Chefs don’t dine out the way you and I do. They don’t, like us, just enjoy the food—or, if we’re paying special attention, maybe also the plating and the ambience. Chefs critique the menu and the tableware and the lighting. They try to figure out where the ingredients came from and assess the happiness of the waitstaff. They can’t help…
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Turn your hospitable nature and underused space into extra cash this fall. Everyone knows doling out parking spaces in Morgantown during football season can be a lucrative venture—but have you thought of making a little cash off of your living space? Airbnb hosts in the Morgantown area collectively earned about $100,000 during the 2018 football season by opening up their…
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Hannah Jack, a WVU junior studying English and Women’s and Gender Studies, doesn’t exactly consider herself an artist but feels that writing is often a lot like visual design. Her creativity comes through in two digitally created images featured in WVU Libraries’ REMIX, an exhibit opening July 1 in the West Virginia and Regional History Center (WVRHC). Jack’s “Image 2”…
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County fair season is here! Here are five fairs where you can get your small-town throw-down fun—we’re sure you’ll have a fair-ly good time. Head to the Taylor County Fairgrounds July 30–August 3 to bring out your inner child at the Taylor County Fair (Grafton, 45m). This pay-one-price fair will include livestock market shows, ATV/UTV mud bogs, live music, Gambill…
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Crank up the heat on your backyard technique with these tips from Morgantown’s great pitmasters. Nothing says summer like the smell of hickory smoke, long hours tending the pit, that first bit of mouth-watering, falling-apart meat. But how do you learn? It turns out great pitmasters are often self-taught. They also learn from each other. Charlie Heard grew up in…
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