Do you enjoy comedic musicals? What about ones with insecurities, sock puppets and magic feet? For their first production at the Kimball Theatre, William and Mary’s Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance will perform “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” a musical featuring all of the...
David Dominique will lead a seven-piece jazz ensemble in a performance of his original compositions at the next installment of the Ewell Concert Series at the College of William and Mary on Nov. 9. Dominique is a professor of music composition and theory at William and Mary. He said this performance...
The Williamsburg Contemporary Art Center launched its second annual juried show with a reception Thursday evening, celebrating the latest offerings from talented area artists. The exhibition runs through Nov. 16. “We got a really nice selection of entries, “ said Karen Schwartz, program co-chair...
Williamsburg Bird Club Bird Walk: Check out the sights and sounds of local birds with a group of like-minded enthusiasts. 8-10 a.m. Saturday at New Quarter Park, 1000 Lakeshead Drive. Free. Virginia Peninsula Jewish Film Festival: The festival screens “Maktub,” which tells the story of two criminals...
The College of William and Mary’s Youth Film Institute returns for its seventh year Oct. 27-28, offering middle and high school students the opportunity to learn about the art of filmmaking through hands-on experiences. The program tasks students with collaborating in small groups to create short...
The Williamsburg Players’ latest production, “Hair,” tells a tale of the peace, love, drugs and draft protests quintessential to its 1960s setting. But as director Dana Margulies Cauthen works to fine tune the musical in time for its run at the James-York Playhouse Nov. 2-17, she said it’s also...
Now in its 25th year, the Yorktown Battlefield 10-miler is one of the most competitive races on the Peninsula. The Nov. 3 edition was the 10th of 12 races on the 2018 Peninsula Track Club Grand Prix schedule. It was also the 12th of 15 races in the Hampton Roads Super Grand Prix, a series of the...
Fifteen years ago Robert S. White of Hampton ran the Governor’s Land 5K Run shortly after his 80th birthday and averaged less than an 8 minute, 20 second pace per mile for a remarkable time of 25:48, still the Colonial Road Runners 5K record for the men’s 80-84 age group. White didn’t run Governor’s...
Warhill struck early and smashed Great Bridge in three sets Tuesday night in a Region 4A girls volleyball semifinal in the Lions’ gym. Warhill senior Chloe Wilmouth set an early aggressive tone with a spike on the first point of the opening set. From there on Warhill kept the lead, but Great Bridge...
Warhill’s girls volleyball team beat out rival Jamestown in three sets Wednesday night. Warhill (22-2), ranked second in the region, worked defensively on the court to beat the Eagles (17-5). “The girls hustled,” Warhill varsity volleyball head coach Greg Koon said of the win. “We just live to...
Sunday marks the signing agreement to end World War I — at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month — 100 years ago. Now known as Veterans Day, it was once called Armistice Day. This, as in past years, is when veterans’ organizations place the appropriate size U.S. flags by deceased veterans’...
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Rounds of applause to Cindy May of James City County for so deftly posting a stop sign in front of the Goodwin Plaza proposal. Her reasons why Goodwin Plaza is not a good idea are so on target. Surprisingly at a program for Colonial Williamsburg Foundations volunteers on Wednesday — I have been...
The plan to convert the P3 parking lot behind The Blue Talon, R. Bryant,Ltd. and The Precious Gem is a ludicrous idea being promoted by Jeff Duncan for Mitchell Reiss and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. This is a critical parking area for all Merchant Square businesses and for the usual shoppers...
More than a dozen coroner search and recovery teams looked for human remains from a Northern California wildfire that killed at least 42 — making it the deadliest in state history — as anxious relatives visited shelters and called police hoping to find loved ones alive. Lisa Jordan drove 600 miles...
The bromance between President Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron is truly dead. Early Tuesday, the U.S. president took another - even more pointed - crack at the French leader. After a fractious visit to Paris over the weekend, Trump returned to the theme of a European army to defend the continent's...
CNN sued the Trump administration on behalf of reporter Jim Acosta on Tuesday, asking a court to restore Acosta's White House press pass after President Donald Trump suspended it last week. The unusual suit, an escalation of Trump's longrunning war of words with CNN, seeks a judge's intervention...
Hate crimes in America rose 17 percent last year, the third consecutive year that such crimes increased, according to newly released FBI data. Law enforcement agencies reported 7,175 hate crimes occurred in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016. That increase was fueled in part by more police departments...