Be sure you click to see/hear the very first slideshow at gazzTV devoted to past photos from this DowntownWV blog. Take a look at the slideshow right now, right here. This first one — there will be one weekly starting this week — features favorite building and downtown shots from the blog, set to a musical score and using the slideshow technique known as ‘the Ken Burns effect.’

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A tugboat, its wake streaming behind it like a skirt in the wind, traverses beneath the Interstate 64 bridge, onward to its passage beneath the South Side Bridge ahead.

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We are looking at the backside of Riverview Terrace, the apartment building for senior citizens along Kanawha Boulevard that is part of the ongoing real estate duchy amassed by Monsignor Father Sadie of Sacred Hearrt Co-Cathedral downtown.

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Someone’s working overtime on the upper stories of the Nelson Building along Kanawha Boulevard, one of our favorite buildings (it’s the curves), as nighttime comes on fast one Tuesday evening.

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It’s not time for volleyball on Magic Island, but for rushing east and westward along Interstate 64, while a coal barge makes its stately way past downtown as dusk descends across the hills.

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There was some back-and-forth in the gazz foodblog, “There’s a Blog In My Soup” (the finest named blog for 50 miles) about the ups and downs of the culinary experience at the Bluegrass Kitchen restaurant on Charleston’s East End. I have always enjoyed my meals here, especially a pumpkin beer they had the other week which carved a smile in my face. But the boite deserves points, too, for displaying area art so well, even if the place looks just this side of rumpled and dissolute, without going overboard. Kind of like a fashionable college student who brushes his/her hair with one hand and looks nice in whatever he/she throws on after leaping out of bed.

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Charleston Civic Center’s “Elk Delta,” a granite-and-aluminum sculpture at the corner of Lee and Clendenin streets, looks a bit more interesting and mysterious — if not a bit Georgia O’Keefe-y in the way of her flower paintings — after hours in the dark.

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Like a Roman soldier’s upright lance, a single lightpole stands sentry near the South Side Bridge one bright morning last week.

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This detail of the steeple of St. John’s church at the corner of Quarrier Street and Leon Sullivan Way puts me in mind of some of the more ambitious sand castles I have seen when I go down to the ocean on my yearly pilgrimage.

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These plaza lights in front of the entrance to Appalachian Power Park look like a meeting of giraffes suffering anorexia. I love the bruised Autumnal rainclouds in the skies over the city.