Mardi Gras at Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez

Besides Valentine's Day, another holiday is just around the corner: Mardi Gras. For those who can't wait until Fat Tuesday, Gemma Cleanslate found out about one place one can have a little Carnival fun, at Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez in Colussus, by FrannyDJ. Here one can watch the parade of floats go by, or hop on one and join in. You can also pick up a few freebies at the store, and take a ride in an amusement park.

Read Gemma's article in Places.

Bayou Du Chat Noir

 

Fritter Enzyme is back at the Second Life Newser. In his first article coming back to the paper, he looks at Bayou Du Chat Noir. Run by Kitty Vinji and Kylie Quinn, the town is set next to a Louisiana swamp and there's both wilderness and buildings to see from the voodoo shop to the Love Shack club. So what did Fritter think?

See Fritter's article in Places.

New Toulouse

Last Tuesday in Second Life was Mardi Gras in Second Life. One of the places holding a parade, as it has every year for a time, is New Toulouse. A residential and roleplay community, it reflects New Orleans in the 1920s. Fritter Enzyme took a look at the place once "Fat Tuesday" was over, and even when it's most famous event wasn't going on, found there was a great deal for visitors to see.

Read Fritter's review in Places.

The Voodoo Curse

It's been over a year since the Redzone controversy, and since then people wondered if there would ever be another system that jeopardized peoples' privacy and subjected them to banning from land not necessarily for bad behavior, but because a programer didn't like them. Greenzone, the group created in response to Redzone, began raising questions about another alt-detector, Voodoo. And recently the tensions between Voodoo and Greenzone escalated into threats by the company's owner, Monkey Wonder to blacklist everyone in the group questioning his product.

Read more in Extra.