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Alabama dietitian adds deliciousness to every dish on Beautiful Eats and Things

Andrea Mathis' blog, Beautiful Eats and Things, draws followers who enjoy trying her delicious dishes and other offerings. Every great Southern cook has their own...

South accounting students help prepare free returns

Margaret Bradford, a graduate student in accounting at the University of South Alabama, looks forward to tax season. That’s when she and other students help people file...

Reflections: Using the cellphone wisely

It was a story from The New York Post last spring that I pondered and saved. The headline proclaimed, “City removes last-standing public payphone...

Land Trust named caretaker of Colbert County’s Cane Creek

TUSCUMBIA -- A Colbert County couple have donated a nearly-700 acre preserve to Land Trust of North Alabama. Jim and Faye Lacefield have donated Cane...

5 places to find unique king cake treats in Alabama

With Mardi Gras fast approaching, king cake season is in full swing. Cutting into a king cake, decorated in the Mardi Gras colors of purple,...

The Sound Amphitheater to locate on Gulf Coast

On Monday, a ground breaking ceremony was held in Gautier, Mississippi for a new amphitheater that will become operational in 2024. The Sound Amphitheater...

Listen: Evangelism desperately needed; it requires love, boldness

Paul Martini has traveled to 37 nations and 5 continents to share the love, and gospel, of Jesus Christ. He has a strong anointing...

Aaron Johnson: Meet me in the rain

Metter, Ga., sleeps somewhere between Savannah and Macon, and just north of Interstate 16. Though I have driven I-16 a number of times, I...

Top Guy Weekend heads to the Rocket City

Top Guy Weekend is coming to the Rocket City this summer. The event by AdFreeShows.com brings hundreds of professional wrestling fans together for one...

Support local makers at Birmingham’s Woodlawn Marketplace

At the Woodlawn Marketplace in Birmingham, economic empowerment can be both beautiful and delicious. The marketplace is a business incubator created by REV Birmingham, a...

Ukrainian family makes a new home in Alabama

As Mykola and Olena Vyshyvanyuk escort new friends to their car, the stillness of the suburban night is briefly interrupted by an almost imperceptible...

Yea Alabama unveiled as official University of Alabama NIL entity

Yea Alabama, the official name, image and likeness (NIL) entity of the University of Alabama, will serve as the gateway to link fans, donors and...

Reflections: Come, ye sinners, poor and needy

We’ve been working through the book of Genesis at midweek Bible study in our church. It’s been refreshing to look at the old stories I learned...

Autograph’s ‘nicest hotel in Huntsville’ coming to downtown

This week's weather offered the perfect backdrop for a groundbreaking event on a long-awaited hotel project in downtown Huntsville. Located neatly beside Big Spring Park...

5 new coffee roasters to try in the Birmingham area

Coffee lovers know the best cup is made with recently roasted beans—the fresher the better. Buying from a local roastery, especially one in the...

Aaron Johnson: Born on third

This week, I traveled to UAB hospital to visit a dear friend who had just undergone a significant surgery. On my way north on...

6 questions with John Kvach of North Alabama’s Singing River Trail

After 10 years as a history professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Dr. John Kvach decided to flip his script and embark...

Reflections: What’s not to love about John Adams?

David McCullough, who died last August, gave us books about the Panama Canal, the Wright Brothers, the Brooklyn Bridge and the American Revolution, and...

New Hi-Wire Brewing in Birmingham combines craft beer, games, and community

It’s an unusually cold night in downtown Birmingham, but the chilly temperatures haven’t deterred the small groups of people trickling into Hi-Wire Brewing. The...

Former Crimson Tide lineman Emil Ekiyor Jr. presented Community Service Award

When Emil Ekiyor Jr. was being recruited by the University of Alabama to play football, community service wasn’t at the top of his list – but it did...

Decatur named Tree City USA

DECATUR – Warren Buffet said someone is sitting in the shade today, because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The City of Decatur...

Aaron Johnson: Fourth quarter in the game of life

The Super Bowl is in a matter of days. Leading up to that final game, every game was more important than any of the previous...

Dieting for the new year? Learn more about unhealthy eating motives and how to break them

The new year often brings new resolutions, the majority of which are centered around physical health or weight loss, research shows. Diet and nutrition fads...

Admiral Shellfish Company offers prime oysters grown in south Alabama

Anthony Ricciardone charted his current entrepreneurial course as a gardener. Today, he’s a farmer. Oysters are his crop, boutique bivalves that he and partner Chris...