My wife is a huge tennis fan, so we made the trip to The Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, New York to see the women’s final in The US Open.  We had decent seats as there are no bad seats in Arthur Ashe Stadium.  We had what I call…..an aerial view (we were just below the BLIMP).  We had a good time….the only thing that would have made it better was for Serena Williams to win the match but alas….she got SMOKED.  Still it was cool to see her play, er uh, not play.  It was cool to see her and here are the  pixs (they got clearer after I cleaned the lens).

Thank you to these barbers and beauticians for volunteering to do children’s hair for FREE for the first day of school. Make your appointment now.

Day of Sharing 2011

95-7 R&B’s Theressa Brown 5th Annual Day of Sharing is going down all labor day weekend….
and we’d like to thank the following barbers and beauticians for making sure our children are looking cool on their first day of school….

Salon Zuri
5313 Indian River Road
Suite 114
Virginia Beach, Va
Contactz: Yolanda Gurley
361-9111
4 girls

Allure Full Service Salon
25 East Mellen Street
Hampton, Va
757-329-2859
757-727-9770
Contact: Shawnie
3 girls

Versus Hair Studio
510 South Independence Blvd
Suite 100
Contact: Michelle
757-200-8890
2 girls

Tomorrow’s Image I
15401 Warwick Blvd
Newport News, Va 23608
757-833-0500
Contact: Artie
3 Boys

Tomorrow’s Image II
13641 Warwick Blvd
Newport News, Va 23602
757-874-4562
Contact: Eric
3 Boys

Tomorrow’s Image Barber Academy of Va
13641 Warwick Blvd
Newport News, Va 23602
757-508-1104
Contact: John Chapman
3 boys

Above and Beyond
1104 West Mercury Blvd
Hampton, Va
325-2019
Contact: Winona
6 girls

Hair Expressions
49 West Queens Way
Hampton, Va 23609
757-722-5354
Contact: Vernetta Alston

Upper Cutz Barbershop
7103 Sewells Point Road
Norfolk, Va
Stylist and Barber
Contact: Danyell or Rai
779-6267 or 401-3235

Extravagant Grooming Barbershop and Beauty Salon
3601 E. Ocean View Avenue
Norfolk, Va
Contact:Shequei (Shaki) 383-6258
Unlimited

Extravagant Grooming Barbershop and Beauty Salon
5792 North Hampton Blvd
Virginia Beach, Va.
Contact: Aaron
714-8634
Unlimited

Artistry Full Service Salon
2835 Sewells Point Road
Norfolk, Va.
Contact: Ronald
599-0534
5 Boys

Genissi Salon & Spa
2716 Granby Street
Norfolk, Va.
Contact: Olivia
222-9644
25 Girls

..………thanks for making a difference in the 757…..with 95-7 R&B

Remember the last time the Dismal Swamp was burning?  Of course you don’t.  You’re probably saying what the (blank) is the Dismal Swamp, right?  Well, the Dismal Swamp is roughly 112,000 acres of swamp  situated on the border of Virgina & North Carolina.  There’s a wildlife refuge on the Virgina side and a state park on the North Carolina side.  Presently, about 5500 of the acres are blazing.  It also burned three years ago.  Back in 2008, I couldn’t fathom how a swamp could burn.  I mean, it’s supposed to be saturated with water.  Come find out, it ain’t always got water in it…..not entirely. Some parts have water, other parts are dry.  Well, it seems that lightning keeps striking the part that’s dry and before you know it…….whoosh, it’s  flame on.   All of Hampton Roads and northeast North Carolina have been affected by the smoke.  Doesn’t matter where you live, sooner or later the wind will blow that stinking, eye burning, nostril hurting foul stench your way.  In addition, in some cases, visibility is reduced to basically nothing.  Matter of fact, check out this pic…

Can you imagine breathing this stuff?  As a matter of fact, there’s a respiratory alert in place.  Here’s another one……

Not fog but SMOKE, breathing hurts.  Oh, but here’s my favorite picture…..

It reminds me of some of the rooms in my college dormitory back in the 70’s.  Knock on the door, when it opened, that’s all you saw…..BIG TIME SMOKE.   The only things missing from the picture above are a black light, the poster of that sister with the big afro, fishnets hanging from the ceiling and Iron Butterfly’s IN DA GADA VIDA blasting on the turntable.  Once, I not only knocked on that door, I entered the fog……….I disappeared for a week…….with no memory of anything.

Which brings to mind….how come these mega wildfires never engulf acres of marijuana? Once, while in the military, we stumbled across a huge patch of it during one of those field exercises.  Dudes were uprooting plants and stuffing em in their duffel bags figuring it be dry and ready by the time the field exercise was over.  So you know, it’s growing wild somewhere.  Now, imagine all that smoke in the pictures above was a result of some weed wildfire.  Potheads would be homeless on purpose.  All they would want to do is just live outside and breathe and live outside and breathe. Everybody would have a contact (that’s being high as a result of secondary smoke).  All the snacks in Hampton Roads and northeast North Carolina would be SOLD OUT cause everybody got the munchies.  People would be driving around aimlessly because they can’t remember where they’re going.  Teachers would forgot to check homework, give the test that they promise a week ago, take attendance and attend those awful after school meetings.  Brown nosers would refrain from kissing the bosses butt and tell the boss to kiss their butts and they and the boss would then burst into laughter….. and keep on laughing………… for the rest of the day.  Bus drivers would drive their routes but forget to pick up and discharge passengers.  Admin workers would be at their desks marveling at the starfield screen saver on the computer while uttering mono syllabic phrases like  Ooooo, Ahhhh, woooowwwww.  And radio personalities like me, would get on the air and just ramble on and on and on about nothing.  Wait a minute……we do that NOW!!  Hmmmm, is there something burning in the swamp that they haven’t told us about?!?

(pictures courtesy of our broadcast partner WTKR, News Channel 3)

Long Jewelers
2965 Virginia Beach Blvd
Virginia Beach, VA 23452
(757) 498-1186

Option 1

14-karat white gold and with double channel-set rows of round brilliant cut diamonds, 0.25 total carat weight

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14-karat white gold channel-set round brilliant cut diamonds band with milgrain edge detailing, 0.25 total carat weight

Option 3

18-karat white gold curved diamond band with shared-prong set round brilliant cut diamonds, 0.34 total carat weight

Option 4

14-karat white gold high polish channel-set round brilliant cut diamond band, 0.50 total carat weight

Option 5

Platinum band, designed by Tacori, with shared-prong set round brilliant cut diamonds, 0.17 total carat weight