by Jeff Maisey | Nov 20, 2019 | News, News & Views
(“Holidivas: A Holiday Cabaret” featuring Lindsay Eure runs December 12-15 at Zeiders American Dream Theatre) HOLIDAY LIGHTS & PARADES Million Bulb Walk Norfolk Botanical Garden Through December 14 4-9 PM Nightly www.NBGholidays.org Olde Towne...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 20, 2019 | News, News & Views
(Hong Kong Ballet’s “Alice” will be a visually spectacular performance) By Jeff Maisey The Virginia Arts Festival announced its 24th season in a ceremony attended by corporate sponsors, the media, and leaders from other arts organizations. The many highlights of the...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 1, 2019 | News, News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Recently in a public speaking class I teach at Old Dominion University, I decided to show my students a YouTube video of a commencement address that Peter Dinklage gave to the 2012 class of Bennington College in Vermont. I’d had the good fortune...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 1, 2019 | Horton, News, News & Views
BY JOHN L HORTON “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 29, 2019 | News, News & Views
By Jeff Maisey Virginia Beach restauranteur Laura Habr has long been an advocate for positive change. Over a decade ago she led the effort to ban smoking in restaurants — a bill then Governor Tim Kaine signed into law at Croc’s 19th Street Bistro, the...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 16, 2019 | News, News & Views
(Artists descend upon the Chrysler Museum during NEON Festival) By Jim Roberts The third weekend in October—which includes the Town Point Wine Festival and the Stockley Gardens Arts Festival—is widely considered one of the best weekends of the year in Norfolk—if not...
