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Live Music Roundup

Out & About August 22, 2025

Friday, August 22 - Jim Berze, 19th Hole, Wheeling, 6 p.m. - MSM — Miller Smith & Mazure, Quaker Steak and Lube, Triadelphia, 6-9 p.m. - Jason Treuman, Route 88 Burgers & Brew at Oglebay, Wheeling, 6-9 p.m. - The Muddle, Riverview Park, McMechen, 7-9 p.m. - Pocket Change, Wheeling Park Amphitheater, 7-9 p.m. - Twice as Nice, Luna Bleu Lounge at Le Chateau Pier, Smithfield, 8-11 p.m. - Matt VanFossen, Waterfront Hall, Wheeling, 9 p.m. Saturday, August 23 - Ananga Martin, Centre Market, Wheeling, noon to 2 p.m. - Bad Boy Boogie, Whiskey Rider, In Constant Kreation, ...

It’s a Bluegrass Edition of Sunday Funday at Oglebay

Out & About August 22, 2025

WHEELING - Oglebay’s penultimate Sunday Funday will be a special Bluegrass Edition featuring live music all afternoon long with The Roadhog Band from 3-4:30 p.m., the Greg Blake Band from 5-6:30 p.m. and the return of world-class fiddler and Grammy winner Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper (at ...

Lights Up, Sound Down: Easterseals Presents Sensory Friendly Movie at Towngate

Out & About August 22, 2025

WHEELING — Easterseals Rehabilitation Center is teaming with Oglebay Institute’s Towngate Theatre to present the venue’s second Sensory Friendly Sunday Matinee, featuring the 2015 Disney Pixar film, “Inside Out,” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24. The screening is designed to provide a ...

Kansas, Jefferson Starship Land at Capitol Tonight!

Out & About August 22, 2025

WHEELING - Drusky Entertainment & Rich Engler present Kansas in concert with special guest Jefferson Starship today, Friday, Aug. 22, at the historic Capitol Theatre in Wheeling. A night of hits is in store as these two titans of classic rock, both established in 1974, continue a ...

Rich Engler Lifts Curtain on Illustrious Behind-the-Scenes Music Career

Features August 16, 2025

WHEELING – There are many notable names that are carved deeply into rock 'n' roll history, and some are literally etched onto decades worth of rock 'n' roll memorabilia. Rich Engler is one of those names. It's a name that's very familiar not only to legions of old-school music lovers but ...

Just A False Alarm

Columns August 16, 2025

I was standing at the kitchen window the other afternoon, when I saw it. First it was just one. No big deal, I thought. Then two more floated softly to the earth. There was no real breeze to speak of so my concern continued to grow. It is only Aug. 12, I tell myself. This can’t be happening. Yet, I know what I saw. Leaves were beginning to drop-off the very full trees in the backyard. I’m not ready for fall. I’m not even close to thinking of sweaters and socks back on my summer-sandaled feet. Falling leaves are for October, not August. And then meteorologist Jeff Oechslein ...