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The Incredible Adventures of Jack Flanders — Part 2

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Tune in for the lat­est episode of our excit­ing radio ser­i­al from our friends at ZBS Foun­da­tion: The Incred­i­ble Adven­tures of Jack Flan­ders! There are 10 half-hour episodes, one every Fri­day at noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT.

THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF JACK FLANDERS

In the dead of night, a large ship­ping crate is deliv­ered to the home of our hero Jack Flan­ders. Open­ing the crate, Jack dis­cov­ers a green vel­vet over­stuffed chair. Each night at the stroke of mid­night, Jack sits in the soft, com­fort­able chair which comes alive, lur­ing him onto its vel­vety realm. Every­day real­i­ty fades away, and Jack finds him­self in a strange, oth­er-world of mag­ic, pirates, and sor­cery where huge puff­balls cling to ceil­ings and walls, mast­ed sail­ing ships with wings fly the skies and islands float in the air…

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From Classical to Romantic

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Today we explore a lit­tle of the music writ­ten at the bor­ders of the Clas­si­cal and Roman­tic eras, focus­ing on the work of some well-known com­posers born in the last 30 years of the 18th Cen­tu­ry. And at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/Second Life Time, there’s anoth­er chance to hear the lat­est episode of our orig­i­nal series on things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid — “Where Have You Been?” This time we vis­it a bril­liant Juras­sic Park trib­ute. Plus don’t miss “The Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” every four hours from 4am Pacif­ic.

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Live Tarot Readings — Saturday, March 19th

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TODAY! Cel­e­brate the Equinox with a per­son­al Tarot read­ing!

Hon­ey Heart, the co-host of Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio’s pop­u­lar orig­i­nal series “Tarot At Teatime”, offers you a per­son­al Tarot read­ing, live and free of charge.

Join her on Sat­ur­day, March 19th, 1 to 2pm Sec­ond Life Time, in the plaza out­side the Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio The­atre on the Chest­nut Hills region in Sec­ond Life.

Read­ings are offered first come, first served, and are com­plete­ly free of charge (though you can tip VCRa­dio if you wish!). They are car­ried out pri­vate­ly in SL Voice and are strict­ly con­fi­den­tial.

All read­ings are for enter­tain­ment pur­pos­es only. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chestnut%20Hills/135/105/3802

Then don’t for­get that you can catch the lat­est episode of our orig­i­nal series, Tarot @ Teatime, on Sun­days and Thurs­days at 12 noon or 4pm Pacific/SLT, 8pm or mid­night in the UK. Infor­ma­tion on the cur­rent episode is here.

Mean­while, it’s Equinox today and we’re play­ing a selec­tion of Celtic music on VCRa­dio.

Introducing… The Incredible Adventures of Jack Flanders

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We’re pleased to present an excit­ing new radio ser­i­al from our friends at ZBS Foun­da­tion: The Incred­i­ble Adven­tures of Jack Flan­ders! There are 10 half-hour episodes, one every Fri­day at noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT, start­ing on March 18th.

THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF JACK FLANDERS

In the dead of night, a large ship­ping crate is deliv­ered to the home of our hero Jack Flan­ders. Open­ing the crate, Jack dis­cov­ers a green vel­vet over­stuffed chair. Each night at the stroke of mid­night, Jack sits in the soft, com­fort­able chair which comes alive, lur­ing him onto its vel­vety realm. Every­day real­i­ty fades away, and Jack finds him­self in a strange, oth­er-world of mag­ic, pirates, and sor­cery where huge puff­balls cling to ceil­ings and walls, mast­ed sail­ing ships with wings fly the skies and islands float in the air…

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Tarot @ Teatime — Episode 28: Astrological Correspondences

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In Episode 28 of our orig­i­nal series, “Tarot @ Teatime”, Hon­ey and Wil­low explore the cor­re­spon­dences between astrol­o­gy and the twen­ty-two cards of the Major Arcana of the Tarot as con­ceived by the Her­met­ic Order of the Gold­en Dawn, the late 19th cen­tu­ry mag­i­cal order that had a great influ­ence on the pop­u­lar­i­ty of the Tarot as well as build­ing on its eso­teric sig­nif­i­cance.

The  pro­gramme airs on Thurs­days and Sun­days at noon and 4pm Pacif­ic from March 17th until March 27th.

Book men­tioned:
Stephen Arroyo, Chart Inter­pre­ta­tion Hand­book, CRSC Pub­li­ca­tions (April 2004), ISBN10: 0916360498

Deck used:
Smith-Waite Tarot Deck Cen­ten­ni­al Edi­tion
https://www.usgamesinc.com/Smith-Waite-Centennial-Tarot-Deck.html

Music of Ireland

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Tomor­row is March 17, St Patrick­’s Day, and in antic­i­pa­tion of that, today we have a pro­gramme of pri­mar­i­ly (but not exclu­sive­ly) tra­di­tion­al music for you from the Emer­ald Isle.

It’s also the pre­miere of the lat­est edi­tion of Where’ve You Been? — our reg­u­lar fea­ture on things to do and places to see around the Sec­ond Life Grid. Tune in at 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time — this week, that’s 19:00 and 23:00 UTC. For details, see the arti­cle here.

You can also catch Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity, from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am Pacif­ic.

“Ring of Ker­ry, Ire­land” by min­niemouse­aunt is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Where Have You Been…? Jurassic Park! Tribute

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In the lat­est episode of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?”, where we sug­gest places to go and things to do around the Sec­ond Life Grid, we vis­it the Juras­sic Park Adven­ture, the lat­est expe­ri­ence from :oxy­gen, cre­at­ed by Jus­tice Vought. It’s a trib­ute expe­ri­ence with sev­er­al dif­fer­ent lev­els: there’s a cave of dinosaur fos­sils, plus heli­copter, Pter­a­n­odon and jeep rides, all high­ly excit­ing and immer­sive — and (espe­cial­ly at the “dan­ger­ous lev­el”) scary where traps await you! There are peace­ful veg­e­tar­i­an long-necks, but there are also Veloci­rap­tors — and of course, T. Rex! Fans of the movie series and thrill seek­ers alike might like to con­sid­er a vis­it to Juras­sic Park!

Juras­sic Park!
Own­er: :oxy­gen / Jus­tice Vought
Region: Riv­er (Mod­er­ate)

SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/River/35/234/2252

Modern Classical Music

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Today’s Fea­tured Music is “Mod­ern Clas­si­cal Music” — but what does that mean, exact­ly?

Well, in the con­text of today’s pro­gramme, we’re talk­ing about pieces of music writ­ten between around the mid-20th Cen­tu­ry until the present day, that aren’t exact­ly “pop music” (though they may tip a hat to it from time to time).

This is a tricky def­i­n­i­tion, how­ev­er. Mike Batt (some of whose work is in the playlist for today: there’s a lot more to his com­po­si­tions than the Wombles! ) has remarked that there is no such dis­tinc­tion as “pop­u­lar music” and “seri­ous music” — there’s sim­ply “pop­u­lar” and “unpop­u­lar”, so the def­i­n­i­tion rather falls at the first fence.Con­tin­ue read­ing→

Moon Over Morocco: The Final Episode

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TODAY on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio — Fri­day, March 11th, noon or 4pm Pacif­ic / 8pm and mid­night in the UK, the FINAL INSTALLMENT of…

MOON OVER MOROCCO

Once in a far away land there exist­ed a knowl­edge of nat­ur­al mag­ic that has been lost to mod­ern man. Jack Flan­ders treks to Moroc­co, believ­ing that in this prim­i­tive coun­try, where mag­ic remains an inte­gral part of dai­ly life, he may find this knowl­edge. Jack dis­cov­ers far more than he expect­ed when he steps through the Gate of Pea­cocks, the entrance to that lost world. Jack has stepped out of mod­ern day Moroc­co and into the realm where the knowl­edge of mag­ic is a req­ui­site sur­vival skill. Here’s an extract from the clos­ing episode…

Next week at the same time, we bring you the first episode of the clas­sic ZBS series: The Incred­i­ble Adven­tures of Jack Flan­ders. Don’t miss it!

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