HandsOn Greater Richmond Spearheads Water Quality Project
Meet Henry Simmons, former teacher, current river enthusiast, and most recently — water quality steward. Simmons, 74, is a member of RVAHydro, a new TeamWorks program offered by HandsOn Greater Richmond.
That Unexpected, Unforgettable Smile
My heart was racing with excitement. I was going to be a volunteer shopper with a child through the YMCA Bright Beginnings program. I had no idea what to expect, but I knew it would be unforgettable.
Sharing the Code: Tech User Groups Sync Up
The inaugural SyncRVA was a fashion show, of sorts. Attendees wore jeans, others sported khakis, yet others went with suits or dress skirts. Some were jacketed, others not. But such a fashion menagerie is expected when you put the hackers, the corporate IT types, and the web developers – all with diverse technology backgrounds and workplace attire standards– in the same room together.
Carte Blanche: Back to The Hippodrome
If you’re having trouble finding The Hippodrome Theater on August 5, look for the building with the DeLorean parked in front. The event, which will launch the theater’s Carte Blanche series of theme parties, is inspired by 1985’s cinematic time-travel fantasy that explores such probing questions as whether Huey Lewis was ever young and whether […]
History Painting Mash-Ups
Naomi McCavitt is a painter. And she’s smack dab in the middle of a creative uprising in RV
The Big Turnaround, Greater Richmond Poised for Breakout Year
From his office on the eighth floor of Riverfront Plaza, Greg Wingfield can see bustling streets, buildings being revitalized, and an active riverfront below. He has perspective, and the ability to see the big picture.
GRACRE Honors the Best in Greater Richmond’s Real Estate
In a celebration at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, the Greater Richmond Association for Commercial Real Estate (GRACRE) honored 16 local commercial real estate projects and transactions as part of its 11th Annual Commercial Real Estate Awards commemorating the most outstanding examples of design and implementation within Greater Richmond’s real estate market during 2011.
Thomas Jefferson Returns
This May, Thomas Jefferson symbolically returned to the Virginia State Capitol in the form of a larger-than-life bronze sculpture, commissioned by the Virginia Capitol Foundation with the support of some friends. Weighing in at 800 pounds, the nearly eight-foot-tall statue represents Jefferson at 117.5 percent life-size.
Celebrating Local Heroes
When the personal injury law firm of Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen hit 100 years old in 2010 the local business felt it was time to celebrate. Instead of baking a birthday cake and hanging streamers, the partners decided to focus on the community. The idea for an annual Hometown Heroes award was born, a […]
Good Ideas for Cities
Greater Richmond is on the verge of something great. That was the mood in the air at the GOOD Ideas for Cities event held this spring at the Virginia Historical Society. The much buzzed about evening saw three groups presenting ideas to make the region a better place.