THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, July 21, 1995 TAG: 9507210063
SECTION: DAILY BREAK PAGE: E9 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: [Alicia Luma]
LENGTH: Medium: 63 lines
O K. COOL STORE revue, deux.
With the current drought of things to do, this week I decided to take the summer movie route and write a sequel. I got such good response to the last column that I again headed out to the Virginia Beach Oceanfront (man, was it hot) in search of more stores worthy of our attention.
The first store I went to was Hammy's on Pacific Avenue near 17th Street. It has an eight-track-tape floor border and funky necklaces, but not much else interested me. I mean, how many off-color postcards and pointless T-shirts can one store sell?
And so, I continued on down the sidewalk. Suddenly a burst of bright neon attacked me: Atomic Vibe.
Inside the store there wasn't a lot of stuff, but there was a little bit of everything, including girlie shirts and spikey punk stuff. The prices were quite reasonable - they sell Manic Panic, a new gel hair dye that comes in every imaginable shade, for about $7.50 a bottle.
Anyway, the phone number there is 491-2385; the hours pretty are indefinite.
And now, for the only two Rasta-influenced, tourist-attracting, goofy-salesguy stores at the beach. They are One World on 19th Street and Island Imports on 22nd Street.
The guy who owns these stores called my mailbox to tell me how sad he was that I had skipped his stores in my last column. To be honest, I had never even heard of them before. So one evening when I was at the Fire Escape, I made my friend Coy take a walk down to One World with me to check it out.
The store was quite neat-o. They have succeeded in combining tacky tourist stuff with lots of stuff you or I would groove on, like a brown cotton baby-doll dress from India for $14.50. They also have a wide variety of hats, necklaces and imported reggae and N.Y. mix tapes.
The other store, Island Imports, was closed when I went down there, but the people at One World, who also own Island Imports, said they had the same stuff.
The phone number for One World is 428-2599, and for Island Imports it's 428-0479.
And as if I haven't bombarded you with enough information, there's also a really good show at the Fire Escape this weekend. Alterna-pop band Spinning Jenny is having an album release party for their first real album, ``i think i can.''
Spinning Jenny is made up of the old drummer from Four Living Creatures (who now plays guitar and sings), the old guitar player from Since Sunday (who now plays bass and sings), and some guy named Steve (who plays drums). They have opened for a nationally known band called Hoi Polloi besides playing many gigs around here.
This show is definitely worth checking out. It's tomorrow night at 9. J.K. Flip Flops will open. The Fire Escape is located on the corner of 17th Street and Pacific Avenue at the Oceanfront. MEMO: Alicia Luma is a home-schooled high school junior. Her column appears
twice a month in Teenology. If you'd like to let her know what's going
on, call Infoline at 640-5555 and enter category 8989.
by CNB