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While "Moana 2" is smashing all kinds of box office records for the Thanksgiving Day weekend, "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" is doing surprisingly well at the box office. With the Christmas themed movie remaining in the top five nearly a month after its original release in the movie theater. And for those who prefer to watch their movies from home, "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" is set to be released via streaming and video on demand platforms next week on December 10th, 2024. Directed by...
While Alabama football is certainly a fan favorite, not far behind is the Alabama women's gymnastics team. A team that is one of only eight teams in the country to win a national title. With the Alabama gymnastics team having six NCAA National Championships to their credit. In fact, members of the Alabama gymnastics team even compete in the Olympics as in last year's Luisa Blanco. Members of the forthcoming 2025 Alabama gymnastics team come from all over the country. With the tallest team...
December 9, 2024 - MOUNTAIN BROOK, AL - Known as the largest and oldest High-IQ society in the world, MENSA International is a non-profit organization for those who have an Intelligence Quotient score in the upper 2% of the general population. MENSA was initially founded by an Australian and a British scientist/lawyer at Lincoln College, in Oxford, England in 1946. The largest national groups are the American MENSA with more than 50,000 members. Followed by the British MENSA with 18,000 members...
The American Village in Montevallo first opened its campus on November 30th, 1999. Making this year the 25th Anniversary of Tom Walker's patriotic brain child, the colonial era village replica on a hundred and eighty plus acres of rolling hills that has become known as The American Village Citizenship Trust. To commemorate the occasion, The American Village is celebrating with "A Civil Discourse" on Thursday, October 17th, 2024 beginning at five PM. A formal attire event featuring national...
With Hurricane Helene wreaking havoc upon beautiful Western North Carolina, many of the mountain roads were left completely destroyed or washed away and at the very least, impassable. Making rendering aid to those in need in the aftermath of the absolutely devastating tropical cyclone nearly impossible. And to date, the death toll of the horrible hurricane that struck between Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 through Sunday, September 29th, 2024 stands at 227. However, that number would be even...
Alabama native, Ezra Richardson, debuts as an actor in "Average Joe", a PG-13 rated movie now showing in movie theaters across the country. Richardson, a Birmingham native, realistically portrays the young rebellious, pugnacious, skipping school to play pool, troubled main protagonist of the motion picture, Joe Anthony Kennedy. Based on a true story, "Average Joe", relates the story of Coach Joe Kennedy, who after being given up for adoption as a child, seems destined to go through life as a reb...
Tomorrow, Thursday, October 24th, 2024, the Head Coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Kalen DeBoer, turns fifty years of age. Coach DeBoer follows in the footsteps of Coach Nick Saban as Head Coach of The University of Alabama's football team. And, given that Nick Saban was 72 years of age when he retired from his position as Head Coach, it is possible that the landmark age of 50 for Coach DeBoer only heralds many more years of ahead of him as an esteemed college football coach....
October 29, 2024 - TUSCALOOSA - Luke Durant, who is now thirty-six years of age, attended the Alabama School of Math and Science when he was a young student. And while he has been employed as an engineer by a software company known as NVIDIA, he has not forgotten his mathematical background. With Durant using his home-built, cloud-computing-based, $2 million dollar GPU-boosted supercomputer, on October 11th, 2024, he discovered the largest known prime number, ever. Known as M136279841, Durant's...
Due to the popularity of last year's inaugural Old-Fashioned Hymn Sing-A-Long, on Sunday, November 03rd, 2024 at three o'clock in the afternoon, the Old Cahawba Archaeological Park will be hosting a second Old-Fashioned Hymn Sing-A-Long inside of their historic St. Luke's Lutheran Church. The hymns will be led by local musicians from Selma Church choirs. And will feature some of the classic hymns that those who attended Church prior to the wave of electronic Praise and Worship music that began i...
On Saturday, November 02nd, 2024 at three o'clock in the afternoon, royalty is coming to Montgomery. Royal horses, that is. As world-renowned riding master, Rene Gasser, brings the four royal horse breeds of Lippizan, Andalusian, Friesian, and Arabian to the Garrett Coliseum for his production of "The Gala of the Royal Horses". A show designed to demonstrate the capabilities of the royal horse breeds that is seen in the famous riding Spanish Riding School in Vienna and historically in the Royal...
The limit is two hot dogs per guest, but on Saturday, November 09th, 2024, at four o'clock in the afternoon, the Brierfield Ironworks Park in Bibb County, Alabama will be offering free hot dogs for Veterans Day. Veterans Day is a national holiday held annually on November 11th that was established to honor all members of the U.S. Armed Forces who have served their country. And actually the origins of Veterans Day can be traced to Alabama. As Raymond Weeks, A World War II veteran who also served...
As Russell B. Laine, the Chief of Police of Algonquin, Illinois and the President of the International Association of the Chiefs of Police has stated, "Without community support, law enforcement agencies cannot succeed." And as part of the effort to connect with the local community and build support, one of the services that various police departments in Alabama offer is the very informative and insightful Citizens Academy. A four to eight weeks long course, depending upon the resources of the...
Originally published on January 01st, 1960, "Patriot's Daughter: The Story of Anastasia Lafayette" by Gladys Malvern, was reprinted in 2011 as part of the wave of Gladys Malvern historical fiction novels that were being made available to readers once more after being out of print for decades. Gladys Malvern wrote nearly forty-eighty books throughout the course of her writing career and the intent was to bring back all of her nearly four dozen books onto the modern bookshelf. With many of her...
Based on the book, “Letter to the American Church”, by bestselling author Eric Metaxas, a Yale graduate who grew up in the Greek Orthodox Church, “Letter to the American Church – the Movie” is the big screen version of the book that is produced by the author himself. The author believes so strongly in the message of the documentary that he is offering screenings of the movie to Churches for free. It normally is accompanied by a fee if one rents it online. But, as Metaxas states, he is so “convi...
If you see a number such as (404) 806-4810, (404) 806-4811 or (404) 806-4812 pop up on your cellular telephone with the heading of "CDC NATL IMMUN" you might be tempted to think it is one of the myriad of scamming telephone calls flooding one's mobile telephone these days and that it is best not to answer. However, it is indeed part of a National Immunization Survey being conducted by the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
There are 1100 Volunteer Fire Departments in the State of Alabama. And with the number of volunteer firefighters nationwide reaching a low in 2020, many local Volunteer Fire Departments are actively seeking volunteers. While the number of volunteer firefighters has slumped, the call volume nationwide has more than tripled in the last thirty-five years. The County Sheriff's Office is responsible for providing the dispatch services for the Volunteer Fire Departments. With many communities having...
Separation of Church and State and ending religious "superstition" form the basis of State Senator Kane's campaign for U.S. Congress in "God's Not Dead In God We Trust", the fifth installment in the "God Is Not Dead" movie series. Superbly portrayed by Ray Wise, an American actor originally from Ohio, State Senator Kane receives good news for his campaign when six weeks before the election, his sole opponent passes away. This news is not well received by Senator Smith, portrayed by a former...
A new Superman movie is being released this Saturday, September 20th, 2024. However, rather than being a cartoon or a superhero action movie, this biographical documentary focuses on the story of the New York actor, Christopher Reeve. Christopher Reeve portrayed the caped superhero, Super Man, in the "Superman" film series that were made between 1978 and 1987. And with his disarming and winsome smile, coupled with a good physique at 6' 4" tall, it seemed like the actor had a charmed life laid...
A delightfully entertaining and laugh out loud funny show, "Sean of the South LIVE", played to a full house at the historic Bama Theatre in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on Saturday, September 21st,2024. Similar in style to Lewis Grizzard, Jeff Foxworthy, and Rick Bragg; Sean of the South is the stage name of the columnist, novelist, and country musician, Sean Paul Dietrich - a Southern writer who was born in Missouri during the third quarter of Coach Paul Bear Bryant's farewell Liberty Bowl. Describing...
September 21, 2024 - COALING - Nine teams participated in The Fourth Annual Defend the Orphans Kickball Tournament hosted and organized by Coaling Baptist Church on Saturday. Originally k own as "Kicking Baseball", kickball was for many decades considered a children's elementary school game, however, it began growing in popularity in the 1990s among young professionals and adults. So much so that in 1998 the World Adult Kickball Association was founded. With several cities creating kickball...
With nosebleed tickets selling for around $300 and mid-level seats selling for around $1,100, those who are waiting for October's direct deposit to appear in their bank accounts, might want to enter the "Best Seats In The House" drawing sponsored by Baumhower's Victory Grille in collaboration with 95.3 "The Bear" in Tuscaloosa in order to get tickets to the Alabama v. Georgia football game this weekend. The drawing offers a meet and greet picture taking opportunity with Coach Kalen DeBoer as wel...
The eight-day election prayer guide written by the granddaughter of the highly regarded Billy Graham, Cissie Graham Lynch, is now available for free from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Known for her "Fearless" series in which Cissie Graham Lynch tackles important modern day social issues from an evangelical Biblical perspective head on, the prayer guide implores readers to research the candidates, to pray fervently, and exercise their privilege to vote. Opening with a verse from 1 Ti...
While it does seem like Ticketmaster fees make one's tickets nearly double in price, for those who cannot quite make it across the pond to Bunratty Castle this Christmas season, there is an opportunity to indulge in Irish Christmas music in Alabama the weekend of December 7th and 8th, 2024. As Keith and Kristyn Getty are presenting "An Irish Christmas" at the BJCC Concert Hall on Saturday, December 7th. Followed by the Celtic Angels presenting their "Celtic Angels Christmas" show on Sunday,...
Both Alabama fans and Georgia fans turned out in masse to attend the Georgia v. Alabama football game in Tuscaloosa on Saturday, September 28th, 2024. A highly anticipated game since the beginning of the college football season since it presented the first real test for the new Alabama Head Coach, Kalen DeBoer, against another SEC powerhouse. The profile for the Alabama v. Georgia football game was raised even higher with the announcement that former President and current Presidential...
September 27, 2024 – Tuscaloosa - For our final class of the Citizens Academy, the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff gave us the grand tour of what they call "Tuscaloosa's finest gated community" - the County Jail. All of us participants in the Citizens Academy looked forward to the occasion with both trepidation and anticipation. And as we stood outside of the entrance to the jail waiting for class to begin, more than one of us made a list of who we'd call to bail us out, should we be detained for a...
