White Mouse Power

At one party a friend was hosting, someone’s AO muttered something so crude, it shocked everyone into silence. What did we do in response? Find a way to diffuse it with humor.

For the story, go to Extra Extra.

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Mystery Celebrates Four Years in Second Life

It was four years ago this week that the Mystery sim was founded. And to celebrate, Tygeria Mirabeau and her staff are throwing a week of special events. They started out with a bang with Debi Latte singing live from the Queen of Hearts riverboat club. But Mystery has much more to celebrate besides the parties. There are new attractions, and even a sister sim appearing.

To read the story, go to Community.

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Cartoon of the Day

"I went to Kali Birman's rezday party, and all I got was this lousy title"

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Ghost Ship Crashes Live Music Party at Mystery

On Friday afternoon, the Heart of Mystery Riverboat Club at the Mystery sim held one of it’s live music events. At 1 PM SL time was Zorch Boomer, whom provided blues and pop music to the crowd. At 2 PM came Lexie Luan, “The great music continues on the top deck of the Queen of Hearts as Lexie Luan takes the stage at 2pm!! Come hear this wonderful singer today!! Hope to see you here!” Sim owner Tygeria Mirabeau and sim manager Amythe Midnight were there. Micah Giha was the host.

With the sim at nightfall, the graceful Lexi wowed the crowd as she sang while strumming her neon-pink guitar. The audience responded with applause, “Woo-hoo”s, and comments like “Over the fookin’ edge.” A couple times, fireworks shot over the club, providing a little flash and color to the show.

Later in the show, the party got a visitor of a more supernatural and aquatic note. A roar like an ocean wave could be heard, but there was no sign of a big wave below. Then the audience saw the wooden bow of an old-time sailing frigate plowing through, but it harmlessly passed through everyone it touched. A ghost ship!

In just a few moments, the vessel had slid across the deck of the riverboat club, the stern leaving a little water in it’s wake, which vanished as the ship sailed on. The ghost ship sailed on for a little longer, and soon faded into the night from whence it came. The audience paused for a few moments before Tygeria called for the party to resume.

Lexi left the riverboat at 3PM, but before doing so revealed a little surprise for Tygeria with the help of Amy. Even though the musician left, some of the crowd stuck around for a little longer to continue the party.

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On another note, Mystery is currently hiring additional hosts for it’s events. For “Themed DJ Events, the base pay is 150 L for two hours. For live music events, base pay is 150 L. The pay is in addition to tips given to the host by those attending, which can exceed what Mystery pays. Those interested are asked to contact Micah Giha or Amythe Moonlight by notecard (IMs tend to get capped). They are asked to follow rules for a PG sim.

Bixyl Shuftan

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Ringing in the New Year

Some in Second Life were at the official New Years Eve party in the Voss sim, watching the ball drop. But many other places in the Metaverse rang in 2010. From Skybeam to Mystery to Luskwood, each did so in their own special way.


To read more, go to Community.

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Mystery's "Evil Christmas"

With most everywhere else enjoying a cheerful little Christmas, the normally romantic Mystery sim decided to give those whom find all the cuteness a bit sickingly sweet a break. Check out Mystery's "Evil Christmas" party in Community.

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SL-Newspaper 3rd Birthday Party

SL-newspaper hunt winner Callie Blackburn with CEO Dana Vanmoer

Thank you all who came to share our 3 Year Anniversary Bash

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Win L$10,000 for SLNs 3rd birthday

Who are sl-newspaper.com?
Sl-newspaper.com was founded by JamesT Juno 3 years ago, now run by his partner Dana Vanmoer

This weekend we are celebrating, first with a treasure hunt with a grand prize of L$10,000
You can find the rules and Landmarks in the poster outside our main office

http://slurl.com/secondlife/SkyBeam/190/218/38

Then a party on Saturday 2-4pm SLT with DJ Dakota behind our main office

http://slurl.com/secondlife/SkyBeam/190/250/38

I hope you will all join me in celebrating one of SLs longest running newspapers.

Dana

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Some Events of Halloween 2009

Halloween in Second Life had numerous spooky and thrilling events, too many for us to count. So here's a few to represent what took place as the metaverse was filled with ghosts and goblins.

To see the rest of the story, go to the Community Section: Click Here.

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Happy Halloween from SLN and Skybeam

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Come and join us for a spooktacular night

http://slurl.com/secondlife/SkyBeam/190/255/38

Prizes for the spookiest/funniest halloween costume
Random giveaways
Great music with DJ Qwark Allen

Find us behind our new office on skybeam

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Second Life Zombiefest

Eating brains sounds like an odd way to help the Red Cross. But that’s exactly what’s happening, thanks to some residents in the Exodus sim. This weekend, Zombiefest is being held, with all Lindens raised going to charity.

Looking around, the place was like the setting of a horror movie, with people in undead avatars stumbling about, with tags like “Zombyonce,” “Will **** For Brains,” and other examples of “dead-pan” humor. There was a pale girl behind a kissing booth, “Kisses, $100L! Get your kisses here, by the help booth! A hundred Lindens to lick my rotten lips.” One lady gave out tarrot card readings from a gypsy wagon. There were also some vendors selling zombie AOs, and other goulish goods, as well as a few freebies available. At a funky-looking dance floor, complete with a danceball that looked like a round brain, a Rob Zombie band played to a packed audience of dancing corpses.

The idea for the event “originally started off as a zombie themed fashion show,” Putrid Gloom told me. He talked with Gattina Dumpling, “One of us, I don't remember who, found out that the 9th (of October) was International World Zombie Day. And so we formulated the idea to do something for charity that celebrated that.” Horrid Twine and Stein Shilova also helped to organize the event, “but we also have a group called Hot For Zombies, a zombie RP group. A lot of people came on board from that group and helped us. ... Also to be mentioned is that the good folk of NoR have donated this sim for the duration.”

Asked about the sim being filled to capacity, “We have had a fantastic response, bigger than we ever expected. It's been full from the get-go. When we talked Friday night, they had already raised a lot of cash, “So far we have just hit the 100,000L$ mark. We expect to make around 3 to 4 thousand (US dollars). Fingers crossed.” They were already making plans for the future, “Zombiefest 2010 is already being planned. ... We will probably do something around Christmas, but we haven't got any details for you I'm afraid.”

Saturday events had among them a Zombie Auction. Events Sunday include a Zombie dance party, complete with DJs, and a Burlesque show.

So for some Halloweenish fun a little early in the month, and giving to the Red Cross in the process, head over to the Exodus sim before the party comes to a close Sunday night.

“It’s to die for.”

Bixyl Shuftan

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Tygeria Mirabeau’s Surprise Rezday Party

On Wednesday October 7, Mystery’s manager Amythe Moonlight secretly IMed a number of people to ask them to drop over to the Heart of Mystery riverboat club at 4 PM SL time. The reason: a surprise rezday party for sim owner Tygeria Mirabeau. Tygeria had first appeared on Second Life four years ago, and a month after she held a birthday party for Amythe, it was time for the manager to return the favor. There was already a live event on schedule, and Amy was going to turn it into a birthday bash.

From Tygeria’s point of view, things went normally at first, people porting in, and singer Ichie Kamachi starting her live performance. Then all of a sudden, everyone went “Happy Rezday Tygeria!” to a stunned sim owner. After she got her composure back, she thanked everyone for the pleasant surprise.

The party and music went smoothly for a while, then the sim crashed, with people ending up elsewhere when they logged. Some of the people ended up in Zindra, leading to a few jokes the Lindens were trying to get the party a little wilder. The party was temporarily moved to a store, but eventually the sim was brought back online and people headed back. Tygeria joked that this was the work of the “masked lover” frequenting her sim in an attempt to be alone with Amy, though Amy swore no one came by to see her.

The “masked lover” Tygeria has been looking for was never caught, though a picture was taken showing an unidentified masked man dancing with Amy. No one seemed to recognize the avatar. Might this be the mystery Don Juan Tygeria has been after? So far, no one knows, and the 2000 Linden reward for the identity of the “Seducer” still stands.

Bixyl Shuftan

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Happy Birthday/Rezzday

There’s just something about a birthday party, or a rezz-day party as in Second Life people often prefer to celebrate that. Even among those who throw parties every week, these celebrations stand out.

Two friends of mine had birthday parties in SL a few months ago, Blarion Gazov and Nydia Tungsten. Nydia being a Sunweaver DJ, her party had lots of music and people dancing around, living it up, with a couple avatar designers showing up among the attendees. At one point, half of us were dancing on a “Carmeldansen” cube.

Blarion’s party was a surprise, planned by Aikun Neiro and Gwyendalin Gausman (real life daughter and mother). Aikun invited him over to their beach island on Fearly while the rest of us hid, then we rushed forward, “Happy Birthday Blarion!” After his, “Aw, gee ...” We all sat down for a fairly relaxed celebration. There was a little funning around, notably when one guy insisted on sitting on the hot grill, inspiring crack jokes if hot dogs came with “warm buns.”

On Labor Day weekend, two notable people had their parties, one birthday, and one rezzday. Pooky Amsterdam’s birthday was on Saturday September the 5th, and so she invited a number of friends and media audience regulars to a place. Hopping over, what we saw was a smaller version of her “The 1st Question” game show set. Among the people there was Chantel Harvey, a Machinima director, as were others on Pooky’s staff such as Kat2 Kit and Geo Meek.

Pooky explained she didn’t celebrate her rezzday as her experience in Second Life really didn’t begin until later, “The party was great. It inaugurated the new mini-home on Treet Island.” I was really glad to see Wiz & Texas there, and all my Friends. It really was a blastoid.”

On Sunday September the 6th, Tygeria Mirabeau gave her best friend Amythe Moonlight a surprise rezzday party. Live entertainment was part of the event, Lyn Carlberg and Taunter Goodnight. She sent regulars to the Heart of Mystery riverboat club notecards with the time of the party, and asking them not to tell Amy before the party, “For four years in SL, my Amy has been very wise, or foolish to not run away screaming. To me, she has been my guide and help, my teacher and my dearest friend.”

And the party went well, with many attending and a good time held by all. Tygeria herself got a surprise, her friend Jazzz Hermit logging in, taking a break from college. Amy did a little humoring around, “It’s my rez day and I will if i want to! You would do it too if it happened to youuu ...” But mostly, she felt humbled, “I have been blown away by all this, totally overwhelmed. I feel lucky to have such wonderful friends.”

So whether you’re a DJ, a sim & club manager, a media entertainer, or just a likable guy, there’s nothing quite like a birthday/rezzday party in Second Life.

Bixyl Shuftan

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“We Gotta Say Goodbye, For the Summer” - Bahama Beach Club Closes

At 6 PM Saturday August 22nd, the Bahama Beach Club at the Goldrush sim held it’s final event. Club owner Rory Langdon was the DJ that night, playing classic rock for a “Back to the ‘60s” beack party, with some guests and staff in their swimming trunks and bikinis. Instead of in the club, the party was held on the beach sands.

Rory Langdon, or Joe Ward in real life, has been playing music for over 30 years, with experience as both a DJ and club manager. Experience he brought with him to Second Life, both DJing and club managing here. In March 2009, he decided to start up a club of his own, buying up some land that already had a nightclub there, “Club 9:30.” As it turned out, there really was a Club 9:30 in real life. So he kept the building for a while, setting up a small beach club next to it, poles holding up a thatched roof, with a danceball overhead with a particle streamer sending down a light show at times, with a picture of a blue parrot behind the DJ stand, which became known as “Flip the bird.”

With his partner Marai McMahon helping to manage things, Rory had planned to run both clubs with events in both every week. But problems in real life cut down on his time in the metaverse, and the prim content limit limited what he could do with both clubs. So they decided to take down the nightclub building, building a a bigger beach club. They also put a little more detail in the beach. adding rocks, a waterfall, palm trees and hammocks, a secret cuddle spot, and more. Some people dropped over between parties just to see the beach scenery and relax. The new bigger club was renamed the Bahama Beach Club, though sometimes simply called the “BBC” as a pun on the famous media company.

Besides himself, Rory had other music-makers performing. Bosco sang at the club for a time. Later on came DJ’s SonicBlu and Boo Gearhead. And throughout the club’s history, there was ScratchMusikatt the “Chaos DJ,” playing for the late at night while he also performed in real life.

The club and it’s grounds took up a quarter sim, but prim limits limited what Rory, Marai, and the staff could do. There was talk about buying up a half sim, or maybe a full sim in the future for things like a staff residence home. Then his old friend and former neighbor Foxyfurman Kumaki who runs the Foxworthy sim offered a deal. Rory and Marai now have a section of the sim there for a club, which will be opened sometime in the near future. This time, it will be a nightclub to go along with Foxy’s casino next to the place. The land on Goldrush will be sold.

So, the Bahama Beach Club comes to a close, at least for now. It’s likely it will come back in some form, but the place at Goldrush will be missed.

As the final party came to a close, virtual champagne was passed around, and toasts were made.

“To this place being good to us, memories made here.”

“To memories old and new, to friends who shall never be forgotten.”

Bixyl Shuftan

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So 2009 begins

It was fantastic to see the new year in with friends, a lot of the crew came to join me at the main office as well as close friends like Pup Witherspoon and I am actually glad it wasn't a huge crowd at least I got to chat and have a laugh with friends. It was a lovely atmosphere with DJ Qwark playing 70's 80's and 90's music for us. We were counting down to the European New Year at 3pm slt but we ended up staying until we hit midnight GMT with fireworks on both
Then I was off to Skybeam Estates and the New Year ball the amazing DJ Dakota Christensen was on a mission to see in each new year around the world going from 2pm SLT through to 1am today so if you missed the party last night you can still join in at http://slurl.com/secondlife/SkyBeam%20Muse/204/44/24 Here was a real sense of community and I felt at home.

Skybeam also announced their contest winners, over christmas Skybeam held 2 contests one for plot decoration with 3 prizes being awarded dependant on plot size and an Ice sculpture contest 3 prizes awarded to the 2 catagories or sculpts or non- sculpted sculptures and the winners were:
Decorating Contest , sponsored by Charlene and Amethyst of Captured Heart ..
each catagory gets 1st =3000, 2nd - 1500, 3rd = 750

Larger than 8192
Phoenix Ember 1st
Morgania Zilz 2nd
Tamsin Ireton 3rd
4096 to 8192m2
Crysta laville and Buck Morane 1st
Jaysyn Jameson and Harbinger Tinkel 2nd
Ticia Babii 3rd
Under 4096
Miranda Milestone 1st
Glitter Xeltentate 2nd
Breezes Babii 3rd

Ice Sculpture contest .. sponosred by Skybeam and Alessandra Pinklady
1st= 6000, 2nd = 3000, 3rd = 1500, HM = 500

Sculpted:
FIRST PLACE - #6 - Cameron Stubbs - Airship Terminal -
SECOND PLACE - #9 - Dana Vanmoer - Time Guardian
THIRD PLACE - #3 - Rowena Paine -

HONORABLE MENTION - #10 - Cheen Pitney

Non - Sculpted :
FIRST PLACE - Zanebono Capalini - #15
SECOND PLACE - #12 Jaysyn Jameson
THIRD PLACE - #11 - Thril Shan

HM - #5 Audrey Fotherington
HM #7 Azure Blackadder
HM #1 Vessus Candour

Later I popped into to the beautiful Roselindas Paradise with Rose and Eymerich Unfortunately not long after everyone finally rezzed my struggling computer finally gave up and crashed completely by this time it was almost 3am for me so I gave up. Thank you for the invitation Eymerich, I am sorry I couldn't stay.
I would like to thank all for making 2008 a great year and I look forward to a brand new year with lots of exciting challenges for us all.
2008 and has been eventful to say the least very firmly seperating the Lindens from the Residents with some VERY unpopular choices on the lindens part, my wish for 2009 is for Linden Lab to realise the damage they are doing to Secondlife and to act now before the good in SL is lost through mistrust of them.
I, for one, love secondlife as many I know do but now most stay for their friends and if large networks leave others will follow.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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WINNERS! and Thank you

What an amazing week! Here I will hand over to james to tell you all about the winners!
JamesT Juno:
Welcome everyone on the Prize Giving ceremonies for The celebration week of SL-Newspaper.
Thru the week we had a few contests and a lot of parties.
Tonight we will let you all know who has won the building contest and who has won the Fashion design contest.
First let me start by thanking the following persons / companies and organisations....
Foremost to everyone that has come along and enjoyed our events or taken part in the contests.
BNT Holdings for the sim !
Skybeam estates for combining their own 2 year celebrations with us and holding events here as well as donating a huge part of the prize. Skybeam, especially Charlene, Nevar and Amethyst, have gone above and beyond to make this celebration a success
M&M Creations for the huge prize packages
Styles of Edo for not only donating a prize but also getting up very early to help judge the Design contest
Best of SL Magazine and Boulevard agency, Frolic Mills and his team made a fantastic effort to get the fashion show off the ground. Their help shows that truly there are people out there that will do something just to be able to help and gives me hope for the future of SL
Another company that has gone above and beyond is Annette Wider and her partner Mahala Bing from Wilder PR who have helped us get the word out thank you both for your hard work.
And personally I want to thank my P.A. Dana Vanmoer for working day and night to make you all feel at home here and organise 99.9% of everything you see here.

A prize pack in total worth of over 90,000 L$ will be given away to Two winners for SLN and Three more winners for the SkyBeam photo contest.
Winners of the SL-Newspaper Building Contest. The mission was to build an office environment where a reporter would feel at home. Also should it be possible to actually place it into one of our newspaper offices. Max prim count was 25.

In fourth place is : Jangle McElroy
In third is : Leesa Back
Second is : Qwark Allen
And the winner of : a 10,000 L$ sponsorship pack from SL-N / 3000 L$ cash from Edo Tone, owner of "Styles of Edo" / 7000 L$ cash from SkyBeam Estates and finally a 10,000 L$ prizepack from M&M creations issssssss ....................

!!!! Sassy1 Fizzle !!!!!

Winners of the SL-Newspaper Fashion Design Contest. The mission was to design a free give-away costume for sl-newspaper using our logo or newspaper related textures. A wonderfulll fashion show we had yesterday brought us the following results ;

Joint second place were : Lemania Indigo designs AND Analog Jun.
Congratulations ....... !

The winner of : a 10,000 L$ sponsorship pack from SL-N / 3000 L$ cash from Edo Tone, owner of "Styles of Edo" / 5000 L$ cash from SkyBeam Estates / 3,000 L$ photoshoot voucher from Memories by Mystique and finally a 10,000 L$ prizepack from M&M creations issssssss

!!!!! Nany Piaggio !!!!!

And as a bonus Best of SL Magazine has offered to do a full page spread for the winner Nany.

For the prize giving ceremonies of the skybeam photo contest I ask the representative of Skybeam to steal the microphone from me ........

Amethyst Starostin takes the stage

Amethyst Starostin:
Good Evening Ladies and Gentleman. One of the events as part of the SL-Newspaper Celebration was a photo contest sponsored by Skybeam Estates. The theme for this photo contest was Celebration and could be taken anywhere on the Estates.
We had 13 wonderful entries and the judges had a very difficult time this morning choosing the winners. I would like to now announce those winners and award the prizes.
In 3rd place - Phoenix Rising by Phoenix Ember!!
Phoenix has won a $5000L Sponsorship pack from the SL Newspaper and $3000L cash
Now, for our 2nd place winner - In Celebration- One Millionth Meter by Mystique Sassoon!!
Mysti has won a $5000L Sponsorship pack from the SL Newspaper and $4000L cash

And our first place winner...receiving a 10,000L Sponsorship pack from SL Newspaper and $5000L is Slink Dreadlow with Sendoff!!
Charlene Trudeau, Nevar Lobo and I would like to thank you for allowing Skybeam Estates to be a sponsor of this event and look forward to many more. *smiles* Thank you.

Dana Vanmoer shouts: Thank you SKYBEAM!!!!
JamesT Juno: Thank you Amethyst
Now the official part of this ceremony is done, I ask you to please join us in a dancing celebration and enjoy the rest of the evening.
But not before I Thank Gemma Cleanslate and DJ Qwark Allen for their wonderfulll help and everyday hosting of sl-newspapers week-event.
Special compliments go to Quark for the fantastic varied music collection.

LETS PPPPP AAAAA RRRRR TTTTT YYYYY !!!!!!!

Thank you everyone for joining us don't forget one last blast LIVE with Labgraal at 1pm SLT
Teleport HERE

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James gets up close with the readers....

and the crew!!!!

Find out more about what happened at last nights launch party in the EVENTS section

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Welcome back! It's Party Time!!!!!!

Well firstly We apologise for the delay in getting us back - but we hope you will find it was worth it!
Have a look around sl-newspaper and discover the new way we are bringing everything to you. Above you can find the navigation - all main news sections are on buttons - other information can be found in the text links beneath them. Each section also has a short description in the header to give you some idea of what they may contain.
Along with the new look newspaper we have 3 new vendors for you to use at home or in your shop/club/mall.
These vendors reflect our new style - but don't worry if you prefer the older versions they will still work and are still available. Click the box cover on the left to go get yours from SLeXchange.com or pick them up inworld at our main locations. All of our vendors are free and copy, transfer enabled so you can rez however many you want to and also give to friends.
With the help of ArtiZan and the personal help of Zanara Zenovka we also wish to help you free up group space by using a subscriber group instead. This will enable us to easily keep you up to date and let you know of our events without having to take up a precious group space.
Find them in these locations:
Sunrise Fair
Head Office
Zurich City
A single click will join you up and then you will free up one more group!

Finally IT'S PARTY TIME!
Join us tonight to celebrate with a fun, sexy and adult party at the Playboy Mansion - I will put the Landmark here BUT be aware it will not work until 2pm SLT tonight!
Playboy Mansion
We will be entertained with a special selection from DJ Qwark Allen to keep us in the party mood - its a pool party so come 'dressed as you are' or 'DARE to bare'!
Hope to see you all there!!!
Feel free to let us know what you think of the new look in the comments here!!!!

JamesT and Dana

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HappyFeline Tigergirl and her "Fun Rave Dance Cult"

Recently, one woman has been making appearances in Luskwood, passing out free copies of dance party gear, and calling everyone onto the floor to swing to the music.

Find out more in the PEOPLE section with Bixyl

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