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This weekend only, the Hurrah Players will perform Willy Wonka at the TCC Roper Performing Arts Center!

It’s about bringing community together. It’s about showing that we care for others. It’s about expressing all of this in different, unique ways. Join us on Friday, March 2 from 6-11pm as we band together as a community to raise money for Haiti, a country in great need.

Local coffee shops will be hosting live musicians. There will be artists ready to hand you a paintbrush. We’ll have trivia games that might just blow your mind. So pick up your favorite mug, hop in the car, and come see us.  This is going to be different. Extraordinarily different.

Lineup includes:

Cafe Stella (6-8pm)
6-7 Rose & Matt
7-8 Jimmy Richards
Featured Artist: Kitsch

Fairgrounds (7-9pm)
7-8 Of a Ghost
8-9 Skye Zentz
Featured Artist: Jaime Simpson

Cure Coffeehouse & Brasserie (8-11pm)
8-9 James Arellano
9-10 Raphael Lambriola
10-11 Brittany Coleman & Olivia Morgan
Featured Artist: Louis Fisher Photography (‘Mug Shots’!)

$7 tickets in advance/$10 at the door for the whole hop.

Pro-rated tickets are an option if you would just like to come to one or two coffee shops! The price gets you entry into the coffee shops, special discounts on drinks, and raffle tickets for sweet prizes from local businesses including Satya Yoga and With Lavender and Lace Vintage!

All proceeds from this event will go towards a service trip planned at the end of March to Jacmel to work with the Jacmel Children’s Center. For more information, visit http://jacmelchildren.org/. $1 off for each participant who brings an arts and crafts item to donate to the Children’s Center on the night of the event!

Experience the 6th Annual AT&T Spring Town Point Virginia Wine Festival with flavor and flair on Saturday May 12, 2012, 11 am - 6 pm in Town Point Park.

Festival guests will enjoy a blissful afternoon of sampling a wide selection of Virginia Wines in Town Point Park. The day offers premier wine vintages and live musical performance, in addition to gourmet foods and specialty wares for purchase.  All wines presented during the festival are available for purchase by the bottle or the case until 5 pm.  Wine sampling ends at 4:30 pm.

Guests are able to reserve tables and private chalets, purchase individual sampling tickets, general admission tickets, and park-side boater packages. Sampling tickets and general admission tickets may also be purchased starting April 1st at participating AT&T and Total Wine and More Stores, cash or check only when making in-store purchases, service fee may apply.

Check out this article in Distinction about one of Norfolk’s growing businesses!!

Want to get involved with such a great charity? Tonight at 6 pm, AltDaily.com will be cooking an Italian dinner for residents of the Ronald McDonald House as part of their Comfort Food program. They’d love for you to come and prepare a dish or donate food for others to prepare!

We are adding new pins daily! Come check us out!

Don’t miss out on this Groupon!

Make your loved ones a gift for Valentine’s Day at Color Me Mine! Wear you pajamas tonight & only pay $1 studio fees!

READY! SET! CRAWL! Already the most charitable pub crawl in the nation, the Ghent Winter Bar Tour will try to outdo itself once again on Saturday, February 25th as it hits the streets of midtown Norfolk for the biggest night out this winter! As always, all proceeds from this event will benefit a fantastic organization making a big difference in our local community - Edmarc Hospice for Children!

In the last decade, the seaport city has undergone an extensive urban revitalization, drawing in artists and musicians from across the country. At the same time, Norfolk’s local entrepreneurs have remained resilient in keeping their businesses unique and unscathed by mass production. The result: a sweet harmony in what has become a thriving Coffee House Scene. At places like Bean There Café, Crema, Café Stella, Elliott’s Fair Grounds Coffee House, Chocollage, and a Latté Café lining the downtown district and Ghent, Norfolk’s resident artists congregate and enjoy regular musical performances. We recently created a coffeehouse map which encourages patrons to tailor their own “coffeehouse hop.”