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Governor Kay Ivey touted her education accomplishments as governor during her keynote address for The Governor Albert Brewer Legacy Lunch as part of the PARCA Annual Forum 2026 held in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, today. With the 47th Governor of Alabama, Albert Preston Brewer, having helped found the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama , and being known for having done "more to improve education in Alabama than most of his predecessors and all but a few of his successors." Kay Ivey ,as...
The 1959 adaptation of "Ben – Hur" features Charlton Heston in the title role of a Jewish charioteer who is falsely accused of a crime during the times of the ancient Roman empire and decides to seek revenge for his misfortune. However, while plotting his revenge, he encounters Jesus Christ as he is being marched to the seacoast to be a galley slave. Over time, he becomes inspired by Christ's teachings and forsakes his sword in favor of Christ's teachings. So unfolds the epic drama of "Ben – Hur...
The Tuscaloosa Action Group of Eagle Forum of Alabama has held informative meetings that are open to the public at The Tuscaloosa Public Library. Some of which have been covered by The Alabama Gazette. Now, the ability of the Tuscaloosa Eagle Forum to meet at The Tuscaloosa Public Library is the subject of a federal lawsuit filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom. Due to staff of the Tuscaloosa Public Library denying Eagle Forum access to its meeting space, solely due to its religious character...
February 22, 2026 - BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Sunday night, Alabamians proved that the Yellowhammer State is far from impervious to the beauty of Italian Opera. As they filled the 16,250 capacity Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama for none other than Andrea Bocelli, a tall lyric tenor who has sold over 90 million records. Even members of the local police who were directing traffic for the concert expressed astonishment at how exceptionally busy it was as people rented limousines to spend an evening ba...
February 27, 2026 - TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Governor Kay Ivey was the recipient of the Circle of Honor Award presented by the Black Warrior Council of the Boy Scouts of America today at a noontime luncheon held at the Embassy Suites Ballroom in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Previous recipients of the Circle of Honor Award include Coach Nick Saban, his wife Terry Saban, and former U.S. Senator, Richard Shelby. With today's luncheon raising $197,000 to support scouting in West Alabama. The 12th Annual Circle...
On Sunday, February 08th, 2026, the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots will face off at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California for the Super Bowl LX. For those who need a refresher on their high school Latin, that's the 60th Super Bowl in Roman numerals wherein the top two teams of the National Football League vie for the title of champion. While normally heralded as one of the most unifying events in American popular culture, in recent years, the Super Bowl halftime show has becom...
Can states like West Virginia and Idaho pass laws protecting girl athletes? That is the prominent question that comes before The Supreme Court tomorrow, January 13th, 2026, during oral arguments for "State of West Virginia v. B.P.J." and "Little v. Hecox". As both cases involve female athletes, some at the collegiate level and some at the middle-school level, who had promising athletic careers until a male was allowed to compete against them. In "State of West Virginia v. B. P. J.", Adaleia...
“Is the pursuit of happiness making Americans unhappy?” That is the question for debate in the 2026 Great American Think Off Essay contest. With this year marking the 250th anniversary of the signing of The Declaration of Independence, the Great American Think-Off Team purposefully chose a topic that taps into Thomas Jefferson’s famous words of, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,...
"A pox on the phony king of England!", so go the words to one of the songs in the Walt Disney animated adaptation of "Robin Hood". Yet, some people are claiming that even though the 1973 Walt Disney cartoon features a red fox as the legendary noble outlaw, it is less far-fetched than the latest MGM+ Robin Hood adaptation featuring Sean Bean as the Sheriff of Nottingham. An adaptation which is number one on streaming in The United States and first overall on MGM+ in The USA and the United...
Sweet Home Alabama is at the front and center of the plot for the forthcoming movie, "Signing Tony Raymond", which is being released in movie theaters this Friday. As the promotional blurb for the film states, "A young college football coach is sent to rural Alabama to try and sign the nation's top high school defensive end and soon finds himself trying to outflank rival recruiters, fight off grifting townsfolk and win over the player's wildly dysfunctional family." Considered a sports comedy...
Once the Christmas presents are opened and the Christmas stockings emptied of their treats, many families venture out to the movie theatres to see what Hollywood entertainment will complete their family Christmas celebration. And with the release of the animated musical, "David", this weekend, Angel Studios is hoping that people will buy tickets for their retelling of David and Goliath. As the story of the young shepherd, David, defeating the giant Philistine warrior, Goliath, is perhaps one of...
Wednesday, December 31st, 2025 is the deadline for entries for the US250 Persona Poem Project. A project being sponsored by the Highland Park Poetry & the Illinois State Poetry Society to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. A milestone anniversary for The United States of America that will be celebrated on July 04th, 2026. The project will include the publication of a poetry anthology containing the poems selected by representatives of the poetry...
Known for her beauty, sensuality, and full blonde hair, Brigitte Bardot, was a symbol of French cinema from the 1950s and 1960s. As a young girl, she was an aspiring ballerina, who studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. However, fate knocked on her door early on, and she appeared on the cover of "Elle" magazine on March 08th, 1950, when she was but 15 years of age. This subsequently led to her receiving an acting offer for "Les Lauriers sont coupes". While her upper-class parents were opposed to...
"Way down south in Birmingham, I mean south in Alabam', There's an old place where people go, To dance the night away." So go the lyrics to the 1940s Number One Hit, "Tuxedo Junction". A popular big band era song that was recorded by none other than the Glenn Miller Orchestra. And as the words to the song state, it is about none other than "Tuxedo Junction" in Sweet Home Alabama. Originally composed by Erskine Hawkins, Bill Johnson, and Julian Dash, "Tuxedo Junction", is about a dance hall...
The fifty-third Annual Thanksgiving Pow Wow held by the Poarch Creek Indians is scheduled this year for Thursday and Friday (November 27th and 28th, 2025). And ahead of their famous Annual Thanksgiving Day Pow Wow, Alabama Public Television is airing the Emmy Award winning documentary about the Poarch Creek Indians entitled, "The Forgotten Creeks". Produced by Jacksonville State University's Longleaf Studios with Seth Johnson as the executive producer, the documentary is just shy of an hour in...
Richard Wayne Van Dyke, popularly known as "Dick Van Dyke", the beloved star of "Mary Poppins" alongside Julie Andrews, and the classic black and white television sitcom, "The Dick Van Dyke Show", will be turning a hundred years old on December 13th , 2025. As the good - natured Dick Van Dyke puts it, the secret to a long life is "Don't act your age!" And to commemorate his milestone 100th birthday, Fathom Entertainment is releasing a documentary featuring Dick Van Dyke as he returns back to...
As the Christmas season approaches, it is natural to seek out movies pertaining to the season. And one of the Christmas-themed movies that is now streaming on Angel.com is "The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey", a PG-rated feature film based on a children's book by the same name written by Susan Wojciechowski. The running time for "The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey" is roughly an hour and a half. Which, given that the children's book that the film is based off of is only around forty...
Loosely based on a true story, "Saint Nick of Bethlehem", is a Christmas movie that covers the themes of coping with grief and spreading hope and joy to others. As Nick McNulty, portrayed by the American actor, Daniel Roebuck, finds himself in a down period of his life. At one time he was happily married with a wife and son and an award-winning math teacher. But, now his wife has left him and his son is no more. He returns to his hometown of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and takes care of his...
A conservative group based out of Central California known as the 805 Patriots, due to the area code for their region being "805", is organizing an event termed, "Patriots in the Park" on February 28th, 2026. The event is to encourage likeminded MAGA supporters who want a "return to American roots and classic values" to spend a day in Disneyland in Anaheim California to "Make Disney Great Again". Founded by Charles DiMauro during the covid-era lockdowns, 805 Patriots, is a conservative group...
With Jane Austen's 250th birthday coming up on December 16th, an abundance of retellings of her classic novels are being added to the Janeite literary canon. These vary from "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" by Seth Grahame-Smith to the murder-mystery, "Pride and Premeditation" by Tirzah Price. While retellings of "Pride and Prejudice" mostly serve to show how brilliant Jane Austen was, since they all fall short of the original, the 2025 retelling, "The Heart of Bennet Hollow" is a particularly...
The Grand Ole Opry was founded by George D. Hay along with the 77-year-old fiddler Uncle Jimmy Thompson on November 28th, 1925. And to celebrate its 100th Anniversary, the Grand Ole Opry is having two 100th Anniversary shows to commemorate its centennial on Friday, November 28th, 2025. The first show is set for Friday at 7:00PM and will feature country music stars such as Ricky Skaggs, Steven Curtis Chapman, Trace Adkins, and Riders In The Sky, among others. Their second 100th Anniversary show...
The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. released a video on social media this week calling upon the Minamata Convention to completely eliminate the use of mercury in vaccines. Kennedy had originally planned to address the convention in-person, but was unable to do so due to the continuing government shutdown. Nevertheless, in his address to the convention, Kennedy urged the members of the convention to cease the use of mercury-based preservatives such as thimerosal in...
As the saying goes, "If you do the crime, do the time" and in Alabama that time is described by inmates as "Hell". With the United States Department of Justice having even sued the Alabama Department of Corrections in 2020 over the "systematic" violence and abuse present in Alabama prisons. Facilities which are rife with overcrowding, sexual abuse, violence, and reports of murder. After the USDOJ's lawsuit, Governor Kay Ivey, issued a statement that "An Alabama problem deserves an Alabama...
Anyone who studies the early years of George Washington notices that in his position of being a part of the Colonial Virginia gentry, but not of the same means as his class, he was born for his pivotal role in the annals of history in leading what would become the United States of America to victory against the British King George. It is this focus on the early years of George Washington during his time as a surveyor and soldier in the French American War that forms the plot of the forthcoming...
While the famed New England writer, Louisa May Alcott, is best known for her coming of age classic, "Little Women", her first novel, "The Inheritance" makes for a soothing, sentimental, refreshing, and romanticized read. The novel was never published during Alcott's lifetime and was lost to the sands of time until it was discovered by accident in 1988 when some professors who were researching her letters and journals discovered the manuscript at the Houghton Library at Harvard. The reason the ma...
