by Jeff Maisey | Oct 18, 2023 | News, News & Views
By Jim Raper On a fall night sometime in the late 1980s I dined with a professional group of about 20 at Joe Hoggard’s Ships Cabin restaurant in Norfolk’s East Ocean View. Our main course this evening would be cioppino. “It’ll be the best fish soup you’ve ever had,”...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 18, 2023 | News, News & Views
By Joel Rubin “To Janit…The Sweetest Little Girl I Know.” So wrote John Frank in 1958 on the wall of what was likely a bar on Hampton Boulevard at 25th Street in Norfolk. John and Janit’s relationship was lost to history until workmen uncovered the quote, part of a...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 18, 2023 | News, News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Over the years, I’ve written a lot about my love of baseball, and it’s on my mind once again as the World Series approaches. Lately, though, I’ve been reflecting on this in a broader context: Why are sports in general so captivating? I realize, of...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 14, 2023 | Other
757 region craft breweries have enjoyed another outstanding year with accolades coming from global, national, statewide, and regional sources. With all of these great things happening in our Coastal Virginia beer scene, it is our pleasure to announce the 2023 Veer...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 14, 2023 | News, News & Views
By Jim Roberts Marcia Conston didn’t live in Norfolk in 2011—the year Farm Fresh closed its grocery store in downtown Norfolk—but she fully understands the impact of Tidewater Community College expanding into that long unused space. “I never imagined that we could...