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Callooh! Callay! to headline Green Bar show

Ryan Phillips April 9, 2013

On Friday, Green Bar might be the place to be for fans of heart-pumping, foot-stomping, soul-searching contemporary local music. Local band Callooh! Callay! will be headlining at the bar along with Birmingham’s...

MFA students fund writing programs online

Courtney Stinson April 9, 2013

Southern Fried Scribes, an eight-week creative writing program funded through Kickstarter, will offer free writing and literacy workshops to high school students in the Black Belt region. The founders...

New Strip store focuses on locally produced goods

New Strip store focuses on locally produced goods

Bianca Martin April 9, 2013

Alabama Goods, one of the Strip’s newest additions, gives Tuscaloosa shoppers a venue to buy locally made food, jewelry, pottery and more. The store specializes in selling products made by vendors and...

UH class creates art to benefit Tuscaloosa One Place

Becky Robinson April 8, 2013

Unlike most art classes at The University of Alabama, UH 155, a freshman honors class, allows students to create pieces of art that will be sold at the Good Art Show, which benefits Tuscaloosa One Place,...

Hospice of West Alabama offers patients peace

Alexandra Ellsworth April 8, 2013

One memory sticks out to Margie Thompson from her time volunteering with Hospice of the Valley in Decatur, Ala., –carrying bucket after bucket of blood from a hospice patient’s bedside. In a bright,...

Local children learn other cultures with Heart Touch

Abbey Crain April 8, 2013

Fan Yang came to The University of Alabama from China to study social work but decided to make an impact on the community by sharing her culture with local fourth graders. Yang designed the Heart Touch...

Ramen revolution: variations on ramen noodle recipes spice up typical college student meals

Christopher Edmunds April 8, 2013

I’m stressed out, exhausted, hungry and broke. As a college student, this is my natural state of being, and I am now accustomed to the bland taste of ramen noodles. This past weekend, however, I ventured...

Bioshock Infinite has quality gaming experience, ‘overwhelming’ story line

Nathan Proctor April 7, 2013

Mechanics, genre and even medium aside, the advances and storytelling of Bioshock Infinite make it a must-have experience first and game second for anyone invested in the industry. Though its gameplay,...

Bikers gear up for charity series throughout state

Ryan Phillips April 7, 2013

Across the state, cyclists are gearing up to ride in the Alabama Backroads Centuries Series. These charity fundraising events will be held on 10 different 100-mile stretches of Alabama from April to October....

Study finds 10% of freshmen begin smoking in college

Katherine Owen April 7, 2013

As the freshman class enters The University of Alabama, about 6 percent will arrive as smokers. When they leave as graduates, 16 percent will walk away with the habit. That’s a three-fold increase in...

Students should strive to ‘get their money’s worth’ while at the University

Courtney Stinson April 7, 2013

This semester I finally started a project that I had wanted to start for more than a year, my own YouTube channel. But with no equipment, no editing software and no production knowledge whatsoever, I had...

Senior teaches Zumba to local elementary students

Katherine Owen April 7, 2013

Students at four Tuscaloosa elementary and middle schools are getting a little shake, shimmy and slide added to their after-school program, thanks to University of Alabama student Lisa Brady. Brady, a...