“It is okay to be and express yourself in a safe and healthy way as long as it is helping your personal growth and not hurting anyone else.”
- Levi Hull, aka India, drag queen and dancer for the Virginia Opera.

The whole purpose of this experiment is to see what it means to be solo in Hampton Roads and to send a Bat Signal up to some AltDaily readers that there is hope for the unattached, so play fair.

Statistics show we are hipsterer than I thought.

Spoiler alert: we’re all gonna die.

The multitudinous illuminated windows of the high rises really did seem to wink at me, promising what nature’s vistas never could: the excitement and potential of human adventures, of foreign voices and bodies and ideas interwoven with the framework of the city.

The Best Kind of Corporate Theft: Watching Viral Videos at Work

The citizen/cyclists of Bike Norfolk are fighting for you, and change is coming.

An interview with Dr. David Dorbad MD, FAAP of Renaissance Pediatrics. Plus, monthly events for the local LGBT community.

There’s something profoundly askew in the American perception of transportation safety, an unthinking acceptance of the risks of driving, and a blindness to the accumulation of deaths that result from our car-centric policies.

Last year Norfolk had its moment. Like the undead, our moment is back.

If you take away one message from my column today let it be the phrase “complete streets.”

Tide saves cyclists!, Big news in Richmond, Cycling community in cities grows, and more in If You Read the Bicycle News for Tuesday, October 4, 2011.

From your home computer you can help process particle physics from the LHC, or fold proteins on your PS3 to help study disease research. You can simulate models of the early universe and Big Bang events, as well as artificial intelligence constructs, gravitational wave detection, and quantum computing models…

Keegan sent this in with the message: “Hey, I took 770 shots from the balcony of my new condo today, and
created a timelapse video.” Boy did he.

Josh is creating a bar flow chart, a guide for local bars to fit everyone’s preferences. He needs your input on the Norfolk version.

An inside look at an intense weekend of filmmaking.

“I want people to see our videos and say. ‘Yo, I know that dude who is dancing. He goes to my school in Chesapeake!’ or hear an out-of-towner say, ‘Yo seriously, the 757 region they got their scene rockin’!'”
-Johnny Breaker of RadioActive Cardboard

Like to write, edit, and make an impact in your community? Check this out.

If I could ask one favor of a modern day Marty McFly and Doc Brown, it would be: When you guys are all done with being trapped in 1955, would you mind bringing these five charming fashion trends back with you? Thanks.

SlutWalks started in Toronto after a cop told an audience that if women didn’t “dress like sluts” they’d cut down their chances of being sexually assaulted. Thank you, sir, for bringing the victim-blaming out in the open.

Bold watches, patterned bottoms, and other tubular ways to wear the 80s.

It’s that point during the summer when you have two options: make this summer the best one of your life, or let it just quietly fade into fall. You decide what you want to do. (I vote for the first option.)

After incurring a fine for longboarding on the boardwalk, Joshua Shelly wanted to change the law. Now, he has started nothing short of a Pro-Longboarding Movement.

Breaking up is hard enough without it becoming a full-fledged catastrophe. Following these guidelines will give you an edge in creating more humane and workable solutions for your lives.

If the Internet thinks you should date someone you held after they were born, you’re doing it wrong.

There’s a lot of good vibes being passed around this weekend. Do something that will make you feel good for the long run.

Out in the Park provides a subconscious sense of solidarity for the LGBT community, provides a learning experience for those outside the community, and is a boon to the local economy.

To quote the famous Ms. Spears, “Why don’t you do somethin?” This weekend is full of fun. Check it out.

There was a lot of fodder for our friends to discuss at the reception. I mean, how many gay, Wiccan weddings have you been to?

“It’s the end of the world as we know, it’s the end.” Whether you’re counting down to the end of the world or celebrating still being alive on Sunday, we have your weekend mapped out! Let the good times roll!

Plus a chance for you to sign up too.

Drinks with friends? Fun with the whole family? Activities that help save our gorgeous planet? Keep Norfolk Beautiful organizes a whole weekend of Earth Day events that gets ‘em all done.

With an ever-changing city like Norfolk, I’m not sure this guide will ever be complete. But then again, isn’t that what makes a city great?

The 75th anniversary of Norfolk’s Naro Cinema, the Ghent Winter Bar Tour, and the 2011 Sustainable Living Fair are a few of the big ones.

Forest Lakes in a way you’ve never seen it before: through my eyes.

Trekkies, Burmese Pythons, high-end Girl Scout cookies, a swinging lindy hop dance, and so, so much more going on this weekend!

From Anti-Valentine’s Day parties to horse drawn carriage rides, we’ve got you plenty of Reasons to Leave Your House this Valentine’s Day.

Avoiding these top ten Dont’s this Valentine’s Day can save both your relationship and your wallet.

It’s going to be beautiful outside and it’s V-Day weekend. You don’t want to spend your time “overhearing” your roommate and his or her S.O. get to know each other better. Get out! Here are some great options of things to do.

All of us, when in our element, become instantly more open, accessible, interesting and highly appealing.

16 things to do, including the much-anticipated opening of Kerouac, the kickoff of the VA Jewish Film Festival, a Roaring 20s Party, and so much more this weekend.

In Virginia, a motorist can be absolved of any responsibility for killing a cyclist by simply claiming, “I didn’t see them.”

Blue Man Group, MarCon, Derby Girls, and so, so much more.

My life on the front line of eco retail–combined with the most-viewed, most talked about, most purchased enviro-finds–leads to this handful of green trends for 2010.

No experience brings forth the virtue of nakedness like parenting – that we are all flawed but also perfect, that we all start and end our lives naked.

Take a break from the Xmas shopping, bickering with the family, oversleeping and car-crashing in the snow. Get out. Party. Here’s where we’ll be…

Bunches of benefit shows, lots of great music, and a flash mob to boot.

If you only do one thing this weekend, make it The Rise Up! But of course, you, our AltDaily readers, are likely to be weekend warriors like us, and you’re probably hitting up a bunch of things. So check out what’s on our agenda, and hopefully we will run into you plenty…

Finding community in Portsmouth through a yard sale. Plus tips on how to have your own sale, and where to look for others.

The Pushers do two nights, Long Division rocks out Chesapeake, Norfolk illuminates itself and Santa comes to town.

Weepies, Fashion Week, NaNoWriMo, and oh so much more.

Pucks, tats, and Fighting Cocks…who could ask for anything more?

Good times provided by your friends at AltDaily.com.

It’s estimated that 41 percent of Norfolk residents who could recycle do not. RecycleRightNorfolk.org hopes to help change that.

Instead of focusing on the myriad of things we’ve gotten wrong in our region in the past, let’s instead look at this as the tremendous opportunity that it is to get it right this time.

The original San Francisco “Critical Mass” chose its name from a recent urban Chinese practice: Where one cyclist would fear to tread, a dozen could calmly go.

All it takes to gain admission to America’s finest graduate programs is to communicate like an insufferable windbag. So, as a public service, I offer some guidelines that won’t make you sound smarter, but will make you sound like a grad student.

Tales from a 1970s Catholic school.

The Governor is choosing rest stops over a bike-friendly Virginia, and that’s not right.

The last thing I expected was to be initiated as a Priest of Isis, foremost among goddesses of ancient Egypt, in an open-air ritual at Bayville Farms Park in Virginia Beach.

Colors make a bold statement of who we are, who we want to be, and that we are excited about the future, ready to blaze a new destiny…

It was funny, though, because as we were standing there watching people, it never occurred to us that people might also be watching us.

On this Mother’s Day, as a small sign of worship, I’m going to share eight of my favorite memories of the mothers in my life, in no particular order.

A semi-destroyed park in Chesapeake is up for a $30,000 makeover from Sears. It just needs your vote.

With spring many of us are resolving to lose our winter weight. Why not also create a healthier lifestyle along with that?

For some folks, Green Consciousness has become almost a fashion statement. There are those who buy from this or that store, or catalog, thinking they are being green, when it really amounts to pursuing a green image.

Pledge to use alternative transport on Earth Day and Green Alternatives & AltDaily will give you treats.

Anticipated subjects for this year include architecture, design objects, the culture of China, and the joint entry by Hampton University and ODU for the next Solar Decathlon to be held in 2011 on the National Mall in DC.

The Library of Congress will be acquiring the entire Twitter archive for historical reference. With over 50 million tweets a day, after all, some of those are bound to be important, right?

While I’m happy to say the Jewish Mother is not closing; unfortunately, it’s not going to be on the Oceanfront for very much longer. In October, it will be moving to Hilltop.

Details and background on the event from Scott Guirlinger, Ghent Bar Tours event coordinator.

Let her count the ways she loves you this Valentine’s Day weekend.

Jersey Shore’s Snookie, who is visiting Va Beach on Friday, isn’t giving interviews. These are the questions we *would have* asked her.

Crazy things happen Downtown at night.

I am single because I want to be. For any of you reading right now thinking Yeah, right, let me humbly suggest that your worldview might be what we ladies call man-centric or misogynistic. K? Thnx.

On a cold, dark and rainy night, with no parking and no reason to want to go anywhere but under a cover, we managed to raise close to $5,000 in four hours

The ten dollars you pay at the door that will go toward medicine and clean water and other necessities in a place where The New York Times is reporting they are no longer counting the dead, they are a good ten dollars.

A top five list of go-to things to do in Hampton Roads in these more frigid than fiery months.

At the close of this year, I admit, I’m not exactly sure of what I want to take with me and what it is I’d like to leave behind.

You can count on Jules, our resident nightlife expert, to know just where to be when the ball drops.

…now that Berkvisual won’t be in it. But at least it’s another excuse to party tonight.

Single people, living alone, seem destined for a life of poverty. Or, at least a life of Ramen noodles and cereal for dinner.

Check back over the next couple hours for our tipsy insights from the party in P-Town.

I’m not one of those gals with the plaid headband and the giant reindeer-embossed sweater and the bedazzled, navy blue corduroy jacket. So I thought I’d create for myself a little program to get me through the next month.

And check back here later today for a live blog from Colley Cantina, 4 – 7pm.

Come Parade day, when I get to hold one of Jerold the Bookworm’s ropes, it will be like holding onto a childhood fantasy.

Ten costumes to find and photograph. And they’re not so easy.

The idea is to make a costume from clothes in your own closet, and donate others to Salvation Army. Here are some ideas for “green” Halloween costumes.

Looking for something unusual to do this Halloween? Got a bike? Then put on your inappropriate costume and head over to Colley Ave and Spotswood in Ghent (right by Blair Middle School), at 9pm for a Halloween scavenger hunt, urban cyclist-style.

I’ve both heard and lodged the same old complaint: There’s no real “dating scene” in this area. Where do all the single people hang out?

A review of The Pub in Peninsula Town Center in Hampton.

Casually, our mutual friend asked me, “Isn’t it sweet? Do you know? He and blah blah blah new girlfriend are engaged?” It wasn’t until I’d actually heard the words spoken that I began to feel something like a ship, maybe my ship, slowly sinking.

Since then, work has continued to be my vat of ice cream and rom-com, of sorts, whenever relationships have let me down. But I’m starting to wonder: Was this the right way to handle things? Is it possible my job was my rebound dude?

About a year ago, I got oversaturated by a staggering heartbreak that worked all the genius out of my system. In an effort to recover and restore, I made a decision. I told my friends, my family, my co-workers and my cat–I’m going on a man-fast.

I look back at my losses in love, and it isn’t easy for me to admit: I’m not just alone. I’m not just pissed. I’m also sad. I’m also scared.

In the latest installment of ‘Single in the 757,’ Mira talks about the well-done lameness of text dating.

It’s Alive at the Chesapeake Central Library Friday Night, sensibly followed by It’s Alive 2.

Green Drinks. Today, 5pm to 9pm. The Boot.

Hey Seven Cities, let’s cyber-stalk each other.

“I ain’t drunk,” you can slur/burp at the judgerers out there. “I’m just sa-portin’ Hope House.”