This column was originally published in the March 10 issue of The Herald Dispatch, www.herald-dispatch.com.
Over the next ten days, Create Huntington will begin work on two projects to address some of our communities most difficult problems. We will launch a partnership to help build stronger, safer neighborhoods and we will introduce a lecture series to help those living in poverty and those who are more affluent communicate and work together. Both of these efforts are grounded in the belief that we will only address big issues such as poverty, crime, …

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Mavens Nine, an exhibition by The Feminist Art Project, will open with a public reception at 6 p.m. Friday, March 12 at Gallery 842 in Huntington. The exhibition will continue until Friday, April 23.
The Feminist Art Project is an established group of local artists who share the common goal of highlighting the talent and significance of female artists. The collection of artists is a continuation of the group previously launched by Katherine Cox in 2008.
Featured artists in Mavens Nine include Earline Allen, Natalie Burdette, Katherine Cox, Mary Grassell, …

This is the last week for the Regular Legislative Session and Generation WV needs your help to make sure that the remaining bill moves forward through the WV House of Delegates.
This is SB 324 also known as the Brains for Business Bill. This bill would exempt recent college graduates that reside in West Virginia from state taxes on their first $10,000 of income, for a period of two years. The bill passed the WV State Senate, but now needs to pass through the House of Delegates.
If it is not added …

Georgia Poet Laureate David Bottoms will read from his work at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 11, in the auditorium of the Huntington Museum of Art.
Bottoms is the author of seven collections of poems, including the Walt Whitman Award-winning Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, praised by Robert Penn Warren as having “a vision [in which] the actual world is not transformed, but illuminated.” Recent books include his selected poems, Armored Hearts, and Waltzing Through the Endtime.
He has earned fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for …

When I was young, the church I attended had regular pot-luck dinners. People would bring their “signature dish”; an old favorite such as fried chicken, scalloped potatoes, brownies or waldorf salad. Some of the adventurous would spring a new recipe on the group (I seem to recall a Thai noodle salad being particularly controversial at the time). When the tables were set we would make our way down the buffet, piling our plates high with a smorgasbord of mismatched food; which always seemed to pair perfectly in the end. At …