Roanoke Arts and Cultural Plan May 31, 2011
The City of Roanoke held its final public meeting on the proposed Arts and Culture Plan on Tuesday evening in the Special Events Center of the Roanoke Civic Center. Interested parties, many whom had previously attended other meetings over the course of several months since Fall 2010 when the Roanoke Arts Commission first invited various [...]
Breaking News: No End Times Until Local Colors and Other Festivities Are Over!!
Local Colors 2011: May 21, 2011 marks the last day before the latest common-era End Times begins with a big rapturous send-off scheduled for 6PM EDT. While ground zero was officially determined to be Philadelphia, PA, by Harold Camping (leader of Family Radio), he failed to mention that the real bon-voyage party was taking place [...]
This Week’s Top Ten Videos – May 19, 2011
We had a few weeks with not much activity in shooting local music. But finally we were able to get out some and enjoy several gigs in Roanoke. Many thanks to Bazaar Consignments, 3rd Street Coffeehouse, and Studio Roanoke for letting us tape their events. And special thanks to all performers and audiences for being [...]
Taubman Museum Family Day 2011
Saturday March 12, 2011 The weekend was a huge one for Roanoke, with celebrations in the street kicked off by the St Patrick’s Day Parade and city-wide festivities, including Taubman Museum of Art’s Family Day event. It seems Spring 2011 is unofficially here as the weather cooperated inline with the seasonal time change to Daylight [...]
This Week’s Top Ten Videos – Feb 28, 2011
What’s up peeps?? It’s looking a lot like Spring out there!!! Tons of cool stuff going on. Last weekend, we shot video of Nancy & Two Meteors’ scoring of the film classic Metropolis live from Studio Roanoke. We hope to have that up – or highlights anyway – soon as we can. Also, a little piece we [...]
This Week’s Top Ten Videos – Feb 21, 2011
Some oldies-but-goodies showing up on the Top Ten Videos this week at Star City FAME… Jonathan Byrd and Doug & Telisha Williams from their 2009 Americana In-the-Round tour, gigging at the Roanoke Public Libraries’ Emerging Artists Series. Also, a couple of videos popped up of Nancy and 2 Meteors. Of course, with the opening of the season [...]
Weekly Ted Talks – Shadowbox Bringing “Real News” and Conversation to the Community
When you go Downtown, just know there’s always something cool going on. Time of day doesn’t matter, there’s always something. Cool. Today I remembered that The Shadowbox runs a weekly Ted Talks video stream in their micro cinema. The cinema (which also is the Kirk Avenue Music Hall) sits on a street with a gaining [...]
This Week’s Top Ten Videos – Feb 14, 2011
Yeah, we’re back! Okay, lots happened in the past month and we have to play a little catch up now. Amazing events, shows, indie music… that’s Roanoke, you know!! So let’s look at some new additions to our list of videos from around town. The Lynchburg, VA band Alaska pulled a #1 with being on [...]
This Week’s Top Ten Videos – Jan 11, 2011
This week’s Top 10 Videos – Jan 11, 2011 1. Science Museum Bouncy Ball New Year 2011 2. Twelve O’Clock Knob – Teller (Dollar Show) 3. Twelve O’Clock Knob – Lullaby 4. 2010 Bouncy Ball New Year – Science Museum of Western Virginia 5. Denise Jordan Finley and Daniel Pagdon – Little Secrets 6. Neon [...]
