There's no better way to end the summer than with an outdoor music festival right on the beach. Celebrate your Labor Day weekend in Virginia Beach at the Verizon Wireless Music Festival.
Things kickoff this evening as the festival celebrates its 15th year of winding down the summer season. Tonight's headline on the 5th Street Main Stage is Morris Day and The Time. A $30 weekend ticket will get you into the show along with the Billy Idol concert on Saturday and the B52's concert on Sunday. If money is a little tight, there are three other stages with free concerts each night. Los Lobos, War and Warrant are just some of the artists that are performing for free.
The shows end with a fireworks display on both Friday and Sunday evenings. Even if you aren't a big fan of the music, there's always plenty to do and eat as you wander through the street vendors that set up shop for the weekend festivities. If you still have your doubts about the weekend in Virginia Beach, there's a Blues-fest in only a couple more weeks if that's more you style.
Busch Gardens Europe in Williamsburg, Virginia is about to add some new stuff even with the looming threat of a sale hanging over its head. The park plans to add a Sesame Street-themed land with hopes of bringing more families to the park--or at least those who have a thing for Big Bird.
The new section will supposedly contain a "European-style" Sesame Street, and plans also call for a small kid-friendly coaster, log flume and water play areas. There will also be new retail and character dining so you can really get the full Sesame experience.
As the park moves forward with the expansion, the Globe Theatre in the England section of the park will be transformed into a 4D movie featuring everyone's favorite characters called "Sesame Street presents Lights, Camera, Imagination!" The park will be working overtime throughout the winter and hopes to have the new addition open by Spring 2009.
Chris Brown and Rihanna made like a high school couple and recently enjoyed a day at the amusement park at Paramount's Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia. Aww, see, he's holding her stuff so she can go on the coasters!
Both singers have signed on to play VH-1 and Vogue's annual "Fashion Rocks" concert in New York City September 9, along with Beyonce, chart-topper Lil' Wayne and up-and-coming British chanteuse Duffy. Get your tickets now for the Radio City Music Hall event!
The AP brings us news today of a promising new trend in spa technology: garra rufa fish. Of course, we've covered these so-called doctor fish before, and YouTube is, uh, stocked with videos of the critters.
The flesh-eating fish first popped up in Turkey, where they'd nibble the dead skin off the feet of spa-goers. The trend then spread to Asia and even Croatia. Yvonne Hair and Nail in Alexandria, Virginia claims to be the only place you can take the plunge in the US.
The Spirit of Nantucket, a 207-foot cruise ship trolling from Alexandria, VA to Charleston, SC, was intentionally run aground this morning. After snagging something and damaging the hull, the captain decided to park the boat on a shoal in nine feet of water rather than risk sinking uncontrollably.
As the 66 passengers and crew waited for the Coast Guard, they had breakfast on board and joked about the situation. Smaller boats then arrived and ferried everyone to shore and the Pungo Ferry Marina, outside of Virginia Beach.
Apparently Cruise West, the company operating the boat, did a good job handling the snafu. Passenger Lloyd Roberts, who's traveled with the company three times before, was yucking it up:
What a way to arrive. Nice alarm clock this morning. We’re all fine. Looking forward to the rest of the trip. We look forward to taking another trip with them.
If you like your music mainstream the Innsbrook Pavillion in Glen Allen, Virginia may be right for you.
The no-tailgating rule stinks, since half the fun of a concert happens in the parking lot before the show. But at $15 to $20 a pop, tickets are accessible to even people on a budget. And the ample lawn area is perfect for that festival feel.
Plus, we're not sure where else you can catch Fiona Apple, Nickel Creek, The Black Crowes, and Hootie & the Blowfish on the same stage in a single week.
And trust, we were as surprised as you are to hear Hootie and his friends are still together after all these years. Looks like his band mates have a high tolerance for dudes that cry at the sight of dolphins -- they are bigger people than us.
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A Jaunted tipster sent in this photo from the Blacksburg, Virginia, home of Virginia Tech.
The USPS Star Wars stamp promo ends this Friday, and with just a couple days of voting left, somehow the Star Wars scene that inspired this R2 mailbox photo is only in third place.
Will the R2D2 mailboxes disappear from American street corners once this promo ends? More than likely, so get back out there before the end of hte week and locate more of the 380 R2 units spread across the U.S., snap a photo, send it our way and we will add it to the R2D2 USPS Mailbox Map.
After heading out to the country for some delish rib eye last weekend, we ended up back in DC. But even all that steak couldn't sate our taste for beef. That's when Five Guys came to the rescue.
Yes, yes, the operation has gone into franchise mode recently. But it all got started in Arlington, VA. The thing that keeps Five Guys legit is the focus on just doing a few things right: You'll find burgers, fries and little else on the menu.
We went for the cheeseburger, which is actually two beef patties smothered with American cheese. The "fried onion" topping turned out to be little bits of sauteed onion--totally not worth it. A huge bag of fries and a root beer later, we were in a massive burger-induced food coma. In other words: It may be a chain, but damn it's still good.
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