Say YES, YES to B-B-Q in NoNo

Say YES, YES to B-B-Q in NoNo

Words & Photos by Joe Lowrey   I’m guessing everyone reading this has their own idea about what makes barbeque special. I’m also thinking it is a pretty safe bet that most of you have never experienced the magnificent meats served up by the two joints I’m...
Get Ready to Savor the Sour at Beach Brewing

Get Ready to Savor the Sour at Beach Brewing

By Elizabeth Erschens & Diane Catanzaro   Pucker up people. Sour power will transform your mind as it tantalizes your tongue, as Beach Brewing enters the third dimension of brewing. While most people think of beers as one-dimensional (that dimension being...
VA Stage Company: Puzzler of a Play

VA Stage Company: Puzzler of a Play

  By Montague Gammon III   Call The Other Place, the upcoming Virginia Stage Company production, a “thriller” or a “psychological thriller” or a “Hitchcock style psychological thrill ride” or the term director Chris Hanna likes best, “a puzzle play,” the...
Norfolk Spotlighted on Nautical Channel

Norfolk Spotlighted on Nautical Channel

By Larry Bonko Hello, 2015. I begin a new year of covering television with a question. Is Norfolk really “a blue-collar town constantly fighting for respect among more elite coastal communities.”? Lucia Metzbauer of the Nautical Channel thinks so. Those...
Poverty as a Challenge, Not a Problem

Poverty as a Challenge, Not a Problem

By Philip Newswanger   The war on poverty is a battlefield strewn with corpses. Liberals, progressives and conservatives have tackled the moral, ethical, economic and social consequences of poverty and have died a metaphorical death because of their insane yet...