Showing posts with label clarksburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clarksburg. Show all posts

01 November 2011

WATCH: Eric Courtney on Showbiz Pizza and staying up late

This is Eric Courtney. He is from Clarksburg. When he was 7 years old, he went to a Showbiz Pizza lock-in. Now he lives in Los Angeles, and he stays up more than you.

This video (made by filmmaker James Markidis) deserves to go viral. Make it happen.

23 November 2010

WATCH: Brian Wolfe with Sufjan Stevens on Jimmy Fallon

Sufjan Stevens just wrapped up a month-long North American tour with his band that featured a pair of drummers including Clarksburg native Brian Wolfe (who played in Rare Birds with Jay Demko). Sufjan Stevens, with Brian on drums, recently played Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Watch the video from the show below.

14 December 2009

READ: Davis Grubb - The Night of the Hunter


For those who have never seen the film or heard of the book, the plot of Davis Grubb's 1953 novel The Night of the Hunter is based on the true story of Harry Powers. In 1932, Powers was convicted and hanged for the murders two widows and three children in Quiet Dell, West Virginia (just a few miles south of Clarksburg). The book, Grubb's first, was an instant bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award. The film was deemed "culturally significant" and selected for preservation by the U.S. National Film Registry. Grubb is a native of Moundsville, where Powers was executed, and wrote a number of novels, including Fools' Parade, which was adapted into the film of the same name starring Jimmy Stewart and Kurt Russell.