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PHOTOS: Music Midtown 2019

PHOTOS: Music Midtown 2019

Austin Bigoney, Staff Photographer September 16, 2019
CW photographer Austin Bigoney captured over 100 photos of the 2019 Music Midtown festival in Atlanta.
CW / Austin Bigoney

Music Midtown attracts big names, bigger crowds

Kyle Ashley, Staff Writer September 16, 2019
The Peach City welcomed thousands of sweaty music fans into Piedmont Park this weekend for its annual Music Midtown, motivating more than a few UA students to trek across the state line.
CW / Joe Will Field

Canine Classic 5K drums up funds for humane society

Tara Davenport | @tara_davenport, Contributing Writer September 16, 2019
The Humane Society of West Alabama and Tuscaloosa Track Club hosted the 17th Annual Canine Classic 5K on Saturday. The race is one of the Humane Society’s largest fundraisers each year.    
Photo courtesy of Pixabay

Dietician shares knowledge of fad diets

Kinsley Centers, Staff Writer September 15, 2019
Dieting can be difficult and physically taxing. Many strive for quick weight-loss results without thinking of the potential harm a diet can cause.
Photo courtesy of Will Flowers

UA Alum turns passion for space into a classroom museum

Jimmy Conroy, Contributing Writer September 12, 2019
UA alumni and current teacher William Flowers launched a self-made museum about NASA and SpaceXploration to educate his students about space travel.
CW / Anna Shoultz

For the record: University gallery honors past professor Al Sella

Anna Shoultz, Contributing Writer September 12, 2019
The University of Alabama Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition to honor the life and work of prominent artist and academic Alvin Sella. The exhibition will run until Sept. 27.
CW / Joe Will Field

Lockheed Martin seeks UA engineers with challenge box

Desi Gillespie, Contributing Writer September 12, 2019
Serving as a lead-up to Lockheed Martin’s career fair on Sept. 11, the Challenge Box presented STEM majors with three engineering problems per day starting Sept. 9.
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

The Splash Page: Defining the reconstructive age of comics in “Legion of Super-Heroes: Millenium” 

Samuel G. Reece, @_samreece , Contributing Writer September 10, 2019
But you get the sense that the “Age of Reconstruction” has fully taken hold, and that if DC is this interested in parsing out their various futures, there is a story in waiting that will draw from each of them.
CW / Scarlett Crews

IV treatment adds to the list of hangover cures

Olivia Davis, Contributing Writer September 9, 2019
Popular cures for hangovers are continually changing as new treatments hit the market. IV treatments, popular in many large cities, have made their way to Tuscaloosa, and students are using them to their advantage.
Photo courtesy of Zahra Vance

Work ethic helps local entrepreneur design a career

Grace Schepis | @graceschepiscw, Staff Writer September 9, 2019
With the debut of her first collection, titled Genesis, Tuscaloosa-based fashion designer Shan Latris reflects on how her homegrown team was able to make it to the runway.
CW / Madelyn Verbrugge

PHOTOS: Sampling Asia food fair

September 8, 2019
The College of Arts and Sciences hosted the "Sampling Asia Food Fair" Thursday Sept. 5. Students enjoyed free food as well as new cultural experiences.
Picture courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

The Splash Page: “Dawn of X” introduces a very uncanny X-Men

Samuel G. Reece | @_samreece, Contributing Writer September 8, 2019
Now that Disney and Marvel are gearing up to give us a new cinematic “X-Men” sometime in the next five years, we’re finally getting what looks to be a new defining story for the X-Men, and it is a good one.