by veermagmain | Mar 16, 2024 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews
(Avery Keys’ Static ) By Betsy DiJulio “Is it my imagination or is ODU student work considerably stronger than in the past?” I asked John Roth, professor and chair of the ODU art department, via messenger, pressing further, “If the latter, to what do you attribute...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 22, 2023 | News, News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Recently, I received a notice from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh that my graduating class would be among those honored during this year’s homecoming weekend. Until then, it hadn’t dawned on me that 2023 marks 45 years since I donned...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 17, 2015 | News, News & Views
By Tom Robotham Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use?…They are for nothing but to inspire. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson. The great essayist Anne Fadiman once spoke for all true bibliophiles when she wrote, “the...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 1, 2014 | Classical
By Montague Gammon III Golden Gloves fighter at fourteen, underwater warrior a little later, Gandhi follower since early adulthood, double Emmy winning composer, conductor and music director; former boxer and World War 2 frogman John Duffy just might be Greater...
