Virginia Arts Festival Announces Season

Virginia Arts Festival Announces Season

(Adrienne Warren is a highlight of the upcoming season) By Jeff Maisey The Virginia Arts Festival has unveiled its 2024 season, a mix of audience favorites and newcomers sure to please.  One of the upcoming season highlights will be an evening with musical theater...

2023 Holiday Markets

Holiday Boutique November 17 through December 24 Virginia Beach Art Center artcentervb.org   Impress loved ones with unique, hand-crafted gifts of fine art and artisan crafts. Give a gift like no other.  Mistletoe Market November 18 Wells Theatre vastage.org...
2023 Holiday Lights & Parades

2023 Holiday Lights & Parades

HOLIDAY LIGHTS & PARADES Garden of Lights Norfolk Botanical Garden Through December 31 5-9:30 PM Nightly NBGlights.org  Get out and enjoy the spectacular 1.5 million lights at Norfolk Botanical Garden through New Year’s Eve.    Barks & Bulbs Norfolk...
NEON Shines Bright with The Arts

NEON Shines Bright with The Arts

(Kyle Confehr’s The Kindness of Strangers mural.  Photo by Jon Abrahams of Jpixx) By Jerome Langston  When urbanist and scholar, Richard Florida, first introduced the “creative class” into our popular lexicon back in the early aughts, his ideas were heralded as being...
Hoggard. Remembering Joe

Hoggard. Remembering Joe

By Jim Raper On a fall night sometime in the late 1980s I dined with a professional group of about 20 at Joe Hoggard’s Ships Cabin restaurant in Norfolk’s East Ocean View. Our main course this evening would be cioppino. “It’ll be the best fish soup you’ve ever had,”...