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NORFOLK, Va. - The Push Comedy Theater continues to work through the challenges of the pandemic like many other small businesses throughout Hampton Roads.
News 3 spoke to Brad McMurran, a co-owner and creator at the theater, to talk about how they are staying afloat and what they have planned for the future.
Push Comedy Theater is a place that provides joy and laughter and before COVID-19 they were hosting sold out shows. They are a 90-seat venue in the Arts District in Downtown Norfolk. They host improvisation classes and training.
McMurran said COVID-19 has put a major strain on their operation.
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Leslie West, who has died aged 75 following a cardiac arrest, could claim to be one of the creators of heavy metal. His band Mountain made a spectacular impact when they played their fourth gig at the original Woodstock festival in August 1969, alongside the likes of the Who, Jimi Hendrix and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
The physically huge West had a powerful presence as a singer, but it was his massive, overdriven guitar sound that became the group’s most memorable trademark. Kiss’s Paul Stanley said that: “Leslie’s tone could stop a rhino in full charge.”
Leslie West, Mountain Guitarist and Voice Behind Hit Mississippi Queen , Dies at 75 People 12/24/2020
Mountain co-founder and guitarist Leslie West has died. He was 75.
On Wednesday, Dean Guitars confirmed his death in a statement on Twitter.
“With a heavy heart, we are saddened to hear about the passing of #Dean Artist and part of the Dean family, Leslie West. [He was] legendary and one of a kind. Rest In Peace, the band announced on their official Twitter account.
West (né Leslie Weinstein) died Monday after going into cardiac arrest at his Florida home,
Dean Guitars CEO Evan Rubinson also shared his condolences in honor of the fallen musician on Twitter. He wrote, “To a man that I truly loved more than most the funniest, most honest guy I’ve met. #RIP#LeslieWest.”
The news was announced by his longtime guitar company,
Larry West Weinstein, had posted that West’s heart had stopped earlier this week and that the guitarist had been placed on a ventilator in a Florida hospital. In 2011, West had his lower right leg amputated as a result of complications from diabetes.
Leslie Weinstein was born in 1945 in New York City, but grew up in various suburbs around the city. His first band was the R&B-influenced
The Vagrants, who had two minor hits.
Graduating from The Vagrants, he formed the trio Mountain and crafted such early â70s hard rock classics âNantucket Sleighride,â âNever in My Lifeâ and âMississippi Queen.â His thick, distinctive guitar tone attracted attention from both fans and fellow musicians, and he performed and recorded with the likes of