WHEELING — Shrove Tuesday, Feb. 25, is celebrated around the globe as a day for feasting on pancakes. In some cities, like New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 25, will be the culmination of weeks of celebrations leading up to Mardi Gras – the last day of “fat eating” before the ...
WHEELING — On Friday, Feb. 7, Wheeling Heritage and the YWCA Wheeling present The Ohio Valley Festival for Filmmakers of Color. This first-time event will showcase creative amateur filmmakers from Wheeling, Martins Ferry, Bridgeport, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and Duarte, California. This is also the first of its kind to take place in the Ohio Valley. Participants will be asked to submit a short film that is not to exceed 10-15 minutes in duration. Doors open at 5 p.m. at the Wheeling Artisan Center, 1400 Main St. The audience will be welcomed and encouraged to mingle, eat and ...
WHEELING — Oglebay Institute’s Towngate Theater and the Wheeling Arts and Cultural Commission will host the kickoff event for Wheeling Reads: One Book, One Community. The city has voted to read Tara Westover’s Educated over the next year. The Wheeling Reads kickoff event will be held ...
WEIRTON — West Liberty University’s Hilltop Opera, in partnership with Striplight Community Theatre (sctwv.org), will present “Sweeney Todd: in Concert” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 7 and 8 at the Ashley Marie Performing Arts Center, 2850 Weir Ave., Weirton. “This is a ...
Editor’s Note: Each month, Artworks Around Town will tell us about its member artists. This week will feature artist Bobbi Priebe. WHEELING — Artworks Around Town’s Artist of the month for February is Bobbi Priebe. A member of the gallery for years, she has been an involved and active ...
BETHLEHEM — Alan Cline, a 2012 Gretchen McKee Scholarship winner, will entertain the Thursday Music Club at 11 a.m. Thursday at Woodview’s Charhouse, formerly the Gathering Place, on Bethlehem Boulevard. Debbie Breiding, a West Liberty University music instructor, will accompany Cline. ...
