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The annual Tuscaloosa Bible Reading Marathon is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Which is an annual event where people of all ages and walks of life read the entire Bible from Genesis through the book of Revelation aloud for 80 continuous hours directly from the scripture and without commentary. Hosted by Hope 4 My City, volunteers sign up for 15 minute time slots to read The Bible, after which they pass the reading on to the next volunteer. The 10th Annual Tuscaloosa Bible Reading...
Known for their "Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes", the Radio City Rockettes will celebrate their 100th Anniversary this year. Founded in St. Louis, Missouri in 1925 as "The Missouri Rockets", the Rockettes are a tap dancing troupe that bills themselves as "the longest-running precision dance company in America". The Radio City Rockettes have been performing in the Radio City Music Hall in New York since 1932, hence their name, and to celebrate their 100th anniversary,...
Long time Alabama resident, Bela K. Berty, was a young child in the formative years when his family escaped from communism in Eastern Europe. Having experienced first-hand the perils of communism, the influence of communism in the modern American legal, banking, and educational systems is a matter of grave concern to him. Consequently, he and his wife, Linda Gail Berty, a veteran of The United States Navy, sponsored a showing of the documentary, "The Agenda 2: Masters of Deceit" on Wednesday at...
The 1937 Walt Disney version of the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", is considered one of the greatest animated films in motion picture history. And after seeing the 2025 live-action production of Disney's "Snow White", there is no doubt that the 1937 "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" version is not only one of the greatest animated films in motion picture history, but the best film version, both live-action and animated, of the classic fairy tale,...
"When Calls the Heart" is a very popular Hallmark frontier Western style drama television series based off of Janette Oke's "Canadian West" series. To date it has aired in both the U.S. and Canada for twelve seasons. Now the creators of the "When Calls the Heart" series want to turn their attention stateside with a television series based off of the "Home to Harmony" series written by Philip Gulley, a Quaker pastor in Indiana, who has become known as the voice of small-town American life as the...
"One if by land, and two, if by sea . . ." so go the famous words of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem "Paul Revere's Ride". A poem he penned in 1860 commemorating the famous horseback ride of Paul Revere, along with William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott to warn the Patriots in Lexington, Massachusetts and Concord, Massachusetts that the British were coming. The reason the warning was so imperative was because the British were planning a crackdown on the Massachusetts Provincial Congress in Co...
The first mention in a novel of the All-American pastime, baseball, comes not from "The Old Farmer's Almanac" or some such publication; but rather from the novel, "Northanger Abbey", by the British author, Jane Austen. As the heroine of "Northanger Abbey", Catherine Morland, is described in her childhood in chapter one of the novel as preferring "cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country . . ." to the domestic arts such as tending a garden and drawing. While Jane...
When Don Wildmon with his marked Southern accent decided to call to task the television network executives in the 1970s, the entertainment media giants of the time simply dismissed him. After all, this Wildmon fellow was from Mississippi, which meant he "was dumb". And not only that, as a Methodist Minister, Wildmon was a Southern preacher. Which the television network executives of the 1970s took to mean that Wildmon "was double dumb". However, "double dumb", or not, Donald E. Wildmon...
Officially designated National Rosie The Riveter Day by the U.S. Congress in 2017, March 21st this year falls on a Friday. And the American Rosie The Riveter Association, which was founded by Dr. Fran Carter, a longtime resident of Birmingham, Alabama, is encouraging everyone to visit a Rosie the Riveter and take her to lunch, plan a restaurant outing with Rosies, veterans, and family members, and plan a brief program for schoolchildren and residents at a senior center to recognize all Rosie...
March 5, 2025 - The 2018 film "I Can Only Imagine" about the inspiration behind MercyMe's chart topping song by the same name was such a success financially, after all it earned more than twelve times its budget, that The Kingdom Story Company is now filming the sequel to the movie for Lionsgate called "I Can Only Imagine 2". It is tentatively set for release in the spring of 2026. While the film, "I Can Only Imagine" was directed by both of the Erwin brothers, who originally hail from...
March 5, 2025 - "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" These impacting words were first spoken by Patrick Henry 250 years ago on March 23rd, 1775 at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia during the Second Virginia Convention. As Patrick Henry was urging the colony of Virginia to organize a volunteer company of cavalry or infantry in every Virginia county to begin preparing troops in the colony for war against one of the world's biggest...
March 14, 2025 - TUSCALOOSA, AL - With the requirement to have a STAR ID in order to fly domestic going into effect on May 07th, 2025, Alabamians are already flooding the State Trooper's Offices to upgrade their driver's licenses to a STAR ID. The lines were literally out of the door at the Tuscaloosa branch of the Alabama State Troopers Office this morning as people were in line to get their STAR ID. The wait was around an hour just to get inside of the door and then another hour to actually...
National Arbor Day will be celebrated on April 25th, 2025, this year. And Alabama's first Arbor Day Proclamation was signed in 1887 by Governor Thomas Seay. However, in 1975 the Alabama Forestry Commission and other state organizations collaborated with the Alabama State Legislature to designate the last full week in February as Alabama's Arbor Week. As such, many cities throughout the state are offering free tree seedling giveaways this month to encourage the planting of trees throughout Sweet...
February 6, 2025 - George Washington's birthday is celebrated every year on the third Monday in February as part of the federal holiday known as "President's Day". While in Alabama, "President's Day" is celebrated by the state offices as "George Washington/Thomas Jefferson Birthday". And this year, President's Day falls on Monday, February 17th, 2025. As such, George Washington's home of Mount Vernon has issued the "2025 Cherry Challenge" which is currently underway in Alexandria, Virginia. In t...
February 6, 2025 - When studying The Bible and the life of Jesus Christ, one of the powerfully stirring aspects about Jesus and His ministry is how He healed the blind, the paralytic, the lepers, women's health issues, and even restored life into people who were deceased. With The Bible being so replete with miracles, Christians and even nonChristians who long for a reprieve from conditions that seemingly have no cure in the present era, find themselves longing for such sacred restorative...
Paul Pitts, who has sung coveted operatic tenor lead roles such as Don Jose in Bizet's "Carmen, Rodolfo in Puccini's "La Boheme", and Cavaradossi in Puccini's "Tosca" in New York, will be presenting his one-man play, "The Scribe", on Sunday, February 16th, 2025 at The Spencer Church of The Nazarene in Brent, Alabama. "The Scribe" is an on-going, award-winning stage play that has been performed by Paul Pitts in over 100 countries on 7 continents around the world. And on Sunday in Brent, the play...
February 12, 2025 - When Miss Alabama's Abbie Stockard was crowned Miss America on January 05th, 2025, it became immediately clear that with her peppy demeanor, all-American cheerleader style of look, and her bright smile, her year long tour as the new Miss America would take her to places near and far. Yet, Miss Stockard is very proud of her Southern roots. And, as such, the Miss Alabama Organization is hosting a homecoming celebration for Miss Stockard on Saturday, February 22nd, 2025. As the...
Oliver "Maurice" Sealey appeared on Kip Tyner's "Great Day Tuscaloosa" yesterday to discuss his "boots on the ground" campaign for Tuscaloosa City Council District 7. As Mr. Sealey explained on the show, his "boots on the ground" campaign consists of him going out to meet the people of his district. He is going door-to-door and meeting the voters of District 7. Sealey has met so many people in apartment complexes and the like who are honored to have him actually come to them and ask them for the...
February 13, 2025 - "The Last Supper" by Leonardo Da Vinci is considered the most important mural painting in the world. And both religious and artistic enthusiasts around the world were horrified at how it was mocked in the Paris Olympics' opening ceremony last year. However, in a sign that modernity has not lost all of its sense of artistry, "The Chosen" series will be releasing its lavish and respectful three-part installment of "The Last Supper" in movie theaters across the country...
February 17, 2025 - The History Channel is commemorating President's Day with the premiere of its new documentary series on Thomas Jefferson. Set to air at 7 PM Central time, the documentary is set to be a multi-part series. With each episode available for streaming on the History Channel website the next day after its premiere. The "Thomas Jefferson" documentary series is the first installment in what the History Channel is planning as a "History Honors 250" celebration; given that next year wi...
While Tchaikovsky was a Russian Romantic era composer, some of his most famous compositions are synonymous with ballet such as "The Nutcracker", "The Sleeping Beauty", and "Swan Lake". As such, in spite of Tchaikovsky's Russian heritage and the current crisis between Russia and the Ukraine, The State Ballet Theatre of Ukraine will be performing his "Swan Lake" and "The Sleeping Beauty" ballets throughout Alabama in March of 2025. Featuring the original choreography of Petipa and Ivanov, The...
February 18, 2025 - MONTGOMERY. AL - The Secretary of State of Alabama, Wes Allen, announced today that he is running for Lieutenant Governor of Alabama in the 2026 election cycle. As a Republican candidate for the position, he is joining Pastor Dean Odle in the field of candidates vying for the Republican bid in the May 26th, 2026 primary. In announcing his bid for Lieutenant Governor of Alabama, Secretary of State Wes Allen stated that "For a kid that grew up at the end of a dirt road to have...
February 19, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL - Since the beginning of time, humans have been curious about the big bright moon they see in the night sky. With humans also maintaining some curiosity about the fourth planet from the sun, the red planet known as Mars. As such, one of the feats of American technology, engineering, and exploration that has led to admiration around the world; was when the United States landed the first man on the moon on July 16th, 1969. And ever since "That's one small step...
MARION, AL - The nation's oldest military junior college, Marion Military Institute, is inviting people to "Come see where American Ideals still matter" this Saturday, February 22nd, 2025, from 8AM until 1:30PM for its college preview day. Located in Marion, Alabama in Perry County, "MMI", as Marion Military Institute is commonly known as, is one of four junior military colleges in the United States that is authorized to commission qualified cadets as officers in the U.S. Army after only two...
February 21, 2025 - The much beloved classic movie musical, "The Sound of Music", celebrates its 60th anniversary on March 02nd. With it being first premiered on March 02nd, 1965 by 20th Century Fox. To commemorate the milestone, the Walt Disney Film Restoration team has spent nine months overseeing the digital scanning of the preserved film footage and cleaning up any dirt, warping, and other issues they encountered. With Walt Disney planning on releasing a 4K edition of "The Sound of Music"...
