by – Hunter Styles | Mar 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
Andrew Jackson was not elected to high office for his spelling skills. The record shows that our seventh president wrote of the continent of “Urope,” good “devilopment,” and speaking before a “larg” audience. John Quincy Adams once quipped that Jackson was “a savage...
by By Warren Johnston | Mar 22, 2016 | Articles, Columns, Food + Booze, The Pour Man
My mother raised me right, schooled in the proper Southern custom of not wearing white from after Labor Day ’til the dogwoods bloomed in March.Until a couple of years ago, I held to the standard and applied its rigorous dictum to wine: white would not cross my lips...
by – Hunter Styles | Mar 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
Pianist Michael Mizrahi has taken his wide-ranging repertoire into classrooms and concert halls all around the world. Now he’s teaming up with Franklin County violinist and recording artist Michi Wiancko for an evening of current classical music, playing inventive new...
by – Hunter Styles | Mar 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
The horrors of slavery, the trials of the courtroom, and the chaos of wartime collide in Richard Strand’s historical play Butler, staged at the Majestic Theater this month. Major-General Benjamin Franklin Butler, a successful Massachusetts lawyer, is given command of...
by – Hunter Styles | Mar 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
Belly dancing requires physical focus, strong rhythm, and a good dose of soul. The Valley-based Crescent Dancers, who perform onstage as well as at regional fairs, parties, and events, craft their shows by combining cabaret-style belly dances and village folk dances,...