By Staci Dennis
Correspondent
VIRGINIA BEACH
For Marc Ford, the past has come to the present, and it all adds up to a dream come true.
From 2001 to 2005, Ford would frequent Scotty Quixx Xpress on Virginia Beach Blvd. He would eat there at least three times a week, he said. During that time, he got to know the owner, Scott Oates.

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It's about making Valentine's Day more memorable for complete strangers, stretching all the way to Haiti.
The members of the Sweet Adeline's quartet Feelin' Groovy! have performed singing Valentines for many years and during that time, they have enjoyed the looks of surprise and the many responses they get from unsuspecting recipients.

Playwright Shirley Wilson found inspiration from her family history for one of her latest works, “Necessity Has No Law,” which is based loosely on her ancestors’ involvement in the abolitionist movement.

Toni Guagenti
Special to The Virginian-Pilot

Pierre DeBaun had some reservations about moving into an apartment after remembering how it was to live in one outside New York City years ago.
Noisy. Unpredictable neighbors. Parking headaches.
But he decided to try it again in June and moved into The Cosmopolitan, a 14-story building in the heart of Virginia Beach's Town Center.

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The Great Backyard Bird Count is coming up next weekend, and Virginia Beach participants could really add some uncommon sightings to this annual survey of birds that is taken across the United States.
The Bird Count, sponsored by Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society, will take place Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

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There is no love in "From Paris With Love." There is, though, a great deal of noise, and there are some very funny scenes of John Travolta's stunt men running about trying to make him look like a combination of Jackie Chan and the pre-governorship Arnold Schwarz-enegger.
The Rock and today's other stern-faced action guys need not fear for their jobs.

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