Within the confines of my small hometown, I had never viewed my first generation identity as anything particularly special. It wasn’t until I applied to the University of Alabama that I realized that...

As Bruce Springsteen embarks across the country on his Land Of Hope and Dreams American Tour, I’ve borne witness to many different reactions. Some fans, like myself, are 100% on board with these shows...

As someone who spends most of her time accompanied by some sort of music, I also spent a good amount of time at the now-closed Druid City Music Hall.  It was one of the experiences I loved most during...

Skimming through my phone in February, a news report caught my eye: a bodycam video, showing the blurred-out faces of shirtless young men my age, lined up against the desolate wall of a poorly lit basement. I...

As a native North Alabamian, I am no stranger to severe weather. After the generational tornado outbreak of April 27th, 2011 destroyed a part of my hometown, it has become a consistent and important part...

It hit me on a late night in the front seat of my car. I was about to go for a drive and was spending my pit stop time queueing up fast-running, windows-down songs on my Spotify. After the fifth song played...

Killer clowns, mannequin challenges, Beyonce’s “Lemonade” — all of these are things that come to mind when picturing 2016. It was a year that marked a tumultuous presidential election, the controversy...

It’s been nearly five years since I picked up a movie on a disc instead of scouring the internet for an online copy. This, although something I hadn’t thought of before now, is an incredibly startling...

Nearly every single friend I’ve talked to in the past month has asked me one specific question: have you seen “Heated Rivalry” yet? The answer is yes, of course. Like most online folk, I’ve...

As 11:00 p.m. approached on the night of Oct. 2, my best friend and I sat diligently with Spotify open on our TV and a closeted excitement for the drop of the new Taylor Swift album, “The Life of a Showgirl”....

The year was 1970. “American Woman” and “ABC” topped the charts, popular shows such as Gunsmoke and Hee-Haw dominated the airwaves, and the young generation in the United States was the most unstable...

When the BookTok trend on TikTok amassed popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, crowds made up of almost entirely women found a renewed love of reading. Some of the most popular titles that emerged on...

ABC announced the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Sept. 17. President Donald Trump made his thoughts on Kimmel’s removal clear in a post on Truth Social, stating,...

Take a walk around downtown Tuscaloosa, and you’ll see it: $80 houndstooth sweatshirts, boutique “Southern belle” dresses and Dixieland Delight-emblazoned mugs line the shelves of souvenir stores,...

Every time I scroll on social media, there is at least one post that leaves me with the same dull questions: What happened to thinking? When exactly did thinking about the media we consume fall out of...

On February 13, 2017, 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German were dropped off at a popular hiking trail in the small town of Delphi, Indiana, intent on spending the day off from school...

Call Me [Brackets], a student-run literary journal, is seeking submissions for its spring issue until April 1. Founded in 2018, Call Me [Brackets] has built a reputation in the Alabama literary scene....

When you hear the word “fanfiction,” what do you think of? Do you picture the orange gleam of Wattpad stories, the bullet-pointed lists of Tumblr imagines or a carefully filtered search on Archive...