By Nora Firestone
Correspondent

After her father died in 2006, Eileen Vernon of Virginia Beach grew concerned for her mom, Eileen Davis.

There's nothing particularly gay about Lady Gaga, Prince and REM, some of the music airing on glbtliveradio.com, a new Hampton Roads Internet radio station. But co-founder Philip Deal says that glbt - short for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender - aims to be the local gay community's new forum.

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The love life of slugs was not something I had ever thought about until Nancy Leavitt sent some photos of two amorous slugs on her front porch.

In all the photos, the slugs were wrapped around one another in graceful, most un-slug-like poses.

OCEANFRONT If you missed the Shriners Parade last weekend, no worries. Another one will be held Saturday. It begins at 9 a.m. at 17th Street and continues to 31st Street along Atlantic Avenue. Virginia Beach is the site of both Mid Atlantic Shrine Association (MASA) and the South Atlantic Shrine Association (SASA) conventions this year.

According to the Associated Press, 700,000 of us have new cars thanks to the "Cash for Clunkers" stimulus program. Here are some easy ways to keep those new cars clean from our organization blogger.

Get your pet questions ready: Yorktown veterinarian Lisa Holland will be online for a live lunchtime chat on Monday, Aug. 31.

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"Honestly, what's more fun than watching beautiful women beat the tar out of one another...on roller skates?" asks our photoblogger. See what he captured recently at the Haygood Skating Center.

IVOR In an attempt to help set a record, 317 people got naked and splashed in a giant swimming pool over the weekend at White Tail Resort. The people at the nudist resort in Southampton County were part of what's billed as "The Largest Skinny Dip Across North America."