A Tool show is so much more of a visual experience than a Sonic one. I thought they sounded better on their albums but couldn’t take my eyes off the stage.

A look back on the year in busk. From the first Art|Everywhere, which kicked it into motion, to the second, which kicks it into law.

The 757′s favorite jammers return to Ntelos Pavilion for a special Father’s Day concert.

Four awesome public art-meets-community building projects win $500 to debut July 2 at Art|Everywhere Closing Night.

Guns, Gays, Puppies, Press (as in “Freedom of the”)

I can tell you two things. One: get it, you won’t regret it. Two: Once you do, prepare to abandon whatever else you were into for a few days.

Beach wants to silence street preachers. Storms, skates, art, cocaine…all sorts craziness in the papers today.

Matt Thomas and YourMusicShow present ‘Let’s Make a Scene!’, dedicated to growing–and bringing together–the local music scene.

Looking to share your love of music? Let us know! Looking for some bands to see this week? Look no further.

Beth Austin shoots local bands and local venues. Here she shares some of her favorite pieces.

Exploding Watermelons! Diaper Making! Clowns to Blame! The news is awesome today.

Ralph and his Clinch Mountain Boys played two full sets with no opening act, and afterwards us three Appalachian transplants sat down to talk about the show, bluegrass traditions, their new band, and our favorite versions of “Long Black Veil.

Roots, rock, reggae hits us up hard this week. Plus major electronica and new summer show announcements.

SEALs honored privately; outsourcing things that could be done here (and saving a bundle); new Midtown tunnel?; and GreenBuildIt kicking green butt.

Norfolk’s new busking ordinance in its entirety.

This week’s music news and to-do’s.

Concrete’s mission statement: “To provide a space for the community to gather and grow via art and progressive thought.”

To stereotype the ghetto keeps the ghetto down, friend.

All the best local music blogs, all the best concerts, all the best the Norfolk/Virginia Beach music scene has to offer.

A photo spread of the Sea Level Music Festival.

You see, back then (which was really not that long ago), people could phone in a request to a radio station and DJ’s would often play what you, the listener, wanted to hear.

If regulating gun shows only to the point of making them par with firearm retail outlets could be accomplished, this would be a major step in the right direction.

That’s the biggest part of the story. Get together with your friends and do something.

Lots of free goodness this week, as well as a pretty killer music festival.

“People are going to be totally pissed if you do that.” And then I said, “That’s exactly what I should do then.”

Detroit got Juxtapoz’d, so we juxtaposed Detroit and Park Place. See what happens.

Feminist punk, misogynist rap, the end of LCD Soundsystem, the beginning of The Mirrors. We’re kind of all over the place this week, and we kind of love it.

Rock, Country, Hip-hop. We got it covered this week. Plus, a sic act coming out of VA.

Weed can be good. Guns can be bad. At least there’s unstoppable hip-hop tonight.

Once known as The Wave’s DJ Android, Andra Rosenberg has evolved into a multi-faceted artist, while facing responsibilities she never imagined.

What’s to stop other people with lots of time and money to bully their City Council into doing whatever they want at the expense of the little guy?

The Best Local Music Calendar in the 757

They’re like Norfolk’s Sid and Nancy, without the heroin and adding two extra (more talented) ladies.

In today’s If You Read the Paper.

I wonder how many regional dollars are spent in ways that overlap.

Festival time is upon us. What are your favorite festivals (local and non)?

I’m so glad these headlines are next to one another. Juxtaposition is a fine vantage point in which to view hypocrisy.

News is Nutritious.

Grammy recap and local shoutouts and Bonaroooo!

Animal lovers day in IYRTP.

Days of Our Lives. Bon Jovi. The Real World. Pulp Fiction. Yeah.

So 757, any local bands you’re dying to meld together for one night only?

The Unabombers, The Congress, The 757. Oh the possibilities.

We’re doing well in some things, not so much in others. At least it’s warm outside.

The AltDaily art show, Love Looks Better in the Morning, drew the best of Norfolk to the Selden Gallery.

If you have the “audacity” to hope, then do, you’ll love America and Norfolk, too. And more in today’s If You Read the Paper.

Kids who have trouble learning due to home life issues can still learn artistic skills that may end up keeping them from buying a gun or crackpipe–regardless of their reading level or SAT score.

The music’s always been there. It’s, as they say, as old as the hills themselves. Hear it for yourself this week at Virginia Wesleyan College.

“This is an occasion for us to reaffirm that our political differences shouldn’t degenerate into demonization, in the sense that if you don’t agree with me you’re not a good American.” –Bill Clinton on gun control in the wake of the Arizona shootings.

We’ve got small tours hitting us up from Chicago, Nashville, Richmond…We’ve got killer local shows. We’ve got fundraisers. We’ve got men who are blue.

Hymn for Her tote around their instruments, their baby and dog, and pretty much everything else they own in a 1961 Airstream trailer while recording and performing live for audiences all over the States.

“Bob Chorush’s ability to avoid clinging extended to life itself.” And more in today’s If You Read the Paper.

Park Place is not a “hood.” It’s a neighborhood, and a culturally rich, diverse, beautiful one at that. And more in today’s If You Read the Paper.

City Manager versus Pilot versus Public Opinion. A historic bill. Foreign Friends. Slayer.

Renegade bike scavenger hunt, Pee-wee punch, The Movie, and afterparty. Diiiiig it!

Mistakes made in transportation offices and public transportation needs are not synonymous. Can someone do an article on that?

In the spirit of all things about the holidays you hate, we are presenting you with the anecdote: the most fun, bright, non-holiday, ridiculous, weren’t the 80s fun (and weird) movie we can think of.

Saturday December 4, we began to grow. We had the best bands, DJ’s, rappers, vocalists, and a one-man-freakin-band.

If our justice system says “due process” and “reasonable doubt” and “15 years,” it seems odd to me it can also say “as long as we feel like” and “doesn’t require burden of proof” and “indefinite.”

All those times I try to give us cred with things like “we invented the waffle cone” or “we’re where the beginnings of America, like, began.” Gone baby gone. Bob Sagat Grew Up Here.

I imagine if the songwriting and rehearsal process (and the recording for that matter) are as fluid and lighthearted as the way they do an interview and behave onstage, we’re in for nothing but great things in the coming months, starting with their show this Saturday as part of The Rise Up!

When you grow up a White and constantly hear romanticized stories of criminality or how great it was when your mother stabbed Dennis, you are going to grow up excited to stab someone and get family cred by going to prison.

Happy Thanksgiving!

“Greater good” and “I’m scared of others, let’s keep them at bay” should never be allowed to be confused as the same thing.

The lack of regionalism in this area is my number one pet peeve in living here. What we have the potential to accomplish by uniting our cities is so massive. Choo choo!

Election coverage. Green living. Drinking and smoking. Shuckin’ and jivin’.

Good times provided by your friends at AltDaily.com.

Norfolk is Zombieland

Rally to Restore Sanity/Keep Fear Alive

Norfology Nights At O’Connor’s Brewery

That and more in today’s If You Read the Paper for Wed Oct 27, 2010.

Ultimately, our mission is the make this community feel as small, intimate, and connected as if we were a little country town, but with all the benefits of big city living.

In today’s If You Read the Paper for 10/20/10.

There is a weird continuum from punk to folky old timey music. All the gutter punk kids who used to have Econochrist and Nausea t-shirts are playing in bluegrass jug bands now. Not that this has anything to do with me.

We start with an issue or idea that has definite substance and meaning, but calling it red or blue really makes it black and white when we all really know it’s a purply-gray (or in this case, rainbow print). Got that?

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Attucks. December 4. Six of the best–and our favorite–acts in Hampton Roads. Can you dig it?

If you’re willing to take time out of your day to log into the Pilot Online to make ridiculous comments about body art, body art, not war, not money (which I know you also love to comment on), you’re really a blind, out of touch group of people.

We hope you join us in our second attempt to marry good times and good causes as we chalk it up this Sunday.

Sure, he was a black NYC youth, an identity he clung to more and more at the end of his career. But he was also a visionary, a user, a poet, a trophy, an illustrator, lothario, social commentator, fashion model, and very, very young.

Conundrums galore. What to do about our name, our marketplace, our homeless population, our war…

We get new roads. McDonnell tries to make nice. Drugs. Alcohol. Slash.

At Pulp Fiction there was a lot of blood. At our next event we’re expecting oozing brains…

“Many of you will never see again an art space that looks like this one.”-EVMS Professor Matthew Bernier to his Art Therapy students

Civics are a good thing.

Virginia Beach reached a deal to purchase a 10.6 mile stretch parallel to I-264 that’s not officially for light rail.

No excuses. This weekend you get an entire extra night to go out and breathe in the splendor of our fair city

Getting you street smart, in multiple ways…

More good music happening this week than could possibly fit in this space.

Norfolk gets safer. Cooch explores Craigslist. And more!

“You make music and you put it out there and it becomes not yours anymore. You give it out. You give it to people to do what they want with it, you know, and it’s always just an amazing thing to me that my music resonates with people.”

“Ever seen a human heart? It’s a fist covered in blood.” Generic Theater explores the battle between companionship and passion in Closer.

America Day on If You Read the Paper.

“Prepared” and “blindsided” don’t belong together—especially when someone’s being paid via my tax dollars to keep them far, far apart.

Caution should be used by both drivers and pedestrians, but cars need to stop for people. Repeat: Cars need to stop for people.

So what if I’d like to form a daisy chain from here to the Middle East and beyond as we all sing Joan Baez and feed each other organic strawberries?

Drugs and Alcohol. Farmers and Money. U-S-A!

Out: Mayor Holley & possibly Northrup Grumman
In: Lynnhaven River open space and Smashing Pumpkin fans

Crime & Punishment…& Transportation

AltDaily hires Larry King, Recycling is free and easy, and other things in jESiO’s dreams