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 […]
Citra Ass Down: HomeBrewer Puts The Spotlight on Extra Billy’s
Dollars to draft lines, if you were to ask most Richmonders who our oldest brewery happens to be, they would say Legend Brewing Co. in Manchester. And they would be right. Celebrating 20 years in business, Legend Brewing has earned its fame in the local craft beer scene. When asked about others in the area, […]
Bio Ritmo: Understanding The Groove
The seasoned salsa band is entering its 23rd year with both a strong international presence and longstanding support from such local sources as Richmond restaurateur Manny Mendez. “It’s a hard-drinking salsa band,” remarks Mendez. “It’s definitely adult swim.” Mendez, of Kuba Kuba and C&M Galley Kitchen, has relished the band’s driving beats since they first […]
A Healthy Team: Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden And Nudge
The kinship between wellness and the great outdoors is providing fertile soil for a new local collaboration between Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden and app developers. Recently, the Garden began offering its members an innovative tool—the budding Nudge app—to nurture healthy lifestyle choices. Nudge provides an interactive environment where users can not only track and share […]
RVA Runs
Patton Gleason was born to run. He likes to keep things simple, and says that less is more. As the owner of Richmond-based Optimal Run, a leading online retailer for innovative running gear, Gleason should know. During a recent presentation, titled Running and Happiness, Gleason cut open a $140 shoe to make his point. “This […]
Connecting The Network: Greater Richmond Bicycle Coalition
It’s no secret that Richmond likes bikes. Today the region boasts a wide range of two-wheel enthusiasts—from avid cyclists and mountain bikers to those simply looking for a healthy and environmentally friendly alternative to driving a vehicle. But now a new movement is underway, one designed to connect and mash-up a grow- ing number of […]