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Stay Off the Stage: An interview with Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe
By Jeff Maisey World renown metal band Lamb of God returns to Hampton Roads in support of its latest album, “VII: Sturm Und Drang,” which debuted at #2 on Billboard’s US Top Current Albums chart. The Richmond-based group also received a Grammy nomination...
Mothers Give Birth to Experimental Pop
By Jeff Maisey What happens when you record your debut album more than a year before it’s released? In the case of Athens, Georgia experimental pop group Mothers, you tour with the likes of Of Montreal and garner favorable press exclaiming you’re one of...
Controversy Surrounds New Left Wing Fascists Album
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 separately. Longtime guitarist Scott...
Kinky Boots Kicks Up its Heels at Chrysler Hall
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...
Musical Innocence of Leon Bridges
By Jim Morrison Only a couple of years ago, Leon Bridges earned a living washing dishes at Del Frisco’s Grille in Fort Worth. He played the open mikes around town, mostly folkie country stuff. “There weren’t many people doing R&B at open mikes,”...
Urban Cyclists Battle Carmageddon
By Tench Phillips It was recently announced that the American Planning Association (APA) has designated our very own Colley Avenue as the winner of the “People’s Choice” award as one of the Great Places in America in 2015. This recognition vindicates a lifetime...
Todd Turns 10
By Jeff Maisey When Todd Rosenlieb arrived in Hampton Roads, modern dance was a rarity experienced only when the Virginia Arts Festival brought in a nationally touring company such as Mark Morris from April to May. While Michael Curry scheduled an occasional...
Breast Cancer Spotlighted in Menopause the Musical
By Jeff Maisey Three of the four cast members of Menopause the Musical are breast cancer survivors. The disease is duly noted when the popular musical comes to the Sandler Center on November 3 and 5. Terri Adams – a survivor – has played the part of a Baby...
A Fresh Bohème at Virginia Opera
By Montague Gammon III The opera La Bohème is a story of young love and heartbreak, and heartbreakingly young death. It’s back at the Virginia Opera’s Harrison Opera House, in a new production full of youthful energy and total respect for all that has made Puccini’s...
System Change, Not Climate Change
By Tench Phillips Who we are as Americans has been formed by stories told and retold from the pulpit, in the classroom, and by the media. We have come to share many of the same unquestioned beliefs – that science and technology will solve everything, that we...
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