WestVirginiaVille

It was a poster, but huge. No, it was a canvas, an actual canvas, it looked like. A large photo reproduction of some sort maybe. Or was it a clever projection? And this is what it said …

TheWebTheater of WestVirginiaVille.com, presents “Saint Stephen’s Dream: a Space Opera.” Coming Soon To A Computer Near You. Spring, say. Or maybe Summer.

It’s last year’s Milton corn maze but it’s fun to watch a wise-cracking Bill Lynch get confused and a corn maze is a corn maze. This video will give you an idea of what to expect at this year’s maze.

Being inside the historic Keith-Albee Theater in downtown Huntington is sometimes like being on drugs without the drugs. Photos of the interior on the way to seeing the unreleneting ‘Biutiful.’

A heads up if you’re within striking distance of Charleston, W.Va. This month’s free Charleston ArtWalk features a superb exhibit of remarkable historic West Virginia photos previously profiled in two audio slideshows on WestVirginiaVille.

This Friday, Huntington hosts the Save Our Sign Benefit Concert benefit to restore the Keith-Albee theater’s sign — knocked down earlier this year in a windstorm — to its dashing glory.

Kate Long’s photographic portrait of Barbara Bayes may fool the eye at first blush. Is it a painting? At a glance, the lighting and composition recall something from a Rembrandt portrait.

Roller Derby cuts into Annie Knuckles knitting time, but she’s cool with that. A Q-and-A with the co-captains of the Chemical Valley Roller Girls, whose first home bout takes place Saturday at Charleston Civic Center.

This ‘Jam of the Day’ video from the recently concluded High Land Jam in Elkins, W.Va., is convincing evidence to head that way next summer when the 10th annual jam takes place the last weekend of August 2012.

If you’re looking to chill out in an organically sound and sweet fashion, we cannot recommend more highly picking blueberries as the morning mist rises off the Appalachian hills in the West Virginia outback.

Elizabeth Gaucher’s post from her Esse Diem blog is the only thing we’ve read in the aftermath of the Casey Anthony verdict worth passing on.

Take a listen to Catherine Moore’s 10-minute audio documentary on the recent 50-mile march on Blair Mountain by a colorful crew of hundreds of marchers, intent on preserving the historic site.

A video gallery of the four doges of the FestivALL Charleston staging of “Saint Stephen’s Dream: A Space Opera”: Gary Brown, Larry Groce, Alex Bannerman and Joe Miller.

Here’s the official trailer for the debut of “Saint Stephen’s Dream: A Space Opera,” the rock opera/musical/eco-fable and (we hope) ripping good yarn that makes its debut this week at FestivALL Charleston.

Some of the cast and crew of “Saint Stephen’s Dream: A Space Opera” head out in this video onto the streets of downtown Charleston, W.Va., for the 2011 FestivALL Charleston Art Parade.

Meet the cast of characters in the 2011 FestivALL Charleston production of “Saint Stephen’s Dream: A Space Opera,” along with a pocket history of New Earth and the Third Eye Cabaret. A Web Theater of WestVirginiaVille production

The Doge of Nuova Venezia makes only a brief appearance in “SAINT STEPHEN’S DREAM: A Space Opera,” but it’s a significant one. Here’s what the Doge will wear.

Here’s a quick music video from a rehearsal earlier today of “No Further Thought of Fame,” a sampling of one of the key songs in “Saint Stephen’s Dream: A Space Opera.”

“The Last Mountain” screens in Charleston and here are some thoughtful observations about a movie that has gotten widespread buzz in its depiction of the devastation caused by mountaintop removal mining.