Closer: VCU Institute for Contemporary Art
Within five minutes of talking to the new director of the VCU Institute for Contemporary Art, you understand why she is a perfect fit for a place being described as an “incubator” and a destination “where ideas percolate.” Dr. Lisa Freiman, who started at VCU on July 1 (she’ll also be teaching there), has had […]
Bethany Miller Q&A: How Will You Impact RVA
Interview with Bethany Miller, vice president of business development at Greater Richmond Partnership. Bethany helps coordinate the region’s existing business efforts in Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, and Richmond as part of the Business First Greater Richmond umbrella. What is your job function? I’m responsible for coordinating the region’s existing business efforts. Each of the communities represented […]
Boost! The Science Museum of Virginia
The Science Museum of Virginia has teamed up with Richmond-based Health Diagnostic Laboratory, Inc. to create its newest permanent exhibition in a decade: Boost! As the name suggests, this interactive—an assortment of physical, mind-based, or performance-based—exhibit attempts to improve your mind, body,and play through 25 challenges related to exercise, wellness, food, happiness,passion, art, and more.Using […]
Hop on the Bus: The Virginia Center for Latin American Art
Spencer Turner and his wife, Eva Rocha, spend a great deal of time on a bus. But it’s not just any bus. It is a mobile art gallery that is introducing people all across town to the contributions of Latino artists. “People love the bus,” says Turner. The mobile art gallery is just one outreach […]
The People: Our Greatest Tourism-Driving Asset
Nearly two-thirds of the 6 million visitors to Greater Richmond each year are here to visit friends and family. And when tourism officials talk to visitors about the their plans, most can’t give an answer because they are reliant on friends or family as the plans-makers. So Grid asked some well-known local voices: How do […]
Do Bikes Tell Stories? Dead Ones Do.
Ride, walk, bike, run, or Segway down Broad Street, in Carytown, through Oregon Hill, and around Byrd Park and you will see the Dead Bikes—missing saddles, rusted poles, bent wheels that can no longer be used, rubber sheared off by the pounding sun, rain, and time. Dead Bikes are not to be mistaken for “Ghost […]
When Richmond Rallies
When Richmond rallies there can be no mistaking it. This is a community that comes together quickly to inspire and motivate. Such was the case following the fire that condemned the Sub Rosa Bakery building in Church Hill, which was also home to three tenants above the bakery. When news of the fire broke, Twitter […]