MUSIC: Declan Greenfield's magic sax in Second Life-Sandy Demina reporting

Staff Reporter• Monday, November 29, 2010 Declan has been playing saxophone for many years in real life. He currently performs in three RL bands . You can see one of the websites at www.bluemoonband.co.uk . While he also sings, he prefers to perform with saxophone. He  brings his smooth romantic sound to second life, performing a mix of soft classical country/50s love songs/and modern love songs. Delclan has also received...

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SPORTS & LEISURE- Goin' All 1620 On That Ass! Stacey Cardalines Reporting...

Stacey representin' Plymouth, Massachusetts, blogga! Gobble Gobble! Readers of this column know that I'm from the Plymouth area, which is why I always try to pimp virtual Plimoth.Thanksgiving is all about my hometown, and we always ham it up. I even make my own cranberry sau...

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SL ARTS & LITERATURE: “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” an SL Holiday Tradition

Traditions are a funny thing, especially holiday traditions. You never know quite how a tradition starts, how it perpetuates itself, and who might share that same tradition with you. In November 2008, as the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday approached, Shandon Loring had a wild idea to present folksinger Arlo Guthrie’s Alice's Restaurant Massacree on Thanksgiving Day in Second Life. With no expectations of a large audience, Loring prepared Guthrie’s...

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SL ARTS & LITERATURE: The Opportunity in Written Word

Second Life in its entirety is one big opportunity. Agreed? It just all depends on what you are looking for. There are a lot of people creating opportunity in SL: people who put in time, care, passion to providing something for people to use. Lots of these places are empty. No one is ever there. Virtual dust bunnies run in thundering herds, and creators wonder why. The key to providing opportunity in SL is that it must be tied to activity....

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MUSIC: :Karter Stonecutter Rocks Second Life! - Sandy Demina Reporting...

Staff Reporter• Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Karter joined the US Navy out of high school and spent most of his time in Florida, where he teamed up with some fellow sailors and started working gigs at the chief's club and special events. Out of the Navy, he went right into the piano bar circuit for a few years before realizing his heart was in Rock 'N Roll. Now he spends his time touring North America working large rock clubs and festivals,...

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SPORTS & LEISURE- Ain't No Sunshine... Stacey Cardalines Reporting...

An encounter group session at Pandora's Box Prison Stacey does some time... A conversation between Stacey and her sister, Manda Ari...

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MUSIC: Deep Dive Focus on Waltkeys - Sandy Demina Reporting...

walt real life Staff Reporter• Monday, November 08, 2010 Walter Runge (http://waltkeys.com ) is a seasoned RL musician, but he's quite new in SL where he prefers to use his stage name in RL:WaltKeys Faith. Born in Brooklyn NY, he's lived in the US from New York to Alaska: St Louis Missouri, Dallas Texas, San Francisco CA, and he has been camping and hiking in several other states in the ...

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SL ARTS AND LITERATURE: Constellations of Writing at the London School of Journalism Space Station

Some columns just write themselves. I am almost embarrassed to admit it. I contacted the illustrious Jilly Kidd (RL Author Adele Ward), who runs the Written Word Group for writers in SL. It was just with a soft inquiry about covering Written Word and featuring something upcoming. What I got was the fodder for about three or four columns. The scope of what Written Word does is immense! I knew they had a broad scope, but I had no idea how broad....

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A look to the Past to live the future:"Musei in Comune" opens in Second Life ~Sandy Demina Reporting...

ChrisTower Dae. Staff Reporter• Monday, November 01, 2010 Monday, October 18th a brand new sim has been inaugurated: "MiC - Museums in Comune Roma Capitale (http://slurl.com/secondlife/MiC/204/156/39 ) This sim has been bought by The City of Roma Capitale through “Zetema”, the company that manages all the museums of the civic circuit. Marina Bellini (Mexi Lane in SL) who is in charge for the Communication 2.0 of the city of Roma...

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SPORTS & LEISURE- Fore! Stacey Cardalines Reporting...

Megga, Stacey, and Gerald, the Terrible Trio.... If you need something cool to do this Halloween, and are sick of haunted houses, why not try Haunted Golf? http://slurl.com/secondlife/KITYKANA/116/230/26 Yours truly took part in a charity golf tournament at the Cheeky Cow Country Club. The charity is to benefit a friend of ours (Sloan)who suffered a fire IRL. He's unlucky in that regard, but he's lucky in that he has at least 100 people who...

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