by Jeff Maisey | Jun 28, 2016 | Film, Horton
By John L. Horton I just saw the newly released movie, “Independence Day: Insurgency,” this afternoon (Saturday, June 25). Twenty years ago, July 1996, I saw the original/first “Independence Day” movie. Although a science-fiction, action filled movie, strictly for...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 28, 2016 | Film, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III A line that ties Norfolk’s NEON Arts District and the Work|Release venue on Granby Street to a globe spanning host of filmmakers and dancers, musicians and visual artists from Europe, Asia, Israel, Italy, New York, Chicago and California,...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 22, 2016 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Newsom Bruce Hornsby’s got a brand new album and there’s not a single note played on piano. Hornsby, who lights up the Virginia Arts Festival with a three-day “Funhouse Fest” in Williamsburg this month, has built a 30-year recording career around his...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 22, 2016 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Gill Landry. Roll that around. Pause, ponder. Yes, Gill Landry is a longtime member of Old Crow Medicine Show. But the New Orleans resident also has a jagged solo career, releasing three albums, including his latest meditation, “Gill...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 22, 2016 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema I live in an interspecies household. We consist of a male and female human, two female canines, and two male felines. Each of us had originally lived solitary lives–some of us having grown up on the streets. We have all been brought...