Learning To Build A Terrarium at Strangeways
I’m not trying to brag, but I was one of the lucky ticket holders to the SOLD OUT terrarium workshop held at Strangeways Brewing. What’s the big deal, you ask? Well for one, terrariums are awesome and for two, craft beer is awesome. Combining those two variables creates the recipe for a fun and creative evening. As much as I like gardening and greenery my occasionally oblivious and laid back nature has caused the...
Record Shopping In Richmond
Record shopping is one of my favorite activites. Richmond has an extremely passionate community of musicians and music fans – the amount of stores where you can go record shopping in RVA is proof of our music obsession. It doesn’t matter where on the taste spectrum your interests lie, if one of the many record shops doesn’t have it chances are they can get it. I’ve been an obsessive music collector ever since I...
Touring The VA Capitol Building – For FREE
When I showed up to tour the VA Capitol building the woman at the front desk asked were I was visiting from. I had to embarrassingly admit that I’d been a Richmond resident for quite a few years and was just now getting around the touring the Capitol. Playing tourist in the city one lives in is a highly underrated activity. I frequently travel outside of the US and will wander city streets aimlessly gawking at things locals take...
Caravati’s Architectural Salvage
Caravati’s Architectural Salvage is part hardware store, part antique shop and part repository of historic building products. Chances are if you’ve bought a home in Richmond City it was built long before Lowe’s and Home Depot existed. Those super stores don’t carry a doorknob assembly from the 1960’s or replacement feet for a clawfoot tub. But Caravati’s does. Located across Mayo’s...
Storytelling in Richmond with Secretly Y’All
Storytelling is alive and well here in RVA and I’m happy to say it’s just as entertaining as it was when I was a kid. The themes may be a bit more adult and instead of warm milk you can have delicious cocktails – but at its core the principle is the same: someone spins a tale and your imagination does the rest, and perhaps you connect on a personal level. When I found out about Secretly Y’All – the group...