Karan Ireland has a heart-to-heart chat with her rack: “I made this decision following an argument I had with my breasts. I said some nasty and cruel things to (and about) them and have been feeling a little bit guilty about it ever since.”
16. May 2010
When the back-to-the-landers came to West Virginia
“Those Who Came” is an illuminating essay that tracks the origins, influx and impact of the back-to-the-land movement on West Virginia.
16. May 2010
Mapping West Virginia, one finger at a time
Here’s a different way to map West Virginia, a slightly alternative depiction of the Mountain State. Plus, how to find Richard Nixon secretly hiding in the Mountain State.
16. May 2010
John Kessler scores with ‘Record Bin Roulette’
Former “Mountain Stage” bassist John Kessler co-produces one of the funnest, drollest and entertaining short radio shows you’re likely to uncover in a week’s worth of Googling
2. April 2010
A portal in the storm for the Huntington area
The recently revived Greater Huntington Portal is a good starting point to what’s up around West Virginia’s second largest city as it continues to get its act together.
1. December 2009
Appalachia Today blog blossoms forth
Becky Kimmons’ smart new blog, Appalachia Today, has come forth onto the Web, and not a moment too soon. We need a Transcendent New Nation of Appalachia. But what/where is Appalachia?
9. October 2009
Once banned, Lee Maynard tells his fictional life
A quote by Meredith Sue Willis offers a sense of how Lee Maynard’s writing gets to people: “I ask myself: Why is this foul-mouthed, sexist, scatological, hillbilly-stereotyping novel one of my all-time favorites?”
8. March 2009
A visit to a trippy House of Art in Bluefield, W.Va.
Gary Bowling’s House of Art in Bluefield, W.Va., is one of the trippiest art havens in all of West Virginia.
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17. May 2010
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