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GrooveLily Rocks The Barns at Wolf Trap – Interview with Valerie Vigoda

March 9, 2012 Jordan Wright

GrooveLily band members (l to r) Brendan Milburn,Valerie Vigoda, and Gene Lewin – photo courtesy of The Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts

GrooveLily band member and powerhouse electric violinist, Valerie Vigoda, talks with Jordan Wright about the group’s meteoric career and what fans […]

Nibbles And Sips Around Town – March 6th

March 3, 2012 Jordan Wright, Publisher of Whisk and Quill

Very Cherry Celebrations

National Mall Cherry Blossoms

Ahh the cherry…luscious fruit and symbol of spring in our Nation’s Capitol. But why? The cherry trees whose airy pink blossoms grace the Tidal Basin at this time of year […]

Saltville, USA From Woolly Mammoths to Paleo-Indians to Conquistadors and Sasquatch

Special to Indian Country Today Magazine Jordan Wright March 2012

Mastodon skeleton at the Museum of the Middle Appalachians – photo by Jordan Wright

“Saltville can probably claim to be the most fascinating two square miles in Virginia, or possibly the eastern United States, owing to its geology, paleontology, history […]

Dive in the Water’s Fine – The Dixie Swim Club at Port City Playhouse

Jordan Wright February 25, 2012 Special to The Alexandria Times

Tina Anderson, Kacie Greenwood and Gayle Grimes – photo credit Eddie Page

For whatever reason the thought of attending a class reunion can turn even the most sensible woman into a bundle of nerves. Will an old flame turn […]

Heaven Can Wait at The Little Theatre of Alexandria

Jordan Wright February 28, 2012 Special to The Alexandria Times

John Shackelford (Max Levene), Brandon DeGroat (Joe Pendleton) and Cal Whitehurst (Mr. Jordan) – photo credit Doug Olmsted

The Little Theatre of Alexandria’s production of Harry Segall’s stageplay, Heaven Can Wait, got off to a rocky start last night when the play’s […]

Really Really – A Cautionary Tale From Generation Me At Signature Theatre

Jordan Wright February 14, 2012 Special to The Alexandria Times

Playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo wants his audiences to know that his play was inspired by three seminal moments in his young life. The first was seeing Doubt, a play by John Patrick Shanley that filled him […]