You may remember… or maybe you don’t remember those bar crawls from college. You’d start at one end of a street and drink your way to the other end, or at least until you caught a good buzz. It’s time to rediscover celebratory wandering and sipping, only this time hopefully without the hangover the next [...]
Archive for June, 2011
Rose Crawl
Monday, June 27th, 2011Mark Your Calendar: Shockoe Tomato Festival
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011Get your appetite ready and plan to taste all things tomato on Saturday, July 24, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Shockoe Tomato Festival. Taking place at Richmond’s 17th Street Farmers’ Market, this event celebrates that special fruit in all its glory. With all its large number of farmers, Virginia happens to be [...]
Steal the Glass Night
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011We’ve all been out at a dining establishment, received a frosty libation in a nifty glass and wished we could take it home with us. In a moment that may not have been the classiest, some of us may have even considered stuffing a particularly spiffy drink holder in a purse or shirt, just to [...]
Richmond Shakespeare Festival
Thursday, June 9th, 2011Spend some quality time with The Bard the next time you’re in the River City. The Richmond Shakespeare Festival returns to the lawn at Richmond’s 500-year-old Tudor estate home, Agecroft Hall, that stood in England during Shakespeare’s lifetime tonight and runs through July 31. “King Lear” plays from today through July 3, and “Two Gentlemen [...]
Uncork Awesomeness
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011Get your Woozi ready and plan to spend an afternoon sampling some of the area’s finest wines this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Richmond.com Uncorked takes place just minutes from the Grace Manor Inn outside the Virginia Historical Society. Your ticket, $12 in advance (buy them here) and $15 at the door, gets [...]
Historic Walking Tours
Friday, June 3rd, 2011The River City is overflowing with historic sites and tales. Maymont, Edgar Allan Poe’s House, The White House of the Confederacy, we’ve pretty much got a site for any type of history buff. Why not soak up some of it the city’s unique past on a walking tour? Offered by the Valentine Richmond History Center, [...]
