by Jeff Maisey | Mar 23, 2016 | Concert Previews, Music
By Jim Morrison Cage the Elephant was born and shaped in a Bowling Green, Kentucky, writing songs, and getting into trouble. That’s about all there was to do, playTidball’s, the city’s longstanding club while underage. There’s a photo on a...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 17, 2016 | News, News & Views
By Kylie Sibert Retail Alliance, the non-profit association representing retailers throughout Hampton Roads, recently announced that Decorum Furniture is the recipient of this year’s 2016 Lifetime Achievement award at their Retailer of the Year event on May...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 15, 2016 | News, News & Views, Robotham
BY TOM ROBOTHAM I don’t know what it means and I don’t care because it’s Shakespeare and it’s like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words. ― Frank McCourt. First off, I must make a confession: There was a time when I hated...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 15, 2016 | News & Views, Robotham
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. ~ Margaret Fuller, Woman in the 19th Century. Some years ago, while delivering a lecture on the women’s movement to one of my classes at Old Dominion University, I paused to ask my students...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 14, 2016 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III That is very much the message that comes through when talking to Virginia Opera’s Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor, Adam Turner, about the upcoming production of The Flying Dutchman, which got grand reviews at the Glimmerglass...