by Jeff Maisey | Dec 9, 2015 | Beer News, News, News & Views
By Jeff Maisey At age 49, Kevin Erskine has decided to take the craft beer plunge, and he’s jumping in with both feet. Erskine was raised in New York City before departing at age 18 to attend college at Syracuse. He then went on to graduate school in Baltimore....
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 9, 2015 | Beer News, Drink, News, News & Views
By Jeff Maisey Southern Bank presented VEER Magazine’s 2015 Golden Tap Awards December 8 with Norfolk’s O’Connor Brewing Company scoring the most overall points to earn the Golden Tap for Brewery of the Year. Gold, silver and bronze medals were given in brewery/beer...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 9, 2015 | News, News & Views
By Jeff Maisey You may have noticed lately a growing number of sources dedicated exclusively to community news coverage for Virginia Beach. Challenging the daily newspaper – The Virginian-Pilot – for the eyes and minds of Beach residents are Southside Daily,...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 9, 2015 | Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison “Big Al” Staggs of the long-loved and long-absent band Left Wing Fascists likes to say that the group’s latest album, “Oxymoron,” avoided the usual studio fisticuffs of decades ago because the parts were recorded...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 9, 2015 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston Speaking to actor J. Harrison Ghee, a North Carolina native who was in Tampa for a Kinky Boots performance at the Straz Center when I recently interviewed him by phone, reminds me of the famous Oscar Wilde quote about life imitating art. Within just...