Jiffy Lube

Pennzoil Co., the Houston oil company that owns an 82.4 percent share of Jiffy Lube International Inc., is offering to buy the remaining 1.53 million shares at $6 each, for a total of $9.2 million.Jiffy Lube yesterday closed at $4.50 a share, down 50 cents. Pennzoil's offer was announced after the market closed.The action would complete the takeover of the former Baltimore company, which Pennzoil rescued from a sea of red ink in late 1989. At that time, Pennzoil bought 80 percent of Jiffy Lube for $35 million.

Kiss and Motley Crue performed at Jiffy Lube Live on Friday night. Midnight Sun contributor Jay Trucker was there. Thirty years after they first toured together, Kiss and Motley Crue are back out on the road, opening their 2012 summer tour on an intermittently stormy night in Bristow. But if Crue is officially the opening act on this tour, their bigger stage show, equal-lengthed setlist and more frenzied audience suggests otherwise.  Motley Crue's stage show is a spectacle.

Shedding the last vestiges of its corporate ties to Maryland, Jiffy Lube International Inc.'s parent company has sold the oil and automobile service company's former headquarters in the city's Seton Business Park.The 80,000-square-foot office building, completed in 1988 at a cost of $10.5 million, was purchased by DuPont Financial for $5.5 million, with financing provided by Nomura Asset Capital Corp. DuPont Financial is an investment firm owned by Jay L. Denburg, a certified public accountant and managing director of accounting firm Denburg & Low, P.A.The building at 6000 Metro Drive is fully leased to the Baltimore Visiting Nurses Association, Sprint Communications, Chesapeake Biological Laboratories and American General Insurance.

Aerosmith is going on tour again this summer. The Global Warming tour, which was announced Monday, is the band's first North American trek in two years. Jiffy Lube Live is getting the show July 3. Cheap Trick is opening.  Unlike their contemporaries Van Halen, the band doesn't have a new album to plug. In fact, they haven't released new studio material in eight years, since "Honkin on Bobo. " While they've stayed on the road, they've mainly played South America and Europe in the course of the last two years.

Howard County police said the Jiffy Lube in Owen Brown village was robbed last week.About 5: 45 p.m. Thursday, a man walked into the oil-change shop in the 6400 block of Dobbin Center Way and demanded money, a report said.Employees told police that the man kept his hand in his coat pocket during the robbery but displayed no weapon.Police said the man took an undisclosed sum of money and fled on foot.The man is identified as black, of medium complexion, 6 feet tall and weighing 170 to 180 pounds.

Can the man who ran Jiffy Lube run a school for the state's toughest juvenile offenders?That's a question two special committees will wrangle with starting today, now that they have the bids from private contractors who want to run the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School.At least 35 private concerns expressed interest in the state's request for proposals, but only a few bids were expected. Juvenile Services officials will not comment on how may bids were received or who submitted them.Possible contenders include non-profit agencies such as Northeastern Family Institute of Danvers, Mass.

W. James Hindman, a former college football coach and the founder of the Jiffy Lube chain, is about to go public with his latest venture: an Owings Mills company that runs facilities for troubled youths, including the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School in Baltimore County.The company, Youth Services International Inc., will try to sell up to $18 million of stock to the public sometime next year, according to a registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.The 3-year-old company plans to sell nearly 1.5 million shares of stock, at a maximum price of $12 a share, according to the statement.

The merger of Owings Mills-based Avatech Solutions Inc. with a Colorado firm has brought to Maryland another public company and lured the founder of Jiffy Lube back into business, the local software company said yesterday. With the completion of its merger with publicly held PlanetCAD Inc. of Boulder, Colo., Avatech gained as its chairman W. James Hindman. The founder of Jiffy Lube and Youth Services International Inc., Hindman is a co-founder and former board member at Avatech. "This means a tremendously expanded opportunity," Hindman said.

Playing to win on the football field and in the boardroom has resulted in the funding of the first endowed undergraduate professorship in the humanities at Western Maryland College.W. James Hindman, former WMC football coach and Jiffy Lube International Inc. founder, and his wife, Dixie, of Westminster were recognized last month at a trustee dinner as the principal donors of the Ralph and Dorothy John Professorship in the Humanities.Ex-president honoredThe Hindmans chose to honor former WMC President Ralph C. John and his wife, Dot, of Berlin, Md., in the naming of the professorship.

A city police officer who apparently interrupted a robbery in Northwest Baltimore traded shots with one would-be holdup man, but no one was reported wounded and two men escaped, officials said yesterday. Three officers responded to a 911 call minutes before midnight Monday for an assault in progress in the parking lot of a Jiffy Lube in the 5600 block of Nome Ave. in Pimlico. They saw two men confronting an employee of a nearby McDonald's outlet, police said. The pair ran behind the Jiffy Lube and emerged in a small car, driving in reverse and "in an erratic matter toward an officer," said police spokeswoman Ragina C. Averella.

Dave Matthews Band will perform at Jiffy Lube Live this summer, it was announced Wednesday morning. It's the first summer tour for Matthews since 2010. He's set to perform in Bristow June 16. He'll be promoting a new album that'll be released sometime this year, a follow-up to 2009's "Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King. " Tickets go on sale March 9; price is not yet available. Gary Clark Jr., who performed in Baltimore in December, is opening.

Because of the success of the Backstreet Boys - New Kids on the Block double tour , some of the members are now going on tour on their own. Thanks everyone who paid for that! Nick Carter is at Rams Head Live Friday, and his 80s counterpart Jordan Knightwill be at the Fillmore Silver Spring March 25. The concert was one of several the venue announced recently, including Guns N' Roses . Knight is touring in support of new album "Unfinished. " Tickets, at $35, are already on sale.

Jiffy Lube Live banned tailgating last spring over concern about endless tailgates and excessive drinking at its massive parking lot, Ambassadors. Fans were aghast, creating a handful of "Boycott Jiffy Lube" Facebook groups and online petitions. On Thursday, the venue, run by Live Nation, announced it would bring tailgating back starting with the new concert season under a new set of rules and increased supervision from police and staff. The Bristow, Va.-based venue describes the return of the tailgates not as a cave-in to fan demand, but a reconfiguration of a tradition the venue had been well known for. To keep the tailgating in check, the venue came up with a new set of guidelines in in cooperation with Prince William County Police; they are: -  "All parking is on a first come, first served basis and spaces cannot be reserved or held for other cars.  Each car must occupy only one space and all tailgating activities must occur directly in front, behind or inside the car.  Due to the space challenges and safety concerns, tents will not be allowed in order to keep all pedestrian and drive isles free from obstruction.

Editor:  On Nov. 18, the Forest Hill Elementary School PTA sponsored our 11th annual PTA bingo fundraiser. It was a wonderful success and a great deal of fun. Funds raised are going to student materials and activities that will enhance their educational experience. Thank you so very much to the local businesses that helped us as well as our community families. We hope you will support these businesses that showed their support of our community and our students.  THANK YOU! Businesses that donated: 4 Paws Spa and Training Center, A Country Setting, Amazing Glaze, Applebee's, The Arena Club, Austin and Greig Masonry, Baltimore Ravens Football, Bel Air Athletic Club, Bradley Atlantic Ins. Management, Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar, Charm City Run, Chopstix, Chung's Martial Arts, Classic Image, Duclaw Brewing Co-Restaurant and Microbrewery, Edible Arrangements, Five Guys Burgers & Fries, Forest Hill Automotive, Forest Hill Framing, Freaky Pets, Geneva Farms, Goddard School, Harford Sports Training Academy, Italian Sensations, Jarrettsville Creamery and Deli, Jiffy Lube, Jim's Bottleworks, Jonathan's Florist, Kiddie Academy, Kids First Swim School, Liberty Ski Resort, Mountain Branch Grill & Pub, My Gym, NutraMax Laboratories, Papa John's Pizza, Portrait Innovations, Rapid Refill, Ronnies Fine Wine & Spirits, Round Top Ski Resort, Safelite Auto Glass, Saxon's Diamond Centers, Snap Fitness, Target, TCBY, The St. Paul Group, Tiddlywinks, Tim Dippel Lawncare,...

Jimmy Buffett's concert Saturday night at Jiffy Lube Live has been postponed over concern about Hurricane Irene, which is already making its presence felt on the Eastern Shore. The band Journey has also postponed its Sunday night concert at the same venue because of the hurricane's threat. The 9:30 Club in Washington has also moved a concert and birthday party for godfather of go-go Chuck Brown to Sunday night. The three are just the latest live music events affected by the hurricane.

Let's first get this out of the way: I'm no dance-music expert. My appreciation is genuine but would be considered cursory by DFA-heads: I've seen an A-Trak set, love LCD Soundsystem and know how to hit a dance floor without making a complete fool out of myself. (Friends might question that last tidbit.) But when I saw the IDentity Festival , a celebration of forward-thinking electronic music, was today at Jiffy Lube Live, I had to blog about it. The Skullcandy main stage has the Grade A headliners: Kaskade, Afrojack and Disco Biscuits to name a few, but I'm more intrigued by the Rockstar Dim Mak Stage.

Youth Services International Inc. of Owings Mills has lost its second senior executive in two months, as Chief Operating Officer John F. Ripley left to become president and chief executive officer of Leesburg, Va.-based Precision Tune Inc.Mr. Ripley, 38, who has worked with Youth Services Chairman James Hindman since their days at Jiffy Lube International Inc., said he will remain on the board of directors.Mr. Hindman said the two recent departures were a coincidence. The company disclosed the resignation of Chief Financial Officer Harry G. Pappas on May 2."

Annapolis police arrested a man Friday night suspected of robbing two West Street businesses -- one while using a sawed-off shotgun.George Brown Jr., 24, of the 100 block Old Solomons Island Road, was charged with robbing a Jiffy Lube March 21 and The Woodburner Shop on Wednesday.Police said officers spotted the man while conducting surveillance in the 1900 block of West Street, where the businesses are located.Police reported seeing the man between Moreland Parkway and Admiral Drive and caught him while he was trying to hide in tall grass just off Admiral Drive.

A day before their show at Jiffy Lube Live, Def Leppard announced Friday morning they would have to postpone their performance scheduled for Saturday night. The band has had to reschedule because of a family illness, according to the e-mail concert promoter Live Nation sent to media this morning. The band, and opener Heart, will instead perform July 31. "Def Leppard regrets the inconvenience and looks forward to returning to Jiffy Lube Live in several weeks," the statement said.

Editor's note: The Def Leppard concert originally scheduled for July 9 has been rescheduled to July 31 due to a family illness. If the kids will be flocking to Merriweather Post Pavilion on Saturday night for Animal Collective, their parents will heading in droves to rock out with Def Leppard at Jiffy Lube Live in Virginia. Now in its third decade, the English band has secured a place in the rock pantheon They have also made a place for themselves in the zeitgeist, having inspired, like Bon Jovi, "Rock of Ages," the recent Broadway musical that celebrates the excesses of the '80s.