Now is not the time to close the doors. Now is the time to be open. If Norfolk wants to be a grown-up city, it needs to start treating its citizens like adults. Let it start here, with Waterside.

To get you ready for the festival, we’ve put together a list of rules on how to maximize your experience at the Wine Festival.

Forget staying in. This weekend is packed full of music, barbeques, and great local art shows.

AltDaily food editor, Dana Staves, and publisher, Hannah Serrano, chow down at HarborFeast.

It’s hot as H, E, double hockey sticks outside. But don’t worry, there’s still a lot of exciting things to do this weekend. From ways to beat the heat, to ways to give back to others, and ways to create. There’s no excuse to not hang out.

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.

Interview with ODU Out President Katie Mills and LGBT happenings in Hampton Roads include music, drag shows, military care packages, and the 23th Annual Out in the Park at Town Point Park.

Who needs a parade through the streets when you can have a flotilla down the river?

It’s my birthday and I’m doing If You Read the Paper like this and nobody can stop me.

Architect and urban planner Lennie Araujo reviews what Norfolk is missing, how it can get it, where it could go, and why any of it matters.

“I don’t even know what was happening at Wine Fest,” my roommate Liz said. “I know I was eating somebody else’s food, and I know I was okay with it.”

The Virginia Opera is putting on a free show at Town Point Park tonight.

Skye Zentz previews the new and improved Town Point Park as it finally re-opens, just in time for this weekend’s 4th of July Harbor Fest.

It’s been around for just over 25 years, and now Waterside is going through (what we at that age like to call) a quarter-life crisis of identity.