What’s the difference between a walk and a hike? Is it just about what boots you wear? Ours was more of a walk than a hike because we ambled and stopped frequently, Joe to seek out fallen limbs to balance over the rushing creek on and me to hunt for wildflowers. “A division of labor,” […]
The new girls in town already have names. The boys named them. Big Fat and Black Jack are New Jersey Giants, Mrs. Peck and Chicken Nugget are Salmon Faverolle, and Ostrich is a Turken, which is named from the word turkey and hen because it is a chicken that looks like a turkey. We didn’t […]
___________Wordless Wednesday
Joe and I celebrated St. Patrick’s Day early at the local pub Saturday night. “I heard that people named Colleen get free drinks,” I said to the bartender. “No, that’s Dogtown,” she joked back. I drank a green beer and we wore green clothes, as did the band, the Leftover Biscuits, named for the band […]
The Forever Now Band brought out the Dogtown dancers last night with their positive-themed, original Galactic Folk Rock songs. Venus is hot and fast. Along with Venus, songs about Jupiter, Neptune Saturn were represented, but we also painted it black with the Rolling Stones and danced to the Kinks. Blue Galactic Highway and Spiral of […]
Maybe I went to see her because she was right here in my town or because I read this about her on Wikipedia: Rachel Baiman is the co-founder of Folk Fights Back, a musician-led national organization that puts together benefit concerts and awareness events in response to the Trump administration. But I really saw her […]
The dancers literally lit up the Dogtown dance floor at the 11th Annual Floyd Mardi Gras Costume Ball last night! It’s the biggest fun-raiser of the year for Blue Mountain School. Watch for more to come in this week’s Floyd Press.
But sometimes he paints butterflies and birds. It was Valentine’s Day at the Taubman Museum of Art, and we were surprised and delighted by the Huntopia installations of Hunt Slonem, which spanned several rooms and were arranged as home décor. I was told by one of the museum staff people that Roanoke’s Black Dog Salvage […]
I had an IPA beer called Cigar City Fancy Papers and a Raspberry Wheat called Purple Haze at the Blue 5 in Roanoke. It was the first part of our Valentine weekend date after swimming in the heated pool at a nearby hotel. We were drawn to the Blue 5 because our regional talent songwriter/guitarist […]
This is how we Lounge in Floyd. Where the 1920s meet the 2020s. I call this one “the night life.” Cheers! More on Floyd’s Lush Lounge HERE.
“How many bars does it take to make it a bar hop?” someone asked me. “Three,” I answered, and three was the Saturday night plan. Singer songwriter Matt Holloman got some great sounds out of his guitar at the Buffalo Mountain Brewery’s pub, with a wah pedal and looper. The above video clip is him […]
It feels like a house concert Saturday night at Buffalo Mountain Brewery’s McDaniel’s Tavern. Sam’s cover of Chris Isaak’s I Wanna Fall in Love actually says, ‘No, I don’t want to fall in love’ (a Wicked Game). and Jake’s original song is not Runaround Sue, but Runaway Sue. Now I have just one burning question. […]
