Via Northside News, RVAFoodie, and Epicuriosity: Enoteca Sogna, the locally-owned Italian restaurant that was unceremoniously booted from its digs on West Broad Street has settled on a new home here in Bellevue. Word on the foodie grapevine is that the restaurant will make its new home in a leased space on Bellevue Ave. According to [...]
Feb 142010
Wanda Jackson put on a pretty good show last night at Shenanigan’s Pub here in Richmond. The Lustre Kings warmed the crowd up and also served as Wanda’s backing band. She performed all of her hits—Hard Headed Woman, Mean, Mean Man, Let’s Have a Party, Fujiyama Mama—as well as a few covers, including her recently [...]
Feb 102010
Ever since moving to Northside Richmond, Elaine and I, and our dog Dewey, have really missed what used to be a daily trip to the dog park on Forest Hill Ave. Soon after we moved here, I began asking around to see if there were any plans to build a dog park in the area. [...]
Nov 272009
Last Sunday, Elaine and I went to see Harry Shearer speak at the Byrd Theater. He was there to raise funds for WRIR, Richmond’s independent radio station, and to give a short talk before introducing the movie, This is Spinal Tap, in which he plays mutton-chopped, cucumber-endowed bassist Derek Smalls. Shearer took to the stage [...]
Nov 232009
There is a great profile of my friend Tim McCready’s new furniture making school, Foxwedge School of Craft, in today’s RT-D. I know Tim primarily through his music, most recently, his band Timothy Bailey and the Humans. So it is interesting for me to read about this other side of him–the craftsman, local business owner, [...]
Oct 262009
Forget carbo-loading and resting before the Richmond Half-Marathon: I plan on preparing for the race by drinking beer, bathing in secondhand smoke, knocking down a few duckpins, and rocking out to cute Japanese punkers Shonen Knife. Inspired by the Ramones, adopted by Sonic Youth, Shonen Knife are one of a kind and not to be [...]
