Look for Cherry Street neighbor Michael “Howie” Hall in upcoming 2017 episodes of the fourth and final season of AMC’s ‘Turn’ television series, which is about spies in the Revolutionary War. He’s acted in small parts in quite a few previous seasons of the show and says he has enjoyed it immensely.
Given the headline in today’s newspaper, this free movie showing on Saturday might be of interest:
Don’t forget about the upcoming RVA Environmental Film Festival in February.
Doug Childers has a review of Howard Owen’s new book, ‘Grace’, in the Times Dispatch. It’s once again set in Richmond and one of the main characters is a minister named Sam McNish, whose background includes growing up poor and fatherless in Oregon Hill. Like “Oregon Hill”, a previous Owen novel, this features his hero/reporter protagonist Willie Black.
Here are the first few paragraphs of the review:
Richmond’s building a reputation as a highly creative city, with everything from art shows to ad agencies getting national press. Few of the city’s creative types have built a following by writing about Richmond’s crimes, though.
Of course, the crimes that Howard Owen describes in his critically acclaimed Willie Black series are fictional. But the books are so thoroughly rooted in recognizable locales that it sometimes feels as if local readers following Black’s path through the city might bump into him.
In fact, each installment in the series takes its title from a Richmond neighborhood or landmark. Owen’s latest, “Grace,” refers to Grace Street. As Black tells us, “(T)he city’s history is laid out along its chopped-up route.”
Join Ben Kwak, popular tenor from Grace & Holy Trinity’s In Love with Music concerts, along with parishioners and musicians Chase Peak, baritone, and George Pugh, pianist, for an afternoon of thrillingly beautiful and varied duets and arias from opera. The program will include works from Verdi’s Don Carlo, Puccini’s La Boheme, and Bizet’s Carmen. The Music Ministry Team will host a reception following the concert. Free parking is available behind the church and in the V.C.U. Main Street Deck at Main and Laurel. The concert will take place in the parish hall. Please invite family and friends to this exciting concert of glorious music.
An Afternoon of Tenor-Baritone Duets and Arias: Saturday, October 29 4:00 p.m.
From email announcement:
Community Movie Night
Friday, October 28 @ 6:30 pm
Pleasants Park
Final movie till Spring
So the local Chamber of Commerce (ChamberRVA) is holding a Mayoral candidate forum tonight at the nearby Altria Theater.
It is free and open to the public (get there before 6:30 pm), and will be broadcasted live on NBC12 television at 7 pm.
By the way, you may notice that ChamberRVA has moved on from promoting the Shockoe stadium scheme to pushing for doing something with the Richmond Coliseum. Anyway, I suspect that the Coliseum will come up in the questions, but there is one question I doubt will come up, though it should:
As someone running for Mayor, have you signed the Virginia Declaration of Solar Rights?
Solar energy empowers Virginians to harness clean local energy, creates jobs, and enhances our energy security. Sadly, Virginia’s current laws violate our right to invest in and benefit from solar energy by limiting consumer choice. This fall, the General Assembly will hold a special session to review solar policies that will help all Virginians fairly access solar energy. This is a great opportunity for Richmond leaders and citizens to let our state senators and delegates know there is broad, bi-partisan support for legislation that will enable all Virginians to go solar.
There is more detail here:
http://www.vasun.org/declaration-of-solar-rights/
I have been wanting to do this for a while, and I think this is the year… I am hereby announcing the first annual Oregon Hill Jack ‘O Lantern Contest. First prize so far is a measly $20 from yours truly, however I am also announcing that I am looking for a local business to co-sponsor and help to significantly increase the prize money. (In other words, this could quickly become the ________/Oregon Hill Annual Jack O’Lantern Contest with the right advertising contract).
Creative Commons image- A Jack o’ Lantern made for the Holywell Manor Halloween celebrations in 2003. Photograph by Toby Ord on 31 Oct 2003.
So…rules…let’s see…
Submission Info
OregonHill.net invites submissions for its first annual Oregon Hill Jack O’ Lantern Contest. Entrants should read the following rules, terms, and conditions before submitting any photos or documentation.
Eligibility
Entrants must be 18 years of age or older. All entrants younger than 18 years of age must submit a note of parental consent with their entry. All entrants must be a resident of the Oregon Hill neighborhood to be considered. Contest is void where prohibited by law.
Contest judges (which is so far just me) and their immediate families are not eligible to enter.
Entries
Entries will start being accepted from October 15, 2016 at noon through October 27, 2016 at 11:59 pm. A winner and runners-up will be announced and presented on OregonHill.net on Friday, October 29, 2016 at noon. Please submit entries by emailing a photo jpeg file, size between 200 kb and 1.5 mg, of the entry to info@oregonhill.net, including a (real) name and a (real) address. Submitted photo should be of a carved or altered pumpkin in front of address. All entries must be original, newly-produced works, created after October 1, 2016. Entries must be original creations, with photo by the creator, and not infringe on the copyrights of any other parties. Any entires suspected, in the discretion of OregonHill.net, to be in violation will be rejected immediately from the competition.
OregonHill.net does not grant entrants the right or access to photograph private property or use of its name to secure access. Entries may have multiple co-producers, but one should be listed as the primary contact upon entry. The fair dissemination of any prize winnings will be the responsibility of the primary contact. Participants may submit multiple entries, however 1 photo entry per email. All forms of photos that are not produced by the entrant must be credited to the original photographer. Entries containing immoral, defamatory, obscene or scandalous content, or any other content which, at the sole discretion of OregonHill.net, is not in the keeping with OregonHill.net, will be deemed ineligible. By submitting a photo entry, each participant represents that the photo submitted is an original work that does not infringe on the copyright or intellectual property right of another party, and each participant agrees to indemnify OregonHill.net, and its contest judges from all liability arising from any alleged infringement in this regard. Photographer retains ownership rights to the submitted photo. However, the winning entrants grant to OreognHill.net the non-exclusive, non-transferable right and license to use the photos and the winners’ names in perpetuity without compensation, notification, or other limitation or condition, both in conjunction with the competition and promotion of the competition and promotion of OregonHill.net generally.
OregonHill.net is not responsible for entries that are not received or not received properly, or for any technical problems with corrupt digital files, internet outages, computer failures, and the like. OregonHill.net is not responsible for lost, late, or misdirected entries. OregonHill.net is not obligated to acknowledge receipt of entries.
Judging
Entries will be judged by a panel made up of OregonHill.net editors and Halloween experts invited by OregonHill.net. Judges’s decisions will be final and binding.
To select the winner, entries will be by judged by awarding of points based on the following criteria: (1) originality (40%), (2) composition and coherence (20%), (3) quality of photo (20%), and (4) consuming/recycling/composting of materials (20%) (this can be signified by a statement of intent included with entry). In the event of a tie score, the tie will be broken by awarding the prize to the entrant with the highest score in the first of the above-listed criteria (in order of appearance) as to which there is no tie.
Prize
Prize consists of $20 in U.S. currency, prominent featuring on OregonHill.net, and bragging rights. Runners-up will receive prominent featuring on OregonHill.net, and bragging rights. Applicable federal, state, and local taxes on prize are the sole responsibility of the winner.
Lastly, OregonHill.net reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify, suspend, or cancel the contest for any reason.
I think that covers it.
In addition to possibly having a co-sponsor, there is the possibility that the contest judging will change to online public voting on OregonHill.net to determine winner, but that possibility may or may not happen for this year’s contest.
Community Movie Night
Friday, October 14
Pleasants Park behind Pine Street Baptist Church
Free refreshments
Community Movie Night
September 23
@ duskPleasants Park
Refreshments Served
(Ed. note: Doubt it will be in IMAX though.)
From email announcement:
Community Movie Night
Friday, September 9 at dusk
Pleasants Park behind Pine Street Baptist Church
As always, refreshments served
