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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...
On Thursday, October 10th, 2024 at 7:00PM, the Southside Center for the Arts in Opelika, Alabama will host a literary evening featuring Don Noble and Thom Gossom, Jr. As part of the "Alabama Aloud" series sponsored by Alabama Public Radio, the evening will include Thom Gossum Jr. reading his own short story entitled "MVP". The first African-American athlete to walk on in the SEC, Thom Gossom Jr. is a former football player for Auburn University who has also had a multi-faceted post college caree...
For all of the cowgirls and cowboys out there who can also sing, the National Western Stock Show's 2025 National Anthem contest is now open. Closing on October 20th, 2024, the National Anthem singing contest gives people the opportunity to compete for an opportunity to sing The Star Spangled Banner at a rodeo performance during the 2025 Stock Show. Singers upload an MP4 video file onto their website and the videos must all be new recordings featuring the opening script of "Hi/Hello, my name is...
Tickets are now on sale via Ticketmaster for "Christmas With C.S. Lewis", a play set in 1962 as C.S. Lewis is hosting a group of Americans who are spending Christmas in the university city of Oxford. With all of the heat indexes spelling caution in making sure that one stays well hydrated during the summer heat, it may feel early to start thinking about Christmas. But, when this play was produced in Birmingham, Alabama last year the demand for tickets was so high, that a second performance date...
In an age when Disney Princesses ranging from the classics such as "Snow White" and "Cinderella" to newer ones such as "Tiana" to "Merida" are incredibly popular and idolized by millions; in "The Princess Bellaheld" by Julie Sutter we are introduced to the true story of a real life princess who turns seventeen in AD 703. The daughter of Irish missionaries of the Culdean Church to the German principality of Thuringia, Bellaheld is nevertheless of noble stock on her father's side. But, she is...
This is the final week of the 72nd season for the "Horn in The West", a revolutionary war era drama produced in Boone, North Carolina. Billed as the nation's longest running outdoor Revolutionary War drama, "Horn In The West", is based on the history of Daniel Boone and the mountain settlers of the Blue Ridge Mountains and their struggles for freedom before and during the American War for Independence. The plot centers around Dr. Geoffrey Stuart, a prominent British physician, who comes to the...
A multi-year work of art, Leonard Da Vinci, worked on painting "The Last Supper" from 1494 to 1497. Commissioned by the Duke of Milan, a great patron of writers and painters - Ludovico il Moro, it is not a work on canvas that the duke would frame and then hang on his wall. Rather, it is a mural painted on a wall in the refectory of the Cathedral's adjoining Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan . And as such, the mural began deteriorating quickly after its completion. So much...
Tickets are now on sale via Ticketmaster for "Christmas With C.S. Lewis", a play set in 1962 as C.S. Lewis is hosting a group of Americans who are spending Christmas in the university city of Oxford. With all of the heat indexes spelling caution in making sure that one stays well hydrated during the summer heat, it may feel early to start thinking about Christmas. But, when this play was produced in Birmingham, Alabama last year the demand for tickets was so high, that a second performance date...
If your favorite college football team shows signs of needing more NIL money this Fall, tickets are now on sale for "Liberty Mountain", an historical drama centered around the Battle of Kings Mountain during the American Revolution. With long-standing plays like "Horn In The West" in Boone and "The Lost Colony" in the Outer Banks; North Carolina is a state that likes to perpetuate its history through the theater. And with North Carolina being one of the original thirteen colonies that would...
The shallowness of the modern day dating scene is on full display in "It Ends With Us". A movie based on The New York Times bestselling book by Texas native, Colleen Hoover. Although Hoover describes the romantic drama as the hardest book she has ever written, since she touches on the deeply personal theme of domestic violence, the plot of the film actually comes across as a very formulaic Hallmark movie with darker overtones and better acting. That being said, the motion picture is on pace to...
With the 250th Anniversary of The Declaration of Independence coming up in just under two years, there is some renewed interest in the history of The American Revolution. And in "Revolutionary Rebecca" we have an energizing and delightful historical fiction novel based on the true story of Rebecca Motte, a Patriot during the British occupation of South Carolina during the American War of Independence. The historical novel opens with two cousins in 1812 tiring of having to stitch their samplers...
The movie, "Reagan", opens this Labor Day weekend with a scene that the movie producers never imagined while filming the motion picture would be unfortunately very familiar to modern audiences - the attempted assassination of a President. As Dennis Quaid, in the title role of the 40th President, just finishes delivering an inspiring speech to a labor union when out of nowhere a gunman tries to make him meet his end. Only a fleeting mention of James Scott Brady, who took a bullet to his head in...
The memoir by J. D. Vance, now President Trump's Vice-Presidential nominee, stands at 264 pages long but it is an easy and comfortable read. It centers around Vance's early years growing up in a fractured Appalachian family that lived in Ohio but had roots in the hills of rural Kentucky. At times it is spiced with "F" bombs that seem to be included in a nonchalant fashion. With the driving force behind the memoir being the internal conflict, J.D. Vance feels as he navigates entering the...
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Fifty-five years ago those words were first entered into the annals of history by Neil Armstrong as he became the first man to step on the moon. And while Hollywood didn't commemorate the occasion with a dramatic biopic of the moon landing, Hollywood has provided us with a delightful romantic comedy centered around the Apollo 11 mission with "Fly Me To The Moon". A surprise treat of the summer movie season, "Fly Me To The Moon"...
On Friday, July 26th, 2024, The American Village which is located in Montevallo, Alabama will close out its summer film series with the 1992 adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's, "The Last of the Mohicans". For those who are feeling their wallets thin out due to the ever-increasing costs of groceries and gasoline prices, there is some relief for their pocketbook as the admission to the film is free. With the movie being set to begin at seven in the evening in the air conditioned West Wing...
To make a three-hours long movie captivating in spite of a plot that lacks both cohesiveness and clarity is quite a feat. Yet, it is just such a feat that Kevin Costner accomplishes with his first installment in the “Horizon” movie series. Of an age when many Hollywood actors begin to see their careers wane, Costner came to the forefront of the acting world once again with his portrayal of John Dutton, the family patriarch in the Western television series, “Yellowstone”. And to the surprise of m...
Historians place a lot of importance on primary sources. And in “This Glorious Struggle” George Washington’s Revolutionary War Letters that is edited by Edward G. Lengel, we get an at once entertaining, insightful, and informative collection of George Washington’s Revolutionary War Correspondence. That is to say, primary sources from Washington, himself. As these letters and military orders show General Washington as being just as human as the everyday person with him expressing concern about t...
