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How to spend a weekend in Gadsden

Recently, North Alabama has been stepping up its game. Flourishing downtowns, burgeoning local businesses, and vibrant food scenes make this region worthy to be...

The best way to spend a weekend in Auburn for A-Day

Spring is in full swing and for those making their way to The Plains to catch some spring football action, there will be plenty...

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...

Reflections: Holy Water

It was interesting to read in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s recent autobiography that his children were baptized with water from the Sea of Galilee....

Reflections: On sheep stealing

They were a great family who had no denominational underpinnings. I knew them as Presbyterians who became Baptists who became Methodists. I once heard...

‘Picking Up the Torch:’ The women who govern South

When Kim Lawkis looks at Arlene Mitchell and Camille Bonura, she recognizes the long line of women students, professors and administrators who helped build...

Eat all the crawfish you want at these Alabama festivals

In early spring, when the weather grows warmer and the rain picks up across southern Louisiana, the farmed and wild crawfish that grow there...

6 Alabama farmers markets to check out this spring

It’s prime time for farmers markets to open across Alabama. A few may start earlier in the year, generally when the first strawberries grown nearby...

Aaron Johnson: What happened?

Today flags are flying at half-staff. Another wound has been opened on the American conscience. In what seems to be a random act of intentional...

Reflections: Learning to be bi-musical

Every senior adult knows if you have a computer or cellphone issue you talk with a grandchild. However, my grandson was stumped and suggested...

Ambition, drive and a rock ‘n’ roll vision helped two Auburn graduates build a global outdoor lifestyle brand

Corey Cooper ’05 walks to the edge of the roof of his guest house and stares down at the pool below. His wife, Magda...

Aaron Johnson: ‘Friends’

Several years ago, my wife, Denise, and I were traveling out west. We had driven through miles of beautiful country as we approached a...

Ladybird Taco brings Texas breakfast tacos to Alabama

They say everything’s bigger in Texas, and when it comes to breakfast, that certainly seems to be the case. Morning meals in the Lone...

Reflections: Half-past dead

Some friends at church asked me to describe my near-death experience. I light-heartedly told about traveling through a long tunnel, seeing light at the end...

Engineering Ingenuity: Concrete canoes and lightweight bridges at Gulf Coast Symposium

The Gulf Coast Student Symposium challenged more than 400 engineering students from 15 universities with everything from concrete canoe races and surveying tests to construction, transportation...

6 barbecue festivals to attend this spring in Alabama

Barbecue is so integral to the diet of average Alabamians it might as well be considered its own food group. Several festivals scheduled through...

In the pink: Casino Night benefits breast cancer research

It was quite a "soiree" as the Pink Palace Casino Night raised more than $115,000 for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama. The 14th...

Begorrah! State House honors St. Patrick’s Day

'Tis a fine day in Alabama and 'twas a fine week in Montgomery. The Alabama House this week approved a resolution officially recognizing Saint Patrick’s...

Aaron Johnson: Wedding wisdom

The air is filled with yellow snow, trees are beginning to bud new life, yellow Jonquils are waking after a winter nap. All this...

USA nursing student follows in footsteps of father, grandmother

After two years of classroom work in the College of Nursing at the University of South Alabama, Alli Boudreaux can’t wait to begin clinical courses and...

Reflections: The Baptist dog

The pastor was insulted but tried to be measured in response. A parishioner asked if he’d be willing to conduct a funeral for her beloved...

4 popular food festivals to attend in Birmingham this spring

It’s no secret: Birmingham takes food very seriously. Fancy or simple, it must be great to pass muster in the Magic City. Several food festivals...

Fairhope’s Hope Farm has new dining option

When it comes to farm-to-table dining, there’s no better place to experience it than Hope Farm in Fairhope. At Hope Farm, much of the...

Aaron Johnson: Your words matter

It was fourth grade and parents' day was approaching. Parents' day was the one day of the year that parents come to the school,...