Hotel Mac Restaurant 

50 Washington Avenue

Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday , March 13th, 14th, & 15^th

Come join us at the Hotel Mac for our $20 Two course meal.  The first course is your choice of any of our Appetizers, The second course is any of our Entrees.  Offer valid for lunch & dinner.  Not valid with any other offer or promotion.  Present this email to your server to receive your discounted price.  Offer valid on specified days only.  

Appetizer Choices 1st course

Oysters on the 1/2 shell

Oysters Rockefeller

Crab Cake

Salmon Tartar

Spring rolls

Calamari

Prawn Cocktail

Steamed Mussels

Sauteed Mushrooms 

Entree Choices 2nd course 

Fresh Fish

Rib Eye

Chicken Cordon Bleu

Pot Roast

Short Ribs

Vegetable Masa Cakes

Prime Rib (available after 5pm)

Chicken Picatta

Lamb Chops

Drunk & Mad Prawns

Pulled Chicken & Tasso Napoleon 

Point Richmond

Thursday, March 15^th

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Point Richmond Art Collective will be featuring quiches from our friend Deborah Moss' new business "Quiche & Carry" along with some other lite refreshments. This is a woman owned, Richmond based prepared food company that uses Farmer Market fresh, organic and seasonal produce in her quiches. There will be musical entertainment from "Swampy Joe" and of course libations.

Refined by Fire will present the opening of "Illuminations"  

Bus Tour

Friday, March 16^th

9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Reservations Required

FREE

Take a city bus tour with park ranger Betty Soskin to visit key park sites while reflecting on African American home front experiences. Call 510-232-5050 x0.

Maritime Child Development Center

1014 Florida Avenue

Saturday, March 17^th

11:00 am - Noon

FREE

Tour a wartime preschool classroom within the Maritime Child Development Center. Tour begins in the lobby.

Memorial Tour

Marina Bay Park
Saturday, March 17^th

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

FREE

Join a park ranger for a 45 minute program exploring civilian contributions on the home front during Word War II. Tour starts at the Rosie the Riveter Memorial located on the corner of Melville Square and Esplanade Drive in Marina Bay Park.

Volunteer for LEAP 

PAL Halt Holt Memorial Gym

2200 Macdonald Avenue

Friday, March 16^th

Game begins 7:00 pm

$10 per person

Purchase Tickets here

Your Richmond Rockets are winding up their first season with a trip to the playoffs! The matches are being made and the Rockets will host a first round game at the Richmond Police Activities League (RPAL), 2200 Macdonald Avenue.

The Bay Area Matrix is the defending 2010-2011 season Pacific North Conference Champion.

Just in...Rocket's Forward Justin Baker made the leagues All-Star Team!  Read about it here. 

Help your Richmond Rockets advance!

Richmond Rockets Visits Kennedy High School Go Rockets

Boilerhouse Restaurant

1414 Harbour Way South

Saturday, March 17^th

$35 per person

Space is limited to 25 people

Reservations here or call (510) 215-6000

Beer, Food and Live Music!

Reserve your spot for March 17th at the BoilerHouse!  

St. Patty's Day Beer Pairing with a 4 Course Menu and Live Music by Juke Joint from 8pm-11pm!

MENU (4oz Beer Pairing Per Course)

Mussel Bisque Amuse

Smoked Trout

Potato cake, horseradish cream

Lamb Stew

Colcannon top

Corned Beef, Cabbage

Boiling onion, potato, carrot, horseradish and mustard

Bread Pudding

Jameson's whiskey sauce, carmelized

Little Green Men Invade Playland-Not-at-the-Beach

NIAD Art Center

551 23rd Street

Through March 16^th

Dreamy vistas, tumultuous storms and monsters parading across the horizon will be on display in a survey of studio work that transforms our perceptions of the natural world. Participating artists include Lois Ann Barnett, Ray Brown, Julio Del Rio, Heather Edgar, Luis Estrada and Audrey Pickering.

Kitchen@812 - a Food Business Incubator

Orientations for Kitchen@812

Fridays (10am - 11am)

812 San Pablo Avenue, Ste. 2 in Pinole

To register please call (510) 327-9466

Kitchen@812 enables entrepreneurs the opportunity to launch and develop their food ventures. We invite you to learn more about this project by attending a Free Orientation.

 Taqueria Tuesday

$3 Margaritas Night  

classic * raspberry * melon * blueberry

Featuring Boilerhouse favorites:

Boilerhouse Nachos $9  

Chef's Special Trio of Mini Tacos $7

Chicken Tostada Salad $11

Saturday Supper Club

8:30pm  

Featuring Live Music and our new Boilerhouse Dinner Menu.

Tour the "World's Greatest Naval Ship"

USS Iowa

Port of Richmond

1411 Harbour Way South

Saturdays and Sundays until the end of April

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

More information

Built in 1940, the USS IOWA served our country for over 50 years. Designated the "World's Greatest Naval Ship" due to her big guns, heavy armor, fast speed, longevity and modernization, she kept pace with technology for more than 50 years.

Currently the bow of the USS IOWA is the only area available for visiting onboard the ship. It is the intent of PBC to open additional areas prior to the departure of IOWA to Los Angeles. During your visit there are additional exhibits to visit including vehicles from the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation, a Harpoon missile, 16" shells and numerous other exhibits from regional museums.

Please be aware of the following requirements when visiting the USS IOWA while in Richmond:

   ► The USS Iowa is currently unable to accommodate visitors on board that are unable to walk unassisted. However, there are plenty of shore side exhibits that can be viewed.

   ► Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Adults need to be aware of steep brow, brow step at top, steel protrusions and deck unevenness and take the proper steps to keep children aware at all times.

   ►Children 10 and under must be accompanied by one adult per child on the ship tour.

   ►Appropriate footwear must be worn at all times on board the USS Iowa. No heels or open toed shoes permitted.

   ►Appropriate clothing is required. No shirts, no shoes, no boarding.

   ►No pets permitted onboard, unless service animals.

   ►Visitors appearing to be intoxicated will be denied boarding.

Pikanha's Winter Exhibit 2012

Pikanha's Brazilian Steak House

25 West Richmond Avenue

510.237.7585

Steven Hurst

In 1990, Steve made his first clock out of a bookend he'd had for 18 years. A year later, hit hard by the recession in New York, he created his first series of clocks.  His latest endeavor incorporates color-changing LEDs to create his "Meditation Series." His goal is to use as many recycled materials as possible to create beautiful works of art that people enjoy looking at, whether to tell the time, or simply as eye candy.  Steve believes a timekeeper should be prominent and a thing of beauty.

Malik Seneferu

A self-taught poet, painter, draughtsman, muralist, and illustrator; Seneferu is also the founder of "Aesthetic Ascension" art social network.  Seneferu's subject matter is rendered in a variety of techniques of approach, ranging from social, political and spiritual issues within challenged communities worldwide and has become well known for his art-magnet invention.

Point Richmond Art Collective

121 Park Place

Saturday. March 24^th

4:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Point Richmond Art Collective is hosting a reception for locally-renowned clock designer, Steve Hurst, on Saturday, March 24th from 4 to 8 pm. His creations are made from recycled and found objects ranging from a half-round chair leg to a calculator that stopped working.

Point Richmond is the East Bay's newest art Mecca in a beautiful, quaint, historic setting. Visit our other galleries and international restaurants while you're here.

To see some of Steve's clocks, visit stevenart.com.

The gallery is located at 121 Park Place, next to Starbucks--just off the 580 Richmond Parkway exit. For additional information, call the gallery at 510.778.1480, or Steve at 510.932.6085. If you are an artist looking for a gallery to exhibit your work, contact us. The exhibit is free to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Visit the gallery website, pointrichmondartcollective.org, for additional gallery information.

Come join the all-singing, all-dancing, no-trans fat, "6th Annual Richmond Silly Parade"!

            March with us, or crowd the sidewalk and overwhelm us with cheering.

            Building on the success of the city's Cinco de Mayo, Juneteenth, and Home Front festival, the Richmond Silly Parade was originally conceived as a parody of marching parades. But its real purpose was to build community by using humor as rebar.   The parade has become just that; a celebration of people's energy, imagination, pride, and initiative featuring musical groups, sports teams, civic organizations along with a generous helping of old-fashioned fun.

            Previous marches, led by La Raza Unida Car Club, have included the Senior Citizen Dry-Water Swim Team, Rosie the Riveter Park Rangers, the Boy Scouts, art bikes, pets in costume, pet owners in costume, giant puppets, The Iron Triangle Philharmonic, soccer teams, The Marching Moustaches, saxophone players, the Chu-chu Train, and Mother Earth herself.

            This year, in the "6th Annual", we hope to add a gospel choir, a Toddler Contingent (1-5 years), kids wearing their Halloween costumes (6-12 years), stilt walkers, floats, high school marching bands, a Dog Lovers Brigade, street ballet, the Wind Chime Orchestra, and YOU getting in touch with your Inner Silly.  

            For questions, free parade ideas, and to sign up, ring The Silly Parade Committee at (510) 235-5519, or email richmondsillyparade@gmail.com. Be there or be oblong.

NEWSBYTES

From the Contra Costa Times: 

Who? Who? Last Sunday, the Eye made a modest contribution to science -- with its ear.

Shortly before dusk, The Eye ran into Nel Benningshof and Nick Despota, of Richmond, in Wildcat Canyon Regional Park as the two veteran birders demonstrated their tripod-mounted field scope to a group of teenage passers-by.

The youths zoomed in on a pine cone, when Despota announced, "I see two American robins" and swiveled the scope around.

The couple were taking part in the Great Backyard Bird Count, when birders across North America tally each species they identify in a four-day period.

Richmond is prime bird-watching territory, situated on the Pacific Flyway and near the mouth of the Sacramento River, Benningshof explained. As of about 6 p.m. last Sunday, Richmond was in third place among 620 California localities, with 99 bird species reported by around a dozen contributors. Later in the week, Richmond was running fourth, but the species count had climbed to 130.

As The Eye left, Despota instructed it to listen for the Great Horned Owl, demonstrating its characteristic "Hoo-HOO" call. The couple had seen one swooping overhead two years ago, but no one in Richmond had logged any yet during this year's Bird Count. Less than 10 minutes later, on a narrow trail near Wildcat Creek, the Eye heard "Hoo-HOO, HOO, HOO." Three more times the call came, in the same rhythmic pattern.

Reached by phone later that evening, Despota said The Eye's observation, even without a visual sighting, was valid, because the Great Horned Owl's call is unmistakable. He and Benningshof had heard it, too, he said, but too faintly to tally it with confidence until the Eye confirmed it.

For more information on the Great Backyard Bird Count, go to www.birdsource.org/gbbc/

Observations made during the Feb. 17-20 period will be accepted until March 5.

 The Richmond Circular Shuttle began operation through its service provider- TransMetro, Inc. on July 1st. The service is funded through the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, and can be accessed within a five mile radius to multiple health facilities and clinics, pharmacies, businesses, recreation, residential communities, and employment centers for those traveling to and from the El Cerrito Del Norte and Richmond Intermodal BART stations.

In an effort to provide the highest level of quality, dependability, reliability, customer service and a convenient schedule, riders can hop aboard the free "Richmond Circular Shuttle" at any of its 11 stops. Buses will arrive every 15-20 minutes during commute hours from 7:00am - 7:00pm (excluding weekends and holidays).

The objectives of the service is to ensure mobility and access and to link key regional destinations through reliable public transportation services including bus, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Amtrak for all of Richmond residents to travel to and from San Francisco and other Bay Area destinations. The service uncommon efficiency to meet evolving transportation needs promotes quality service and reliability.  

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