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Welcome to your weekly Reader Rewards newsletter!  Well, I think we can all agree that we're inching ever-closer to summer here in Hampton Roads - if nothing else due to the VERY warm/humid weather this week.  Not to mention those afternoon thunderstorms starting to flare up!

No shortage of positive/encouraging news locally this week.  As vaccinations continue to slowly increase throughout Hampton Roads, there are more signs of "pre-COVID life" coming back.  Remember Mega Bus and the weekly trips to Washington D.C. and other locales in the Northeast?  Well - they're coming back.  If you missed The Pilot's Stacy Parker's report, check it out here. I'm sure everyone is aware of what Pharrell Williams has done in bringing about Something In The Water to Virginia Beach.  Well, his work in continuing to bring about positive change and opportunity to Hampton Roads made news again this week.  His nonprofit plans to open a group of private schools for students from low-income families. Check out Sara Gregory's report here. You may have followed the Old Dominion baseball team's success in the postseason - unfortunately falling short to UVA in a Game 7 of their Regional.  Quite the run!  Now there's focus on the need for an upgrade to the Bud Matheny Baseball Complex.  The only reason ODU didn't submit a bid to host the Regional was due to the inadequate facilities to do so.  The Pilot's David Hall captures the story here. Another sports topic: local fishing!  How about the likely world record red drum catch down in Virginia Beach last Thursday??  Stacy Parker has the story here!

And what would our local highlight reel be without SOMETHING pertaining to FOOD??  Matthew Korfhage brings us the report that yes - the now famous Crumbl Cookies are coming to Hampton Roads THIS YEAR.  Starting in mid-July, the cookies made famous via TikTok, Instagram and YouTube will be here locally.  Check out Matthew's full report here!

Contests this week!  In yet another sign of positive news: we've got concert tickets available!!!  The Virginia Arts Festival will produce Williamsburg Live and will be in full swing June 18-20.  We have three pairs of tickets to EACH of the shows: Chris Thile - June 18th, Leyla McCalla - June 19th and The Lone Bellow - June 20th!!  For those still craving those gift cards - we've got Amazon, Target and Kroger!

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VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS: WILLIAMSBURG LIVE. June 18-20, 2021•Lawn of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg. Enter below to win one of three pairs of tickets EACH to see Chris Thile(Friday, June 18), Leyla McCalla(Saturday, June 19) and The Lone Bellow(Sunday, June 20)!

 

MacArthur Fellow and Grammy Award-winning mandolinist, singer, songwriter Chris Thile, who the Guardian calls "that rare being: an all-round musician who can settle into any style, from bluegrass to classical,” and NPR calls a "genre-defying musical genius," is a founding member of the critically acclaimed bands Punch Brothers and Nickel Creek.  Sign up for a chance to win one of three pairs of tickets for the June 18th performance at MyReaderRewards.com!

 

Leyla McCalla finds inspiration from her past and present, from her Haitian heritage, living in New Orleans, to growing up on the streets in Brooklyn, this bilingual multi-instrumentalist and singer creates a distinctive sound that reflects the union of her roots and experience. She rose to fame during her two years as cellist of the Grammy-winning African-American string band, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, alongside bandmates Rhiannon Giddens and Dom Flemons, before leaving the group in 2013 to pursue her solo career. She collaborated with Giddens, Amythyst Kiah and Allison Russell on Songs of Our Native Daughters, a stunning reinvention of slave narratives. Deeply researched, beautifully performed, McCalla’s “magnificently transparent music holds tidings of family, memory, solitude…her voice is disarmingly natural, and her settings are elegantly succinct” (The New York Times). Sign up for a chance to win one of three pairs of tickets for her June 19th performance at MyReaderRewards.com!

 

When this “Nashville by way of Brooklyn” band released their first album in 2013, fans signed on and critics sang their praises; People Magazine placed it in their Top 10 Albums of the year, along with many other publications, and Entertainment Weekly called it “one of the top reasons to love country music.” The Americana Music Award-winning group released their latest album Half Moon Light in 2020 to rave reviews; NPR said, “The Lone Bellow makes music that feels like it’s welcoming you in – like the band members are opening their arms and inviting you to join their family with sing-along choruses, hand-clapping rhythms and melodies that somehow sound familiar even on a first listen.” Settle in for this Sunday night show and savor “songs that are meant to comfort and bring light.” Sign up for a chance to win one of three pairs of tickets for their June 20th performance at MyReaderRewards.com!
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Meet Winter!  Winter is this week's My Reader Rewards Pet of the Week! Yes - Winter is welcoming summer 2021! Paul and Antoinette Weathers are Winter's proud parents!  Check out our other furry friends in our new Pet Gallery. Want your pet featured? Email a picture of your pet to
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COMING SUNDAY:

Chad Rosenbrock was spending a beautiful day at the Oceanfront with his son and several friends last month when he decided to go for another swim. Almost immediately after diving in, he lost all feeling in his body and was unable to move. As he tossed in the water like a ragdoll, he held his breath and prayed someone would find him. Thankfully a man and woman saw him, called out for help and Rosenbrock's friends rushed in to get him. Now he's paralyzed from the chest down.

 Read more in this Sunday's Main News section

For years Blake Bailey, who taught at the school from 2010 through 2016, abused women who taught at and attended ODU, former and current ODU faculty and students say. Bailey was a literary star. His biography of Philip Roth was a best seller before he was accused of grooming his former middle school students for sex and raping a woman at a New York Times book critic's house. The Virginian-Pilot interviewed 15 women who were either graduate students or faculty during Bailey’s time at ODU. They chronicled his abuse of five women — including incidents of grabbing, grooming and intimidating graduate students. Six women said they told ODU administrators about Bailey accosting them or witnessing his abuse of others. They say their concerns, for a long time at least, went nowhere.

Read more in this Sunday's Main News section

Norfolk and Portsmouth are tied for the lowest percentage of people vaccinated against COVID-19 in Hampton Roads, with a little less than three in 10 of their residents being fully inoculated as of the middle of this week. The low level of vaccine immunity in those cities compared to neighboring localities has beguiled some pandemic researchers, especially following federal and state pandemic aid sent to those cities this spring in the form of supplies and manpower. As mass vaccination clinics throughout Virginia shut down and demand dwindles, public health officials are shifting supplies to doctor’s offices and smaller-scale operations. That leaves local health leaders in places like Norfolk and Portsmouth looking at strategies to bring shots to the hardest-to-reach -- and hardest-to-convince -- communities.

Read more in this Sunday's Main News section

  • When Leroy Dublin disappeared in December, he had no idea how many would notice. Dublin was a homeless man, a fixture at a corner in Ghent, a lone figure reading under a streetlight in all kinds of weather, year after year. Nearly 400 people have weighed in on Nextdoor thread, wondering what happened to him and trying to play detective. What’s behind such an outpouring? 

    Read more in the Sunday Break section

    Ralph Clayton Anderson was proud of his meat.

    For his pastrami sandwich, the chef and co-owner of Clayton’s Counter Delicatessen had sliced up the pastrami himself, brined it and smoked it for hours the night before, heating it all back up over a gas burner in the parking lot of Virginia Beach’s J&K Style Grill on Monday morning. He detailed the process with self-evident joy.

    But his competition wasn’t having it.

    “You don’t want his old meat!” yelled Carlton Peterson of F.O.O.L. Catering, while pressing down meatball patties onto his flat-top grill. “He brought old meat, and I’m out here cooking!”

    Meanwhile, Anderson’s sliced watermelons and house-made pickle sides were derided as fruit at a sandwich contest. Might as well be spoons at a gunfight.

    Peterson wasn’t just being mean. On that sun-baked parking lot, shade was part of the game.

    On Mondays throughout the summer, popular wing-and-burger spot J&K Style Grill is playing host to a series of parking lot battles among area chefs. And alongside food presentation and taste, “trash talkin” is one of the categories: Talk more smack, win more points with the judges.

     Read more in the Sunday Break section

    Hampton University track coach Maurice Pierce hasn't seen his team since March of 2020. But he'll get that chance on June 16 when athletes can report back to campus.

          Read more in this Sunday's Sports section.       

          The first Black-owned tattoo academy in the 757 opens its doors this summer              in Portsmouth.

          Greg Edwards decided to open the school adjacent to his tattoo studio, Greg’s            Tattoos, to help prevent others from what he experienced when he entered the             industry six years ago.

          “I initially tried to get an apprenticeship with a local artist, but found that it                      wasn’t welcoming,” Edwards said.

          Read more in this Sunday's Work & Money section.




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