Reasons to Leave Your House: Indigo Girls Edition
There's lots going on this weekend, from a once-in-a lifetime Indigo Girls performance to the Virginia Beach Patriotic Festival. Check it out!
Reasons to Leave Your House This Memorial Day Weekend
Kicking off the summer with...
Assassinate Ghent: Get. Ready.
Summary: Eliminate your assigned "target" using any form of nerf/foam weaponry. The game’s winner is the last man standing.
The New Website
So this is the new AltDaily website...
For anyone interested, it's built on the Joomla! open source content management system. It's powerful, flexible and secure.
Quick and Easy Volunteer Opp @ The Plot
We need help planting Saturday, April 20 from 10am-1pm to get The Plot up and running for the Spring and Summer.
Retail on Granby Street Just Got Reeeal Sexy
Downtown Norfolk welcomes its newest retailer, Loja Leblon, purveyor of women’s and men’s swimwear and intimate clothing designed and manufactured in Brazil.
Score Rare Vinyl This Saturday, Record Store Day
“The indie record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find new songs to love. The stores whose owners and staff live for music have spread the word about exciting new things faster and with more essence than either radio or the press. Any artist that doesn't support the wonderful ma and pa record stores across America is contributing to our own extinction.” -- Joan Jett
Nuclear Authority Generates Controversy
Virginia is creating a new agency to support development of nuclear power – a move that has upset environmentalists and open-government advocates, because the entity won’t have to comply with the state’s Freedom of Information Act and other laws.
An Open Letter to the Community from the Norfolk SPCA
Recent, local statements against no-kill sheltering somehow manage to completely ignore all the good for animals achieved by the Norfolk SPCA and similar organizations.
Op Ed: Ringling is hooked on cruelty
Ringling staunchly defends and enthusiastically uses these tools of torture to keep elephants afraid and submissive.
Music Preview: Preservation Hall Jazz Band at the Attucks Theatre
The famed ensemble, which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, will fill the beautifully restored 1919 hall with the sounds of clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano, drums and tuba.
Caption Contest: Mozart's Requiem, by Virginia Symphony Orchestra
Here's your chance to check out the show FREE! On our Facebook page, we are holding a caption contest that closes TODAY at 5pm. The challenge is to give a hilarious caption as to what is tickling Mozart so much in a pic from the film, Amadeus.
New Law Cracks Down on Bullying in Schools
Beginning in July 2014, each school board in Virginia must include in its student code of conduct a prohibition against bullying, including cyberbullying.
The 25 Norfolk Businesses I Can't Live Without
Here are the rules:
1. This is my list. You can have your list. This is my list.
Concert Schedule: 6th Annual Sea Level Singer/Songwriter Festival
So much music packed into "3 perfect days in Norfolk."
My Final Virginia CSAcation
My final Virginia-based CSAcation post, with lessons learned and the gospel of Ugli fruit.
Groove Advisory March 26 - 31, 2013
Here are a bunch of live music shows that are going on between now and the weekend. Enjoy!
Update on New Ghent Restaurants
Over the last six months, there's been a lot of construction with regards to new restaurants coming to Ghent. Here's a quick rundown on the latest.
Q&A with Kishi Bashi
When was the last time you witnessed something incredible? Not just *great* incredible but *hard-to-believe* incredible. The kind of thing that makes train-wrecks out of thoughts. Kishi Bashi does that.
Text: Virginia Beach State of the City
This year, the City of Virginia Beach is celebrating its 50th anniversary. No matter how you look at it, we are a young City. In fact, many of us in this room are older than our City.
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