by Jeff Maisey | Oct 12, 2016 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema As a young boy growing up in Norfolk in the early 1960s, I had a vivid and expansive imagination. But for a time my dreamworld was drained of color and my dreamscape turned into a bleak, black and white world. I had recently watched the...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 20, 2016 | Drama & Comedy, Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jim Roberts Twenty years ago, Jeffery Seneca starred in a college production of “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940.” This month, he’ll make his directorial debut at the Little Theatre of Virginia Beach with the same show. “I think I’ve seen it now—both from...
by Jeff Maisey | May 21, 2016 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema I was stunned to recently learn that the revenue of the biggest 500 multinational U.S. corporations now makes up 72% of the country’s GDP (gross domestic product). And the remaining part of the economy? That’s what all the...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 13, 2016 | Art, Art News, Art Previews
By Jeff Maisey Sometimes a painting will catch your eye from a distance and hook the viewer by the ribcage. Such is the work of painter Kent Knowles, whose new exhibition “Passage” is on display through June 11 at Linda Matney Gallery in Williamsburg. The...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 19, 2016 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema It’s not every day that former Air Force drone operators go public and hold a press conference to give their accounts of the killing of innocent people. But that’s just what happened in December when four brave young men issued an...