by Jeff Maisey | Dec 9, 2015 | News, News & Views
By Jeff Maisey You may have noticed lately a growing number of sources dedicated exclusively to community news coverage for Virginia Beach. Challenging the daily newspaper – The Virginian-Pilot – for the eyes and minds of Beach residents are Southside Daily,...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 9, 2015 | Music, Music News
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...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 9, 2015 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
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...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 9, 2015 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 1, 2015 | Robotham
In this era of the 24-hour news cycle, it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture—especially when it comes to politics. With that in mind, it’s worth taking a step back to consider the question, is conservatism on the rise? In some respects it appears to be,...