Alison Stine, a freelance journalist and fiction writer, started her career as a poet, but knew she always wanted to be a novelist. Those aspirations came true earlier this year with the release of her first novel “Road Out of Winter.” Inspired by what seemed to be a never-ending winter […]
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Dapper Rappers Celebrate Homegrown Hip-Hop in Wheeling
West Virginia’s small but active hip-hop community is striving to normalize hip-hop as an art form. The YWCA in Wheeling recently held an event called Hip Hop: A Black Tie Affair to help bring legitimacy to the community in the Northern Panhandle. Wheeling Mayor Glenn Elliott, who was one […]
Read More‘Fallout’ Video Game Series’ Post-Apocalyptic Vision of West Virginia Might Not Be Worth the Trip
Video games are often not great at depicting rural life. But all signs indicate that the next game in the “Fallout” series, “Fallout: 76,” is going to be set somewhere in the mountains of West Virginia—for better or worse. The news has been met with a range of responses, from […]
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