As we enter an era when few living Holocaust survivors remain and when there is a concerted effort to ban books like Maus that directly confront the horrors of the […]
Entertainment
River City Festival of the Arts returns
The Annual River City Festival of the Arts will return after COVID shut it down a couple of years ago. Scheduled for Memorial Day weekend — May 27-30 — the […]
Morgantown artists to be featured at the Parkersburg Art Center
West Virginia Watercolor Society is pleased to announce “Aqueous Plus 2022,” exhibiting Friday through June 7 at the Parkersburg Art Center in Parkersburg. Several Morgantown artists are represented in the […]
‘Metal Lords’ taken down by uneven tone
The high school rock band is something that I would swear was an invention of movies if I wasn’t married to someone who played in one. He assures me that […]
WVPT works on Stephen King, John Mellencamp’s new musical with Tony Award-winning director
West Virginia Public Theatre kicks off its summer season with Broadway Licensing with a developmental reading of Stephen King and John Mellencamp’s completely reworked haunting musical, “Ghost Brothers of Darkland […]
‘Rothaniel’ is a piece about secrets
BY ALISE CHAFFINS There’s a saying that comedy is just tragedy plus time. Story-telling comedians like Mike Birbiglia, John Mulaney and Hasan Minhaj have proven this over and over in […]
Big themes get muddled by ghost story in ‘Master’
Subtlety is a lovely tool that, when used effectively, can transform a good film into a great film. In Mariama Diallo’s film “Master,” streaming on Amazon Prime, I felt like […]
Take-in for MAA juried Exhibit 60 set for April 6
Local artists are encouraged to enter their artwork in the 63rd annual fine art Exhibit 60, sponsored by Morgantown Art Association. This will be juried and judged by the internationally […]
Not much to take away from ‘Windfall’
The opening credits and the sepia-type filter on the new film, “Windfall” streaming on Netflix gives you the sense of an old Hollywood thriller. When I settled in to watch […]
‘Turning Red’ uses panda as a metaphor
Parenting is not for the faint of heart. Each stage brings new joys and challenges. For me, the hardest part was during the tween years. There are marks of independence […]
