After hundreds of submissions and a carousel of revisions, the annual West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival kicks off Friday, April 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the Gluck Theatre inside the Mountainlair.
This weekend is Easter, and a classic holiday candy has people divided: Peeps.
“Avengers Endgame” comes out in two weeks, bringing the Marvel Cinematic Universe full circle. After 11 years and the establishment of a cinematic universe, Marvel is on top of the world. With 11 years’ worth of Marvel movie watching experience, here are my top five MCU films you should watch.
Just this Monday, WVU made a change to the PRT that affects everyone that rides it. For most of this year, to get on the PRT, all students and other PRT riders needed to do was select their destination prior to going through the turnstile. Now hopeful riders will have to either swipe their W…
Check out photos of two of the original manuscripts by West Virginia native Pearl S. Buck, the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The "red road" is a path one must take to respect culture and tradition while simultaneously balancing life's hardships and difficulties.
Spring Break for many students means a time to relax away from the stresses of school and maybe even a chance to travel somewhere they’ve never been before.
“Winter is Coming,” the eighth and final season of HBO’s smash hit franchise “Game of Thrones” premieres Sunday, April 14. Before that, here’s a look back at the five best episodes from the first seven seasons.
Casey Johnson, a junior computer science student from Martinsburg, West Virginia, is asking the tough questions: why is there no Waffle House in Morgantown, WV?
U92, WVU’s college radio station, is looking to make moves in order to further spread awareness of their mission.
The STEM field has historically been male-dominated, but that isn’t stopping the female scientists at WVU.
Following the selection of Sodexo, a French food services and facilities management company, to run WVU Dining Services at the beginning of 2018, the Mountainlair has been home to new restaurants such as Blue Tomato, BurgerShop, and Tres Habaneros. With a goal of renewing university control …
Scribbling frantically at the blackboard, young math elites from all over the state took turns solving complex math problems in front of a crowd while a two-minute timer ticked away.
Quidditch teams from all around the area gathered at the Recreation Center Fields on Saturday to participate in WVU’s Almost Heaven Quidditch Tournament. All proceeds from the tournament went to benefit Fairness West Virginia.
This grandfather clock belonged to David Hunter Strother, a journalist, artist, general, innkeeper and politician from West Virginia.
After cruising through the first three rounds of Barstool’s Best College Bar bracket, Morgantown’s Joe Mama’s is now in the fight of its life in the elite eight.
The WVU Big Band, which plays jazz music took to Black Bear Burritos’ stage this past Tuesday to perform a menagerie of jazz music, ranging from modern arrangements to the swinging 1930s sounds that you may be familiar with.
Movies always tend to increase in release with the coming of summer. Students are getting out of school and people generally find themselves with more free time to do things. There’s a reason why the term “summer blockbuster” exists. It seems this year’s products were early bloomers because …
The whole month of April is dedicated to making people aware of organ donation.
April Fools’ Day has come and gone, and that means you can now trust what companies post on social media. As always, some companies get crafty in their pranks. Here’s a few of them.
The famous rapper 2 Chainz once said “24/7 like a Waffle House” in his feature on the TeeFlii song “24 Hours.” Unfortunately, Morgantown residents are unfamiliar with this phrase- the closest Waffle House location is 45.3 miles away in Washington, Pennsylvania.
Ever since August of 2017, Audrey Stefenson has been instructing yoga sessions every Monday night, providing Mountaineers a chance to come in, stretch and relax.
WVU and Ohio State have teamed together to create a new and free agricultural podcast.
Climate change is one of the most complicated problems facing our society today.
Check out this document of how Clarksburg residents voted on whether Virginia, which included all of West Virginia at the time, should secede from the Union at the start of the Civil War.
It is officially survive and advance season in Morgantown.
Earlier this week, Google gave the audience more information about their new game distribution service “Stadia.”
Skin care met science at last Friday’s Korean Skin Care Workshop held in the Mountainlair by Poppy & Daisy, a local Korean skin care and beauty store. This workshop was hosted by The WVU Korean Club and was free for students and faculty.
When you want Chinese, you get Chinese. When you want Italian, you get Italian. Egyptian food, however, has not yet reached that level of fame where a hungry crowd will think to themselves, “I want Egyptian.” The owners of Cairo 2 Go are working to change that.
Both WVU basketball teams missed the NCAA tournament, but Mountaineers can still participate in some March Madness fun
The WVU Hearts of Gold service dogs are being trained to do everything from fetch medicine to attend band concerts.
Mountie Bounty is a pretty convenient function of our student IDs here at WVU. There are a number of places both on campus and around town that accept it as payment, and not having to carry cash or worry about using one’s debit card can be a real weight off of students’ shoulders.
Let’s face it—after a while, the food options found in the Mountainlair and Evansdale Crossing begin to get less and less exciting with every visit. After all, we begin to get tired of the same food options every single day. Will it be Taziki’s for the second time this week? Will it be anoth…
After a night out at either one of Morgantown’s dozens of clubs, bars, house parties, frats, etc., you might be in dire need of a super fattening and greasy meal, because let’s face it—no one wants to eat a salad after shots.
As any college town should be, Morgantown is the land of the passionate sports fans, rowdy partying and unfathomable amounts of restaurants serving up pizza they claim to be the best.
Check out images of the original land grants that made WVU possible.
Author and filmmaker Ezra Mars turned his Morgantown home into an open mic night where 15 writers from across the state read their work for his jam-packed audience.
The Mountianlair ballroom turned into a lively, competitive dance floor for WVU’s annual Dancing with our Mountaineer Stars this Saturday night.
Timmy Eads, a sophomore public relations student from Buffalo, West Virginia, has been named the new Mountaineer.
In the middle of the WVU men’s basketball team’s triple-overtime victory over TCU Tuesday, Timmy Eads, a sophomore public relations student from Buffalo, West Virginia, and the current alternate to the Mountaineer was named WVU’s new mascot.
Questions of who and what defines the region of Appalachia got heated during a discussion panel on the new book “Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy” held at WVU’s College of Law on Monday evening.
The Mountaineer Mascot is an icon at WVU.
In 1863, the official border of West Virginia was in flux, as shown in the map that is missing Berkeley and Jefferson Counties.
Most gamers love gaming as a getaway from their normal lives. Games provide a new life and a chance to be a hero. They can also be a great way to relieve stress in your everyday life. But for some people, gaming is more than that.
We’re getting closer to the beginning of movies being released in theaters that we as audience members will actually enjoy. However, we still have a few weeks to go so until then here are some films on Netflix you can enjoy until then.
Seeking Morgantown’s hidden treasures has been a difficult job, but every once in a while, I discover exactly what I’m looking for.
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