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WOUB Culture’s 2020 Halloween Playlist
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Maybe this will go down as the scariest Halloween season in history, and WOUB has just the soundtrack for your socially distanced celebration. WOUB Culture recommends putting the playlist on shuffle and doing your best to put down your phone and enjoy the shifting of the seasons.
Creating Fictional Horrors to Understand Real Ones: WOUB to Broadcast ‘Exhumed: a History of Zombies’ Oct. 30
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Just in time for Halloween, WOUB-TV will broadcast Exhumed: a History of Zombies Friday, October 30 at 10 p.m. ET. The documentary, hosted by Dr. Emily Zarka, will examine what zombies say about our culture and innermost anxieties. Zombies have been a part of western popular media’s lexicon for decades, with the most widely recognized version… Read More
Examining Metallica in Time for WOUB’s Broadcast of ‘S&M2’ Oct. 29
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Those unfamiliar with Metallica likely wouldn’t readily associate the iconic heavy metal band with the 109-year-old San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. However, in the spring of 1999, the thrash metal greats (one of the big four bands of the genre alongside Anthrax, Megadeath, and Slayer) performed tracks spanning from their 1984 Ride the Lightning album to 1997’s Reload with the… Read More
Examining Metallica in Time for WOUB’s Broadcast of ‘S&M2’ Oct. 29
By: Emily Votaw
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Those unfamiliar with Metallica likely wouldn’t readily associate the iconic heavy metal band with the 109-year-old San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. However, in the spring of 1999, the thrash metal greats (one of the big four bands of the genre alongside Anthrax, Megadeath, and Slayer) performed tracks spanning from their 1984 Ride the Lightning album to… Read More
Caitlin Kraus’ ‘What Rises’: Songs of Growth, Time, and Hope
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WOUB Digital · Caitlin Kraus’ ‘What Rises’: Songs of Growth, Time, and Hope Caitlin Kraus’ debut solo album is entitled, fittingly, What Rises. Written over the course of a little over a decade, the 13 tracks detail precisely the confusing, conflicting, and often painful things that rise from the shifting sands of time and pull… Read More
Huntington Rockers Flat Tracker Release “III/IV” Singles
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Friday, October 16, Huntington, WV’s Flat Tracker released two new singles: “Father’s Day” and “Gemini.” Listen to them below!
Womyn’s Art Collective Pop Up Sale Oct. 17 in Kindred Market Parking Lot
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WOUB Digital · Womyn’s Art Collective Pop Up Sale Oct. 17 in Kindred Market Parking Lot Saturday, October 17, the Womyn’s Art Collective will hold a Fall Pop Up Art Sale in the parking lot of Kindred Market (284 East State Street, Athens) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. EDT. The Pop Up Shop will… Read More
Dolly Parton to Contribute to Virtual Fundraiser for Linda Regula Legacy Scholarship Fund
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WOUB Digital · Dolly Parton to Contribute to Virtual Fundraiser for Linda Regula Legacy Scholarship Fund Paul Richmond is one of many whose lives were forever changed by artist Linda Regula, who passed away at the age of 76 in July. Richmond, an internationally recognized artist and activist, began taking art lessons with Regula when… Read More
Flat Tracker Releases Two New Singles and ‘Road Soda’ Video
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Flat Tracker is a rock band from Huntington, WV. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has put a pause on the band’s conventional live performances, today, they release two singles: “Road Soda” and “Dog.” (Listen to them by clicking the hyperlinked song titles!) Additionally, they also have released a music video for “Road Soda,” which you can… Read More
Anticipated Arts West Update Not Given During September 28 City Council Meeting
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City of Athens Arts, Parks, and Recreation Director Terri Moore was not able to give an update on the status of municipally funded arts center Arts West during the September 28 City Council meeting. In early August, Arts West was temporarily shut down when Program Specialist Emily Beveridge was temporarily laid off with an anticipated… Read More
Vibrancy Theater Provides Space to Support and Amplify BIPOC Voices
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WOUB Digital · Vibrancy Theater Provides Space to Support and Amplify BIPOC Voices Vibrancy Theater was founded this past summer to provide a space for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) voices within the Ohio University School of Theater. Prior to the creation of the student-run theater, no such platform had been made available to… Read More
OU Graduate Quinn Hunter One of Only 38 Worldwide Selected For 2020 Chautauqua Visual Arts Residency Program
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WOUB Digital · Quinn Hunter One of Only 38 Worldwide Selected For 2020 Chautauqua Visual Arts Residency Program Artist Quinn Hunter said she feels that she left Athens just as “things were really getting started.” “Seeing student athletes at ten in the morning on a Saturday marching down East State Street with Black Lives Matter… Read More
Virtual More Than Pink Walk Asks Participants to ‘Walk Where You Are’ Sept. 19
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WOUB Digital · Susan G. Komen’s Virtual More Than Pink Walk Asks Participants to ‘Walk Where You Are’ Sept. 19 Saturday, September 19, Susan G. Komen Columbus will hold their 2020 Virtual More Than Pink Southeast Ohio Walk. The event is a fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, and the funds generated by this… Read More
Jonathan Hawkins’ to Perform ‘Songs and Folklore’ Sept. 19
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WOUB Digital · Jonathan Hawkins’ to Perform ‘Songs and Folklore’ Sept. 19 Saturday, September 19, Beckley Art Center will present a virtual, pre-recorded performance by Jonathan Hawkins (Little Lawnmowers) entitled “Songs and Folklore: A Collection of Music and History of the Early Blues in the American Midwest and South.” The performance will feature Hawkins’ renditions… Read More
Mayor Steve Patterson Provides Update on Arts West
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During the September 14 meeting of the Athens City Council Mayor Steve Patterson said the Responsible Restart Ohio guidelines for performing arts spaces that went into effect August 25 may allow Arts West to reopen sooner than its previously announced reopening date of January 4, 2021. Arts West, Athens’ municipally funded arts center, has not… Read More
Ohio University Alumnus Investigates Child Cancer Cluster
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WOUB Digital · WOUB Alumnus Investigates Child Cancer Cluster Journalist Jonathan Walsh was working as a television news anchor and investigative reporter for WTOL in Toledo when his news director brought to his attention a story that was startling in both content and brevity. It was four column inches long and headlined County to Look… Read More
New Decorative Arts Center Director Emphasizes the Importance of Human Stories
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WOUB Digital · New Decorative Arts Center Director Emphasizes the Importance of Human Stories The Decorative Arts Center of Ohio welcomed Jason Crabill as their new executive director earlier this summer. “Taking on a job like this in the middle of a global pandemic — I might have chosen different circumstances around it — but… Read More
Shadow in the Moon II Radio A (Home) Sessions
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WOUB Culture is working from home for the foreseeable future. Although Radio A Sessions in their typical form won’t be possible for a while, some regional acts have recorded themselves at home for special submission to WOUB Culture’s Radio A (Home) Sessions. Cerebral, witchy rockers Shadow in the Moon sent WOUB Culture this psychedelic three… Read More
A Profile of Artist Darian Knapp
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2020 Athens High School graduate Darian Knapp says that taking photos is just “what they do.” Coming from a family with a strong background in sports, Knapp first found their footing in photography by taking athletics photos when they joined the yearbook course early on in their middle school career. “I always wanted to be… Read More
“Our Town: Gallipolis” Producer/Director Talks About the Making of the Film
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WOUB Digital · WOUB to Premiere ‘Our Town: Gallipolis’ Virtually Sept. 17 Our Town: Gallipolis will premiere virtually Thursday, September 17 at 6:30 p.m. via Corporation for Public Broadcasting streaming platform OVEE. You can find the link to the stream right here: ovee.itvs.org/screenings/g5m5f and register for the free screening here. Initially the screening of the seventh… Read More
Temporary Closure of Arts West Concerns Athens Arts Community
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — Arts West is not offering programming for the first time in its 15-year history due to budget concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Though COVID-19 closed Arts West’s doors in mid-March, its programming was still available until program specialist and Athens’ lone arts administrator Emily Beveridge was temporarily laid off August 6…. Read More
Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Vieux Farka Touré
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Vieux Farka Touré is a West African guitar hero from Mali, son of the legendary Ali Farka Touré. He is also one of the performers who submitted a pre-recorded set to the Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival, which will stream August 21-22 as a fundraiser for Stuart’s Opera House and their arts education efforts. Below, read… Read More
Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Hubby Jenkins
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WOUB Digital · Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Hubby Jenkins Over the summer, Hubby Jenkins’ livestreams have included his reading of Choose Your Own Adventure books. If you are a child of the ’80s or ’90s, these gamebooks, which sold over 250 million copies for publisher Bantam Books between 1979 to 1998, are likely familiar… Read More
Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: CAAMP
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WOUB Digital · Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: CAAMP Evan Westfall of CAAMP made time to speak to WOUB’s Emily Votaw about the group’s forthcoming contribution to the Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival, the importance of supporting arts education, and CAAMP’s deep love for Athens County, OH. Early on in the COVID-19 crisis, the 2020 Nelsonville Music… Read More
Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Lydia Loveless
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WOUB Digital · Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Lydia Loveless “Love Is Not Enough,” the heart-wrenching leading single from Lydia Loveless’ forthcoming fourth full-length, Daughter, (and the first she’s released on her own label, Honey, You’re Gonna Be Late) feels like a lesson in dire emotional truths. “I know when I was putting together my… Read More
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