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Hundreds gather in Marietta for 33rd River City Blues Festival
MARIETTA – Accompanying the warm spring weather were the sounds of blues, rock, and jazz filling the air from the Lafayette Hotel in Marietta as hundreds gathered for the 33rd River City Blues Festival Saturday. The event entered its second and final day Saturday with over 300 people from ...
Mid-Ohio Valley figures get into imitation game at Lip Sync Battle 2026
PARKERSBURG – People came out Saturday to see the Lip Sync Battle 2026 Tournament of Champions at the Parkersburg Actor’s Guild. Participants pick recordings of popular or meaningful songs for them and act them out on stage while mouthing the words. This year’s version of the contest ...
Parkersburg Fishing Derby put off for a year due to City Park pond work
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’ blasts off with $80.5 million, a best for Amazon MGM, and the year
"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 ...
‘Saturday Night Live UK’ aims to take a comedy hit across the pond. The first verdicts are in.
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 ...






