Jul. 22—AUTHOR'S NOTE — I recently wrote about the Rock-afire Explosion and long-defunct '80s eatery Showbiz Pizza for the food issue of Mud and Magnolias magazine, which inspired me to revisit this ...

BARBOURSVILLE — In the early 1980s and ‘90s, a restaurant called Showbiz Pizza was known for featuring the Rock-afire Explosion band, which was made up of animatronic group members created by a ...

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