Neighborhoods That Work — Together
Shockoe District By Pete Humes It has often been said that everything good ends up in Shockoe. While young, exciting minds are busy making cool stuff at VCU and downtown, all of the energy behind those good ideas eventually flows down to Shockoe. Shockoe is the epicenter of everything awesome. As you walk the cobblestone […]
Pedicabbing Around RVA
By Cameron McPherson Who has the best quad muscles in Richmond? There’s no scientific evidence, but it’s likely the dependable, customer service-driven crew at Spoken4. The team of cyclists is known for carting Richmonders around in the company’s environmentally-friendly and attention- grabbing bike taxis. The brainchild of Richmond couple Katie Hurst and Kyle Langemeier, Spoken4 […]
Southside Renaissance Man: A Mash-Up of Talent
By Richard Hayes It is not uncommon for a person to be good at something. Nearly all of us have a special niche we fill with our unique skill. Every now and then you run into someone whose talents fill up one niche and then spread to the next and the next, and before long, […]
Mash Up: Defining RVA by The Way We Co-Create
Two things became clear when putting together our stories of collaboration among Richmond’s finest organizations. One, these mash-ups were so unplanned—natural, even—that people involved in them could barely recall how they started. At first glance, there’s not even that much to the story. “That’s pretty much it.” “It just happened.” “That’s basically the whole story.” […]
Over the Edge
Dot Heffron is terrified of heights. Last month, however, she rappelled from a 25-story building in downtown Richmond with ease. Heffron called her accomplishment, “Jumping for Jane.” “If you saw what I saw when my daughter Jane finished her first lap across the swimming pool after training with Special Olympics, you’d fly to the moon […]
Let Them Eat Cake
By Aine Norris “I’m not even a baker. But yet, here I am, committed to baking a cake every week for a year and presenting it to a stranger, all in the name of sharing homemade food and the nostalgia it brings,” says local graphic artist Ryn Bruce. Batter Up, a social experiment launched by […]
Collaboration of Light and Human Kindness
Successful creative partnerships are a lot like marriage. They require trust, support, flexibility, sensitivity, and above all, open and honest communication. With partnerships, opposites often attract, the timing has to be just right, and there tends to be that something special in the mix to make everything come together. Hamilton Glass calls that something special […]
RVA Unbound
A favorite annual event, the UnBound2! Fundraiser once again featured the collaborative and supportive nature of Richmond’s finest artists. Hosted at Candela Books + Gallery, UnBound2! played host to everything from artist Terry Brown’s back alley chicken and adult snow cones to a laser cake by Big Secret and lady arm wrestlers. There was also […]
Richmond Folk Festival
Three days of music. Seven stages. 50 sponsors. And 1,500 volunteers. The Richmond Folk Festival is a mash-up of talent, skills, and collaboration. It’s what Lisa Sims, deputy director of Venture Richmond, calls “the“ ultimate community creation that would simply not exist without collective action and collaboration.” Sims says that setting up the Richmond Folk […]
Grid Creations
GRID TACOS In honor of this month’s Mash-Up issue, Grid decided to co-create a few local products of our own. It didn’t take long for us to place tacos on the top of the list. John Haddad, Grid’s food writer, took up the challenge and quickly concocted a tasty mash-up while writing about Chupacabra and […]