by Jeff Maisey | Mar 4, 2019 | News, News & Views
March 4, 2019 – Today visionary recording artist, producer, songwriter, philanthropist, fashion designer, and entrepreneur, Pharrell Williams announced his newest venture – SOMETHING IN THE WATER, a multi-day music festival and cultural experience on the beach in his...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 25, 2019 | News, News & Views
By Jerome Langston On this unseasonably warm, mid-week day, there is little activity happening outside of Norfolk’s historic Attucks Theatre, the performing arts venue famously situated at the corner of Church Street and Virginia Beach Boulevard. That is also the case...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 20, 2019 | News, News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Two years ago, I delivered a talk at the Tidewater Community College Literary Festival called “Scenes from a White Boy’s Life,” in which I reflected on my lifelong efforts to understand “the problem of the color line,” as W.E.B Du Bois put it. I talked...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 16, 2019 | News, News & Views
Compiled by Staff Following is a variety of concerts, art exhibitions, theater productions, and various events in celebration of Black History Month in Hampton Roads. Portraits of Service: Portsmouth African Americans in the Military, 1946-67 January 18...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 14, 2019 | News, News & Views
“Waxing Poetics” by Beth Austin “DaRon Walton” by James Robinson “Bennett Wales” by Sean Chagnon “Rio” by Jeff Hewitt “Glenrose” by Wendy Podmenik Darugar
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 14, 2019 | News, News & Views
“K’bana Blaq” by Glenn Woodell “The Janks” by Tony Bijeaux “Rob Oliver” by Wendy Podmenik Darugar “Buddha Council” by Roger Richards “Every King & Commoner” by Annette Holloway