http://richmondgoodlife.com/bricabrac Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:56:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is gonna be totally awesome: Press Release: The Best Worst Movie You’ve Never Seen! Style Weekly Announces Richmond Premiere of the Lost ’80s Movie, “Rock ’N’ Roll Hotel” Fundraiser to Benefit the Byrd Theatre Shortly after the filming of the classic “My Dinner With Andre” at the Jefferson Hotel, another Hollywood crew took ... http://richmondgoodlife.com/bricabrac/?p=103 Check out our handy dandy Mobile Friendly Broad Appétit Guide. Bookmark it on your phone and use as a reference tool while you're there: menus of all the contestants, map locations, and event schedules.  Also, links to the restaurant participants and various media preview guides. Looking forward to sampling as many ... http://richmondgoodlife.com/bricabrac/?p=101 Trendsetter I'm better my rhymes are good. I got a gold name plate that says I wish you would. LL Cool J Was joking with one of the pizza day participants the other day that we started this whole Richmond Neapolitan Pizzeria trend. ;) For me, the most important part ... http://richmondgoodlife.com/bricabrac/?p=97 Methodology: These kinds of "best lists" all have their inherent flaws. All critics (except for Frank Bruni) are human beings with conscious and unconscious biases. On the other side, the crowdsource rankings are open to voter fraud.  I love Bubble Tea like the next guy but ... http://richmondgoodlife.com/bricabrac/?p=88 Goodbye Courier, Hello Tahoma. A couple of tweaks to usher in the new year: (1) Changed the font to Tahoma 10. Nobody likes the durn typewriter font. (2) Got rid of the red bar/short-cut links section (moved that information to the far right column) (3) Moved the search bar to the right column as ... http://richmondgoodlife.com/bricabrac/?p=84 Everyone else is doing it, so here it goes. As a compiler of news/real time historian/social media expert ;p , here were the big stories of 2009 (serious, silly, and in-between. So what'd I miss?): January 2009 Started with (perhaps) the last Carytown NYE celebration ever. Cheap bastards didn't ... http://richmondgoodlife.com/bricabrac/?p=72 This year, I started posting a Richmond Restaurant "Hot List" on the always popular restaurant page. The criteria used were somewhat vague/based on gut feeling: "These restaurants are getting lots of heat and buzz from media and bloggers (100% unscientific method).  Usually, this list consists of new restaurants or restaurants ... http://richmondgoodlife.com/bricabrac/?p=66 It's gotta be difficult to be Orthodox in Richmond as I recently found out while hosting a Shabbat dinner at Chez Good Life. There are practically zero "eat out" options in our fair town (yeah, I hate cooking plus all my pots, pans, and silverware have held many a bacon ... http://richmondgoodlife.com/bricabrac/?p=61 During crazy time (Black Friday, December weekends), the best way to get to Short Pump is to (1) Go past the Broad St/250 exits and take 288 to Broad (ie, come from the West). (2) Take 295 to Nuckols to Pouncey Tract (ie, come from the North) (3) Everyone comes from the East. ... http://richmondgoodlife.com/bricabrac/?p=55 I've been hitting Amtrak a lot recently. I've come to the conclusion that nothing is more pleasant AND productive as a two hour train ride (I despise with all my heart NOVA traffic. I get the heebie jeebies just thinking about the Beltway. Aquia to DC, I ... http://richmondgoodlife.com/bricabrac/?p=51