WestVirginiaVille

So, one of the missions of WestVirginiaVille is to scope out who’s doing interesting work on the Web. ‘Meanwhile in West Virginia,” a collaboritve blog by four Marshall students, passes muster.

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.

If you live outside West Virginia, it’s more than likely you may know next to nothing about one of America’s most horrific industrial disasters. But the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Disaster is no ancient history, says a documentary filmmaker.

I learned today a friend had died. The police found her in her apartment after she didn’t show up for work. Work called the cops. The cops found her.

Huntington, West Virginia stars in one of Harvey Pekar’s final books in his lifelong project of chronicling the average moments in an average – if rumpled and depressed and obsessive-compulsive – guy’s life.

Donald Call, a native of the tiny burg of Culloden, W.Va., is an excellent example of “how a life can be lived quietly, yet abundantly robust.”

‘One might be tempted to say that we’re poorer today because of Hazel’s Dickens passing, but a trip to YouTube will show that her spirit enriches the repertoire of musicians all over the world.’

“My tic used to infuriate my old boyfriend. The first time he hurt me was, perhaps not coincidentally, the first time my hand shook this way.”

Today’s Song of the Day is not quite new – actually, it’s more than a quarter-century old. In honor of Larry Groce’s turn as a headliner Saturday in Charleston, a taste of “Junk Food Junkie” and how it got to be a smash hit.

We regret – and are happy – to inform our readership that Karan-a-Go-Go has failed in the bold challenge she made to WestVirginiaVille a couple weeks ago.

Boy Scouts, hip-hop dance and the state of West Virginia: What do the three have to do with one another? Check out this video of young hip-hop dancers and then submit your own wherever you are.

An entertaining essay by Charleston, W.Va., native Elizabeth Gaucher, who manages to muse her way from a childhood game to issues of authoritarian manipulation.

Gabriel Redding of the Redding Brothers knows how to bring a crowd. Like the cops who came when he filmed a music video on an abandoned West Virginia bridge.

Checking in on an artisinal liquor distillery in West Virginia as it spreads its whiskey world-view far and wide, not to mention its bourbon and vodka.

The blogger known as ‘Karan-a-go-go’ has been having blogging interruptus issues. She issues a daring challenge to WestVirginiaVille to get her back on the blogging straight and narrow.

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Massey Energy mine explosion that killed 29 West Virginia miners. What changes have occurred? Try none.

Former porn star Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, her West-Virginia-born artist wife, marry the Appalachian Mountains. Larry Gibson is there and lots and lots of purple performers.

International adventurer Bear Grylls rode the Gauley River rapids in West Virginia for a deoderant ad. Some fans just weren’t buying in.

Charleston artist Rob Cleland doubles up in his ‘Picture Yourself’ self-portrait as he shows how easily he can talk himself into doing something he shouldn’t.