Archive for 'Clubs, Casinos, and Events'
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in SL
by Lavinia Carver
While I was browsing around the other day, something just caught my eye. According to the advertisement, it was the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in Second Life. Now, at first I was skeptical. I thought, "Come on, the Macy’s parade in Second Life? I know almost anything is possible in SL, but wouldn’t [...]
Dean’s Vegas Club: Cher Celebration
Cher – Believe!
by Lavinia Carver
Dean’s Vegas Club – what a Cher celebration it was! First of all, there was a pretty good turnout, but of course, I came fairly late in the day. There may have been a bigger crowd earlier – you might expect that from a Cher crowd. What I do know is [...]
Music Not Politics – An All-Weekend Live Music Event
by Jessica Holyoke
Starting Friday night, Money Island and the neighboring Money Tree Island and Freebie Island are holding a 48 hour event celebrating live music.
Chelseamarie Noel
While listening to the silky smooth stylings of Chelseamarie Noel, I had a chat with Throughthesewalls Moody, a promoter/manager of live musical acts on Second Life. Throughthesewalls talked about the [...]
Unstable Platform Rocks SL Markets?
Bank run on Ginko Financial, Dreamland fingers Linden Lab for unstable grid
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
Dollars spent in Second Life – as tracked by Reuters
Residents who play the fictional financial markets in Second Life were hard pressed to decide if the precipitous drop in in-world spending since Thursday is a rational reaction to Linden [...]
Bluebird of Unhappiness
Prokofy Neva, Walking 47 Miles of Barbed Wire/Got a Cobra Snake for a Neck-Tie/Got Me a Brand-New House by the Road-Side/Made Out of Rattle-Snake Hide
We need a music critic here at the Herald. Ever since Quentinesqe Paine, the college emo dude who used to get an expense account from the paper but never wrote anything [...]
Casino Allegedly Pays Jack Squat on $16000 US Jackpot
by Flimflam Edelman, Bureau of Casinos, Scams, and Dodgy Dealings
Second Life resident Rhonda Bosen is charging that a casino owned by Hunter Noland failed to pay out on her big win of over 400,000 Linden Dollars — roughly $16,000 $1600 US Dollars. Ms. Bosen has produced chat logs and screen shots in support of [...]
Full StoryWord of Mouth Marketing a Winning Strategy for Post Sixx Contest
by Muffin K. Smith, Herald grrrl about town.
Fox Cavern- Post Sixx grrls are learning that beauty is more than pixel deep, because last week’s Post Sixx grrrl pageant seemed to come down to personality and brains as the beauties who took the stage were “really too close to call” according to pageant judge Marilyn Murphy. [...]
Full StoryCasino Owners Unimpressed With Linden Crackdown
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
While Azno Simons seems particularly eager to comply with the Linden lab staffers attempt to clean up at least the gambling aspect of Second Life – other metaverse casino owners have a different perspective. Mr. Simons may be a unique case, since he more interested in advertising his web-based gambling [...]
Interview with PalmVegas Honcho Azno Simons
Sim owner uses off-limits casino to promote web gambling site -lures noobies with innovative automated SL cybersex classroom
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
Azno Simons on duty keeping US Citizens out of the PalmVegas Casino
Hoping to explore the motivations for an SL casino owner who sent out high profile press releases to media outlets about banning [...]
Simulating A Gambling Crackdown
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
Thursday Robin Linden stimulated metaverse simulated casino owners to come up with an acceptable euphemism for simulated gambling today with the announcement that the Lab will no longer “accept any classified ads, place listings, or event listings that appear to relate to simulated casino activity”. A few Second Life casino [...]
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