by Jeff Maisey | Jan 19, 2018 | News, News & Views
By Jeff Maisey Green Flash Brewing Company, with production facilities in San Diego and Virginia Beach, announced it was cutting 15% of its workforce (33 people), primarily in administrative, marketing and events planning roles. Among those cut in Virginia Beach was...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 16, 2018 | News, News & Views
By Annie Tobey Mike Isley has mastered the art of riding the waves with his eponymous brewery, so it’s only fitting that his second brewery will open in Virginia Beach. Isley Brewing Co. opened in October 2013 in Richmond’s Scott’s Addition (before Scott’s Addition...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 27, 2017 | Horton, News & Views
By John L. Horton “Free at last, free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I shall try to give you some anecdotal background on my experience with “Watch Night – Freedom’s Eve,” and the like:My first experience with...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 22, 2017 | News, News & Views
By David Nicholson “Everybody wants to be a star, and this is where their stardom can begin,” says Dr. Andrea Warren. As executive director of The Governor’s School for the Arts (GSA), Warren heads up a close-knit family of faculty and administrators who work to...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 22, 2017 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Here and there does not matter / We must be still and still moving / Into another intensity / For a further union, a deeper communion. ~ T.S. Eliot As we enter the final days of 2017, I find myself reflecting on the past 12 months. It was a...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 21, 2017 | News, News & Views
By Jeff Maisey Back on October 23, Tidewater Community College (TCC) notified Portsmouth city officials it planned to move the school’s Visual Arts Center, located at 340 High Street in Olde Towne Portsmouth. The move, according to Marian Anderfuren, TCC’s Vice...