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Global sensation Blippi to rock out at WVU Canady Creative Arts Center Sept. 30.

Blippi: Join the Band Tour! is making a stop at the WVU Canady Creative Arts Center for one show at 6 p.m.  Sept. 30.  Tickets are on sale at the Arts & Entertainment Box Office in the WVU Canady Creative Arts Center lobby and online at ticketmaster.com. Tickets may also be purchased by phone at 304-293-SHOW (304-293-7469).   This brand-new production features musicians playing live onstage and promises vivacious, energetic and educational antics.    Blippi will be joined onstage by Meekah, their singing and dancing buddies and live musicians. ...

Mothers and daughters are a beautiful thing

Well, I’m back. For the few people besides my father who regularly turn to this space to read these words, you’ll have noticed I was absent the past couple of weeks. While I did pack my laptop to pitch in here and there during my 10-day stint in Portugal and Spain, I did not log on ...

Sweet 16

he WOW! Factory, a paint-your-own pottery, mosaic, glass-fusing and clay hand-building studio on University Avenue in Star City, celebrates 16 years in business this month with a month-long Sweet 16 party. All month, customers will enjoy an especially festive  atmosphere and ...

WIC Kitchen

April showers make May farmers happy … and Monongalia County Health Department’s WIC program nutritionists too. This week’s recipes from WIC Kitchen highlight fresh vegetables and herbs that you can purchase at a farmers market. It’s great timing too. There is a week left for WIC participants to sign up for benefits that they can use at farmers markets through the summer and  into fall. The Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP), administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, supplements WIC benefits and provides $30 per participant to use at farmers markets ...

Jayne Anne Phillips’ novel ‘Night Watch’ among Pulitzer winners

A West Virginia native whose works are often set in the state won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year. Jayne Anne Phillips’ “Night Watch,” a mother-daughter saga set in a West Virginia asylum right after the war, was cited for fiction.  Phillips, a Buckhannon native, sees “Night Watch” as the third of a trilogy of novels about war, following the Vietnam-era narrative “Machine Dreams” and the Korean War story “Lark & Termite,” which draws in part on a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press investigation into the No Gun Ri massacre. She began ...

Guy Ritchie’s latest is a victorious action picture

The story behind Guy Ritchie’s newest film, “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” sounds like a Quentin Tarantino alternate history movie. Even the poster has strong “Inglorious Basterds” vibes. But this film is based on a true story, as told in Damien Lewis’s book “Churchill’s Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII” based on Operation Postmaster. This secret mission was only declassified in 2016. When Churchill (Rory Kinnear) realizes that the German U-Boats are preventing the Americans from sending supplies in the ...