Bay City Post - July 2017

WELCOME to the seventieth issue of the Bay City Post - Keeping you updated on the best city on the Grid!

Bay City at SL14B

June saw the celebration of Second Life's fourteenth birthday, and as always, Bay City took part in the celebrations.  The slim, creative parcel build (pictured above) was designed by Marianne McCann, and featured an era-specific themed interior to highlight the best of our fair City. Years ago, an impromptu party at Bay City's birthday parcel was what introduced me to the City and it's fun-loving inhabitants. I hope that many more people found their way to Bay City through this year's display.

Reporters and Columnist Needed!

As you look through this month's columns, you'll notice that Georgia Florence Sipe, the Post's fashion reporter, has had to resign her position due to several new projects in both lives. Do you have an idea for a column? Send me an email at kinnaird.fiachra@gmail.com and let me know!

In addition. the Post is looking for several talented reporters willing to write occasional articles for the front page. Do you have an interest in what's happening in Bay City? Are YOU perhaps what's happening in Bay City? Well now's your chance to let your talents and your love for Bay City shine. We will ply you with endless coffee, our undying gratitude, and special access to the large gorilla perched atop the Post building. If this sounds like it is your cup of tea (or bunch of bananas), give us a shout!

Bay City Post - June 2017

WELCOME to the sixty-ninth issue of the Bay City Post - Keeping you updated on the best city on the Grid!

 

Bay City Celebrates Nine Years On The Grid

Anniversary Celebrations following the Parade. Photo by Wildstar Beaumont

On Sunday, May 21, Bay City celebrated its 9th Anniversary with a parade down Route 66, followed by a live music concert with Marx Dudek, Christov Kohnke, Winston Ackland and Oblee (Obeloinkment Wrigglesworth).  Please enjoy this wonderful video of the parade and the celebrations, as seen through the eyes of a giant snail/dapperly-dressed bunny, RacerX Gullwing.

 

Reflections on Bay City

by Ace Reporter, Marianne McCann

Nine years ago, after a lot of teasers on the Second Life® official blog, Bay City was opened for initial viewing. You could not teleport there directly -- a glitch that often comes up with new locations before they propagate -- so everyone was coming through Barcola or Cape Haven to see this much-ballyhooed place on the grid. I was one of hundreds of other users who swarmed through the regions, to see all the projects of the still new Linden Department of Public Works, and scope out hundreds of possible parcels.

That first tour cemented my own interest in Bay City, and led to me winning my first little parcel on an unfinished edge of the city with horrible road frontage. But I was happy.

Many of the initial auction prices were shocking, leading to the high price of land in Bay City that persists today. At the same time, the land in Bay City is worth more than your average plot of virtual real estate. Beyond the perceived value of double prims and Linden-created infrastructure -- both highly sought after -- Bay City is a community, a place with history, a culture and with, well, citizens.

In Bay City' first few months, the area was deemed a failure by many Second Life bloggers. Yet nine years later, the area is now an example of a virtual space done right. We're something special, and a delightful anomaly on the grid.

The city has gone through a lot of change. There were times of nightly griefings, or residents making "grief builds" to attack others, and times difficulty and challenge. Also, like any strong community, we have faced sorrow in the loss of prominent members of our community. The legacy and memory of BlueGin Yifu, Hyper Mole, Ever Dreamscape, and Nadia Soldya/Jacob Jedda still resonate in a world of pixels and points.

It is an honor to be a part of Bay City and its community.

So we celebrate nine years of the best darned virtual city in Second Life, the City by the Bay, and home of the greatest bunch of folks I've had the pleasure to get to know. Here's to many more years in our shared world, on the streets of our lovely city.

Photo of Marianne McCann by Kitterdoodle

Bay City Post - May 2017

WELCOME to the sixty-eighth issue of the Bay City Post - Keeping you updated on the best city on the Grid! In May, Bay City turns NINE, and that's a whole year older than out (not the) Mayori! We hope you will help us celebrate by joining us for our annual parade and musical festivities. You can find all of the details below.

But remember, you don't just have to wait for one big celebration each year. Bay City is chock-full of madness and mayhem exciting events each and every week! Join the Bay City Alliance, and get notices of all of the fun happenings in our fair city. As an example, every Thursday, there is a Rumble, where we race everything from cars, boats, airplanes, and even the occasional squid. The Demolition Derby, pictured below, is an absolute favorite, with cars scripted to fall apart when they crash into each other.

The aftermath of a Derby crash! Photo by

Dahlia Jayaram

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Bay City's 9th Anniversary Celebration

 

In May of 2008 the Linden Department of Public Works unveiled its first project, the themed city area on the Second Life® Mainland known as Bay City.  In May of 2017, please help us celebrate Bay City's 9th Anniversary! Join us in a parade on Sunday, May 21st at 12:30 PM, starting from the band-shell in Bay City - Harwich and traveling down Route 66 and Park Place to the Bay City Fairgrounds at North Channel! Here is a handy traveler's map for the parade route!

Parade staging
Sunday, 21st May at 12:00 p.m. (Noon) SLT
Meet at the bandshell in Bay City - Harwich, with additional room in Bay City - Dennis, Bay City - Tisbury, and Bay City - Edgartown. The parade will begin promptly at 12:30 pm. SLT.

Parade viewing
Don't feel quite like the march? We have several handy parade viewing areas! Here's LMs to two of them:
Orleans Viewing Point
Falconmoon Viewing Point

Parade end
Parade will conclude in the North Channel -- but hang around for fun and festivities at the Bay City Fairgrounds! Performing will be MARX DUDEK from 12:30-1:30 p.m. SLT, followed by CHRISTOV KOHNKE from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., WINSTON ACKLAND from 2:30-3:30 p.m. SLT, and finally one more surprise guest from 3:30-4:30 p.m. SLT.

Who can participate?
Bay Citizens, Nova Albions, Shermervillians, Blumfeldians, Nautilods, and *all* residents of the Second Life Grid are welcome!

What do you want?
Festive outfits, unique avatars, costumes, floats, Macy's parade-style balloons, marching bands, stilt walkers, dancers, kids on bikes, dancers, drill teams -- you name it! Come and represent your own special part of Second Life!

How could I make a float?
Best bet is to make 'em as a wearable attachment, not a vehicle. Due to some of the difficulties with 'em last year, we would prefer to avoid vehicles as much as possible. Also, they'll make your experience better, too!  If you'd like a float base to use as a starting point, please contact Marianne McCann inworld.

How can I share my photos of the event? 
Send them to your mySL feed, Snapzilla, or Flickr! We even have flickr and Snapzilla groups!
http://www.flickr.com/groups/bay_city_visions
http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/ViewGroup.aspx?id=4
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Breaking News!

Toxic Taco Overrun by Flaming Pogosticks

The 400 Pogo Sticks of the Apocalypse

 Hey, it could happen...
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And that's all, Folks! Make sure to check out all of our columns to see what the Post reporters have been up to this month, and get cracking on those parade floats. We hope to see you all at the Anniversary!

Bay City Post - April 2017

WELCOME to the sixty-seventh issue of the Bay City Post - Keeping you updated on the best city on the Grid!

 

EverFest

April in Bay City always starts with a celebration of our favorite April Fool - Ever Dreamscape! This year, the celebrations lasted an entire week, starting with the Rumble on Thursday, March 30th featuring crazy vehicles and shark costumes...mostly on fire. On Friday, March 31st there was a charity bowlathon at the Fairgrounds, with all proceeds going to Child's Play. And on the anniversary of Ever's birth, April Fool's Day, a party was held at the Bay City Brewery, followed by general mayhem and a mass torching of the City. The fire department, as per usual, was nowhere to be found. (More on that later.)

The Bay City Brewery is afire during EverFest - Photo by Marianne McCann

Guest Column - Roc Plutonian

This month the Post welcomes Roc Plutonian, landlord of the Post building and a dear friend of Ever's, as he offers a touching tribute to our Patron Firebug:

Ev·er 
synonyms: always, forever, eternally, until hell freezes over, until the cows come home, until mimes speak at the Pen, until Bay City is free of fire

1. at any time: "nothing Ever seemed to ruin her appetite for fun"
2. used in comparisons for emphasis: "After starring in a late-night Etv episode, they felt better than Ever before"
3.  at all times; always: "Ever the woman of action, she encouraged all residents to get involved"
4. increasingly; constantly: "committing Ever larger crimes of mayhem in the City"
5. used for emphasis in questions and other remarks, expressing astonishment or outrage: "who Ever heard of a shark brewing beer?"

Ever Dreamscape was always conspiring to get the residents of Bay City to gather via the Bay City Rumbles, the car washes, her wacky ETv stories and so on. The now-annual EverFest expands her vision of a community that lets out their wacky inner selves. For the last several days, the City was ablaze with Ever-inspired activities: Mime Protests, Rumbles, Bowling and Brewery Dances...and of course a fire or two! Gatherings like this are what bring a community together. When asked about EverFest, Bay City Resident Maureen Boccaccio said, "It makes me remember the fun of SL..just like Ever did." And that’s what SL is all about. May we all continue with Ever's vision: to gather, be wacky, and above all, have fun!

Bay City Brewery party during EverFest - Photo by Evola Courtois

Firehouse in Dennis for Rent

With all of the mayhem in the City this past weekend, it has come to the attention of the Editor (who also happens to own the Bay City Fire Station #2 in Dennis) that due to her lack of time and attention, fire service in the City is sorely lacking. A concerned resident captured the shocking image below of a poor noob being pushed to his death  unable to be saved by one of our brave firefighters.

Shocking photos captured by Evola Courtois

Our brave volunteers need a guiding hand to help them fight fire in our fair City, since fires seem to happen here a LOT. If anyone is interested in taking on this role (purely opt-in RP; applicant must have a strong working knowledge of Bay City culture) please contact Kinn by email at kinnaird.fiachra@ gmail.com. 

New Postal Service in Bay City

Send your package in style with the Bay City Postal Service! Our cargo handlers will ship your package to anyone, anywhere in SL. We will ship not only by air, but by sea and land as well. Neither rain nor snow nor lag of grid can stay these messengers about their duty. (We are, however, not responsible for wet, frozen, or otherwise lost parcels…) All services are roleplay only and are opt-in. If the recipient does not wish to roleplay the delivery, we will simply pass them the package.

The boxes work just like the many postal boxes you see in First Life. You address a package and drop it in, the postal worker picks it up and delivers it. Local Bay City mail will be handled by the Bay City Post Office, and large parcels or mail going outside of Bay City will be handled by GridWide Cargo Service.

Mail can be delivered to any mailbox that has Allow Inventory Drop set to TRUE. First, you need to find one of our boxes, which are located at the following parcels:

• Bay City Heliport
• Adam's Ribs
• You Know, For Kids
• Bay City Arboretum of Rather Atypical Vegetation
• Bay City Post Office
• Bay City Police Department
• Anton Airstrip
• Lily Airstrip
• Abyss Observatory

To use the service, select Send a Package from the menu. Enter the legacy name of the avatar you want the package sent to into the textbox IE: ThomasHooker Resident.

Hold down the CTRL button and drag your item into the mailbox. Please include a notecard with the recipient’s name and the location of the delivery. The package must be transfer enabled or we cannot deliver it.

We will pick up the package at our earliest availability. We try to always deliver in character, and using realistic vehicles to do so but in some cases that is not possible. We will walk the package to the destination if we cannot use vehicles in that area, for example a roleplay region that does not allow non-residents to use vehicles.

We will place a mailbox at your location. I will need an invite to the land owning group, however, I will leave the group once the mailbox is placed.

ThomasHooker Resident - Postmaster

Breaking News!

!!!BREAKING!!!BREAKING!!!BREAKING!!!
Sharknado hits Toxic Taco!

(Also, fish tacos half off today!)

And that's all for now, folks...see you next month!!!

Bay City Post - March 2017

WELCOME to the sixty-sixth issue of the Bay City Post - Keeping you updated on the best city on the Grid! Let's see if March is truly moving in like a Lion in our fair City!

More mysterious flyers have been spotted around the city, such as the "Candygram for Mongo", pictured below. What IS all this about, anyway??

Breaking News!

Rowdy Residents from the Planet Skaro come to Toxic Taco!
 

Remember: Dalek Supreme comes with guacamole and sour cream!
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Don't forget to click on the columns to the left to see what our roving reporters were up to this month. In this issue you'll get all this...and maybe more!

• Marianne McCann announces the departure of Michael Linden from the Lab
• Dakota Schwade explores Sconset
• ADudeNamedAnthony tells of of a new state
• Qie Niangao explores experiences in mouselook
• Georgia Florence Sipe gives the scoop on vintage fashion
• Police Chief Hooker lists the mischief managed throughout the month
• and Uccie Poultry-Seale interviews Raven Luna 

Bay City Post - February 2017

WELCOME to the sixty-fifth issue of the Bay City Post - Keeping you updated on the best city on the Grid! Let's see what's happening in our fair city as we move into February!

Members of Linden Department of Public Works celebrated at 7th Annual Mole Day! 

On Saturday, the 4th of February, Bay City once again came together to celebrate the hardy Moles of the Linden Department of Public Works. The event was held in the Bay City Fairgrounds in North Channel. This was the 7th such event, set aside to show appreciation for The Moles and their many contributions to Bay City and the rest of the Second Life™ Grid. Normally held on the same day as Groundhog Day, this year's event was observed two days later, taking advantage of the weekend. The event featured a performance by DJ GoSpeed of KONA Stream, followed by a live performance by Oblee (Obleoinkment Wrigglesworth). 

"Moles" are members of The Linden Department of Public Works (LDPW). The LDPW is a program focused on improvements related to the experience of living on, or visiting the Linden Mainland. The LDPW is a team of Resident builders, scriptwriters, and others to create new content on Linden Lab's behalf and to the benefit of all. These Residents all have Second Life accounts with the last name “Mole.” Moles build the infrastructure of Second Life: the public roads and railways, items in our coastal waterways and protected lands, and even larger scale projects like the Linden Homes regions, premium content and experiences, and much more.

In the photo above, see (from left to right) Mole Extraordinaire Michael Linden and Xiola Linden (on drums) as they join Oblee on stage for his set. Dyna Mole and Garden Mole were also on hand for the fun. Thanks to all of the moles Grid-wide who help to make our Second Life experience so much richer!

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A very mysterious message notice flooded the BCA yesterday, residents are stumped! See what you think of it:

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PROTECTING OUR SHORES

A decommissioned naval submarine has been added to the city's own fleet, as a protective measure against incursions from Caledonian saboteurs. You can count on our city's sailors to keep our waterways safe!

BREAK BREAKING BREAKER

Looks like when the staff at the Y-Stay mistake a bug bomb for a pipe bomb, disaster-larity ensues!
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Don't forget to click on the columns to the left to see what our roving reporters were up to this month. May your February be full of all of the fun Bay City has to offer!

Bay City Post - January 2017

Happy 2017 from Bay City!

WELCOME to the sixty-fourth issue of the Bay City Post - Keeping you updated on the best city on the Grid! Let's see what's happening in our fair city as we move into a brand new year!

The annual Prim Drop was held at the Fairgrounds on New Year's Eve, with our own (Not The) Mayori, Marianne McCann, spinning tunes in remembrance of the many musicians we lost in 2016. Everyone was dressed to the nines as they danced the night away (see our Police Chief TJ Hooker and his lovely wife Silvia, below.) There was a fantastic fireworks display at midnight SLT as the party-goers watched the Prim drop. The event was the last chance for people to donate to Child's Play Charity, and today it was announced that our winter fundraising totaled L$163,892! Thank you to everyone for the incredible generosity; that will buy a lot of toys for children in the hospital!

I asked a few Bay City Citizens if they had resolutions for 2017, and this is what I heard: 

Aуαмє Ƙιηтѕυgι-Mσση (zombiegal): I am looking forward to working on more events to help promote Bay City to the rest of the SecondLife grid in an inclusive and welcoming environment. I am also looking forward to seeing those events help to further promote our efforts towards raising money for the Child's Play charity. In short, more events. Let's have some!

Marianne McCann: focus on fun

T. J. Hooker (ThomasHooker): I'm going to try to learn to create mesh. Of course, I said that last year too :P

Angela Galway (Angela Seale): i resolve to do my best not to kill anyone, or grief any sandboxes for 2017 ;P

Need some Bay City-related recommendations for resolutions? Get involved! Attend one of the weekly Rumbles (click here for the year in review to see what fun we had in 2016), or visit The Pen on the first Tuesday of each month for Espresso Yourself! Join the Bay City Alliance group and attend weekly meetings at the Community Center. It's better than being on TV! (Well, maybe not better than ETv, but sometimes there are balloons, or very large boats, or wolves wearing cat food cans, or...oh nevermind, just show up and see for yourself!)
 
Don't forget to click on the columns to the left to see what our roving reporters were up to this month...and check out Qie's donut gift to everyone in the Cheeky Geek column! From all of us at the Bay City Post, we wish you a happy and healthy New Year!

Yer Ever-lovin' Editor,
Kinn
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And Now, For Breaking News

BREAKING BREAKING BROKEN

Well, I guess we know where the prim dropped!

Bay City Post - December 2016

WELCOME to the sixty-third issue of the Bay City Post! - Keeping you updated on the best city on the Grid! Let's see what's happening in our fair city as December rolls around.

The biggest news this month, of course, was the coming of Primsmas! While Bay City has always enjoyed a double prim allowance, with the new increase residents can now do even more with their homes and shops. Just in time for some incredible holiday decorating! Speaking of decorations, there will be a Bay City Holiday Tour across the city on Thursday, December 22 at 4 PM SLT! We will run a guided tour of the best decorated parcels in the city, meeting up at a starting point , taking transportation from parcel to parcel, and showcasing each decorator's land and giving time for individuals to explore the parcel. We will end at the Bay City Fairgrounds for ice skating and hot chocolate! Bay City Residents - if you think your parcel is worthy of being a part of this tour, please contact Georgia Florence Sipe (lilaskyheart). Details to follow in a Bay City Alliance group announcement, so if you are not yet a member, now is the time to join!

Don't forget that tomorrow (December 3rd, 2016) is the Bay City Tree Lighting and Silent Auction (details in a full article below). Get your ice skates out and your bidding fingers ready, and we hope to see everyone tomorrow from 1-4 PM SLT on the Fairgrounds! For now, enjoy this month's articles by our amazing reporters (for new readers, these are located along the left sidebar) and a Happy Primsmas to one and all!

Yer Ever-lovin' Editor,
Kinn
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And Now, For Breaking News

BREAKING BREAKING BREAKING

New prim limits lead to increased production at ANWR, and aging tankers brought in to handle the load cause an environmental disaster! What more might we have to endure for these new limits?
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****** EVEN MOAR BREAKING NEWS ******

Tom the Turkey protests Thanksgiving Tamale Platter at Toxic Taco! "Eat More Cow," says Tom

But then disaster struck!
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*{ }*{ }*{ SO MUCH BREAKING NEWS }*{ }*{ }*

Toxic Taco opens second location, is immediately shut down in gas explosion!

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TOMORROW!!!

BAY CITY'S ANNUAL TREE LIGHTING, CONCERT, AND FUNDRAISER

by Ace Reporter, Marianne McCann

This event is now celebrating its 7th Annual observance.

The Bay City Alliance will host its holiday Tree Lighting event TOMORROW, Saturday, 3rd December 2016 from 1-4 pm SL. The event will be held at the Bay City Fairgrounds, in North Channel and will feature DJ GoSpeed of KONA Stream, and live performers Christov Kohnke and Zachh Cale. The event will also feature ice-skating, dancing, refreshments and a lot of fun for everyone, as well as the annual lighting of our Christmas tree.

Once again, Bay City will host a silent auction to support Child's Play Charity.  Bay City is a Silver Sponsor of Child's Play Charity, having raised over US$2,000.00 to support the work of the charity.  Second Life™ designers and artists have generously agreed to participate by providing fun, interesting, unique, or other transferable items (or a no-copy object that the auction winner can give to you to redeem their prize, if the item(s) have to be no transfer). Please join us, check out the items, and BID, BID, BID!

The auction will end at the conclusion of the event. All proceeds from the silent auction and from donation bins at the venue will go to Child's Play Charity. Child's Play is a 501c3 non profit organization offers online communities such as ours an opportunity to help seriously ill children around the globe during their hospital stays with the purchase of games and gaming equipment.

Bay City is a mainland community, developed by Linden Lab® and home to the Bay City Alliance. The Bay City Alliance was founded in 2008 to promote the Bay City regions of Second Life and provide a venue for Bay City Residents and other interested parties to socialize and network. It is now the largest group for Residents of Bay City.

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Until next time, Happy Holidays from all of us here at The Bay City Post!

Bay City Post - November 2016

WELCOME to the sixty-second issue of the Bay City Post! - Keeping you updated on the best city on the grid! Let's see what's happening in our fair city as November rolls around.

October ended with a grand Hallowe'en tradition, the Creepy Crawl, sponsored by Linden Lab. According to a report from Tuesday's Bay City Alliance meeting, "(The Crawl) rolled through the Fairgrounds with some 48 people, including quite a number of Lindens. Thanks to GoSpeed Racer for spinning some great Hallowe'en tunes from the great beyond. The Hay Maze is now being dismantled and the fairgrounds will return to 'normal' with the help of the LDPW. Hazmat crews are on standby."

"MOAR PRIMS!" That was the joyful cry in Bay City last night as news broke about the 50% increase in Mainland prim allowance, causing more than one citizen to dance in the streets. As Bay City already gets a double prim allowance, that's quite a big deal! What will you be doing with YOUR extra prims?

This issue of the Post features some great work by our roving reporters: Uccie Poultry-Seale continues her award-winning interview series with an insightful discussion with Geohistoria Farshore; Dakota Schwade explores the difference between Bay City's East and West sides; and Cheeky Geek Qie Niangao teaches us how to protect objects from unwelcome "sitters". In addition, Marianne McCann dispels the myth of Da Boom;  Georgia Florence Sipe continues her fashion series featuring Jackie O.; Police Chief Hooker provides a detailed report on Bay City shenanigans; and AdudenamedAnthony gives us the rumble report and some insights on the upcoming US elections.

All that, and maybe some more! Enjoy!

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Breaking, Breaking, Breaking!

Things got out of hand at the first "Burning Taco" festival! Where IS that fire company when you need them?? Because there was also THIS:

Toxic Tacos' special "More Prims Brunch Buffet" goes astray!

Bay City Post - October 2016

WELCOME to the sixty-first issue of the Bay City Post! - Keeping you updated on the best city on the grid!  

Fall is in full swing, and while it seems to have brought with it a crime spree or two (have you noticed how busy the BCPD is lately??), everyone in the City seems unusually mellow. Perhaps this is due to the mysterious fire at Barnstable Naturals a few days ago?

Speaking of mind-altering substances, on October 23, 2016, at 2 PM SLT, the Bay City Brewery will welcome all and sundry to its annual Oktoberfest celebration! Come down and join DJ GoSpeed Racer of Kona Stream and partake in Bay City's original questionably safe adult beverage and industrial process....and see for yourself why we say "It's Something In The Water!" *Root Beer also available for the young and the young at heart.

We hope you can all join us for some barrel-rolling fun on October 23rd. For now, sit back, have a cold Bay City Brew, and enjoy the October edition of the Bay City Post!


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Breaking, Breaking, Breaking!

Fall has fallen at The Toxic Taco!

Time to break out the pumpkin spice tortillas!