Polar Plunge!

Photographer Amy Wheeler documents the madness and mayhem at Saturday's annual fundraiser event at the Oceancfront, which drew thousands of intrepid plungers.

Part 2 of Our Chesapeake Weekend

A Saturday in Chesapeake: Part 2 of our Weekend in Chesapeake series.

The Boy Who Would Be Mayor

"It feels like I'm fighting a bear. I have no idea how bears fight, but one of us has to win. And it's going to be me," says 20-year-old mayoral hopeful Ryan Cooper.

FEATURES

Local Review: Fiery Furnaces @ The Attucks

By Lee Churchill

The band: Oh so fiery. The crowd: Oh so cold.

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Local Profile: Author Mike D’Orso

By Holly Wielkoszewski

Holly Wielkoszewski sits down with D’Orso to chat with him about his path to becoming a writer, what he finds inspirational, and “the big hurt” inside us all.

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GROWth on Granby

By Jesse Scaccia

We talk to the president of the nationally renowned design firm Grow Interactive about their just-announced plan to move to Granby Street.

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Community Gardening the Green Way

By Amelia Baker

I’m convinced that food you actually grow does taste better. It has to.

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Local Review: Of Montreal at the Norva

By Hannah Serrano

They’re a band of nerdy, happy, hippie, indie pirates, and they don’t give a crap. They do what they do, whether we’re watching or not. And I respect that.

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BLOGS

Pilot Redux | Feb 8, 2010

By Jesse Scaccia

The Virginian-Pilot stories in today’s paper we found interesting, insightful, inspiring, incomprehensible (and any other word that starts with ‘i’).

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Questions for Jersey Shore’s Snooki

By Jesse Scaccia

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

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Sing it! In Suffolk this Weekend.

By Mira Boykin

Mira breaks out her Sunday best for the world famous Harlem Gospel Choir.

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Renewal Art Show calls for artists of all kinds. The Art Institute of Virginia Beach calls for high school seniors. Town Point Saturday Market calls for artists and merchants. Opportunities, opportunities, opportunities.

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Aerial Shots of Snowy Hampton Roads

By Grant Cothran

Spectacular pictures taken from a plane landing in ORF.

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Off Leash Dog Parks in Norfolk: Man’s Best Friend or Get Bit?

By Bob Chorush

Mind-boggling was the realization that the locals were more amenable to park users dumping litter–soda and beer cans, used condoms, papers, plastic bags, discarded fried chicken, and all sorts of other crap–than they were to someone walking a dog.

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