The Eli Cook Band

“Standing room only,” says the woman that takes my ticket at the table outside of Four County Players, the 35-year-old community theater space just off of Route 33 in Barboursville.

WWWGA Do?

If you’re a member of Writers Guild of America (WGA) East, there’s a good chance you’re chapping your knuckles in the cold, gripping a sign with a slogan scrawled in black marker…

Hello, Vietnam [with audio]

The General Nelson M. Walker was first named the U.S.S. Admiral H. T. Mayo, a naval ship built in 1945 that weighed nearly 10,000 tons and carried up to 5,000 troops at a haul to and from ports during World War II…

Guitar Hero competition

The DJ, a tall, goateed man in a dark shirt and a Tampa Bay Lightning baseball cap, is still connecting the HDTV (high-definition television) to his PlayStation system as the 9pm start time for the first of the now-weekly Guitar Hero competition nights at Fellini’s #9, but by a few minutes after he’s ready to go.

Tattoo you

Jason Keefer spent a lot of time meditating while Ben Miller stood over him, guiding the apparatus that punched hundreds of tiny holes in his neck—almost two hours, in fact.

Britta’s bees [with video]

Britta-Lena Lasko had just wrapped her master's thesis for the Brooks Institute of Photography—a documentary project following women in Maine's fishing industry that cast her into the ocean on clam diggers and sea urchin diving boats—and was sharing the results in an exhibit in Maine when she began speaking with a museum curator about bees.