by Jeff Maisey | Aug 4, 2014 | Dance
By Leona Baker It would seem a no-brainer for a choreographer to be described as musical. After all, dance, in the most basic sense, is human movement set to music—be that “music” classical, contemporary, avant-garde or something as elemental and spare as the sounds...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 4, 2014 | Food, Restaurant News
By Jeff Maisey Belmont House of Smoke is on a roll – a barbeque roll at that. Last fall, the Norfolk Ghent restaurant participated in Festevents’ Ribtober Festival in Town Point Park and won first place. Then in May, Belmont House of Smoke was crowned Grand Champion...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 4, 2014 | Food Reviews
By George Culver The old gas station at Kings Grant Rd. and Virginia Beach Blvd. has always been there; I remember filling up at those pumps back in the ‘80s. Several years back it just shutdown and sat abandoned, overgrown grass and all. Living in Kings Grant,...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 1, 2014 | Beer Reviews
King of Hop Imperial India Pale Ale Starr Hill Brewery This is the latest edition to Starr Hill’s all-star All Access series of special, limited edition beers available on draft and in 22-ounce bottles. The Crozet-VA brewery is keen on naming its beers with musical...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 1, 2014 | Beer Reviews
Old Chub Nitro Scotch Ale Oskar Blues Brewery Admittedly, I’m a fan of nitrogen-gas, malty British-style beers. Having traveled frequently to Scotland I can’t say I’ve had a finer Scotch Ale than this new entry from Longmont, Colorado’s Oskar Blues Brewery. This...
