WestVirginiaVille

The sun’s long gone, it’s dead dark now. Heading east on U.S. Route 60, I look to the left. What is that over there? Lights. Hundreds of small lights. No, thousands of them.

OK, the headline is a bald-faced lie. Dean Martin, Glen Campbell and I have never ever hung out together, at least in person. But actually, we did spend a lot of time together, which is when I fell in love with singing.

A video of a stirring murmuration, a map that shows there are no nuclear warheads in my backyard and why the number 88 is important to Neo-Nazis: Things Learned on the Web last week.

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

The roadway warriors of PickUp America wrap up their season in Colorado. Davey Rogner updates the group’s legendary trek plus a look-back to their time in West Virginia.

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.

The day every dictator fears. A song for the day after in Libya: “Dictator’s Day” by The Silent Gondoliers, official instrumental band of the Free State of WestVirginiaVille.

My favorite sculpture in all of West Virginia sits outside the Huntington Museum of Art. The slightest breath of wind sends this exquisitely balanced sculpture into motion as seen in a music video for a friend who has moved on unexpectedly.

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.

Changes are afoot for Lewisburg-based Jessica Levine, who describes herself as a contemporary Appalachian environmental artist in this ‘Artist at Work’ video profile.

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.

WestVirginiaVille News received a reassuring phone message from Charleston, W.Va., sculptor P. Joseph Mullins as the region picks up its lawn chairs and recovers from the earthquake that recently rattled Charleston.

Video clips of the Chemical Valley Roller Girls practicing for their first bout in Charleston; Greenbrier County artist Jessica Levine’s multifarious work and Dreama Denver on living with “Gilligan” once he got off that island.

What do you do when the earthquake doesn’t get you but just shakes, rattles and rolls you? Laugh at it.

A video tour of some of the thousands of items and books in Huntington’s private Touma Medical Museum, from stylish ear trumpets to a tonsillectomy guillotine.

What happens to the fish and the water in which they swim happens to us as we all live downstream. That’s the message of an exhibit of photos and trash-filled translucent fish in Charleston.

“The Only Song” is a tune about lost love without reprieve or favor. Albert Perrone invokes Alanis Morissette, Ani DiFranco and others in singing about what happens “when love knocks the brake pads off of you.”

If you were to randomly ask: “Where, exactly, do you think of when I say ‘Clarinet player busking on a city street?’ I give you odds of exactly zero percent the answer would be “Uh… um.. West Virginia?”

A dip into David Stephenson’s surreal “My Decision” short film, winner of the 2011 FestivALL Charleston Silent Film Contest. Only this version isn’t silent. But you can always turn your speakers off.