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Getting everyone ready for the start of the school year just means your already-busy schedule becomes more packed. Keep dinner simple with these quick and easy (and tasty) dishes that require minimal time and tools.
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By Kelly Blanchard on Aug 20, 2010 06:00 am
Shrimp season starts this week, and while research has noted that Gulf seafood is fit for human consumption, no one knows for certain if it will continue to be safe. Sympathetic to this concern as fellow cooks, local chefs in Richmond decided they wanted to contribute to the Gulf relief efforts. That's where "From VA to LA with love" comes in.
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By Holly Gordon on Aug 19, 2010 12:56 pm
An online database is helping hundreds of business and home owners in the Richmond area save green in more ways than one... and is giving them the chance to reap the rewards of their energy-saving efforts all around town.
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By Erica Terrini on Aug 19, 2010 12:00 pm
We've got such a great sampling of Richmond events this weekend! One might equate it to T.G.I. Friday's Pick Three For All Sampler, except there are five things here and they are less likely to contribute to the obesity epidemic in this country. Yeah. Well, moving on...
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By Valerie Catrow on Aug 19, 2010 06:00 am
Two friends from Collegiate hatched a business plan while at a Virginia Tech football game, and now they’ve got their very own Richmond whiskey to pour at this season’s tailgate parties.
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By Richmond BizSense on Aug 18, 2010 04:42 pm
On September 25, Bryan Park will celebrate its 100th anniversary. To commemorate this occasion, Richmond children (ages kindergarten through 12th grade) are invited to submit a letter or drawing for possible inclusion in a time capsule that will buried in the park during the centennial celebration.
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By Valerie Catrow on Aug 18, 2010 02:54 pm
New logo! Doesn't it look great? Anyway, moving on, our bargain hunter has tracked down some great deals this week, including where you can get celery, grapes, and PB&J fixings on the cheap, cheap, cheap.
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By Alison Brown on Aug 18, 2010 12:00 pm
If you don't want to get wet today, I'd recommend either taking an umbrella or just staying home and in bed.
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By Weather Dan on Aug 18, 2010 09:31 am
Attention people of Richmond: Best Friends Day is here once again and this year's festivities promise to be more than just memorable with 30+ bands, a Field Day extravaganza, and one serious pool party.
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By Erica Terrini on Aug 18, 2010 09:30 am
We had a record number of comments and votes last week, the final match-up in the epic battle over whose greens reign supreme. In the end, it came down to one vote... one vote that would make one man victorious and determine the agricultural fate of all involved.
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By RVANews staff on Aug 18, 2010 06:00 am
Think today is just a regular old Wednesday? Think again, it’s Robert Redford’s birthday! Today, August 18, somewhere in Utah, a charming man on horseback will turn a year older. Don’t look up his exact age, it’ll just make you feel weird.
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By Susan Howson on Aug 18, 2010 06:00 am
The Richmond Folk Festival takes place in just two months (on October 8 through 10, to be exact) and the powers-that-be are finally sharing some of the names that will be gracing this year's schedule.
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By Valerie Catrow on Aug 17, 2010 01:21 pm
Teenagers and sex. Not really a new concept, but one that's definitely much more "in your face" these days, leaving parents with a tricky decision: do we make birth control accessible to our teenagers? Come see our thoughts and be sure to share yours...
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By Patience Salgado on Aug 17, 2010 12:00 pm
The Flying Squirrels take their fight to break even for season to the hapless New Britain Rock Cats (34-87). New Britain remains the only team already mathmatically eliminated from play off contention and still on track to lose 100 games this season. This week should see Richmond up over .500 for the first time since they were 30-30 on June 10.
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By John Murden on Aug 17, 2010 09:00 am
One readers asks, "Why is RIC the default weather station for the area? It’s in a less densely populated area and seems to receive different amounts of precip and have different temps than the rest of the metro area." Come get your learning on!
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By Weather Dan on Aug 17, 2010 06:00 am
Well, the good news is that our streak of storms only on Thursdays may be broken. The bad news is that it's because we're looking at an early-week severe weather threat this week.
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By Weather Dan on Aug 16, 2010 02:58 pm
Hey, we got your first UR scrimmage notes! Here's my thoughts on the starting quarterback, running back, and an inexperienced offensive line.
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By Ross Catrow on Aug 16, 2010 12:00 pm
The the news has been chock full of stories of underlings fighting the corporate man, and the tiny Norma Rae in me is fired up and ready to sing "Take This Job And Shove It", to the powers that be over at Fancy Pants Grocery, Inc.
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By The Checkout Girl on Aug 16, 2010 12:00 pm
While quite a bit of fundraising went on at the Watermelon Festival, the Byrd Theatre still needs your help collecting funds to restore the building and pay for damages caused by a break-in at the end of July.
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By Valerie Catrow on Aug 16, 2010 10:34 am
Featuring Kraftwerk, St. Louis Jimmy Oden, Warner Brothers Orchestra, The Rudies, Sniff 'n' the Tears, Herb Remmington, The Bud Powell Trio, Tiny Hill, Enoch Light & His Orchestra, The Avengers, Richard Berry, and more!
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By Chris Bopst on Aug 16, 2010 06:00 am
Richmond bottomed out in 1994: one city councilman went off to rehab for his heroin problem and another was in hot water for not paying utilities and renting out condemned property, enrollment at VCU dropped, the city recorded the nation’s 19th largest population decline since 1980, Richmond made the wrong end of Money Magazine’s Best [...]
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By john_m on Aug 15, 2010 05:00 pm
The sea monster of Fountain Lake was apprehended today by local fisherman, Corey King. The water beast‘s 8″ tall dorsal fin had been protruding from the water all morning before Corey sank his hook into the giant fish’s tail fin. It began at high noon… (many more pics, after the jump) when we passed Corey [...]
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By jasonguard on Aug 15, 2010 01:38 pm
The sun was unforgiving this afternoon, but people flocked anyway to day one of the Richmond Jazz Festival in what seemed like the thousands.
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By Dean Christesen on Aug 14, 2010 05:08 pm
Looking for last minute plans for this weekend? Pack up the car and take a drive up to Shenandoah National Park! This weekend is a free weekend for many, many National Parks this weekend. High pressure moving across New England and off the coast is going to keep temperatures down this weekend, and so [...]
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By Weather Dan on Aug 14, 2010 04:08 am
Headed to the Richmond Jazz Festival this weekend, still deciding, or just want to know what you'll be missing? Here's some info on some of the artists who are scheduled to perform.
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By Dean Christesen on Aug 13, 2010 11:52 am
Some Carytown merchants and nearby residents who oppose a Baltimore developer’s plan to turn a mid-century Verizon office building into a more than 41,000-square-foot retail property have started a campaigned called “Don’t Big Box Carytown.”
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By Richmond BizSense on Aug 13, 2010 11:52 am
The Squirrels took the New Hampshire Fisher Cats for the season and gear up to do the same to the Portland Sea Dogs.
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By John Murden on Aug 13, 2010 11:14 am