PARKERSBURG – The Parkersburg Fishing Derby will not be held this year due to the restoration underway at the City Park pond, organizers said. “We’ll be back next year, bigger and better,” Bill Vincent, director of the Wood County Recreation Commission, said. The commission sponsors ...
"Project Hail Mary" is bringing audiences to movie theaters in numbers the industry hasn't seen for a non-franchise film since "Oppenheimer." The science fiction epic starring Ryan Gosling earned around $80.5 million in ticket sales in its first weekend playing in North America, according to ...
LONDON (AP) — "Saturday Night Live" has crossed the pond with a mild splash. A British offshoot of the 51-year-old U.S. comedy institution has debuted to generally positive reviews, defying doomsayers who doubted the show would survive the trans-Atlantic journey. The format of the first ...
In “Danse Macabre,” Stephen King wrote “I recognize terror as the finest emotion … and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify him/her, I will try to horrify; and if I find I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.” T. ...
Have you ever been at a friend’s house and cringed when they brought out the slides of their vacation? This is the same thing, maybe not as good.. My wife and I took a whirlwind trip that included Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe’s home, Greenbank Observatory and ...
Chuck Norris, the martial arts grandmaster and action star whose roles in "Walker, Texas Ranger" and other television shows and movies made him an iconic tough guy — sparking internet parodies and adoration from presidents — has died at 86. Norris died Thursday, in what his family ...