Category Archives: Entertainment

The Trend is Over! Moped Rally and Friday Cheers On Friday

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From the FaceBook event page:

The Trend is Over!

Parties! Swimming! Cookouts! Fire Pits! Scavenger Hunt! DJs! Bowling! Cuddles! Our Movie!

Meet up spot will be at Oregon Hill Linear Park all Friday afternoon for people arriving from parts beyond and on Saturday around noon-ish for the big ride. Details for events will be in your rally pack that you can pick up at Linear park on both days.

Also, this Friday Cheers is RVA Music Night, featuring Three Sheets to the Wind, NO BS! Brass Band and Long Arms.

Click here for more info on that nearby event.

Record Sale!

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Style may be all over the vinyl, but they did not get this announcement about this Saturday sale:

A not to be missed record sale blowout ranging from the super cheap to the highly collectible and everything in between. Will run from 9am-early afternoon. 310 south Cherry Street in Oregon Hill. Items of interest listed below:

– 20 crates of LPs (Rock, Soul. Jazz, Blues, Country, Punk, Indie, International & more) 50 cents & Up
– 4 boxes of DVDs $3 each
– Over 1000 45s 25 cents each
– Gemini PT-1000 DJ Turntable
– Klipsch Speakers
– Several hundred issues of Downbeat Jazz Magazine (70s-era)
– Over 300 CDs: 25 cents & Up
– Old issues of Ugly Things Magazine (about Garage Rock)
– rare pre-1960 mens’ magazines
– orig. ’77-’83 Star wars figures
– great pop culture related books and mags
– $1 vhs tapes
– Unusual collectibles from the 60s
– Very curious odds & ends not seen elsewhere

Vinyl Conflict Profiled In Style

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As part of their new music issue, Style Magazine has profiles of local record stores, including Oregon Hill’s Vinyl Conflict.

Vinyl Conflict

Location: 324 S. Pine St.

Store vibe: Small Oregon Hill spot, 400 square feet of hardcore punk with kitsch delights such as Ramones Russian dolls and a Descendents’ “Milo” bobble head.

Styles: Hardcore, punk and metal with some old-school stuff and an excellent local selection.

History: Opened in September 2008 by the husband-and-wife team of Brandon and Lauren Ferrell. A former drummer with Municipal Waste, Brandon saw the potential in filling a niche for the young punks and metal fans around Richmond, particularly in the Oregon Hill neighborhood. The couple also runs its own label, No Way Records.

Dominion Riverrock Festival This Friday, Saturday

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Look for running, biking, and lots of visitors.
Listen for music.

From the festival website:

Dominion Riverrock is the East Coast’s premier outdoor lifestyle festival, bringing athletes, spectators, musicians, and even dogs to Brown’s Island for a two-day festival against the backdrop of Richmond’s downtown riverfront. The party begins on Friday with performances by Big Gigantic and Perpetual Groove, a 5k mud run, and acrobatic kayak and freestyle bike competitions. Then, join in the fun Saturday in high-adrenaline activities both in and around the river – like the James River Scramble 10k trail run, mountain biking, kayaking, Ultimate Air Dogs and much more. The festival culminates with a performance by Yonder Mountain String Band. New to the event in 2011 are bouldering and Stand Up Paddleboarding. With additional musical performances, food, exhibits and more, Dominion Riverrock is a must-do for people of all ages.

Click here for schedule.

Upcoming…

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Really Really Free Market Saturday
School choice group meets Saturday
Disney’s Beauty and The Beast continues at the Landmark Theater
Pine Street yard/garage sale on Saturday-

May Day Parade…er…Celebration on Sunday
Pescados brunch service starts on Sunday
Monday is City Council budget meeting…perhaps we will see if Patrick Henry School gets more funding.
And don’t forget that Tuesday is the first official Byrd Market of the year!
Also Tuesday, there’s a meeting about Richmond’s transportation policy…I might have a few thoughts on that.

Sam’s Big Time

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Richmond Magazine has a short interview/profile of Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam–

Before singer-songwriter Sam Beam of Iron & Wine rose to folk-music stardom in the mid-2000s, he was a VCU undergraduate living on Laurel Street in Oregon Hill.
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He says that river references serve as the binding imagery for his latest album.

“It’s the classic cross-cultural metaphor for the life journey,” Beam says, adding that he used to frequent Pony Pasture and Belle Isle when he lived here in the mid-’90s.
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“My memories of Richmond are so fond,” Beam says. “I met my wife there, it was a big time for Sam.”

Iron and Wine plays The National next week.

Followed By The Black Dog….

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from recent blog post:

Interesting note, when the voices came back I was in college at VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University). I’m an aspiring writer and love the unknown and grave yards and one day I walked around Hollywood Cemetery, a very large and peaceful place, admiring the old tomb stones and sepulchers. Its. As I entered I immediately felt like the dead knew I was there. I felt like I was floating away from the outside world. The cars and outside noises went away. I felt something calling me in the very center of the cemetery. If I were to follow it it be like I’d float right out of my own body. Hollywood cemetery, local legend, is known to be haunted. I followed the calling out of interest and as I went further I saw a black dog come out of nowhere. Now I know black dogs guard the line between life and death but I took it as a real dog. So I backed away and turned around, avoiding eye contact. I turned back around to see if it was following me, it wasn’t. It had disappeared.

(Btw, though no Black Dog in it, click here for another recent blog post about a walk through Hollywood Cemetery)