Entertainment

Name of business: Seven Ten Owner: Have a Bowl LLC Address: 19330 Leitersburg Pike, Hagerstown Opening date: Aug. 30 Products and services: Family entertainment center, featuring tenpin bowling, restaurant and bar, arcade, party rooms, conference room, lounge area and pool tables. Target market: Everyone from the young to the young at heart. How did you get into your business, and what motivated you to start it? Visiting other facilities around the country that have a similar business model.

Washington County Ag Expo at Washington County Agricultural Education Center on Sharpsburg Pike includes the following entertainment this week: Tractor pulling contest - Wednesday, Aug. 5, 7 p.m. Tractor and truck pulling contest - Thursday, Aug. 6, 7 p.m. Gospel Caravan, gospel music - Friday, Aug. 7, 7 p.m. Shows are included in the evening admission price, which is $2 Sunday from noon to 9 p.m. and Monday from 8...

'Just Art' Greencastle artist Eliane Ambrose will exhibit abstracts, still lifes and outdoor paintings during September. Reception 2 to 4 p.m today. Continues through Sunday, Sept. 30. Mansion House Art Gallery, City Park, Hagerstown. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Trains for Everyone Trains for children to operate, HO- and O-scale model railroads, artifacts, photos and more. 1 to 5 p.m. today. Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum, 300 S. Burhans Blvd.

BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. -- An exotic entertainment ordinance was approved unanimously by the Morgan County Commission at Thursday's meeting. "It is effective immediately," Commissioner Thomas R. Swaim said. Alma Gorse, county planner, said the planning commission adopted the ordinance Tuesday after a public hearing. She said the county's attorney, Richard Gay, said the Morgan County Commission did not have to hold a public hearing. The Morgan County ordinance originally was adopted in 2004, said Jack Soronen, planning commission president.

Entertainment at Mercersburg Lions Club Community Fair MERCERSBURG, Pa. - Besides Mercersburg Area Community Band, other entertainment at Mercersburg Lions Club Community Fair at Lions Club Fairgrounds on Park Street in Mercersburg includes: Monday, Aug. 11 - Blue Grass Cut Ups, country-western Tuesday, Aug. 12 - Bob and the Kaktus Kowboys, country-western Wednesday, Aug. 13 - Branded, country-western Thursday, Aug. 14...

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- An ordinance regulating the location of "exotic entertainment" such as strip clubs is expected to be adopted next week by the Berkeley County Commission. Commission legal counsel Norwood Bentley III on Thursday presented a slightly modified version of the exotic entertainment ordinance, which the commission had adopted in 2004, but was ruled invalid last year by a circuit judge. The new ordinance, which was made possible by authorizing legislation passed by state lawmakers June 2, would not apply to adult bookstores, novelty shops and similar businesses unless the individuals inside were nude or semi-nude, Bentley said after Thursday's commission meeting.

Frontier Craft Days features musical entertainment Jonathan Hager Frontier Craft Days will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, and Sunday, Aug. 3, at Jonathan Hager House in City Park, Hagers-town. Admission is free. In addition to old-fashioned crafts, and a living history encampment of French and Indian war re-enactors, the event will feature entertainment. Whippoorwill, a West Virginia-based duet, performs at noon and 2 p.m. Saturday. Wissywig, a northern-Virginia-based group, will perform at 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday.

kristinw@herald-mail.com The Martinsburg Roundhouse Center in Martinsburg, W.Va., plans a weekend of entertainment, activities and model train displays for the seventh annual Roundhouse Rail Days beginning Saturday, July 16. Proceeds from the event support the restoration of multiple national historic landmarks that make up the roundhouse center, says Martinsburg Roundhouse Center office manager, Jennifer Baker. Rail days, planned for Saturday and Sunday, rain or shine, will include arts and crafts vendors, Civil War re-enactors and food booths.

Deadlines for Nightlife and karaoke, open mics, DJs, trivia listings is noon Friday for the next Thursday's edition. Send items to lifestyle@herald-mail.com . For more information, call Lifestyle editor Crystal Schelle at 301-791-7136. Thursday, May 2 ClearSpring Bluegrass, 7 to 9 p.m., Beans in the Belfry, 122 W. Potomac St., Brunswick, Md. 301-834-7178. The Allstars Band Open jam session with guest host Ted C, 8 p.m. to closing, Crazy Horse Steakhouse and Saloon, 116 Railway Lane, Hagerstown.

Hagerstown has an Arts and Entertainment District featuring the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, The Maryland Theatre, Washington County Arts Council, Washington County Free Library and the Barbara Ingram School for the Arts and other assets, but an economic development strategic plan for the county said the entertainment district's footprint needs to be smaller to achieve “critical mass.” The report, prepared by the consulting firms Urbanomics Inc....

Dear members of the Academy, I am writing today because I just emailed my vote for best movie of the year and I hope you will join me in supporting “Argo” as the winner. For years, you have picked some of the most boring movies ever - “The King's Speech,” anyone? - and here is a chance for you to right nearly a century's worth of wrongs. I know we have one week to go before the red carpet is rolled out and the Guccis and Carolina Herreras are covering the stars, but work with me here.

Through an informal vote Tuesday night, the Hagerstown City Council gave its approval for city staff to entertain purchase offers on a city-owned property on Public Square. Later in the work session meeting at City Hall, the five-member council also informally agreed to authorize staff to enter into negotiations to purchase a blighted building along West Washington Street. Both actions, the sale of property at 11, 12, 15 and 16 Public Square as well as the “strategic” acquisition and preparation for resale of 43-53 W. Washington St., are steps toward turning city-owned or blighted properties in Hagerstown's downtown back over to private hands, according to John Lestitian, the city's director of community and economic development.

People from all 50 states, every province in Canada and more than 60 countries have visited the Chambersburg Heritage Center since the Greater Chambersburg Chamber of Commerce opened it on Memorial Square in July 2004. Nearly 3,000 people signed the guest book at the center at 100 Lincoln Way East in 2012. These included visitors from eight other nations and 32 states. Some visitors did not sign the guest book, so visitation likely topped 3,000. May is the busiest month for visitors, and also is the month when students from the Chambersburg Area School District visit on school tours.

Zumba and Wii sports had no age limit Tuesday, as senior citizens were salsa dancing and playing Wii Bowling at the Robinwood Professional Center for the 2012 Senior Social. The annual four-hour event provided senior citizens with information about health and living choices they can make, two meals and several forms of entertainment. “Every time they have it, I come,” Falling Waters, W.Va., resident Mary Henson, 61, said. “It gets us out.” Dr. Stephen J. Kotch of the Meritus Medical Center Emergency Department and local historian Roger Keller addressed a group of seniors.

The Hagerstown City Council and Washington County Board of Commissioners met in a joint session Tuesday to hear the results of a feasibility study recently completed that examines the current arts and entertainment community in the city and county. Economist Anirban Basu of the Sage Policy Group, which administered the study, said that Hagerstown stands as the most logical point to establish the hub of the local arts and entertainment scene since it already has the needed infrastructure.

1. Spreading a little hope in Hagerstown Convoy of Hope begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, at Hagerstown Fairgrounds, 351 N. Cleveland Ave., Hagerstown. Sponsored by Hope for Hagerstown, the event will give out 30,000 pounds of groceries, plus offer a job and health fair, family photos, entertainment, hot lunches, access to community resources, kids fair with inflatables, entertainment, food and prizes. Free. Go to www.hopeforhagerstown.org . 2. Having fun with wheels and wings Hagerstown Aviation Museum and Hagerstown Regional Airport will have an open house, Wings & Wheels, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

The Walt Disney Co. is interested. So is Ryan Seacrest Productions. For a Hollywood script writer, those words are music to the ears. For Salisbury University senior communication arts major Kelsey Hovermale of Clear Spring, they represented one of the most important decisions of her college career. In January, Hovermale applied for internships at both companies with an eye toward gaining experience in entertainment journalism. In February, Disney called back. After a brief interview process, she was in. For months, she anticipated working for the entertainment powerhouse.

Each Labor Day weekend for at least five decades, Donny Gossert has cooked large quantities of beef as a fundraiser for his community. He will return to the roasters this morning to start 200 pounds of meat for the 78th annual Quincy Ox Roast. By the event's end, more than 2,200 pounds of top ground will have been prepared. A seemingly reasonable assumption could be that Gossert would not have an appetite for the beef after all this time. However, he still enjoys sampling pieces as the food steam cooks.