by Jeff Maisey | Aug 31, 2017 | News, News & Views
Virginia Stage Company and O’Connor Brewing Company have many partnerships in store for the 2017/2018 season, the first and biggest of which is the Musical Fundraising Event: A BREW NAMED SUE: An Americana Fundraiser for Virginia Stage Company. Join Virginia Stage at...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 31, 2017 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey For 3 Doors Down singer Brad Arnold, it had been five years between studio albums “Time of My Life” (2011) and “Us and the Night” (2016). With a couple of new band members, the recording of “Us and the Night” was a way to reinvent 3 Doors Down and...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 22, 2017 | Art, Art News, Art Previews, Current Exhibits
By Jim Roberts Crizti Walsh has spent many of her nights and weekends the last two and a half years painting an eclectic bunch of characters. Among them: a trapeze artist, a voodoo priestess, a woman with progeria and a Tanzanian albino. She said that painting these...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 16, 2017 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Ian Randall Thornton likes to let the songs flow naturally, following whatever is inspiring him at the moment. But he also doesn’t want his albums to just be a collection of unrelated songs. So when he started working on the tunes that would...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 15, 2017 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey The duels and competition of ideas among some of America’s early political leaders are famously documented in historical written accounts, but it is perhaps even more fascinating to think of composers from the Baroque period nearly impaling the other....