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Gardner Winter festival returns this weekend

MORGANTOWN — At first, organizer Judy Werner couldn’t recall any new features of the upcoming Gardner Winter Music Festival, which returns Friday and Saturday to South Middle School. But, she assured, the reason the festival’s namesake Worley Gardner started the gathering one cold, ...

He got us all right: Wishing Pops a happy ‘Gotcha Day’

Valentine’s Day may be just behind us, but there’s an even bigger celebration of love brewing this week. Because this Saturday marks one full year since my big senior boy, Pops, joined our weird little family. Or, as Dan called it last night, the end of my apparent experiment, “How ...

Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh commemorates Black History Month at CAC

MORGANTOWN — The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh is making its first trip down to Morgantown to commemorate Black History Month with “Let My People Go: A Spiritual Journey Along the Underground Railroad.” The performance, set for 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the WVU Creative Arts Center, ...

Sarah Shook and the Disarmers get personal at 123 Pleasant Street

MORGANTOWN — Right around the last time Sarah Shook and the Disarmers played in Morgantown, in October, was when the rising country artist from North Carolina said things “began blowing up pretty fast.” “It seems like the growth has been pretty slow and steady. But at the end of 2018, ...

What to watch when you hate the Super Bowl (or anytime you want, really)

The last time I recall having anything even tangentially to do with the Super Bowl, I was sitting in a corner, wearing a bicycle helmet and being told to chug a beer, because I had just lost that round of whatever drinking game we were playing. A game I only stopped playing (and, apparently, ...