THURS

Beach music weekend at -- duh -- the Beach, through Sunday 

Tim Reid celebrity weekend (Clifton Davis! Tatyana Ali! Miguel Nunez!), through Sunday, around town. Includes a gala, golf classic, brunch, basketball game and more. See print paper for more info.

Comedian Paul Mooney, Funny Bone, Virginia Beach, through Sunday. 

Shinedown, Norva, Norfolk with hometown boys Revery

Greek Festival, Annunciation Greek Orth. Cathedral on Granby, Norfolk, through Sunday.  

FRI

Erykah Badu with The Roots. Chrysler Hall, Norfolk

Wow: Bela Fleck, Ferguson Center for the Arts in Newport News

SAT

Beer Festival, Town Point Park

Graffitti art show at Wink Salon, VA Beach. Yes, graffitti and art in the same sentence. Get into it.

Redskins Beach Blitz, through Sunday. Can someone tell me why the player in the photo in the newspaper is holding pom-poms?

Stockley Gardens Arts Festival, Ghent/Norfolk, through Sunday

Gov's School for the arts gala (a TON of Gov' School grads are doing major things on Broadway and other facets of the arts), Sandler Center, VA Beach

Crush Groove, dance party featuring fashionable kids digging electro, indie rock. Click here for video of what the party is like. Looks kinda like the new N.E.R.D video huh?

NEXT WEEK

I'm so hyped for these two events next weekend that I'm letting you know about them now:

the play Blackwatch, which deals with military issues and is supposed to be amazing; all the reviews call it mindblowing. It opens next week at the Scope. 

Also next week all the house music heads MUST to hit up the party my boy DJ V is doing...HOUSE MUSIC ALL NIGHT til early morning with "no inhibitions" and the coolest house DJs/scenesters in Tidewater including Karri On, Davion, KennyM, Migs, Ben "from Africa" and more. It's going to be at the M.A.D.E. Latin Dance studio in Virginia Beach...