Aether Salon's War of 1812 Discussion

 

"When was the War of 1812 fought?" That's a history joke that can get a few who take theirs seriously rolling their eyes. Another joke is that if it wasn't for the name, most Americans wouldn't know when it took place. And unfortunately, many know little about the conflict other than the date and a few key details such as the battle that inspired it's National Anthem. On Sept 20, there would be a discussion about the conflict at the Aether Salon in New Babbage, with Wildstar Beaumont as the speaker. Much of the discussion would focus on America's fleet of privateers. So how did it go?

 

Read the story in Events.  

 

*Addition* For those who read the article on Sunday, the transcript is now up and a link to it added.  

 

Announcement: Vampire Ball At New Toulhouse

 

The Vampire Ball
With DJ Hollocluck Henley
October 26 at 12 Noon
At the Green-Eyed Fairy

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/New%20Toulouse/62/206/24

Press Release: Haunted Nawlins Howloween 2024

 

"Haunted Nawlins Howloween!" is a sim-wide yearly gala in FLOX: a wild celebration of Samhain, Halloween, and Dia de los Muertos.  Our grand, feral festival feeds on dark humor, a plethora of premium gifts, and the rotting bones of long-forgotten tourists.

Top features include: free games & prizes, roaming interactive characters, live entertainment & parties, shopping, food, fun, and last but never least: Trick-or-Treating for all ages!

Trick-or-Treat?  YES!  Grab a "Trick or Treat HUD" (free or deluxe) at the Arrival Building.  Wear it to collect points and goodies by knocking on doors (when the light is on!).  Then trade those points for prizes at the French Market.

This event is rated Moderate due to mildly-mature and scary content.  However, we have a ”PG-ish” less-spooky section in the SE sim quarter. Families and small ones are welcome there.  Just follow the bats on the ground.


Participating Merchants: This event's sponsor is ~Lantian/Flox~, and other merchants include Aleymart, All Things Beautiful Textures, backSTORY, Chimeric Arts & Fashions, The Crafty Fox, DANI - Designs by Danielle, Dragon's Den, Dragonsworn, Indecision, Junk Food, Kaerri's, LozMac Designs, LOVE, Martine's, Moon's Mad Minis, Naughty Bits, Someone Stole My Sign, A Touch of Magic, Telsiope's Couture, Weder Design Enterprises, Widdershins, Zinner Shapes, and more!

Come find a wide range of top-rate decor, clothing, jewelry, furniture, and full perm items for your shopping therapy.  Even better, each merchant has a free gift waiting for you!



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CONTACT INFORMATION

    * Organizer and Builder:
       Wyvern Dryke  (email: wyvern.dryke@gmail.com)


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WHEN:

    * Midnight, Saturday, 28 September through 11:59pm, Sunday, 3 November 2023
    
    * (The Haunted Nawlins build is permanent - come back for Creepy Cryssy in December!)


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WHERE:

    * All of Flox sim:
    
       http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Flox/128/128/28
    


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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT "HAUNTED NAWLINS HOWLOWEEN":

* BLOG: https://hauntednawlins.blogspot.com/

* Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/groups/nawlins/

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Announcement: Haunted Nawlins Howloween

 

 30 Sept-5 Nov 2023

Explore Spooky New Orleans!
Trick or Treating for all ages
Shopping & guest merchants
Great free games
Parties, djs, and live performances!
Interactive animesh characters
Monsters, zombies, and ghosts
TONS OF FREE GIFTS!

Grab a Trick or Treat HUD at Arrival Building....
Win Points & Trade for Prizes at French Market!


VISIT -> http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Flox/128/128/28
BLOG -> https://hauntednawlins.blogspot.com/

 

 

Press Release: Haunted Nawlins Howloween 2023

 

 

 "HOWLOWEEN" means all things spooky, monstrous, dark, and haunted (not gory).  Our celebration is grand, fun, wild... and interspersed with Dark Humor, Magick, and the (un)Dead.  We include Dia de los Muertos!
 
Celebrate the scary season in Haunted Nawlins (New Orleans).  Trick or treating for ALL ages, not just kids.  (Due to mature & spooky content, underage players should have adult supervision).

Lots of games, free unisex gifts, tons of food both creepy and Cajun!  Explore the French Quarter, dodge the zombies, barrel through the Bayou!  Another fantastic Festival in Flox.

The Sponsor for this event is ~Lantian/Flox~.  Participating merchants include: Chimeric Arts & Fashions, Indecision, +Inner Mantra+, Junk Food, Kaerri, Lorin's Sound Effects Station, LOVE, LozMac Designs, The Mustard Seed, Porta Portraits, Tea Lane, A Touch of Magic, and many more!  The full list is available here: https://hauntednawlins.blogspot.com/p/participating.html.
 
These merchants offer a wide range of top-quality decor, clothing, jewelry, furniture, and full perm items for your shopping therapy.  Even better, each of them has a free gift waiting for you!

Important: We encourage all to grab a FREE or Deluxe "Trick or Treat HUD" at the arrival building.  Wearing that, you can collect points by clicking doors, playing games, and interacting with certain animesh characters.  You can then trade those points for exclusive, high-quality prizes at the French Market!

 

     * 30 September - 5 November 2023
    
    * Also, the Haunted Nawlins build is permanent, and will be reused for future events.

    * At the Flox sim: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Flox/128/128/28

 

* BLOG: https://hauntednawlins.blogspot.com/

* Flickr Group: https://www.flickr.com/groups/nawlins/

 

 

Announcement: Mardi Gras in New Toulouse

 

 

 Mardi Gras 2023

with

DJ Tabasco "Tabs" Nootan

 

Saturday, 25 February

12 Noon - 2PM SL time

 

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/New%20Toulouse/129/194/24

Press Release: Morte Gras at Flox Sim

 

 

"MORTE GRAS" is a sort of dark "Mardi Gras," which is a huge celebration at New Orleans (in RL).  The one at Haunted Nawlins (in SL) is grand, fun, wild... and interspersed with Dark Humor, Magick, and the (un)Dead.

Morte Gras spins a celebration of life and death, parties and wakes.  Rather than being morbid or sad, it offers instead a grand festival--a throbbing, fierce juxtaposition of paint and glitter splashed across shadow!

Morte Gras is both a sim-size Festival and a grid-wide Hunt.  Both start at the center of FLOX sim.  For the Hunt, visitors seek out a particular set of beads nearby.  Once they find those, they can hop to the next location in another sim.

In contrast, the Morte Gras Festival takes place throughout FLOX sim, in the Haunted Nawlins build.  Haunted Nawlins is a depiction of New Orleans from the early 1900s.  It shimmers with local color and fun.  There are decrepit and beautiful buildings in the Garden District, lovely haunted shops in the French Quarter, a Rougarou beast in the Bayou, a Voodoo Queen in the shadows, and a feast of Cajun food and music for all to enjoy!

Sponsors for this event are ~Lantian/Flox~ and Morrigan's Magick.  Participating vendors include: Tea Lane, Impertinences, Kim's Kreations, SECOND NATURE, le glamouriste, +Inner Mantra+, All Things Beautiful, Dalrymple Designs, **DSO**, {archduchess}, Tranquility, Grasshopper St., Shaman's Hhut, and more!  They offer a wide range of top-quality decor, clothing, jewelry, furniture, and full perm items for your shopping enjoyment.

There will be games, DJs, dancing, food, parades with floats, and yes *lots* of beads!  If you wear a special game-HUD you can get points for catching the beads and similar Mardi Gras collectibles.  You can get a Free or Deluxe version of the game-HUD at the arrival building.

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WHEN:

    * 11-28 February 2023
    
    * Also, the Haunted Nawlins build is permanent, and will be reused for future events.

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WHERE:

     http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Flox/128/127/28
   
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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT "MORTE GRAS":

* BLOG: https://hauntednawlins.blogspot.com/

* Flickr Group: https://www.flickr.com/groups/nawlins/

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.

Announcement: Samedi Gras In New Toulhouse

 

Samedi Gras in New Toulouse

Saturday February 13, 2021

12:00 Noon to 2:00 PM SL time

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/New%20Toulouse/129/194/23

FrannyDJ's Mardi Gras Parade

Valentines Day is over, but there's another holiday coming soon: Mardi Gras. For those who can't make it to New Orleans in real life, there's a Fat Tuesday parade here in Second Life. For the sixth year in a row, FrannyDJ is running her floats down the street high above the Angels of Desire sim. Gemma Cleanslate dropped by and was able to more than just watch, but become part of the event.

Read the story in Events.

New Toulouse Hit By Storm

Earlier this month on December 8, the sim of New Toulouse was hit by a storm. The result was some flooding in the streets. Francesca Alva took a series of pictures of the scenery. Fortunately, the water soon retreated, and there was no major damage, a party at a local venue soon following.

New Toulouse is best known for it's annual Mardi Gras event, which in 2020 will take place earlier than usual, probably on the weekend of February 22/23.

Announcement: CDS Pub Crawl

The CDS Pub Crawl is back! and it's a cross community pub crawl that will include stops in New Toulouse, Roma, and our own CDS sims!

Music by DJ Manfred Hancroft

TIME: 12 - 2 pm SLT on Saturday, February 16,
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/New%20Toulouse/62/206/24
so add it to your calendar, and bring along a designated driver, because, you know, stuff happens. Bring along your iced tea and we'll add the mint julip part when you get here.

More info to follow with landmarks for the event!

The Drax Files: World Makers "Episode 47: Mad World"

(Click here if the video fails to play)

From Draxtor Despress on October 8, "Halloween holds a special place in many people’s hearts. Dressing up in scary, funny and or weird ways [Drax once went trick/treating as Mitt Romney with a binder full of scantily clad Barbie dolls and was briefly detained by local police in California…] Even though it is a very American holiday, Kiana Writer from MadPea Games loved everything around Halloween when growing up in Finland. Especially the scary parts! She and her team brought her sensibilities and imagination into Second Life with a year-round celebration in form of a massive amusement park called 'MadWorld': lots of games, rides, role-play, special events and prices await the SL resident who dares to enter…. 'Halloween used to be much scarier when I grow up' she says, 'but we can relive these childhood memories in Second Life everyday!' Needless to say that everything that MadPea offers in MadWorld is completely custom built and scripted for Second Life and can be enjoyed as the chosen avatar embodiment. Case in point: Drax went ghost hunting - in the rain - with his beloved slider shoes…

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"A very special thanks as always to our background actors and gracious sim owners / event organizers [including but not limited to BCreative Wilde, Gaius Tripsa, Quiggles78, Threshin Bartnett, Sangi Phaeton, Thalia Lupindo, Raceyy, LadyRose Writer, TheOnlyNoMad] and of course production designer, location and logistics wrangler Marianne McCann: can you spot her in this one? Hint: she looks quite pale in a couple of scenes …. "

 In this video the following sims were featured visited [pay them a visit this Halloween season and tell them Count Draxula sent you!] Madworld = https://secondlife.com/destination/ma... The Well = http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife... Bay City = https://secondlife.com/destination/ba... Twisted = http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife... Trick or Treat Lane = http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife... Everwinter = http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife... Skull Creek = http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife... Ripe = http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife... Malaika Park = http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife... Rose Garden = http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife... Cica Ghost = http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife... Bryn Oh = http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife... For more information about MadPea check out http://www.madpeagames.com/ This episode contains carousel music from the historic Playland amusement park in San Francisco as well as from Disneyland’s “King Arthur” carousel. We also used a little bit of New Orleans jazz performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz Academy.

Samedi Gras: New Toulouse Pulls it off Again

Mardi Gras was last week on February 13. A few days earlier on the weekend before "Fat Tuesday," the New Toulouse sim held it's yearly parade and party: Samedi Gras. Klaus Bereznyak was there, and wrote about the occassion.

Read Klaus' article in Events.

Mardi Gras at Jade Isle

"Fat Tuesday" is almost here. One place where you can have a little Mardi Gras fun New Orleans style is Jade Isle. Designed and built by Frannydj Dean, there are a number of things to see and do here. Gemma Cleanslate went there, and wrote about what she saw.

Read Gemma's story in Places.

Mieville Haunted Nawlins

Gemma Cleanslate's tour of Halloween places took her to spooky place called "Mieville Haunted Nawlins." Resembling a haunted version of Mardi Gras, there's a parade of floats and many of the buildings down the street have a New Orleans kind of charm, in a spooky way. But there's much more to see and do, including freebies to grab, and frightful things to see.

Read Gemma's story in Places.

Parades and Party in New Toulouse on Saturday, Parade Today

On Saturday, the New Toulhouse sim, the location of a 1920's New Orleans roleplay community, held their "Samedi Gras" Parade at Noon on Saturday February 6. Following it was a party at the town square. Pazzo Pestana sent a video to the newser of various floats, and partiers, going down the streets, while others watched and/or danced from the streets. The event has been taking place every year in the sim for a few years.

In a proclamation, listed in the New Toulouse blog, Maggie Hawksby the "Queen of the Carnival" proclaimed, "…that the Joyous Music of Carnival shall fill the Streets of our Beloved New Toulouse, Multiplying all Merriment;…that Colorful Costumes, Elaborate Masks, and Outrageous Adornments of all kinds be the order of the day;…that Dancing in the Streets, on Sidewalks, Balconies, yea, even upon the Rooftops, shall be greatly Encouraged;…that Fair Weather and Blue Skies shall prevail, that the Multitudes might gather and celebrate without hindrance;…that the Royal Constabulary of New Toulouse shall marshal the Grand Celebration with their Customary Skill and an appropriate Degree of Forbearance toward the Inevitable Hijinks and Tomfoolery;…that the Keepers of Bars, Inns, Taverns, Grocers, Cigar Emporiums, Stables, Chinese Laundries, Bakeries, Seafood Merchants, Barber Shops, Bookshops, Print Shops, Gambling Halls, Dance Halls, Hospitals, Brothels, and Eating and Drinking Establishments in Her beloved City shall throw open their Doors to receive all Carnival Celebrants, of whatsoever degree or kind with our customary Good Fellowship, Warmth, and true Southern hospitality."

Following the parade was a party, which the Newser was able to drop in on. Again, there was a variety of outfits there from regular street clothes to fancy Carnival-style outfits to 18th century wear, and one woman was wearing nothing at all.

Henri Godenot, the mayor of the town, stated this wouldn't be the last event for Mardi Gras. Today would be the "Blessing of the Waters at 5:50PM" SL time at the New Toulouse Bayou  at (78/56/21), followed by another parade.

More pictures can be seen from the community blog, and it's Flickr page.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Toulouse

Bixyl Shuftan

"Lundi Gras" Boat Parade at New Toulouse

Besides the "Samedi Gras" parade in the city streets, it seems the 1920s New Orleans themed community of New Toulouse held a "Lundi Gras" parade in the waters of the bayou. Several boats, rafts, and other things that floated took part in this aquatic version of the Mardi Grads parade. The proclaimed "King of the Carnival" King Blake proclaimed:

It is commanded that the residents of New Toulouse and all who visit her adhere to the following decree:
… that the residents and observers of the capital city shall embrace this evening’s riverine pageantry and put forth their great determination in attending the magnificent spectacle of maritime craft that shall sail upon the great Missedabracket River;
… that a local priest shall preside over the ceremony at its commencement for the blessing of the fleet and to ensure our entrusted fishers, trawlers, piscators, and those with rod and reel a safe and bountiful season;
… that those in gracious attendance shall show no tolerance and put forth their licentious efforts in the bountiful spirits, grandeur, and pleasures that await following the evening ceremony.

Nikita Weymann of the community newsletter "The Tattler" described the event:

This old bird has seen a lot of odd things floating in the waters of New Toulouse, but on Lundi Gras there was a new addition to the flood of Carnival activity: the Krewe du Canard held a little bayou regatta. The vessels were varied, ranging from Blake Palmer’s fishing boat, to Henri Godenot’s float-styled pirogue, to whatever sort of Jules Verne-type craft the Whitefalcons were piloting. Admiral Callidus Waydelich showed up in an inner tube; one would suspect the Mondragons had more impressive naval technology than that, especially after seeing that flying elephant float they made for Samedi Gras. 

The parade sailed along the river, amusing the spectators on the deck of the Mama Cree. Then the Duck Armada sailed back to its home pond, and the krewe members went to the Toulouse Caboose, where they proceeded to get polluted. DJ Q got them dancing, Doc Avalon got them drinking, and Lundi Gras may never be the same, especially if the boat parade becomes a regular Carnival event.

More pictures can be seen in Maggie Hawksby's Flickr page (here). 

Source: The Tattler

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.

Two Mardi Gras Events

Tuesday February 17 was Mardi Gras, the day in real life parties and parades are held in many areas around the world, the most notable celebration in the United States being in New Orleans. Second Life Newser found out about two parades of the event, one from a place known to have them in years past, the other that we hadn't heard of before.

Read more in Events.