Bill Lynch

Trans-Siberian Orchestra brings 'The Lost Christmas Eve' show to Charleston this week

Things to do this week in Charleston, and beyond: Dec. 3-9, 2024

This week, we have: Evan Honer with Jack Wharff at The Loud; the Alban Arts Academy Family Magic Fundraiser featuring Joey Stepp at The Alban Arts Center; Beer and Christmas Carols at Fife Street Brewing; Charleston Metro Band with the Martin Luther King Jr. Male Chorus at The Labelle Theatre; Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder at Joan C. Edwards Playhouse; "Mountain Stage" event BobThompson presents "Joy to the World" at the Culture Center Theater; Cheap Trick at Paramount Arts Center; Appalachian Children’s Chorus at Charleston Baptist Temple; "The Nutcracker" at the Clay Center; “Scrooge: The Musical” at St. Mark United Methodist Church; “Joseph, The Ultimate Stepfather" at the Alban Arts Center; Nativities from Around the World at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; Hurricane Christmas Parade; Charleston WV Lighted Boat Parade; womanSong Chorale at Christ United Methodist Church; Friends of Old Time Music and Dance at Kanawha United Methodist Church; David Phelps 25th Anniversary Tour a

One Month at a Time: Art -- making it and sharing it -- can be an effective tool to ease loneliness

This week, we have: New Year's Eve events including: Noon Year’s Eve, The Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences; New Year’s Eve Yoga and Champagne Brunch, Yoga Power; Music Before Midnight, St. Mark’s United Methodist Church; NYE 2024 with Yamil Caniga at the Roq; Everything That Shimmers, Hale Street Center; New Year’s Revolution with DJ Soberman and Mamba Beatz, The Loud, Huntington; Adelphia’s New Year’s Eve with AAA Entertainment’s DJ Quam, Adelphia Sports Bar and Grill; New Year’s Eve with Golden, Sam’s Uptown Café; New Year’s Eve Bash with Fruit From Strangers, Duck City Music and Freq, The Blue Parrot; Rainbow Pride’s Glitter Ball, Element Edge; New Year’s Eve with Santa Cruz, The Venetian Estate, 1742 Midland Trail, Milton; JK’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve, Mardi Gras Casino, 1 Greyhound Dr., Cross Lanes; Closing night for Solango Law Light The Night Charleston at GoMart Park; The Friends of Old-Time Music And Dance present Buffalo Wabs and The Price Hill Hustle with Andrew A

The first time I tried non-alcoholic beer didn’t go so great.

That first cup of coffee after three weeks of none was amazing. It wasn’t that the coffee had a particularly amazing flavor or that the aroma they used to talk

Healing Appalachia, an outdoor concert produced by Hope in the Hills, a West Virginia-based nonprofit that works to combat the opioid crisis and support recovery in Appalachia, is moving to Boyd County, Kentucky for its 2025 event after being hosted in West Virginia since 2018.

The surgeon reached into my mouth and said, “There will be pressure and noise, but no pain.”

I stood outside the door to The Patchwork Pony in South Charleston, sweating. I tired the door, but it wouldn’t give: locked.