Hoggard. Remembering Joe

Hoggard. Remembering Joe

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,”...
ESSAY: A Fan’s Notes

ESSAY: A Fan’s Notes

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...
VOTE! 2023 VEER Golden Tap Awards

VOTE! 2023 VEER Golden Tap Awards

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...
TCC Opens New Visual Arts and Design Center

TCC Opens New Visual Arts and Design Center

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...