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Purcellville Celebrates with Wine and Food Festival on Saturday
Purcellville celebrates the local culinary and craft beverage scenes on Saturday in Dillon’s Woods at the Fireman’s Field Complex. The 11th annual Wine and Food Festival runs from 2 to 8 p.m. and showcases more than 30 food, wine and brewery vendors, along with a variety of other exhibitors, face painting and caricature drawings. There will also be live music performed by The Darby Brothers, Juliana MacDowell and the Agreeables, and Chris Timbers Band. The Purcellville Arts Council is hosting Arts in the Garden with an art activity and demonstrations of how artists create their works of art.
Providing public art: Mural to be completed on exterior of Alma Bea
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Work on a new mural in Shepherdstown is beginning this month, with the base for the mural being prepared by a contractor, through funding from the Corporation of Shepherdstown. The mural will be painted on the front of Alma Bea restaurant, located at 202 East Washington Street,...
Contemporary American Theater Festival gives behind-the-scenes glimpse of new play
SHEPHERDSTOWN — A group of 15 theater enthusiasts gathered in Shepherd University’s Frank Arts Center on July 11, eager to get a glance at what goes on behind-the-scenes at the Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF). The 33-year-old festival features new plays throughout the month of July each year...
Review: Not in Kansas Anymore: Tornado Tastes Like Aluminum Sting at CATF
It’s hard to discuss Harmon dot aut’s play Tornado Tastes Like Aluminum Sting, being presented by the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, WV. dot aut shares their principal character’s autism, ADHD, synesthesia, and lack of gender specificity. The play is professedly, and clearly, an effort to speak up for these intersectional identities, but the result is hard to come to grips with, and perhaps harder than the playwright envisioned.
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