THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, October 21, 1996 TAG: 9610190002
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A6 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: 48 lines
Time rockets: A quarter of a century has passed since Walter P. Chrysler Jr., of the motor-car dynasty, transformed the then-Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences in Norfolk into an institution sheltering the finest art collection in the Southeastern United States.
Sunday, Oct. 27, the Chrysler Museum of Art initiates a yearlong celebration of the late Mr. Chrysler's watershed commitment of art with a ``family day'' 25th-birthday bash open to all. There will be clowns, music, theatrical performances, storytelling, dancing - the whole merry works.
Art's fun. Remove keys from ignition anyway
Newcomers to Virginia Beach usually have one question: Where is it?
Downtown, that is.
The answer is nowhere and everywhere. Downtown for some is the Oceanfront, for others it's the municipal center, still others figure it must be somewhere in Kempsville where so much of the population is concentrated. A dedicated group of business folks have been carefully developing a district around Pembroke which may someday be ``downtown Virginia Beach'' - but not yet.
The good - if somewhat implausible - news is that this lack of a discernible downtown is credited with keeping the crime rate low in the Resort City. For the ninth year in a row Virginia Beach is the safest city of its size in the United States according to FBI crime statistics. Tidings of comfort and joy
The Christmas spirit - as personified by Ebeneezer Scrooge - is taking hold in Norfolk where lawsuits are flying faster than the Bearded One on Christmas Eve.
The Norfolk Botanical Garden is suing its holiday light show company, claiming that the company set up a similar show last year in Virginia Beach. The Garden blames the Beach light show for a sharp drop in attendance last Christmas.
In return, the Botanical Garden is also being sued for not paying its bills. It refused to pay because it claimed the light company had breeched its contract.
How in the world has Newport News refrained from jumping in? It began a holiday light show the year before Norfolk.
All three shows will switch on the lights Nov. 22. The light shows cost money.
Watching the legal fireworks is free. by CNB