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Environmental organizations to celebrate Earth, promote greenbelt with festival

To celebrate Earth Day and promote a Morgantown greenbelt, the Mon Valley Green Space Coalition (MVGSC) and the West Virginia Land Trust (WVLT) will host the fourth-annual Touch the Earth Festival from 1-4 p.m. April 20, at the pavilion in Marilla Park. Other local environmental organizations will participate in the event, which is free and open to the public. The festival will feature fun and educational activities, including a tree-planting event, knot-tying and hammock-camping demonstrations, an electric bike demonstration by Wamsley Cycles, a trail-building exercise and ...

StoryFest shares magic of storytelling

Library System presented StoryFest, a new event dedicated to bringing the community together through the magic of storytelling, Saturday at the Spruce Street Pavilion, 400 Spruce St. and the Morgantown Public Library, 373 Spruce St. Event organizer and library clerk Abby Cyphert said ...

El Pollon adds two new locations to menu

POLLO A LA BRASA IS A DISH THAT FIRST ROSE TO PROMINENCE IN MIDCENTURY LIMA, PERU. Swiss emigrant Roger Schuler developed a style of rotisserie chicken marinated and then roasted over wood coals, leading to a spectacularly delicious product with tender meat and crispy, seasoned skin. Traditionally, it is served with ají verde, a spicy sauce made with ají peppers, cilantro and tomatoes. Pollo a la brasa became wildly popular in Peru, to the point of being considered the national culinary specialty —it even has its own national holiday. Something so tasty couldn’t help but ...

Podcasts that will make you more interesting at parties

Katie Long McDowell My dog Tulip will eat anything. And I really do mean anything. The fuzz Moo pulls out of his toys, leaves and sticks, dirty napkins, you name it. Nothing is off limits. This makes walking her a veritable minefield — every bit of rotten food, all manner of discarded wrappers; an empty, capless Chapstick once, and yes, the occasional piece of dried feces is fair game. She scored a lollipop stick with a bit of green left on it after this last Halloween. And the chicken bones. Lord help me, the chicken bones. I do not understand it — I mean, I ...

Want to change the world? Start with the front of your hair

Katie Long McDowell What is it about the female species that whenever life doesn’t feel quite right, our first inclination is, “Maybe I should get bangs?” I posed this question on social media and to my friends recently after finding myself browsing page after Google Images page of hairstyles featuring — you guessed it. The curtain kind, to be exact. The answers, of course, ran the gamut from “Go for it!” to more than a few — and, to be fair, perfectly valid — variations of “Don’t go there.” and “OMG NO.” But not a single person — members of the ...

Watchword for 2024 isn’t really a word at all

Last night I lay awake nearly until dawn, a very real pit bull snoring in my ear, a metaphorical hornet’s nest in my head. It was just one of those times — when, no matter how hard you might try to force it to quiet down, your brain doesn’t want to stop buzzing. You know the ...