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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

Post Mortem: A Brief History of the Simcast Project

One year ago, tired of the usual diet of naked bingo, scripting classes and fetishware malls, I was flying aimlessly in SL when I happened upon a castle on a large island in Quat, with what looked like a gigantic spoon out front — no it was half spoon and half spatula and was resting [...]

Post Six Grrrl Susan Deckard

The Herald is happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Susan Deckard! Susan works hard as the manager of the ManHunt Mall, which is owned by another recent Post Six Grrrl, Elaine Marlowe. My thanks go out to Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine for these wonderful pictures and those of all [...]

Protest Continues as Former Gigas Officer Removed from Ouranos. By Lindens.

by Prokofy Neva Hank Ramos, a former GIGAS Group mall investor battling other GIGAS officers in a dispute that led to Linden Lab’s seizure of their land, continued his protest in the Ahern Welcome Area last night about a new development in his land-grab saga — his summary removal from the officers of Ouranos group, [...]

The Messenger’s Message: There’s A New Newspaper in Second Life

No, the Herald hasn’t gone to a broadsheet format. The picture above is cropped from the positively newspaper-sized new entrant into Second Life’s fourth estate, the Metaverse Messenger, which launched today. A weekly that will start at six pages, the Messenger is the brainchild of Katt Kongo , an SL avatar with RL journalism experience [...]

Skin Review: Mistress Midnight

by Chipsen Queso Despite what Matthias announced last week about taking a bit of a break from the five skin designers who were interviewed last year by the Herald, I decided to go ahead and review this skin by Mistress Midnight. As a clothier, Mistress is a legend. Her texture work is superb, which has [...]