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Fan favorites, new offerings at Wine and Jazz Festival

MORGANTOWN - The 31st annual West Virginia Wine and Jazz Festival returns to the Ruby Amphitheater at Hazel Ruby McQuain Park, 185 Garrett St., Morgantown. Events begin Saturday at 11 a.m. and last until 7 p.m. The festival continues on Sunday, starting at 11 a.m. and ending at 6 p.m. ...

Review: Big praise at TIFF for big upcoming releases

As I spend time in lines at TIFF, I have the opportunity to speak with people from all over the world in attendance. I've spoken with other critics, some who write, some who work in video spaces. I've talked to producers and filmmakers who are hoping to have a chance to speak to those ...

Art Museum of WVU announces fall events

The Art Museum of WVU will host the exhibition "Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist" and a variety of related events and activities open to the community throughout the fall semester. “We consider the Art Museum of WVU a living space that welcomes everyone through the doors to ...

Films viewed on Day 2 of TIFF center on identity

At one of my screenings on Day 2 of the Toronto International Film Festival, I spoke with one of the TIFF board members. It was interesting to get a bit of a look behind the curtain on the marketing side of the festival, but if I had been thinking a bit more clearly, I would have asked him ...

Not a bad one in the bunch at TIFF so far

The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the largest festivals in the world. Hundreds of celebrities and hundreds of thousands of critics, industry professionals, and movie enthusiasts come to Toronto for 10 days in September to see a collection of major pre-release titles, ...

Review: ‘Mayday’ what? We already forgot

It’s hard to think of action movies in the 1980s without pointing to the pairing of Goose and Maverick as one of the all-time greats. That was clearly the inspiration for filmmakers Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley with their new film “Mayday,” streaming on Apple TV. While the ...