Traditions are taken seriously at The University of Alabama, whose own history dates back to 1831. While athletic customs quickly come to mind, the University’s academics have long held a precedence...
In the interlude after a lengthy introduction peppered with accomplishments, a soulful wail suddenly commanded the room: Joyce J. Scott, artist, had arrived. Following her a cappella performance of “And...
Since January, the Birmingham Museum of Art has hosted an exhibit titled “Small Treasures: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, and Their Contemporaries,” and it’s not until one enters the exhibit that the...
Buzzfeed recently posted an article titled “20 Incredible Books From The Past Year You Need To Read Right Now,” featuring the longlist for the Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction 2015. While the post...
To explore the contents of the glass display cases and frames in Gorgas Library’s Pearson Foyer is to peer at a snapshot of historically and culturally significant representations of the last 150 years.Reverend...
A quick Google search for “college campus chalking” reveals The University of Alabama is one of many colleges that allows for the chalking of grounds in order to provide, as the University’s chalking...
Between hosting WVUA’s “Geek Life” and “Relevant Radio,” holding two jobs and taking classes for his advertising major and art minor, Dodson Seitz’s life sometimes seems to mirror those of...
It’s been 12 years since Jon Krakauer graced his readers with a new book, and with an Instagram handle called @KrakauerNotWriting, readers expected the mountain-climbing nonfiction writer to be done...
While satire was a genre commonplace in pre-revolutionary France, it’s less so nowadays – or so one would think. The recently released “A Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year...
Memories of one’s childhood are sometimes marked by the smell of new crayons, the taste of a freshly-opened Capri Sun or the presence of a special mentor. Through the Plum Grove Baptist Church after-school...
Daniil Proskura, a senior majoring in finance, travelled the 4,999 miles between Estonia to the United States without knowing a word of English. His form of communication? Tennis. The junior athlete was...
Whenever someone gets Netflix for the first time, they inevitably succumb to binge watching. Whether it’s “Parks and Recreation” or “Orange Is the New Black,” putting energy toward one particular...
For many Chipotle regulars in the Tuscaloosa area, there will be one fewer option on the menu. The Southwest cuisine-based restaurant has cut carnitas, a seasoned style of braised pork, from the menu in...
While patients and prescriptions are typically associated with doctors’ offices, the local Wellness Walls for Art program, founded last year, continues to tack on paintings to this list with their current...
“Fishes of Alabama,” an exhibition containing over 50 original illustrations by acclaimed artist Joseph Tomelleri, is being featured at The University of Alabama’s gallery in the Dinah Washington...
In the confines of my parents’ home, and in hundreds of other students’ no doubt, is an archaic bookshelf tucked away in a corner, the books citing copyrights from the 80s. While the contents differ...
By Margaret Wilbourne | Contributing Writer Students are invited to learn the ancient art of macrame at the new ARTifacts DIY series sponsored by Creative Campus. Macrame, often incorporated in table...
By Margaret Wilbourne | Contributing Writer The University of Alabama’s Department of Theatre and Dance will offer a twist on classic Shakespeare in its upcoming production of “Twelfth Night,”...
On the morning of Thursday, November 13, a fire broke out at the UA Aquatic Center located on the University of Alabama's campus, according to Cathy Andreen, Director of Media Relations for the University....
Thirty years years marks how long Tuscaloosa’s Arts Council has sponsored the West Alabama Juried Arts Show. The show is open to residents of West Alabama, a total of 11 counties, including Tuscaloosa....
For Keelan Vaughn, the question of his citizenship takes more to answer than simply pulling out his passport. Vaughn, a sophomore majoring in environmental engineering and German, is in the process of...
Literature courses: Whether required for your major or for an elective, you’re likely to run into one, and if you are a procrastinator, you’re likely to hate one – even if you like reading. The first...
As the temperatures drop, Tuscaloosa residents wrapping themselves in wooly sweaters will be joined by local trees Sunday. “Referred to as ‘yarn bombing,’ it’s a natural, non-permanent art installation...
Muhammad Farooq is an international student hailing from Pakistan who is currently pursuing a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering. Farooq has made the nearly 8,000-mile trek to Tuscaloosa...
Between 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, students could find a red tent set up on the Quad with students beneath announcing, “Save the Quad squirrels” and handing out fliers and T-shirts. Tess Severin,...
The teleportation of sound is something far from visible as Beats, earbuds and subwoofers increasingly pound the newest bass drops and guitar riffs into listeners’ ears. In an upcoming performance, a...
There’s a typical path for the people who consider themselves readers.The first milestone, after ABCs have been learnt, is the time when fifth graders start reading eighth grade level work to maximize...
When October rolls around, leaves start falling, and people begin pulling out their pink gear for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Magenta, bubble gum, rose – all shades permeate the season. Advertisements,...
Michael Austin looks around his bedroom walls, gesturing to the matted posters of famous musicians and names his musical inspirations off one-by-one. “There’s Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra, Stevie...
On Thursday around 6 p.m. a motor vehicle vs. pedestrian accident occurred at the crosswalk on the northbound side of Campus Drive, between Hackberry Lane and Shelby Hall. A student of The University...
Evolution might be more in Darwin’s sphere of study, but it’s nothing new to the entertainment world. For TV aficionados, options to record favorite shows were born as VCRs, which evolved to Tivo and...
Close to 20 people are gathered in a semi-circle in a large room, their boldly-marked white and gray faces staring intently as they listen to directions from Joey Lay, artistic director of Tuscaloosa’s...
As an independent pedicab driver in Tuscaloosa, Jackson Downing is used to outlandish requests from his patrons. On a particularly memorable Friday, one passenger asked Downing to serve as his getaway...
When Maggie Smallwood and Kayla Foust strode into their electrical engineering seminar the first week of class, they found themselves the only women in a class of over 50 people. The two, both juniors...
By Margaret Wilbourne | Contributing Writer Walking among the cubicles and desks in Rodgers Library, hushed murmurs of the foreign-sounding “organic” and “o-chem” are not a rarity. For many...
The University of Alabama is renowned for the outreach its students perform after their college years, though few can say they find themselves 5,491 miles away in Novi Pazar, Serbia, shortly after graduation.Novi...
For Tuscaloosa citizens and UA students, the colorful world of artists, musicians, visual performers and writers has been kept contained under what Kevin Ledgewood, the publicist for the Tuscaloosa Arts...
Athletes lace up their cleats, researchers flip on their microscopes and artists open their sketchbooks. Every discipline has an accessory necessary for success, and for students in The University of Alabama’s...
Tuscaloosa residents will have the chance for more than a Throwback Thursday to welcome them back for the first week of fall semester. Mellow Mushroom will be hosting Way Back Wednesday on Wednesday,...
The last time New York was notably represented in Alabama, a certain cousin named Vinny was mixing things up in a southern courtroom. Today, the Big Apple is finding a whole new way to represent itself...
On the fourth floor of the Galleria Kaufhaus in Berlin, just off of the Alexanderplatz Hauptbahnhof, lies a typical section for department stores: the athletic wear. Marking this one different from most...
When Franki Wangen looks down at her phone, she’s not surprised to see a text from a friend telling her she’s been mentioned again on a Yik Yak post. She looks at a guy at a neighboring table and wonders...
When assistant professor Nathan Parker assigned self-portraits to his advanced creative writing class, he said he knew he could expect something different from Will Gillette. What he didn’t expect was...
The Literacy Council of West Alabama reports that one in four Alabama residents are functionally illiterate. Leadership Tuscaloosa is hoping to change that statistic by hosting Bargains for Books, a garage...
Tess Severin, a University of Alabama sophomore from Illinois majoring in finance, is an active member of Alpha Kappa Psi. Rhys Butler, her boyfriend, is a junior studying telecommunication and film who...
When Olivia Hodges is finishing up a late night bartending at The Houndstooth on the Strip, she unlocks her phone and begins to let the stress of bartending for college students melt away. She’s not...
When students set sail to college, many find themselves alone and free to establish themselves away from their families. Others, however, have the support of a sibling, sometimes whether they like it or...
Sexual assault is often as much a psychological attack as it is a physical one, and talking or expressing feelings can be extremely difficult for victims. For the 12th year running, the University’s...
Three inches is close to the size of the average golf tee, travel-sized toothpaste and the maximum width, length and height of a miniature book, as dictated by the Miniature Book Society. Ninety-six of...
Helping to grow a love of gardening throughout the community has always been the mission of local non-profit organization Druid City Garden Project. Since its creation in 2010, the group has organized...
When the Saturday of spring break dawns, campus is devoid of students as they head to their vacation destinations. While many opt for the Florida beach fronts of Panama City or Destin, others choose alternatives...
After Russian forces entered Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, rhetoric from U.S. and European officials have ignited deep divides between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian factions. Despite a distance of more...
When Jake Bell sees bananas in a bowl at Starbucks, he can’t help but ask the barista if these are a new addition. She replies yes. They’re even in the smoothies now. His satisfaction is apparent –...
With the onset of warmer weather, students begin to repopulate the outdoors, and the trees quickly become adorned with colorful hammocks. “I call them the hammock villages. People stack them, like,...
“Mad Men,” Wayfarers and vinyl records are all linked by one common thread: a growing popularity driven by vintage appeal. Often the search for good vintage venues is thought of as a large endeavor,...
Julep is not like all of the other dogs that roam the Quad with their owners when the weather warms for the first time in February. Julep is a Westminster Dog Show ribbon holder, and her owner Brenna Potash...
Groggily waking up to darkness and smoke, Reba Sikder found herself trapped among the rubble of what was the biggest factory collapse in the history of the garment industry. That was April 24, 2013. Ten...
When Larry Bowen leaves his office in Osband Hall at the end of the day, it’s only a few steps away to his apartment in Harris Hall, traditionally known for housing students. Bowen is the associate...
Chase Bodiford sits talking about his anthology of British poets that’s back in his dorm room in Paty Hall while sipping his cinnamon latte from Starbucks, the only clue to who he is being the guitar...
When someone begins a 5k, 10k or 15k, they hear the gunshot and begin to walk, jog or run. They keep running until the race is finished. For those who enter the Spartan Race, whether to compete in a 5k...
Though Earl Tilford earned his Ph.D. in American and European military history at George Washington University, Tilford still admits that his first love is Southern history, particularly Southern history...
With the timeworn New Year’s resolution of weight loss comes an annual increase in ads for fad diets such as Jenny Craig or Nutrisystem. While advertisements for these “Lose 12 in 12” diets have...
Students are flocking to the gym to get in shape and slim down as they try to meet their New Year’s resolutions and prepare for spring break; but the goal of weight loss is not an easy goal to meet,...
For the eighth year in a row, Mary Cesar, owner of Northport’s Mary’s Cakes and Pastries, is taking twenty pans of bread pudding out of her ovens and serving 4,000 people. Cesar and her staff are...
While others are grabbing their licenses and keys to get ready to go out to the bars on the Strip, Brett Hodinka is reaching for his mixer and his computer. When others have been thinking all Friday about...
In order to showcase student artwork, the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center will house Creative Co-Op’s first off-campus gallery showing titled “Branching.” The Cultural Arts Center took the...
For freshmen and other dorm inhabitants, the question of dorm design can be the same as deciding a major: go glamorous or go functional? Most dorm dwellers scope out Target or look online at PB Teen...
In celebration of International Education Week, Honors College Assembly will be hosting a Bollywood movie night on Monday, Nov. 11, where students can see “Three Idiots,” the highest grossing Bollywood...
The weekend football scene in Tuscaloosa, especially on the day that the Tide plays the LSU Tigers, would be incomplete without a fair amount of Rotel, smack-talk and live music. Teenage Daddy, a Birmingham-based...
A seventh-generation Southerner and descendant of a slave owner, Margaret Wrinkle was born into the “racially charged” year of 1963, just on the cusp of the civil rights movement, and said she feels...
In the fall of 2010, a group of students met in the basement of Nott Hall to piece together the foundation for UADM, a student organization that raises money for Children’s of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham...
Dry ice fog, candles reminiscent of a séance and costumed individuals howling to the moon greeted students who attended Creative Campus All Hallows Happening Tuesday at the Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation...
Awed expressions mix with confused stares as students passing through the Quad are met with a circus of bowling pins flying through the air or unicycles zipping across sidewalks. But these are not acts...
The University of Alabama’s International Student Association will be combining food and fashion in their “International Food and Flair” event Friday in the hopes of bringing together international...
For those seeking to add an original flair to their dorm space or apartment while supporting University of Alabama student artists in the process, look no further than Creative Co-Op. Founded by senior...
Five University of Alabama Army ROTC juniors, at least three of whom had never previously been out of the country, experienced deployment without combat this summer as they journeyed around the globe to...
People can blog for an infinite array of reasons, but for some students at The University of Alabama, blogging can provide focus, personal clarity and a way to improve one’s writing. More specifically,...
At the beginning of the month the Bama Theatre launched their Bama Art House Fall Film Series, a collection of eight films designed to garner interest in the cinema. The eight movies billeted have been...
People often say diversity is the spice of life, but to a group of students at The University of Alabama, diversity represents something a little sweeter. Diverse Desserts is a campus organization sponsored...
The exhibit “Call and Response,” on display from April 17 to May 10, features student work responding to various art pieces in the Paul R. Jones collection. “In music, call and response refers to...
The infamous image of the “starving artist,” surrendering all cares to pursue and finance their art, is a persona to which most artists can relate. But every other year for a group of graduating...
Through the Doors, a campuswide commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the desegregation of The University of Alabama, is being represented visually at the Paul R. Jones Gallery in Tuscaloosa. The art...
The Honors College will be hosting “Art Speaks,” a student-run art exhibit featuring not only art, but the artists, for the third time Tuesday night. “Five artists will be featured and will talk...
As the trend of seeking out local food continues to grow this spring, more people are heading to farmer’s markets and resident farms for fresh fruits and vegetables as an alternative to the import-controlled...
Students will have a chance to prove their filming expertise and creativity by submitting their creations to the Black Warrior Film Festival. The event will showcase short films, music videos, commercials...
For many students living on campus, dining halls are a staple, and a quick, easy meal between dorm life and classrooms. For some students, though, food allergies can cause dining hall experiences to be...
A sponsor interest meeting to promote a “UNITY Rave” is being held on Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. in Lloyd Hall, Room 38. The event has been proposed by the Association of Residential Communities and the First...
For many, college represents not just the struggle to manage extracurricular commitments and academics or to decide a major and minor, but also the transition to complete independence. Competition with...
For the next month, the master of arts thesis work of two UA graduate students will be showcased in the University’s Sella-Granata Art Gallery in a new exhibition called “Face Value.” The two students,...
While many students think of Lakeside Dining as an all-day food buffet, a small group of freshmen see it as an observation room. These anomalies belong to the one-hour credit, Freshman Learning Community...
