by Jeff Maisey | Jun 23, 2018 | News & Views, Robotham, Travel
By Tom Robotham Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. ~ Mark Twain. Whenever I feel the need to take a journey of some kind, I’m torn between two options: revisiting a place that I know...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 23, 2018 | Hamar, News & Views
By Michael Hamar June is Pride month across America and in many other parts of the globe. It is a time to reflect on and celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history – which has so often been hidden from view by the dominant straight, white...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 23, 2018 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Ron Wray Four young men in Southern California of the band Rebelution are resting now, gearing up for their next tour in support of their new album, Free Rein, slated for release on June 15. But, soon they will be headlining at the Untied Home Loans Virginia Beach...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 20, 2018 | Festivals, Music
By Jim Morrison The Wood Brothers’ new disc, “One Drop of Truth,” an album as full of sly metaphors as it is catchy melodies, opens with a funky bass line by Chris Wood before brother Oliver’s singing takes over. “Nothin’s ever for...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 20, 2018 | Festivals, Music
By Jim Morrison Terrance Simien started singing in his church in rural southwestern Louisiana when he was about five. He moved on to play the piano and then the trumpet in middle and high school before he met the accordion — and zydeco – and that transformed...
