This marketing abomination to the right here is Kegasus, the, uh, mascot — I guess? — of this May’s Preakness Stakes Infieldfest. For the six of you that are still reading this post, here’s the campaign’s website — which I highly recommend if you want to spend your lunch break gawking at a shirtless, slightly pudgy middle-aged man in a windswept wig encourage you to “be legendary.”

After weeks of speculation and much too much time spent obsessively reloading the 9:30 Club Forum, Post Rock and even the Baltimore Buisiness Journal, we finally have confirmation. There will be a Virgin Mobile Festival this year. Now we just need to know the where, the when, the who and the how much. With that in mind let’s take a look at the latest internet chatter: The Where: With Pimlico ownership Magna Entertainment Corp….

Photo by Tony DeFilippo. Sure, horse racing ranks somewhere between golf and the Tour de France on the list of most-clamored for sports in the American collective consciousness. But it’s still worth noting that the Preakness Stakes — also known as the “Race for the Black-Eyed Susans,” or “That One That Comes After The Kentucky Derby” — will go on this afternoon, in all of its state-owned glory at nearby Pimlico. Looking for stories…

More star wattage, more choice, more tough choices. V-Mo Fest V. 3, Part II offered more of the same, and in this case, that’s a very good thing. In addition to the words and visuals you saw yesterday, today we’ve also got audio of several on-the-spot interviews Chris conducted at the festival. Copious sound + vision follows! 8/10/08 5:04 PM -Michelle Stafford of Headcount – Chris Klimek Ace photographer DCist Kyle kicks it off: I…

Whether you’re a little bit Iggy or a little bit Moby; whether you breathlessly await each L’il Wayne mixtape or whether pop music ceased to interest you the year the Beatles stopped touring and Dylan went electric (in which case, congratulations on figuring out this old Internet), there was something to your taste at the third edition of the Virgin Mobile Festival this weekend. Not just something, actually: A lot. With a big assist from…

Ah, summer festival season. In years past, those of us in the D.C./Baltimore region had to either consider an expensive trip to a faraway locale or jealously eye the lineups of Coachella, Sasquatch, Lollapalooza, Intonation, Pitchfork, Bumbershoot and countless other fests, hoping that the festival gods would someday smile upon our little patch of the Mid-Atlantic. Luckily, that all changed with the introduction of Virgin Fest in 2006 (now known as the Virgin Mobile Festival)…