That’s true on Valentine’s Day, or if you’re at the Sweet HeART Chocolate Affair, a yearly fundraiser hosted by the Floyd Artists Association for the Floyd County High School Art Department. All the sweets and treats are homemade. Attendees chose between tastings or to-go plates. Pies, cakes and art were auctioned off. Student art was […]
Who’da thunk? A little punk, funk, reggae, psychedelic, electric, authentic, Indie rock would have us dancing without stop for a two-hour set. Thanks to TGRB and Dogtown!
That’s what Joe said to me at the Blue Ridge Story Space that I was covering in January for the local paper. I wasn’t prepared to tell a story, but I had a good one to share that I made fit the month’s theme of “beginnings.” In the middle of my mystical story of my […]
Once there was this kid who / Got into an accident and couldn’t come to school / But when he finally came back / His hair had turned from black into bright white… Have you guessed yet? The Crash Test Dummies are on tour for the 25th anniversary of their award-winning album God Shuffled His […]
As promised in press releases, Floyd’s 2nd annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration was a beautiful community celebration that brought together an outpouring of support and participation from local businesses, organizations, churches, restaurants and individuals. Hosted by The Heart of the Child Music Education and Preserve Floyd, the event highlighted the Interracial Community Building in […]
If ice is a fool’s diamond, then I am a fool because I’m attracted to all that glitters. Ice crystallizes the power of water, which is more valuable than any cut gem. It can give or take life. My footsteps loudly crunch on the top layer of ice and echo through the countryside. A walk […]
Cause in Floyd, we got plenty of sparkle and glitter, and good friends to ring the New Year in with, all in the comfort of the Dogtown Roadhouse. We got two of my favorite local bands playing on stage, including The Kind who got things started. One highlight of their rocking set was when special guest […]
That’s a wrap for the family Christmas Eve gift exchange, the yearly Christmas album cover shoot and the neighborhood Cookies and Kahlua Party, dubbed as “Everyone’s Already Talking About It.” There was an overflow of party goers (including some from Maine and Spain) and a record amount of kids, so our grandsons, Bryce and Liam, […]
I wait all year to see Santa, and when I see him at our town Christmas Parade, I chase his float down the street trying to get a picture or at least a longer look. But his sleigh just seems to fly right by. Look for a photo spread in this week’s Floyd Press to […]
We can always count on Dogtown Roadhouse to bring good bands to Floyd for those of us who go to the dance floor instead of the gym. I always check Dogtown’s upcoming band list and then listen to a couple of tracks of the bands I think I might like. But when it comes to […]
The special ten-year anniversary issue of Floyd County Moonshine has hit the newsstands, virtual and otherwise. Moonshine is a bi-annual literary journal of local flavor that features primarily regional authors, as well as new and established poets and prose writers from all over. Photography of Floyd’s rural scenery is also included in every issue, and […]
Thursday I went to a Dead Man’s Carnival wedding party at Dogtown Roadhouse where one of the performers did a new take on sawing a girl in half by putting blades in a box she was in (more to come). The next night I was back for a Tom Petty tribute band. I felt it […]
By “peek” I don’t mean “peak” because I don’t think there will any peak foliage days on the Blue Ridge Parkway this year. For whatever reason, the season is late. There is still so much green and many trees have gone from green to grays and browns. There are splashes of color that give me […]
When Joe and I were recently at the new brew pub in town, Buffalo Mountain Brewery, I joked that drinking beer at the pub was going to be my new “practice.” Really, it gets me out of homebody recluse mode and helps to lighten me up. It’s also a great place to meet up with […]
This first appeared in The Floyd Press on October 11, 2-18 A Music Lab performance band, called Her Majesty, opened for Music Road Co at Dogtown Roadhouse Saturday night, bringing dancers to the floor and applause from patrons. It was a surprise performance that featured primarily original songs, written and sung by 15-year-old Floyd Countian […]
I was busy dancing. Because “now is the time to get off your feet and dance in the street…” or at Dogtown Roadhouse in Floyd when Donna the Buffalo comes to town (for the fourth time since their first Dogtown show in 2010). You better “look both ways before you cross her heart.” Cross my […]
It’s hard to mess up Grateful Dead music like it’s hard to mess up an egg breakfast, and I’d eat the later three times a day and dance to the former every time. M.C. Broom & The Jam got it right at Dogtown Saturday night. They were joined by Buck and Griz for a whole […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 31, 2018. The third annual Little River Poetry Festival (LRPF) is just around the corner and has a new date. Located at Daniel Sowers’s On the Water Canoeing and Kayaking, the date has been changed from the second weekend in June to the third, June […]
