NORFOLK About a century after Shakespeare wrote "all the world's a stage," a bunch of pirates in the Caribbean got reality and stagecraft truly confused. The crew of the Whydah, in the early 1700s, put on a play about a pirate trial for their own entertainment. A few drunken men stumbled in late, just as an actor was being sentenced to death for piracy.

Celebrate the Season with our parade. It all kicks off at 7p.m. with the spectacular illumination of the Downtown Norfolk and Olde Town Portsmouth skylines. The City of Portsmouth is a major sponsor and will have a float in the parade.

By Cindy Butler Focke
Correspondent
LYNNHAVEN
Soon after moving into their dream home in 1975, Chet and Barbara Ehrenzeller heard a knock at the door while preparing Thanksgiving dinner.
It was Furman Dey, the only son of John B. Dey, for whom a nearby elementary school is named. The younger Dey had sold them the home and moved to a Norfolk retirement community.

When Clareece “Precious” Jones is asked in class to name something she’s good at, she can’t think of anything.

It is at this moment, about halfway through “Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire,” that our heart finally goes out to Precious. We know, even if she doesn’t, that she is worth something and that she deserves some kind of chance.

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Children of the night, arise. It’s the time of the “New Moon,” the second  movie, based on the second book, of “The Twilight Saga.”

“The Blind Side” is a rare mesh of social statement and sports genre.

When the vampire’s away, the werewolf will come out to play.  “New Moon,” opening today, is the second chapter of  “The Twilight Saga,” or “Will He Bite Her, and If So, When?”  With more than 1,000 theaters already sold out , the film’s young lovers have become pop-culture icons.

In any season of the year, there is pop music, theater, dance, classical music and most of the other types of entertainment featured in this section.

Only in the Christmas season, however, do you find the sort of spectacles listed on this page. They are part of what makes this, as the song says, “the most wonderful time of the year.”