by Jeff Maisey | Jan 29, 2015 | Dance, Stage & Film
By Sheena Jeffers River North Dance Chicago is coming to Newport News for their first visit to Virginia, and they have a lot to say. A company of six men and six women, known nationally and internationally as an emotive dance company, River North is thrilled to be...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 29, 2015 | Film, Stage & Film
By Michael Hamar Recent news stories about the tragic suicide of Leelah Alcorn, a 17 year old transgender teen in Ohio and the award nominated movie, The Imitation Game, which looks at the work of Alan Turing and the breaking of the Nazi’s secret Enigma Code...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 29, 2015 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Apocalypse turns operatic when the tale of King Herod’s stepdaughter Salomé comes to the Harrison Opera House clad in the raiments of the modern Middle East. While the original biblical story of John the Baptist’s murder isn’t about the...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 29, 2015 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Once upon a time – and a very bad time it was too, to be male, alone and Black, and subject to Southern Police scrutiny – novelist John Ball picked up a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel with In the Heat of the Night,...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 26, 2015 | Beer News, Drink
By Jeff Maisey The idea of a collaboration between O’Connor and Smartmouth has been brewing beneath the surface for some time. While each of these Norfolk-based craft breweries have collaborated multiple times on one-off, specialty beers with other local breweries as...
