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Alabama’s Gee’s Bend Quilting Collective creates garment for Questlove at the 2022 Met Gala
If you’re obsessed with pop culture, style trends, and avant-garde fashion like me, then you were probably tuned in to the a-list arrivals on...
What’s next for the ‘Seafood Capital’ of Alabama?
Now that a multiyear effort to restore, enhance and protect the shoreline habitats of the “Seafood Capital” of Alabama is complete, state and local...
City Walk BHAM on track for photo finish before The World Games 2022
As Birmingham and Jefferson County communities finish preparation for The World Games 2022, workers are in the final stages of completing City Walk BHAM, a downtown...
Grove Station shows food can be key to reviving smalltown Alabama
Afternoon sun streams through a big bay window, putting a natural spotlight on a thick stack of rosemary-scented ham and creamy whipped butter on...
Alabama mother of autistic son shares their story
At age 4, Tracy Whitfield’s son Reggie was diagnosed with autism. She was told Reggie would have echolalia, the unsolicited repetition of vocalizations made...
Sunday Reflections: Speak the speech plainly, I pray thee
My 10-year-old grandson asked me to join in an Easter egg hunt.
“I’ll versus you,” he said.
I was puzzled until my daughter explained this means “challenge.”
“It’s...
This iconic Alabama BBQ restaurant brings it from pit to plate
Bob Sykes Bar-B-Q is much more than a beloved family business. It’s a restaurant that honors a storied Southern culinary tradition of food and fire.
Bob...
Smart Neighborhood initiative in Birmingham’s North Titusville community becomes reality
Residents of historic North Titusville in Birmingham will soon welcome new neighbors to the community’s first Smart Neighborhood: Live on 1st. Live on 1st was officially...
Tuskegee Airman requests birthday cards for 100th birthday — ‘I’ll read every one of them’
Next month, Alabamians will have the opportunity to wish a happy 100th birthday to retired U.S. Army Sgt. Victor Butler, one of the oldest...
Auburn Engineering allows ALS-paralyzed alum to complete Bo Bikes Bama event
Former Auburn University basketball player Gary Godfrey is thankful to feel the wind in his face again after completing his third Bo Bikes Bama...
Beth Chapman: Alabamian helped work White House Egg Roll
Alabama’s Caleb Hicks was invited to the White House earlier this month to participate in the president’s annual Easter Egg Roll.
Hicks was not just...
Sunday Reflections: Why do we do what we do?
It was unique in the history of telephone calls. She asked the ministry assistant if she could talk with the pastor and we connected.
“I...
UAB joins international drug trial in fight against ALS
Investigators at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are enrolling patients in an international trial of a promising new drug for Lou Gehrig’s disease – amyotrophic lateral...
Alabamian Dan Bankhead earned a place in baseball history
Seventy-five years after breaking the “color barrier” as major league baseball’s first black player, Jackie Robinson remains at least passingly familiar to most Americans.
In...
Alabama author helps revive legacy of forgotten photographer
It’s an unusual relationship – between a soft-spoken, Alabama-based graphic artist and a long-dead New York photographer who once was renowned for “cheesecake” pinups...
What’s new and coming soon to Birmingham’s Pizitz Food Hall?
After five years in the heart of downtown Birmingham, Pizitz Food Hall has become a mainstay among the weekday lunch crowd, as well as weekenders enjoying...
Listen: Alabama has so much untapped potential but needs good leadership
Tim James is running for governor of the state of Alabama with principles based on faith, family, and freedom.
In this episode, he details what...
Sunday Reflections: A Friday to remember
The wind in my face was bitterly cold in downtown Dallas a few years ago since the winter weather was yet lingering. My continuing...
Shelby Humane’s no-kill shelter found ‘forever homes’ for more than 1,400 cats and dogs in 2021
A couple of cats can produce a litter that, over the course of the next six years, can balloon to 70,000 offspring if none...
Volunteers help keep Alabama lake park clean and ready for visitors this spring
A volunteer cleanup at Double Cove Park at Lake Logan Martin has put some springtime shine on this public recreation space, just in time for Earth...
Reflections: The witness of Watergate
The scandal rocked the nation for two years. It was the origin of the “gate” reference to most every other scandal and the genesis...
Alabama pool player Ed Gill is 96 years young and still going strong
Crack! The solids and stripes scatter across the table in all directions.
Ed Gill is shooting pool, and his opening breaks for 8-ball and 9-ball...
Powell crowned Grand Champion at Governor’s One-Shot Turkey Hunt
Governor Kay Ivey and Conservation Commissioner Chris Blankenship were thrilled to revive the dormant Alabama Governor’s One-Shot Turkey Hunt last week as numerous Alabama...
Alabama mom writes teen book inspired by family’s trip around the world
When Delaney and Riley McIntyre were in elementary school, their parents Kellie and Dale set a goal for the family: to visit every continent...