Music

Writer Vicki L. Friedman is 10 years younger than her sister, which often meant the two were miles apart on subjects, like ships passing in the night. But they shared a love of Barry Manilow and have special plans for his Saturday stop in Norfolk.

“The performing aspect fed my soul,” said John Brewington, the city's inaugural Champion of Arts Education. “The education piece of it fed my need to transfer knowledge, to want to excite kids the way it excited me.”