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Friday, October 31, 2008

October 31, 2008 - Jim Kronmiller Top 10, Venangoland, Dr. Atomic

It's the last Friday of the month which means it's time for a local artist Top 10 List. Each month a different local artist drops off a list of the top ten things that currently fascinate them. Interested in playing along? Drop me a note and we'll figure something out.

As a tyro photog (check out the 50s beatnik lingo) I do my best to steal, I mean learn, as much as possible from the local masters - people like Jerry Sowden, John Karian, and this month's Top 10 lister, Jon Kronmiller.

Jim's photographic career started at a very early age, developing his first roll of film and making his first photographic print at the age of 10. During school in the Pacific Northwest, he studied graphic arts, and photography, under a vocational style curriculum under the watchful eye of Master photographer John Owens. Aside from working with various other professional photographers, the rest of his training has been self-taught.

Jim has received numerous awards for his work on environmental issues. He also has specialized in glamour and portrait photography.

While being totally disabled has stopped him from doing most of the things he cherishes, he is still quite passionate about nature, and the beauty of the earth. He remains quite concerned about the environment, and the creatures that we share this earth with.


Jim Kronmiller's October Top Ten List

#1: The people in this area. I have lived in many places around the US, and the world, and never have I found so many incredibly caring, friendly people!

#2: Brother Bean Global Coffee House

The most incredible tastes and aromas! Healthy eating and drinking in a very relaxing environment! The best!

#3 The Howling Dog Café. (219 Seneca St, Oil City, PA 16301 (814) 677-2490)

Charlie and his crew serve up some incredible sandwiches, exotic coffees and teas. Great soup too!

#4: The fall colors of our area.

Every year they just get better and better

#5: The arts colony in the Transit Building and Annex.

What incredible talent our local artists have.

#6: Two Mile County Park.

It’s ours again and we need to take care of it. Nothing like sitting there on a warm day and admiring the beauty around us!

#7: Freedom Falls.

Such a great place to take the family or a special one to visit and picnic. The old iron furnace there is amazing.

#8: Clarion University - Venango Campus.

We are really lucky to have this campus here locally. Its small enough to make you feel you are not a nameless face in the crowd, but large enough to attract first rate professors and staff.

#9: Oil City's Pipeline Alley

Lee Mehlburger did an incredible job of beautifying this area. Now they have concerts and a beautiful garden there.

#10: Seeing the younger members of our community getting involved with national causes, charities, and just becoming more involved in our global world. It gives us hope for our future!

Kronmiller Creative Photography Studio is located at 206 Seneca St, 2nd Fl Suite 25, Oil City, PA 16301

You can sign up for upcoming classes with Kronmiller such as the Ice Is Nice workshop and the Be Bold Shoot the Cold! by calling (814) 673-0900


Past Top 10 lists:





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Doctor Atomic plays as part of Erie's Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center as part of the Met's HD series Saturday, November 8, 2008 | 1 p.m. Drawback? Ticket prices are blindingly high for a fancy television broadcast.




At Venangoland, Pete Greene writes about cutting off his cable.




International author Horacio Castellanos Moya Horacio Castellanos Moya will do a reading at Clarion University, Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m. in the University Gallery, Level A, Carlson Library. He currently resides in the United States as writer-in-residence of City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.His presentation is part of the Spoken Arts Reading Series. The reading is free and open to the public.




Marvel Entertainment, Inc. is looking for MLIS students interested in an internship for school credit. Potential candidates must be local to or able to commute to New York City. Interested
candidates should apply online




Free and Legal Downloads:

Mountain Goats Live at Middle East on September 30, 2007

Ben Sollee Live at Fourth Street Live on November 9, 2007

Ben Sollee Live at 91.9 WFPK Studios on November 16, 2007

Monday, October 20, 2008

October 20, 2008 - OC & T Derailment, Costume Balls, and T-Shirt quilts.

The Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad derailed Saturday - no one was injured.




Award-winning fabric artist and author Louise Silk returns to Allegheny College to present an informal talk, titled “Transformation: Reuse of Materials for Meaning and Memory,” on Thursday, Oct. 23 at 12:15 p.m. in the East Alcove of Schultz Hall.

On Saturday, Oct. 25 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Campus Center, Silk will offer a free workshop on making T-shirt quilts. The workshop will include a break for lunch – participants should bring a brown bag or can buy lunch in the Campus Center.

Both of these events are free and open to the public, but space is limited and pre-registration is required. To sign up, contact Elizabeth Weiss Ozorak at 814-332-2394 or eozorak@allegheny.edu.

The Post Gazette reviews the Pittsburgh Opera's production of Samson et Dalila.


The "Night of the Living La La's", a costume ball sponsored by the Oil City Gay-Straight Alliance is November 1 at 8 pm at the Latonia Theatre . $5 at the door. BYOB.


Meadville’s downtown theater complex may reopen in a little less than four weeks.



Who doesn't like pinhole photographs of bicycles? Oh, yeah. Well, no one cares what you think.




Free and Legal Downloads:


Elephant 6 Orchestra Live at Cine on October 7, 2008


Brian Lee and His Orchestra Vol. 1 (full album download)


Mountain Goats Live at Park West on October 13, 2008

Saturday, October 04, 2008

October, 6, 2008

Applefest is over, Thank God, and while I'm cleaning all of the trash out of yard today, I will pause for a moment and be happy about the small step of recycling containers in the park for the 'fest.




Pittsburgh's Black Sheep Puppet Festival, the longest running yearly puppet festival in the country, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. 25 events are scheduled starting October 9th, many of them free, and none for more than $15.


The Oil Region Paranormal Investigation Team has completed and published their results from the Latonia Theatre Investigation. Spooky stuff dear readers, spooky stuff - although not scarier than Michael Keaton's performance in White Noise - now that was terrifying enough to make me doubt the existence of God.



The Meadville Tribune profiles muralist (and Oil City native) Berry Breene and her work “Streams Converging: Meadville at the Crossroads,” mural — located on the Park Avenue side of the Hovis Interiors Annex on Chestnut Street.






Free and Legal Downloads:

Mountain Goats Live at Middle East on March 15, 2008

Carolina Chocolate Drops Live at World Cafe Live (Downstairs) on September 30, 2008

My Morning Jacket Live at Riverside Theater on October 3, 2008

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

October 1, 2008 - Slacker Uprising, more canceled shows, and a new local blog

The Hello Tokyo show scheduled for Saturday at Oil City's Latonia has been canceled.





I'll be volunteering at the Franklin Public Library's Used Book Sale from 10-12 today, drop by, say hello and score some winter reading for cheap.





The Clarion University Young Democrats will host a free screening of Slacker Uprising at 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 2, at Hart Chapel. The screening is free and open.




43 Plays for 43 Presidents, a series of short plays depicting aspects of each president "warts and all", will open the 2008-09 Clarion University Theatre season. Jordan Rembold, a freshman theatre major and a graduate of Rocky Grove High School serves as one of the play's understudies.


Performances are Oct. 8-11 at 8 p.m., and a noon matinee on Sunday, Oct. 12 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $12, $9 for children six and under, and $6 for Clarion students with a valid student ID. The play may not be suitable for children. For tickets contact (814) 393-ARTS.





Ted Smith continues to bring the Franklin Barrow Civic into the technological present. He has set up a blog complete with audition packets for the upcoming production of The Wizard of Oz.



Free and Legal Downloads:
Mountain Goats Live at Middle East on March 15, 2008

North Mississippi Allstars Live at Ogden Theatre on September 27, 2008

Built to Spill Live at Terminal 5 on September 26, 2008