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From the pool to pot, Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps should probably sign on to endorse potato chips or ding dongs. His recent activities may finally explain his 8,000-plus-calorie intake on a daily basis. It’s a joke, sort of, but it’s really not funny. What is truly not funny is the lack of outcry…
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I really wanted to see … well, anything else. “The Wrestler.” “Slumdog Millionaire.” “Doubt.” But my young nieces were in tow, so we had to think a little differently. Whicb is how we ended up at Colonial Mall-Staunton on Christmas Day watching Adam Sandler in “Bedtime Stories,” a surprisingly decent holiday movie even in spite…
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The other night, I washed down my cholesterol pill with a glass of egg nog. Ahh . . . that most wonderful time of the year is here.
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jIt’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas – only earlier than ever. This year, area commercial radio station WSVO, Mix 93.1 FM,” went to an all-Christmas music format before Thanksgiving. WJDV, “Lite 96.1 FM,” followed suit on Thanksgiving Day. From Bing Crosby’s 1942 rendering of “White Christmas” to a street-corner harmony version from 1954…
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What do a pear, a “talking” tennis ball and “hee-haw” have to do with conducting children’s choirs? More than 250 music educators from across the state found out during a seminar in children’s choral conducted Nov. 21. Julia White, founder and artistic director of the 17-year-old Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir, led 69 choristers, ages 7-13,…
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Trying to comprehend what’s happening with the economy is for me much like trying to understand algebraic equations or women – a futile exercise – but, I’ll comment anyway.
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Hollywood is still abuzz with the news: “The Secret Life of Bees,” currently at The Visulite in Staunton, is a honey of a movie. And while many films based on best-selling books are disappointing, you won’t get stung by this one. (OK, OK. Enough with the Apoidean puns, already. No more, I promise. Stretching for…
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The Eastern Mennonite University music department’s celebratory concert for the fall semester will include a tribute to a 2008 EMU graduate who died this summer. The concert will be held 7 p.m. Saturday in EMU’s Lehman Auditorium and will feature EMU music students and faculty performing alongside one another. “Death cannot separate,” a new piece…
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The Arts Council of the Valley has awarded $12,000 in Creative Inspiration grants to local artists and arts organizations – and it wasn’t easy. “We had an extremely competitive process this cycle. The review panel had a difficult time allocating limited funding amongst many quality grants,” executive director Kai Degner said. “We were excited to…
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Column by Jim Bishop Surely there are days when you don’t feel like it. So, why do you do it, week after week? A reasonable query, but it caught me up short, perhaps in part because I had to answer on the spot, in front of a room of people who already were wondering about…
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