For about 150 first-year students, the place they learn about The University of Alabama’s culture isn’t in Bryant-Denny Stadium, on the Quad or at Gorgas Library. In fact, it isn’t on campus at all....

Alabama Action gears up freshman honor students for campus and community involvement. It is a service learning initiative for 150 freshmen students and allows them to get familiar with campus, the community...

By Francie Johnson New York Magazine’s Jody Rosen coined the term “bro country” to describe the corner of country music devoted to tailgates, trucks and dirt roads. Bro country has been the genre...

Summer is coming to a close. Last-ditch road trip plans are being glued together, fall classes creep ever closer to your door, and the editor who asked me to write this is pressing for the column. Syllabus...

Can a song really change your life?In the movie “Garden State,” the character Sam, played by Natalie Portman, asks Andrew, played by Zach Braff, in the doctor’s office if he’ll listen to her music....

The Paul R. Jones Gallery of Art is providing audiences with a window into the South’s past through the photography of two Alabama natives, William J. Anderson and Prentice H. Polk. The exhibit, titled...

Jenny Lewis and Tom Petty, both fixtures of the super-hyphenated alt-country, alt-rock, country-rock scene that constitutes contemporary Americana, both release new albums today and both sets of new music...

It’s not everyday that college students get to hear the phrase, “sit back, relax and enjoy the show,” particularly because of relentless homework, cramming for exams or the exhaustion of daily life...

Bicycling a 1,900-mile journey is almost impossible for most, but for Dwight Lammon, it is only the beginning.With the hopes of raising $100,000 for Habitat for Humanity Tuscaloosa’s PedalHome, Lammon...

It was a hot summer day and mosquitos were running rampant as UA alumnus William Wells hiked up a mountain on the Appalachian Trail. He had run out of food the day before, and he had already hiked 15 miles...