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    PICTURE/SHOW: Kyle Vass on taking his best shot

    June 7, 2021 /

    A little over a year into his work doing audio journalism, Kyle Vass realized every story, regardless of what medium it's being told through, needs pictures. Here's what happened next.

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    MUSIC/VIDEO: “Sonata for Piano & West Virginia, No. 1”

    June 7, 2021 /

    We invite you to take five minutes from feeling harassed by the news or our own hectic heads for "Sonata for Piano & West Virginia No. 1." It offers another way of looking at West Virginia and those parts that remain uncorrupted, fresh, and true.

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  • Music,  Photos/Video,  Q-and-A,  Stories

    COVERSTORY: Lady D, In Her Own Unfiltered Words

    May 5, 2021 /

    You might say Doris A. Fields, better known as Lady D, is having a well-deserved moment. Several, actually. We check in with one of West Virginia's finest singer-songwriters on the occasion of the release of her new CD, the heat-seeking "Disturbing My Peace."

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  • Art,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    ART/WORK: A video gaze at new work by Sharon Lyn

    May 5, 2021 /

    You wouldn't think Twitter would be a place to watch an artist's development. But that would be the case with West Virginia artist Sharon Lyn. Here's a video of some of her striking newest work.

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    SHORT/STORY: ‘I can see clearly now’

    May 5, 2021 /

    What happened one day out near the Beautiful River while I was pondering whether my father's was right when he got angry and said: 'People are no damn good!'

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    ARTIFACTS

    May 5, 2021 /

    In the debut of 'ARTIFACTS,' an occasional, fluffy feature showcasing oddball ephemera with a West Virginia connection, we explore the intersections of David Bowie. "I Dream of Jeannie" and Chuck Yeager.

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    COVERSTORY: CHARACTERS: “When Earl Went to War”

    April 17, 2021 /

    American men of Earl Goodall's generation are famously not forthcoming about their psychological states or what it's like to go to war, people dying in front of and beside you. But this Korean War vet communicates all you need to know about that 'Forgotten War.'

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    SOCIAL/MEDIA: Recalling a life ended too soon in WV’s capital city

    April 10, 2021 /

    The shooting death of an 18-year-old student-athlete killed April 7, cast a pall over West Virginia's capital city, as yet more senseless gun violence robbed a family and community of a bright light.

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    PHOTO/EDITORIAL: Springtime for a Supermajority in W.Va.

    March 29, 2021 /

    The desire to bust out of a politically benighted, often colonially run, and depressed-in-every-which-way state has a long and storied past. Where I am right now on the 'fight/flight/freeze' syndrome that comes with living in West Virginia.

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    NATUREGRAM: Cleanup needed at the Huntington Museum of Art trail

    March 20, 2021 /

    I normally post photographs and videos of Nature in all its solitudinous glory, when sickened by social media junk food and needing more wholesome nourishment. But our dear Mother is not always picture postcard perfect when we seek her aid.

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    NATUREGRAM: Two minutes of nothing but pines, plus some calming music

    March 13, 2021 /

    We can't share with you the sweet aroma of a stand of pine trees in Putnam County, West Virginia. But we can share with you the experience of standing among them. A new WestVirginiiaVille shelter-in-nature short video.

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    COVERSTORY: BE THE CHANGE: The Tale of A Song and Its Two Songwriters

    March 4, 2021 /

    The COVERSTORY for our March 2021 edition is a twofer: Watch the debut of an original WestVirginiaVille music video of "Be the Change" — and hear songwriters Ron Sowell and Jon Wikstrom talk about the roots of their song and their long songwriting comradeship.

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    PHOTOSHOW: A warehouse after the workers have gone

    March 3, 2021 /

    What is it about abandoned industrial spaces that make them so compelling to the inquiring eye? Maybe it's the forlorn, yet intriguing glimpse of past workaday lives — the lunches, the labors, the left-behind tools and flotsam of work — in a place now emptied of human activity.

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    ARTSHOW: ‘How Do You Serve the Ice?’

    February 25, 2021 /

    How do you properly shoot, process, and filter photographs of an ice storm for the ages? How about artifying them? But how much is too much? Here are some humble attempts to portray the Great Winter Ice Storm of 2021.

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    MUSICVIDEO: “Winter Walking,” when it’s not such a wonderland

    February 16, 2021 /

    A long winter grips the land. Add in cabin-fever weariness from a year-long COVID quarantine—and you can be forgiven if it seems like we are living through "a winter that never dies." Here's a music video about that.

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    VIDEO: Other ways of looking at a Mail Pouch barn

    February 16, 2021 /

    Mail Pouch barn signs became such an iconic, familiar image, showcased in tens of thousands of similarly framed snapshots, postcards, and saturated photographs that they are almost impossible to see afresh. We give it a go in "Chew This Way."

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    ONE WORK: “Misconceptions” and Angry Black Mothers

    February 14, 2021 /

    Lady D: "I decided on “Misconceptions” because that’s how most black women are viewed. It is a misconception that seems to have been perpetrated by a society that not only de-values us, but also fears our male children."

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  • Nature,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    PHOTOPOEM: “When Hay Bales Speak to You”

    February 11, 2021 /

    Let’s talk hay bales. I have, perhaps like you, been spying hay 
bales most all my life. Yet, in all that time haven’t met a hay bale. Up close. The other day, I had my chance.

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    VIDEO: “Chasing Birds in Snow”

    February 10, 2021 /

    Take a 2-minute excursion into the heart of the heart of Nature, as a bunch of birds play leapfrog in the midst of a West Virginia snow squall.

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  • Music/Video,  Nature,  Stories

    VIDEO: “The Edge of Day”

    February 9, 2021 /

    Thoughts on high while at the edge of day. An original short video production featuring imagery and music by Bobby Lee Messer and words by Kim Wilkinson.

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