A great support group for veterans will be honored in the Ross Hollywood Chapel Veterans Day Parade, which starts at 9:45 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, in the Hollywood District.
Team Red, White and Blue (Team RWB), namely Crystal Purdy, athletic director, will serve as grand marshal for the 41st annual parade. Team RWB, formed in 2010, enriches lives of veterans through physical and social activity.
The parade starts at Northeast 40th Avenue and Hancock Street and travels east on Sandy Boulevard to Northeast 48th Avenue, where a memorial flag raising will be held.
Special guests include many veterans, Blazers legend Bill Schonely and radio hosts Mike and Amy.
Veterans and families wil be treated to a USO-style show and lunch, 12:30 p.m. at Hollywood Theatre, featuring WWII-era and patriotic music by Tony Starlight.
For info: www.veteransdaypdx.org.
Malkovich coming
A famous actor will visiting our city later this month on Record Store Day, Nov. 27, which also happens to be Black Friday.
Actor/director John Malkovich has collaborated with commercial director/photographer Sandro and producer/composer Eric Alexandrakis on Like A Puppet Show, an 11-track LP that also features the mixing of the likes of Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Dweezil Zappa, Dandy Warhols and Placebo; Ric Ocasek of The Cars mixed the first single, Cryoblue Cheese O. Its a vinly-only release on Record Store Day.
And, Malkovich, Sandro and Alexandrakis will be signing vinyl copies from 3 to 5 p.m. Nov. 27 at Music Millennium, 3158 E. Burnside.
OBTs expansion
After recently completing its 25th season, Oregon Ballet Theatre is planning for the move to its new space in South Waterfront in January, but organizers have other expansion news to share: The company has taken over the West Linn space that Moxie Dance once inhabited, when Moxie opted to close, at 19066 Willamette Drive. Its a space that will allow expansion for its ballet school and serve Gladstone, Oregon City, West Linn, Lake Oswego and areas beyond.
The South Waterfront and West Linn branch of School of Oregon Ballet Theatre will open Jan. 4, 2016. The West Linn space will feature two studios and offer pre-ballet and early level classes for children, mommy-and-me and adult ballet and fitness classes.
In addition, OBT plans a new outdoor performance series created solely by female choreographers. Its expected to begin in 2017, and fully produced performances will be free, thanks to the Oregon Community Foundations Creative Heights initiative.
Artists grants
In the first of three rounds of Career Opportunity Grants, the Oregon Arts Commission and The Ford Family Foundation have awarded nearly $55,000 to several artists for career development projects.
The Oregon Arts Commission grants are for artists to further career development; the Ford grants are available only to Oregon mid-career visual artists, who are older than 30 and are producing new work in fine art and contemporary craft.
The grant recipients: Mike Bray, Eugene, visual arts; Grace Carter, Portland, theater; Samantha Cohen, Portland, visual arts; Fernanda DAgostino, Portland, visual arts; Kaila Farrell-Smith, Portland, visual arts; Joel Fisher, Portland, photography; Laura Heit, Portland, interdisciplinary; Michael Kaster, McMinnville, photography; Dana
Louis, Portland, visual arts; Jana Meszaros, Eugene, dance; Seth Nehil, Portland, media arts; Vanessa Renwick, Portland, media arts; Ethan Rose, Portland, visual arts; Morgan Rosskopf, Portland, visual arts; Kaia Sand, Portland, visual arts; Sivagami Vanka, Portland, dance; and Terri Warpinski, Eugene, visual arts.
The 100th Grimm
Gov. Kate Brown, NBC dignitaries and actors from the Portland-based hit Grimm will be on hand during a private ceremony marking the shows 100th episode, 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, on the set in Northwest Portland.
The episode will be shown later in season five, and in the episode, co-creator David Greenwalt told an audience at San Diego Comic Con, Were going to explain the damn keys. We still dont know what they do, but by god were going to explain it.
Grimm airs on KGW-TV on Friday nights.
