“Something touched me deep inside the day the music died,” wrote musician Don McLean in the song “American Pie,” but those words easily describe the state of the music game genre.Like the musicians...

It’s a small world after all. Two students at The University of Alabama have been selected to perform in the Disneyland Resort All-American College Band, a tradition since 1971 that offers collegiate...

What one category can swallow the entire fat-packed, gut-busting, nap-inducing pill that is Southern food? For anyone who’s spent serious time south of the Mason-Dixon, a number of meals push to the...

The first time Jessica Hoffman, a sophomore majoring in special education, was called a slut, she was in the seventh grade.“I had no idea what the word truly meant,” she said. “I just knew that it...

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...

Music fans and novices alike will be entertained Thursday evening when both familiar and lesser-known classical tunes echo throughout the Moody 
Music Building.The concert will close the Huxford Symphony...

Linda Creek was planning to pursue a degree in special education at The University of Alabama when she was forced to drop out, get a job and take care of her family. Her mother was sick, 
and her father,...

With Coachella wrapping up this past weekend, festival season is upon us, bringing with it an abundance of fringe, artful denim and every shape of sunglasses imaginable. Embracing a relaxed, West Coast...

In the past few years, a trend has begun to take hold in the movie marketplace: the same-day, video-on-demand release. In this scenario, a film is released on both digital on-demand platforms and in theaters...

At 7:30 a.m. many college students are still asleep.At 7:30 a.m. many mornings last year, Scott Nagy was walking into a production meeting with the company’s professional engineering team. Nagy, an...

“Beat the Champ” is ostensibly an album about professional wrestling. But in crafting 45 minutes worth of songs about the spandex-clad world of big biceps and bigger egos, bandleader and lyricist John...