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Homemade treats help Port Warwick's Scratch Bakery grow
A dream, hard work and a lot of love has paid off for Lashonda Davis Sanford, who owns Scratch Bakery in Port Warwick. When you walk into the bakery, you're greeted by the smells of items such as...
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New artistic director of Hampton Arts brings fresh perspective to local scene
HAMPTON — Richard Parison still remembers his first impression of the American Theatre in Phoebus. It was a few years ago, when he was working in Richmond, and he was with a friend who visited Hampton...
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Black quilters freed from convention featured in Williamsburg exhibit
When photographer Arthur Rothstein visited the isolated African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend, Ala., in 1937, the pictures he took for the federal government's New Deal program depicted a kind of rural...
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Agencies offer help for low-literacy adults
On Wednesday, school children across the region will celebrate the birth of beloved children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel, otherwise known as Dr. Seuss, who was born March 2, 1904. The event is the...
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Newbery Honor winner like three books in one
The recent snowfall on the Peninsula provided with me with a little extra time to read. My personal goal is to read all of the books recently honored at the American Library Association Youth Media...
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Newport News City Council honors singer Queen Esther Marrow
Queen Esther Marrow, the great singer from Newport News, performed with Duke Ellington, starred on Broadway and opened for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Now, to that resume she can add this: She has...
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Soul singer Allen Stone to headline Chic's Beach Festival
Soul singer Allen Stone will headline a music festival at Chic's Beach in Virginia Beach later this month. The event will be held Saturday, March 21, at HK on the Bay (4600 Lookout Road). It is...
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Hampton Restaurant Week starts Sunday; Melting Pot to reopen
Get your fork and knife ready: Hampton's Restaurant Week starts Sunday. Restaurants participating in the event, which runs through March 13, will offer two-course lunches for $10 and three-course...
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At Los Paisas Locos, tacos deliver big | Food Find
Tasty discovery: Chicken, tongue and al pastor tacos. Price: $8.75 for three tacos. Destination: Los Paisas Locos, 11710 Jefferson Ave., Newport News. 757-595-8226....
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Hornsby to host music festival in Williamsburg
Grammy winner Bruce Hornsby will serve as the "curator" for a three-day festival that brings some of the nation's most respected and iconoclastic songwriters to Williamsburg this spring. Funhouse...
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Battle of Hampton Roads Weekend brings battleships, beards and bites
Prepare for a weekend of battleships, bites and beards. The Mariners' Museum's Battle of Hampton Roads weekend returns Friday through Sunday, commemorating 154 years since the ironclad ships USS...
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Hampton Restaurant Week wish list | DP List
Hampton Restaurant Week starts Sunday, and local restaurants are bringing some of their best dishes to the table. Participating restaurants are offering $10 two-course lunches and $20 or $30...
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Body art, piercings and oddities at Hampton Roads Convention Center
The Hampton Roads Tattoo Arts Festival is about a lot more than ink on skin. The event, which comes to the Hampton Roads Convention Center in Hampton this weekend for the sixth straight year, has many...
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Bull riders, soul songs and lantern light shows Top 10 things to do this weekend
Professional Bull Riders at Hampton Coliseum Riders go head-to-head with bulls, eight seconds at a time, as part of PBR's national Blue Def Tour. Doors open at 6 p.m., show at 7 p.m. Saturday. Tickets...
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Acclaimed young violinist sits in with Hampton Roads Philharmonic
Annika Jenkins was 8 years old when she saw Gil Shahan perform the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra in 2003 at Chrysler Hall. She had been playing for more than five...
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New support group for teens affected by mental illness | Health Notes
There's a new support group in Hampton for teenagers suffering from mental illness or affected by it through a family member. The Hampton/Newport News affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental...
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Meet nice native violets that herald arrival of spring and provide sweet food...
If you think ants in the kitchen and violets in the yard are not a good thing, you are right on one. Ants are unwelcomed parades across a kitchen counter or floor. Violets, however, are bright spots in...
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Joey Cook (and her band) have some Peninsula gigs
"American Idol" finalist Joey Cook has a couple of local shows this week that will be worth checking out. She and her backing band will be playing at 8 p.m. Monday at Hoss's Deli in Newport News, at 9...
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The dollars and sense of putting out an album
In between homework, track practice and band rehearsals, Logan and Cole Layman find time to address envelopes. The handwriting is neat and tidy, and inside each envelope is a copy of "Tangled," their...
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Documentary shows William and Mary professor's journey with brain tumor
In the fall of 2014, there was a two-in-three chance that College of William and Mary professor Regina Root would end up paralyzed or dead as the result of a risky surgery on a tumor in her brain. A...
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