Lying on a luxury queen-sized bed within a tent, one thought comes to my mind: ‘Can I get those cicadas to sing a show tune?’

In “The Professor,” Bailey honed his craft, working eight years to learn how to write a successful thriller novel.

There are only two places on earth where the natural phenomenon called a jubilee occurs: the Fairhope area and Japan.

For those who bravely untangle last year’s Christmas lights, imagine covering an entire zoo or botanical garden with the illuminating bulbs.

It all started with a 1930s Shirley Temple doll for Mary Charles Robbins. Living in a home with no radio, before television, dolls provided her main entertainment. 

She was only five years old when she tentatively toddled over to the paleontologist to show him her dinner-plate sized find. He leaned in with a smile of patience, assuming it was just a rock. He flipped up his sunglasses for a better look. The fossil hunt was 20 minutes in and the smallest child […]

Far from the stodgy image of the large woman in a Viking helmet, this progressive company takes opera to the street, the bar, and the brewery.

Summer may turn a wildflower hike into a sauna, but there are plenty of creeks, caves, swimming holes and natural phenomena to make working up a sweat worthwhile. Our famed hydrangeas are in full bloom in every variety from climbing to giant foot-long blooms. Creature features include the largest emergence of bats east of the […]

“We were just stupid enough or crazy enough to think we could actually do it,” says Gary Jones, president of the Alabama Theatre Organ Society. “We knew we had to do it.” To most of us, the Alabama Theater is a masterpiece of Moorish design, velvet seats, and a massive stage. It is where we […]