POSTS BY jESiO
jESiO (jesi owens) has been involved with AltDaily since 2009 and has done a variety of things for the site and community during that time. Memorable events include creating SPIN (Street Performing in Norfolk) and bringing busking to the streets of Norfolk, working on bettering the local music scene any way she can, throwing The Rise Up concert at Attucks Theater, and contributing to If You Read the Paper. She at times writes, shoots photography, edits, plans events, and makes homemade lattes for Hannah. jESiO works for Airbnb.com, makes soap, digs yoga, and piddles with her art/music blog jesiowastaken.blogspot.com.

BE IT ORDAINED: Busking Goes Legit and Norfolk Gets Cooler

By jESiO

Norfolk’s new busking ordinance in its entirety.

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Busking, Titus, Camp Lo, STP, Mirrors, Miller, More in Groove Advisory

By jESiO

This week’s music news and to-do’s.

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Concrete Brings DIY Scene to Va Beach

By jESiO

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

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If You Read the Paper | Wednesday April 20

By jESiO

To stereotype the ghetto keeps the ghetto down, friend.

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Stand By Your Scene: This Week in Groove (April 18)

By jESiO

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

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AltParty: Sea Level Singer/Songwriter Music Festival

By jESiO

A photo spread of the Sea Level Music Festival.

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Radio Free Europe (er, Norfolk) | Groove Advisory | This Week in Music, April 13

By jESiO

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.

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Guns Are Still Bad and Other Rants in Today’s IYRTP

By jESiO

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.

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Q&A With Riot Grrrl Kathleen Hanna

By jESiO

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

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Groove Advisory: April 5

By jESiO

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

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Riot Grrrl Revisited: Kathleen Hanna Speaks at ODU

By jESiO

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

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Juxtapositions For Change: Park Place, Detroit, Hope

By jESiO

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

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Groove Advisory: The Latest in Local Music (March 29)

By jESiO

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.

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Groove Advisory: The Latest in Local Music

By jESiO

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

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If You Read the Paper | Wednesday, March 22

By jESiO

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

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