Arts & Culture

The Punch Brothers is a string band known for its mix of bluegrass, jazz, rock and classical music. The group is performing in Virginia Beach Tuesday as part of the Virginia Arts Festival.

Fiddler Brittany Haas finds her place among the Punch Brothers

Teresa Annas

The Punch Brothers, which opens its latest tour Tuesday in Virginia Beach, retools bluegrass with classical and other musical styles. The stop is part of the Virginia Arts Festival.

Sharon Davidson Cook, center, during a rehearsal of "Memphis," which opens Friday at the Little Theatre of Norfolk. The play is based on Memphis DJ Dewey Phillips, who in the early 1950s, started playing white and Black musicians on his radio program, pulling in an integrated listening audience in a segregated era.

Arts & Culture

'Memphis' tells of how a Southern DJ in the 1950s used music to transcend race

Vicki L. Friedman

Little Theatre of Norfolk opens the Tony Award-winning 'Memphis' on Friday. The play is set in segregated Memphis in the 1950s, during the early days of rock 'n' roll.

Roger Loria, in 2018, talks about his experience as a Holocaust survivor during a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Richmond. Loria, a professor emeritus in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Virginia Commonwealth University, will share his story in Norfolk on May 8.

Arts & Culture

Holocaust survivor to talk at war anniversary event in Norfolk Thursday

Vicki L. Friedman

Roger Loria, a retired Richmond professor, is a Holocaust survivor who continues to speak publicly about what his family endured in 1940s Europe because of hate.

Part of the eroding shoreline of the Pamunkey Reservation.

Environment & Sea Level Rise

Pamunkey Reservation listed as one of the nation’s most endangered historic places

The National Trust for Historic Preservation listed the Pamunkey Indian Tribe’s reservation in King William County among its eleven Most Endangered Historic Places in America.

Harvested from the Indian Ocean, primarily from the Maldive Islands and the coast of Zanzibar, the “cowrie money zone” at times stretched east to Bengal and southern China and west to the African empires of Mali and Oyo.

Arts & Culture

Hampton talk details how cowrie shells shaped economies and cultures

Nick McNamara

“This one, little tiny shell had such a big impact on so many different people,” said museum assistant Will Pell.

Julieta Fahie, a director with music nonprofit Soundscapes, leads a rehearsal at Carver Elementary School. Students in the Soundscapes program will perform in the Virginia Community Music Festival at Christopher Newport University on Sunday, May 4.

Arts & Culture

Building a community through music: Soundscapes students perform at CNU

Vicki L. Friedman

Soundscapes teaches free music lessons at three Newport News schools. The students will give a free concert at Christopher Newport University's music fest on Sunday.

In late March, local DJ Mike Arlo was invited to drop a hockey puck before a Norfolk Admirals game in recognition of Arlo's 50 years in radio.

Arts & Culture

DJ Mike Arlo still rockin' and rollin' with his listeners after 50 years

Kate Nowak

Mike Arlo grew up loving music and learning about artists, but he didn't think his passion would be something he'd ever earn money from. Then he started spinning records in a bar.