Robert Bennett

(Editor’s note: I promised a post on retirement as my next rambling. I’m not fully done with research yet. I promise it’s coming.) Hello friends… me again. Hope you’re doing well! Recently I had the opportunity to put my reporter’s cap back on for a bit, helping out a good friend and co-worker from a station past, with a future documentary. The doc, by Greg Ziller, looks at the career of Ryan Featherer, the longtime Orchestra Director at Maury High School in Norfolk, and a super cool guy.

Hello friends! Me again. First off, happy Easter everyone. And for those of you who were kind enough to take time out of your busy Saturdays to wish me happy birthday, thank you. I certainly felt the love. I know it’s been a while, and I had an article or two written, but for a number of reasons, I decided to redirect to something that would be more impactful. Thus, a different kind of Madness in the month of March. And you get lots of pics as well this time around.

Spike Lee's epoch-defining film, Do the Right Thing, contains one of the most memorable lines in all modern cinema. When Buggin' Out, an African American youth, realizes that Sal's pizzeria only has photos of white people on its Wall of Fame, he asks Sal pointedly, "How come you ain't got no brothers up on the wall?" Sal's refusal to integrate his Wall of Fame, however, ultimately leads to a profound tragedy which could have easily been averted. On Feb.