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Rising fast, the Shakes hit the circuit

Rising fast, the Shakes hit the circuit

Nathan Proctor April 23, 2012

Bred out of the musically rich Muscle Shoals tradition found in Northern Alabama, a local 5-piece has launched themselves from playing small parties at Egan’s and being that band found at your local...

UT grad creates healthy energy bar

UT grad creates healthy energy bar

Abbey Crain April 23, 2012

With a degree from the Culinary Institute of America and a bachelor’s degree in nutrition, marathon runner Erica Hopper was not satisfied with the quality of store-bought energy bars. Her health and...

Maggie's Diner provides Tuscaloosa with authentic 'meat-and-three' option

Maggie’s Diner provides Tuscaloosa with authentic ‘meat-and-three’ option

Avery Driggers April 23, 2012

Unless my advisors and DegreeWorks have led me astray, I will be graduating this May after four fantastic years at the University of Alabama. In food terms, that means roughly 312 meal plans used, $2,100...

Documenting Justice returns to Bama Theatre

Documenting Justice returns to Bama Theatre

Becky Robinson April 22, 2012

UA students are hoping to raise awareness of a variety of social issues through a film project known as Documenting Justice. Documenting Justice is a film series that began six years ago. Originally created...

Festivals spur boho look for summer

Festivals spur boho look for summer

Abbey Crain April 22, 2012

Students here at the University of Alabama know all about summer music festivals, such as The Hangout and Bonnaroo, and are most likely already going — but have you ever heard of Coachella? The music...

Summer TV shows to keep an eye out for

Summer TV shows to keep an eye out for

Billy Whyte April 18, 2012

It’s that time of the year again when everything the last couple of months have built up to is about to come to a close in a packed-full period of spring finals. No, I am not talking about college finals,...

Video-game journalism about more than ‘just sitting around, playing games’

Buddy Acker April 18, 2012

  I hear it all the time from my family and friends. They tell me it isn't smart to pursue a career in video-game journalism. They say that I'm chasing major disappointment. No one will ever take me...

Engineering students perform play

Courtney Stinson April 18, 2012

The College of Engineering Does Amateur Radical Theatre is satirizing popular movies and Hollywood in its production of “Completely Hollywood!” on Friday and Saturday in HM Comer Hall. The play pokes...

With a big cast, 'Willy Wonka' draws little actors

With a big cast, ‘Willy Wonka’ draws little actors

Courtney Stinson April 18, 2012

The Tuscaloosa Children’s Theatre is bringing the popular children’s novel “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl to the Bama Theatre this weekend with its production of “Willy Wonka.”...

The Bear, Doc Dailey, and Magnolia bring Shoals sound to Tuscaloosa

Trey Irby April 18, 2012

If I were obnoxious, I would mention that Muscle Shoals has one of the secretly great music histories in the United States. I would say bands like the Rolling Stones would sneak into town to record great...

Songwriter looks back at career as local frontman

Songwriter looks back at career as local frontman

Jonathan Reed April 18, 2012

The Dexateens were effectively banned from the bar for it, but that didn’t matter. Blaine Duncan and his band, the Lookers, played their set, drank their fill and were ready to leave the makeshift stage...

Pants Store fills void in Tuscaloosa

Alexandra Ellsworth April 17, 2012

A new clothing and shoe store exclusive to Alabama has come to downtown Tuscaloosa. The Pants Store opened April 5 and hopes to fill a void in Tuscaloosa’s clothing market. “I was a student at the...