Slow Food RVA

5/2/2012 10:49:57 AM | CONNECTING LIVE+WORK+PLAY

In 1986, Slow Food started as a protest against the opening of a McDonald’s restaurant at the foot of Rome’s historic Spanish Step. While born out of a reaction to fast food, this movement was also an attempt to preserve local food traditions and people’s interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes, and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.

Hungry for Feast

4/30/2012 4:28:30 AM | Jeff Kelley

Just a year ago, Johnny Hugel and Josh Epperson could barely be defined as acquaintances: that person out there in the city whom you know of, and have perhaps have even talked to, yet fail to realize just how much the two of you have in common.

Kindness: Every Move Matters

4/25/2012 9:10:21 PM | CONNECTING LIVE+WORK+PLAY

In the past, my homes have always been a sort of haven, my hideaway from the world. As a kindness worker, so much of my life is lived in an outward and extroverted way. I find a sense of solace retreating back to family within those four walls.

Richmond Moves to Knock Out Poverty

4/25/2012 8:53:26 PM | CONNECTING LIVE+WORK+PLAY

As the City of Richmond moves closer to its goal of becoming a Tier One City, Mayor Dwight Jones has lined up a team of experts to knock out poverty. “If we are to effectively address poverty in our city, we have to do so with a united front,” explains Richmond’s mayor.

Secretary Cheng and More to Highlight 2012 Virginia Entrepreneur Summit

4/23/2012 4:37:47 PM | Paul Spicer

RVA is getting down to business. Tomorrow the Venture Forum, a Richmond based organization focused on promoting entrepreneurship in central Virginia, will host a highly anticipated 2012 Virginia Entrepreneur Summit.

Inside Snagajob's focus on building a thriving workplace culture

4/22/2012 10:02:20 AM | CONNECTING LIVE+WORK+PLAY

Whenever I'm asked about Snagajob's culture, I think the one thing people have the biggest misperception about is that it's only a culture of "fun." And, while it is extremely fun, and we will work incredibly hard to keep it that way, it is only fun as long as we work extremely hard. We're big believers that hard work and having fun while doing it are not mutually exclusive.

RVA Has Swagger

4/22/2012 9:49:01 AM | CONNECTING LIVE+WORK+PLAY

Arriving at the TED Conference in Los Angeles on a redeye flight, I began to ready myself for four days of mental gymnastics. The conference, which sees the world's brightest thinkers and go-getters, is always an inspiring look into the future. As a speaker at these events for eight years, I've always enjoyed telling others of my hometown. At this trip, however, I arrived with a certain swagger, proud to tell everyone that I was a resident of Richmond, Virginia.

A Great Time to be a Beer Geek in RVA

4/19/2012 9:20:38 PM | CONNECTING LIVE+WORK+PLAY

Ardent Craft Ales resides in a garage off Jefferson Street in Union Hill. On my Sunday visit, the doors are wide open, as a few snow flurries fall, heralding this winter's big snow. It's a great time to be a beer geek in RVA.

Sports Backers Gets Active

4/19/2012 9:07:21 PM | CONNECTING LIVE+WORK+PLAY

Get ready, Richmond - you've been challenged. Sports Backers, the organizers of the region's most talked about fitness-inspired activities, is setting the bar high this year.

You Are What You Post: The Rise of the Personal Brand Online

4/19/2012 4:47:47 AM | CONNECTING LIVE+WORK+PLAY

So, how do you like Facebook Timeline so far? We can safely ask this now that the rest of Facebook has been nudged into the service, even though many Richmonders had played with the massive profile change for months now.

Social Media Club Richmond Reboots for 2012

4/16/2012 3:29:34 PM | CONNECTING LIVE+WORK+PLAY

Social Media Club Richmond (SMCRVA) founder Doug Meacham grabs his iPad and heads for the front of the room. For the first time, he'll address the group he originally sought to form more than three years ago. For this program, he'll perform the role of the warm-up act, prepping the audience for a high level of discourse on the ubiquity and potential for mobile technology.

Coworking in RVA Just Got Easier

4/12/2012 3:21:11 PM | CONNECTING LIVE+WORK+PLAY

"For today’s activity, everyone has to make a stencil and add a drawing to the poster.” Assuming you’re not an elementary school teacher, it’s unlikely that this sentence has ever been spoken in your office. If your response is to cast an awkward glance at the 5-foot dynamo making the suggestion, you’ve clearly never been educated on the world of coworking, 804Richmond-style.

ACTiVE

RVA's Recreation & Wellness Community

Sports Backers Gets Active

Get ready, Richmond - you've been challenged. Sports Backers, the organizers of the region's most talked about fitness-inspired activities, is setting the bar high this year.

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Got New Year's Resolutions? You're Not Alone

New Year's resolutions are tricky things. Research suggests that the reason most people fail at resolutions is because they attempt too many or the resolutions are too complex to be successful.

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2012 Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10k Opens Registration

The 13th annual Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10k presented by MARTIN'S, named one of the country's top ten running races by USA Today, has opened entries to the March 31, 2012 event. ...more

RichmondMom.com

Look for RichmondMom.com Magazine inside Greater Ricchmond Grid!

Warning: Having Kids Will Kill Your Self-Esteem

For any expectant parents out there, disclaimer: please do not continue reading this if you'd like to continue on in your dreamy, nursery-painting, bib-folding, bootie-cooing state of blissful expectation. Your world is about to get rocked. Now, before the hate emails start flooding in, I'm not proposing we stop having children. We need them. For goodness sakes, who else is going to cater to me and listen to me blabbering on in my golden years? ...more

Age-Appropriate Businesses or Child Haters?

One of our faithful readers alerted us to the article she saw this morning on kids being banned from restaurants so that adults could dine in peace.I decided to investigate. Would I bring my kids to Ruth's Chris? Probably not, but my kids are heathens much of the time, after all. Sweet heathens, but heathens nonetheless.So I read the article, and clicked on the links. Then I realized, this wasn't just one childless author's opinion. This was the path to a movement. ...more

Life in Shifts: A Richmond Dad's View

When we got married in our 20s, we wanted a family. When we hit our early 30s, we had one child. No big deal, one might think, since a set of parents outnumbers that baby 2 to 1. How hard can it be? “Oh, here, honey, let me hold him” was our common refrain, relieving each other of duty whenever a break was needed, but we were two parents focused on one child, making it very much a shared effort, and there was beauty in that. ...more

LIVE

Community Nexus

Hungry for Feast

Kindness: Every Move Matters

Richmond Moves to Knock Out Poverty

RACE -- Are We So Different?

Calling All Creatives: ConnectRichmond & ConnectSouthside to Merge Online Resources, Announce Logo Contest

Design Forward

Challenges of Creative Spaces

A 'Green House' on Grove

H&A Architects Engineers Gain International Attention

"Design Driven Vision- Creativity as an Asset of Leadership and Business."

Greater Richmond Association for Real Estate Ninth Annual Stars Awards

Downtown Living

RVA Has Swagger

You Are What You Post: The Rise of the Personal Brand Online

Social Media Club Richmond Reboots for 2012

2012 Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10k Opens Registration

'Getting Loose at the Deuce': Showcasing RVA Talent

Tweeple

@echadwilliams	@anaRVA
@srbrtsn	@LesleyBruno

WORK

Biz Savvy

Secretary Cheng and More to Highlight 2012 Virginia Entrepreneur Summit

Inside Snagajob's focus on building a thriving workplace culture

RVA Has Swagger

Venture Forum's 'Greater Richmond's Companies to Watch' Event to Feature Wall Street Journal CEO Council Member, Christopher Fey

Local Business Forecast Offers Improvement Over Last Year's Findings

Emerging Media

You Are What You Post: The Rise of the Personal Brand Online

Social Media Club Richmond Reboots for 2012

MPACT & SeeClickFix

Spotify

Foodspotting

Innovators

Coworking in RVA Just Got Easier	Celebrating Food, Community and a Big Expansion
CarLotz Offers a New Way to Sell Used Vehicles	Creative Commerce: Downtown Design District

Momentum

Just Ask Peter:
A Cure for Office Technology Frustration -- Everywhere I go in Richmond I hear businesses say that their #1 frustration with office technology is something like this...

Amazing Tales of Entrepreneurship:
Trending Second Incomes -- Doc Popcorn's Kiosk Franchise Helps Supplement Couple's Success

Legal Brief:
You Can't Do That On Facebook. Or Can You?

Lessons from History:
Leadership vs Human Nature

PLAY

Exhibits

Greg Stewart @ 1708 Gallery

Pottery by Mike Brown & Alex Johnson at Eric Schindler Gallery

VCU Arts Craft / Material Studies Fountainhead Fellows, Andrea Keys Connell & Lacey Jane Roberts @ Page Bond Gallery

Galleries Gear Up for First Fridays and Spring Shows

Elsa Gebreyesus @ C'est Le Vin Art & Wine Gallery

Food

Slow Food RVA

A Great Time to be a Beer Geek in RVA

A Pan-Asian Noodle House by Two Southern Dudes

A Trio of New Eateries to Try

Richmond International Wine Excursion at Historic Tredegar

Fun & Games

Grow Your Brain: Cracking clues and raising funds for Community Idea Station	Leadership Metro Richmond Educates Leaders Through Selflessness
Cocktails for a Cause: Mixing Spirits with Philanthropy	Are You the Next Snooki?