SUFFOLK THREE VISUAL ARTS venues within blocks of one another have really grasped the benefits of working together to organize concurrent exhibitions on related themes. It's the sort of strategy that will help arts groups survive and perhaps even thrive through tough times.

NORFOLK Former Virginia governor Linwood Holton is scheduled to discuss his life in politics at Prince Books in Norfolk on June 17. Holton, who served as governor from 1970 to 1974, has written a memoir called "Opportunity Time."

By Montague Gammon III
Correspondent
Two semesters of theater workshops between the Core Theatre Ensemble and Old Dominion University students have generated an interesting and often fun two-act dramatization of five Edgar Allan Poe works called "the poe (n. proj-ekt)."

Hampton Roads will heat up like a furnace next spring with "Art of Glass 2," an encore presentation of international glass exhibitions. The project builds on a 1999 series of shows that helped make this region into a center for glass art.

Washington, D.C. If you're in the District and into music culture, consider stopping at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery to check out "RECOGNIZE! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture."

NORFOLK - IT'S NOT EASY to shock us. We're a Navy town. Nonetheless, 40th Street Stage seems obsessed with the notion. This is the theater that produced a play in which Santa Claus was accused of having sex with several of his reindeer.

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Billed as the "wildest party of the season," this year's Rock 'n Roar fundraising event at The Virginia Zoo Saturday has something for the organic party animal - "dung doodes," by "outsider artist" Eric Easton.