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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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    5 QUESTIONS: John W. Miller on taking a deep dive into a small West Virginia town

    December 15, 2020 /

    Once a thriving West Virginia town whose region produced everything from cigars to classic toys like Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, Moundsville—population 8,400 souls—looks to figure out where it goes from here. The new 2020 documentary "Moundsville" considers the town's past and present—and its future possibilities.

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    5 QUESTIONS: Kyle Vass on street-level addiction reporting & telling audio stories

    December 6, 2020 /

    Multimedia journalist Kyle Vass on hitting the streets of Charleston WV to report on the addiction crisis and the art of audio storytelling.

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    5 QUESTIONS: West Virginia native tracks a journey into “Giving Up Whiteness”

    October 31, 2020 /

    West Virginia native Jeff James has written a book with one of 2020's most provocative titles: "GIVING UP WHITENESS." Elizabeth Gaucher takes a deep dive into the genesis and themes of the book in "5 Questions" with the author.

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    5 QUESTIONS: When Life Hands You Quarantine, You Make a Web Series Out of It

    July 23, 2020 /

    Curren Sheldon and Tijah Bumgarner are the wizards behind the extremely entertaining web series, "Quarantine Life," which asks—and answers—the question: What do two mondo-talented West Virginia filmmakers do during a global pandemic that has locked down the usual creative projects into which they had been pouring their life force?

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    MARIE MANILLA | Part 1: Driving By Her Own Headlights

    July 11, 2020 /

    Huntington WV native Marie Manilla is an award-winning fiction and non-fiction author. In a "5 Questions" interview, she talks about the highs and lows of writing; the 'snotty literati,' who use labels to belittle writers; and the novel she scrapped after hearing pre-publication reactions by African American and transgender sensitivity readers.

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    DON WEST | Part 1: Not An Easy Path

    June 6, 2020 /

    Don West was not a warm and fuzzy person or "a creator of comfort. He was a ceator of action." It could be uncomfortable, but the labor activist and poet left a legacy to be explored in a WVPB documentary that debuts Sunday, June 7, 2020

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    5 QUESTIONS: Colleen Anderson on the Art of the Op-Ed Limerick

    May 28, 2020 /

    Colleen Anderson is a leading light in the Op-Ed Limerick Movement of the Trump Era. We're actually unsure whether anyone else writes Molotov limericks in response to the daily depredations of Trump and his minions and toadies. We had '5 Questions' for her.

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