by Jeff Maisey | Jun 19, 2022 | Music, Music News
MASTERS-FUL MUSICIAN: Jimmy Masters on bass. By Jerome Langston The popular Miller Jazz series returns this month to the Sandler Center, with a show titled The Art of the Alto Saxophone, which will feature the excellent Jeff Smith on alto sax, along with John Toomey...
by Jeff Maisey | May 11, 2019 | Dance, Stage & Film
Ballets with a Twist (Brandy Alexander from Cocktail Hour The Show) Photo by Nico Malvaldi By Michael Curry What’s your favorite? Brandy Alexander perhaps. Or the Singapore Sling, a Bloody Mary or a good old Manhattan? Of course you recognize the names as...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 30, 2018 | News, News & Views
By Jeff Maisey Sibel Galindez, the community liaison for Zeiders American Dream Theater, is bullish on the impact the new performing arts venue will have of the region by dubbing it the Lincoln Theater of Virginia Beach. If her name rings a bell it’s because...
by Jeff Maisey | Jul 25, 2018 | Art, Art News
By Betsy DiJulio Debi Gray began her tenure as executive director at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)—then the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia—with three of her small staff on maternity leave in the midst of the 2009 recession. Furloughs and lay-offs...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 15, 2018 | Art, Art News, Art Previews
(MOCA’s Heather Hakimzadeh curated “A Fine Line”) By Jeff Maisey The colorfully engaging, fantastically themed large format paintings of New York City-based artist Inka Essenhigh are certain to wow viewers in an exhibition called “A Fine Line,” on view at...