The Alphaville Herald

Gravity Space Station Returns

Gravity Space Station was one of the most popular clubs to ever grace the face of SecondLife when it first opened last November, and stayed open for approximately 9 weeks. Yesterday, it was re-opened in Nyna Slate’s Dragon Moon sim for a 3 day birthday bash for the Bedazzle team. Many know Bedazzle as the [...]

Betrayed! Lindens Phuck Gaming Open Market!

Why do I rob banks? Cuz that’s where the money is.–Willie Sutton There aren’t a lot of online institutions that you can trust, but Gaming Open Market has always been one of them. Readers will recall being introduced to GOM by the Herald two years ago, and how GOM came to the rescue of Urizenus [...]

Post Six Grrrl: Katie Fleming

The Herald is happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Katie Fleming! Katie ended up in SecondLife because of a New Year’s resolution and ended up becoming a self-proclaimed “club skank,” and is now gracing the pages of the Herald!. My thanks go out to Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine for [...]

Illuminating SL’s Spiritual Side

story and photograph by Buttery Shortbread Avatars of all denominations and spiritual beliefs have a new place to worship in Second Life, at the Interfaith Temple, built only about a month ago by Athel Richelieu, who is not yet out of his teens in his first life (though old enough for SL proper, to be [...]

Shape up!

When I’m in game, people often ask me how I am able to keep my avatar in peak form, and whether my RL free weight ripped and pilates tuned body contributes to my outgoing and frankly irresistable virtual personality. The answer, of course, is yes. A healthy real life contributes to a healthy virtual life, [...]

Herald Comix #4

Bringing the Fight Against Cancer to Second Life

The New York Times has an article today about the Second Life Relay for Life that’s being put together by Jade Lily and SnoopyBROWN Zamboni to benefit the American Cancer Society. The benefit is a week away, August 27-28, so save the date.

Invasion of the Virtual Body Snatchers

Most sorry for the delay in reporting this, but I was up at the Herald duck blind in Canada when the story broke and only just found it. Many of you will recall Chipsen Queso’s highly positive review of Asri Falcone’s fashion show. Now it seems that her account was hijacked and another mystery typist [...]

Big Brother Linden is Watching You!

Big Brother — more demonic and horrifying than even Orwell could have imagnied. (pic stolen from Pirate Cotton’s site) There’s been some buzz on the forums lately about the extent to which the Lindens monitor convos in SL. I’ve always just assumed that in-game communications are unsafe, but perhaps that is a bit of paranoia [...]

Post Six Grrrl: Kirsten Mullen

The Herald is happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Kirsten Mullen! Kirsten is a pretty recent SecondLife addict who works in the SL tattoo business and loves to go around to clubs, especially the new Club Fantasy. My thanks go out to Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine for these wonderful [...]