The new girls in town already have names. The boys named them. Big Fat and Black Jack are 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 choose […]
___________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. […]
1. Someone got a black light for Christmas. 2 . Someone else wore a piñata hat after it was opened with the force of a baseball bat. 3. All the usual suspects were there. 4. And then some. 5. If our annual Cookies and Kahlua Neighborhood Christmas Eve Party was a scene from A Christmas […]
Now I understand where the term breathtaking comes from. I literally held my breath as Tara and Philip Bouknight’s voices reached the highest pitch. Uplifting I would call it. But some were brought to tears too, like when Philip read a moving account of the Christmas truce of 1914 when British and German soldiers stopped […]
It was the second Thanksgiving meal in the past couple of days. Amy suggested a chicken since dinner attendance would be small this year, but I agreed to roast a turkey (for the first time in over 30 years) because I wanted the gravy. Everything tastes better with gravy! So, the gravy came out great, […]
The view from here with pizza and beer. We ordered the kitchen sink (as in with everything on it) and enjoyed it on our favorite Dogtown Roadhouse couch. I really regret that I didn’t dance to that Lou Reed song.
It was part birthday party, part house concert and part book signing. It was a small gathering of friends at my friend Alwyn’s Blacksburg home to celebrate her 93rd birthday. Amid the chocolate cherry cake, pumpkin pie, cherry garcia ice cream and her cat Cloudy, who wanted to get in the act, was a gift […]
It’s the best therapy in the world, dancing to the Grateful Dead tunes of The Kind. Doing it in Halloween costumes at our long-loved Pine Tavern only adds to the high point experience. And I found out who Yoda was at the Dogtown party the night before! It pays to be persistent. Thumbs up for […]
Out with my Boo @ Dogtown for Halloween! Joe and I weren’t the only butterflies! This one is dancing to DJ Robbie’s mix before Music Road Company hit the stage. Dogtown is known for it’s excellent pizza! And Halloween is known for witches. I offered anyone a free beer if they could figure out who […]
