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June 5, 2025 - TUSCALOOSA, AL - All 401 delegates of Alabama's largest Girls State jumped up to their feet and cheered jubilantly as Governor Kay Ivey walked out onto the stage this morning as their featured guest speaker. Clad in a red pants suit with a white blouse, Governor Ivey walked across the concert stage at Moody Music on campus at The University of Alabama and waved to the crowd of enthusiastic high school seniors while their exuberant cheers continued unabated for several minutes....
June 3, 2025 - TUSCALOOSA, AL - "Look to Girls State, And you'll find, Tomorrow's leaders of mankind", so goes one of the verses of the Girls Nation Song that over 400 delegates from high schools across Alabama were learning today at the annual convention of Girls State. A week long "God and Country" immersion into government and civics aimed at seniors in high school that is currently taking place at The University of Alabama. Indeed, the words of the Girls Nation Song ring true as Girls State...
June 9, 2025 - TUJSCALOOSA, AL - History repeats itself for Tuscaloosa City Councilman, Norman Crow. As he was first elected to the Tuscaloosa City Council in March of 2021 to replace the outgoing city councillor, Cynthia Almond. Cynthia Almond was later elected to the Alabama House of Representatives for the 63rd District. Now that Almond will be vacating her House seat on June 15th, 2025 to head the Public Service Commission, sources say that Norman Crow intends to follow in her footsteps...
Jesus is often referred to as "the light of life". And John 1:4 states that "In Him was life, and the life was the light of men." With verse 9 further stating that "The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world." In fact, early religious iconography often depicts Jesus surrounded by a halo, which is a ring of light surrounding a person. While often science and religion seem to be at odds, upon further study, they intertwine once more. Such is the case with a newly...
"Lilo & Stitch" Beats Out Tom Cruise's "Mission Impossible" While the live action remake of Disney's "Snow White" starring Rachel Zegler was largely a box office disappointment, Disney just scored big over the Memorial Day weekend with its live action remake of the 2002 animated film, "Lilo & Stitch". As the Elvis Presley music loving Lilo stomped Tom Cruise's eighth installment in the "Mission Impossible" franchise by grossing $183 million domestically and $341.7 million globally. Making "Lilo...
April 22, 2025 - TUSCALOOSA, AL - The arrival of May in Tuscaloosa, Alabama brings with it not only May flowers, but many smiling graduates posing for their graduation pictures in front of the President's Mansion, Denny Chimes, Bryant-Denny Stadium, and other notable landmarks of the University of Alabama. And this year, May will also give the excited graduates a unique experience as it is accompanied by the arrival of the President of The United States to speak for The University of Alabama's...
"Lilly", the movie based on Alabama's own, Lilly Ledbetter, and her struggle for Fair Pay that led to the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, is set for theatrical release on May 09th, 2025. At present, "Lilly" is set to be shown on May 09th, 10th, 11th, and 15th, 2025 at the Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema in Birmingham, Alabama. Which is located inside the Pizitz Building located at 1821 2nd Avenue North. The film stars the Southern actress and Academy Award Nominee, Patricia...
Tickets for the Fall touring production of "The Thorn" open for sale to the general public on Ticketmaster, today. The Fall tour of "The Thorn" includes two performances in Huntsville, Alabama at the Von Braun Center on November 15th at 7PM and November 16th at 1PM. A stage production of the story of Christ told from the perspective of the Disciple John, "The Thorn", blends the gospel story with theatrical elements reminiscent of Cirque du Soleil. "The Thorn" opens with the Disciple John being...
The annual Tuscaloosa Bible Reading Marathon is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Which is an annual event where people of all ages and walks of life read the entire Bible from Genesis through the book of Revelation aloud for 80 continuous hours directly from the scripture and without commentary. Hosted by Hope 4 My City, volunteers sign up for 15 minute time slots to read The Bible, after which they pass the reading on to the next volunteer. The 10th Annual Tuscaloosa Bible Reading...
"One if by land, and two, if by sea . . ." so go the famous words of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem "Paul Revere's Ride". A poem he penned in 1860 commemorating the famous horseback ride of Paul Revere, along with William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott to warn the Patriots in Lexington, Massachusetts and Concord, Massachusetts that the British were coming. The reason the warning was so imperative was because the British were planning a crackdown on the Massachusetts Provincial Congress in Co...
"When Calls the Heart" is a very popular Hallmark frontier Western style drama television series based off of Janette Oke's "Canadian West" series. To date it has aired in both the U.S. and Canada for twelve seasons. Now the creators of the "When Calls the Heart" series want to turn their attention stateside with a television series based off of the "Home to Harmony" series written by Philip Gulley, a Quaker pastor in Indiana, who has become known as the voice of small-town American life as the...
Charles Dickens' literary classic, "A Christmas Carol", has become a staple of annual Christmas traditions. However, Charles Dickens wrote another short story between 1846 and 1849 centered around the life of Jesus Christ exclusively for his children entitled, "The Life of Our Lord". The short story was part of the Dickens' family Christmas traditions, as Charles Dickens read it every year to his children with an emphasis on being good. With Charles Dickens, curiously enough, expressly...
Known for their "Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes", the Radio City Rockettes will celebrate their 100th Anniversary this year. Founded in St. Louis, Missouri in 1925 as "The Missouri Rockets", the Rockettes are a tap dancing troupe that bills themselves as "the longest-running precision dance company in America". The Radio City Rockettes have been performing in the Radio City Music Hall in New York since 1932, hence their name, and to celebrate their 100th anniversary,...
Long time Alabama resident, Bela K. Berty, was a young child in the formative years when his family escaped from communism in Eastern Europe. Having experienced first-hand the perils of communism, the influence of communism in the modern American legal, banking, and educational systems is a matter of grave concern to him. Consequently, he and his wife, Linda Gail Berty, a veteran of The United States Navy, sponsored a showing of the documentary, "The Agenda 2: Masters of Deceit" on Wednesday at...
The 1937 Walt Disney version of the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", is considered one of the greatest animated films in motion picture history. And after seeing the 2025 live-action production of Disney's "Snow White", there is no doubt that the 1937 "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" version is not only one of the greatest animated films in motion picture history, but the best film version, both live-action and animated, of the classic fairy tale,...
The first mention in a novel of the All-American pastime, baseball, comes not from "The Old Farmer's Almanac" or some such publication; but rather from the novel, "Northanger Abbey", by the British author, Jane Austen. As the heroine of "Northanger Abbey", Catherine Morland, is described in her childhood in chapter one of the novel as preferring "cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country . . ." to the domestic arts such as tending a garden and drawing. While Jane...
When Don Wildmon with his marked Southern accent decided to call to task the television network executives in the 1970s, the entertainment media giants of the time simply dismissed him. After all, this Wildmon fellow was from Mississippi, which meant he "was dumb". And not only that, as a Methodist Minister, Wildmon was a Southern preacher. Which the television network executives of the 1970s took to mean that Wildmon "was double dumb". However, "double dumb", or not, Donald E. Wildmon...
Officially designated National Rosie The Riveter Day by the U.S. Congress in 2017, March 21st this year falls on a Friday. And the American Rosie The Riveter Association, which was founded by Dr. Fran Carter, a longtime resident of Birmingham, Alabama, is encouraging everyone to visit a Rosie the Riveter and take her to lunch, plan a restaurant outing with Rosies, veterans, and family members, and plan a brief program for schoolchildren and residents at a senior center to recognize all Rosie...
March 5, 2025 - The 2018 film "I Can Only Imagine" about the inspiration behind MercyMe's chart topping song by the same name was such a success financially, after all it earned more than twelve times its budget, that The Kingdom Story Company is now filming the sequel to the movie for Lionsgate called "I Can Only Imagine 2". It is tentatively set for release in the spring of 2026. While the film, "I Can Only Imagine" was directed by both of the Erwin brothers, who originally hail from...
March 5, 2025 - "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" These impacting words were first spoken by Patrick Henry 250 years ago on March 23rd, 1775 at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia during the Second Virginia Convention. As Patrick Henry was urging the colony of Virginia to organize a volunteer company of cavalry or infantry in every Virginia county to begin preparing troops in the colony for war against one of the world's biggest...
March 14, 2025 - TUSCALOOSA, AL - With the requirement to have a STAR ID in order to fly domestic going into effect on May 07th, 2025, Alabamians are already flooding the State Trooper's Offices to upgrade their driver's licenses to a STAR ID. The lines were literally out of the door at the Tuscaloosa branch of the Alabama State Troopers Office this morning as people were in line to get their STAR ID. The wait was around an hour just to get inside of the door and then another hour to actually...
National Arbor Day will be celebrated on April 25th, 2025, this year. And Alabama's first Arbor Day Proclamation was signed in 1887 by Governor Thomas Seay. However, in 1975 the Alabama Forestry Commission and other state organizations collaborated with the Alabama State Legislature to designate the last full week in February as Alabama's Arbor Week. As such, many cities throughout the state are offering free tree seedling giveaways this month to encourage the planting of trees throughout Sweet...
February 6, 2025 - George Washington's birthday is celebrated every year on the third Monday in February as part of the federal holiday known as "President's Day". While in Alabama, "President's Day" is celebrated by the state offices as "George Washington/Thomas Jefferson Birthday". And this year, President's Day falls on Monday, February 17th, 2025. As such, George Washington's home of Mount Vernon has issued the "2025 Cherry Challenge" which is currently underway in Alexandria, Virginia. In t...
February 6, 2025 - When studying The Bible and the life of Jesus Christ, one of the powerfully stirring aspects about Jesus and His ministry is how He healed the blind, the paralytic, the lepers, women's health issues, and even restored life into people who were deceased. With The Bible being so replete with miracles, Christians and even nonChristians who long for a reprieve from conditions that seemingly have no cure in the present era, find themselves longing for such sacred restorative...
Paul Pitts, who has sung coveted operatic tenor lead roles such as Don Jose in Bizet's "Carmen, Rodolfo in Puccini's "La Boheme", and Cavaradossi in Puccini's "Tosca" in New York, will be presenting his one-man play, "The Scribe", on Sunday, February 16th, 2025 at The Spencer Church of The Nazarene in Brent, Alabama. "The Scribe" is an on-going, award-winning stage play that has been performed by Paul Pitts in over 100 countries on 7 continents around the world. And on Sunday in Brent, the play...
