PARKERSBURG - The Classic Plastics Toy Expo is returning to the Parkersburg Art Center this weekend. The local event celebrating pop culture collectibles was not held in 2025, though organizer Tony Workman, owner of the namesake Classic Plastics Toy Store in Marietta, said he hoped to bring it ...
"Hoppers" might be built with familiar parts, but Pixar's latest isn't trying to hide its various influences. Instead, this buoyant, freewheeling adventure about a spirited 19-year-old environmental activist who infiltrates the animal world in the body a robotic beaver wears its references for ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" is a big, brash swing at a new "The Bride of Frankenstein" that struggles to cohere its many parts. But I'll say this for it: It's alive. Just months after Guillermo del Toro presented his lavish "Frankenstein," Gyllenhaal, in her follow-up to her excellent ...
MARIETTA - Science fiction, comedy and mystery are on the stage at the Mid-Ohio Valley Players Theatre where “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” opens for a five-show run at 7:30 p.m. Friday. The play, based on the Douglas Adams novel of the same name, is about a detective who ...
PARKERSBURG – Luke Colombo said music is his passion, but the 17-year-old Parkersburg resident “never thought in a thousand years” he would have a following on social media – or end up on “American Idol.” After months of interviews and auditions, Colombo earned a spot on ...
PARKERSBURG — The history and rivers of the Mid-Ohio Valley continue to bolster tourism in the area. Tourism officials in both Parkersburg and Marietta regularly see travelers stopping in the area to take in the area’s many historical sites which leads to overnight stays and business for ...