The World Games announced that legendary R&B and pop singer Lionel Richie, a Tuskegee native, was added to its lineup of entertainment for the games’ closing ceremonies. Richie will headline the grand finale of the World Games on July 17 with a lineup of other Alabama music icons. This will be Richie’s first performance in […]

Chuck Yarbro, Jr. has experienced things he never thought possible. A Christian for many years, He had never truly encountered the Lord as he did on our recent trip to Brazil. A successful businessman in Washington State, he would have told you before that business was his calling and ministry was for other people. However, […]

If you’re obsessed with pop culture, style trends, and avant-garde fashion like me, then you were probably tuned in to the a-list arrivals on the red-carpeted stairs of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for last night’s annual Met Gala. For those less interested in the status of Kim and Pete’s new romance, there was still […]

Now that a multiyear effort to restore, enhance and protect the shoreline habitats of the “Seafood Capital” of Alabama is complete, state and local leaders are turning their attention to an economic development project in Bayou La Batre they believe will transform the community for generations to come. Details of the Bayou La Batre City Docks Redevelopment Project were […]

As Birmingham and Jefferson County communities finish preparation for The World Games 2022, workers are in the final stages of completing City Walk BHAM, a downtown linear park that will serve as the central gathering place and entertainment venue for athletes, visitors and residents attending the international event. “It’s been pretty exciting, watching it all come together,” […]

Afternoon sun streams through a big bay window, putting a natural spotlight on a thick stack of rosemary-scented ham and creamy whipped butter on an hours-out-of-the-oven baguette. It deserves the attention. It’s the French Pig sandwich and one of the offerings that draws a steady stream of folks – locals and otherwise – to Tallassee’s Grove […]

At age 4, Tracy Whitfield’s son Reggie was diagnosed with autism. She was told Reggie would have echolalia, the unsolicited repetition of vocalizations made by another person. But Tracy and her father worked with her son to help him cope with his condition. He was able to graduate from Tuscaloosa’s Hillcrest High School in 2020 and is […]

My 10-year-old grandson asked me to join in an Easter egg hunt. “I’ll versus you,” he said. I was puzzled until my daughter explained this means “challenge.” “It’s slang,” his 12-year-old brother added. He did “versus” me, and miraculously, he won, and claimed the five-dollar prize! Every generation has slang, defined as a shorthand understood by […]

Bob Sykes Bar-B-Q is much more than a beloved family business. It’s a restaurant that honors a storied Southern culinary tradition of food and fire. Bob Sykes Bar-B-Q also is a fixture in the greater Birmingham area and even beyond – bringing diverse crowds of diners from the metro area, and all over the country, to […]

Residents of historic North Titusville in Birmingham will soon welcome new neighbors to the community’s first Smart Neighborhood: Live on 1st. Live on 1st was officially dedicated today as part of a partnership between Navigate Affordable Housing Partners and Alabama Power. Navigate Affordable Housing Partners is a nonprofit engaged in developing, owning and managing affordable housing, and Live on 1st […]

Next month, Alabamians will have the opportunity to wish a happy 100th birthday to retired U.S. Army Sgt. Victor Butler, one of the oldest surviving Tuskegee Airmen. The Rhode Island resident and World War II veteran was part of the legendary “Red Tails” who served in the 332nd Fighter Group for the then-U.S. Army Air […]

Former Auburn University basketball player Gary Godfrey is thankful to feel the wind in his face again after completing his third Bo Bikes Bama event. Godfrey, a 1986 industrial engineering graduate, in 2019 was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, which destroys nerve cells in the brain and spinal […]

Alabama’s Caleb Hicks was invited to the White House earlier this month to participate in the president’s annual Easter Egg Roll. Hicks was not just invited to participate but was given a leadership role (no pun intended) in helping manage the egg hunt section of this event. He and his fiancé, Katie Phillips, both worked […]

It was unique in the history of telephone calls. She asked the ministry assistant if she could talk with the pastor and we connected. “I won’t give my name,” she said, so I conversed with this unknown person for some time. She explained she was married to an area pastor, and her husband thought he […]

Investigators at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are enrolling patients in an international trial of a promising new drug for Lou Gehrig’s disease – amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Preliminary studies reported last year indicate the drug, masitinib, may help prolong overall survival by up to two years. The new study will enroll more than 400 patients from countries […]

Seventy-five years after breaking the “color barrier” as major league baseball’s first black player, Jackie Robinson remains at least passingly familiar to most Americans. In a career that lasted from 1947 through 1956 – all with the Brooklyn Dodgers – Robinson was unquestionably great. He appeared in six All-Star games, won the National League’s Rookie […]

It’s an unusual relationship – between a soft-spoken, Alabama-based graphic artist and a long-dead New York photographer who once was renowned for “cheesecake” pinups of showgirls and portraits of Hollywood stars, but who has faded into almost complete obscurity. And yet, Clyde Adams can’t get photographer Murray Korman out of his head, driving Adams along a nearly-decade-long […]

After five years in the heart of downtown Birmingham, Pizitz Food Hall has become a mainstay among the weekday lunch crowd, as well as weekenders enjoying a day of activity in the Magic City. The bustling building hosts an array of businesses, ranging from the state’s only Warby Parker outpost to a full bar and an independent […]

Tim James is running for governor of the state of Alabama with principles based on faith, family, and freedom. In this episode, he details what he believes is a critical point in our state and nation’s history by explaining how Alabama, with God’s help, can achieve its full potential while maintaining the freedoms we hold […]

The wind in my face was bitterly cold in downtown Dallas a few years ago since the winter weather was yet lingering. My continuing education classes had ended at the seminary in nearby Ft. Worth, so the afternoon was free for some sightseeing. A chill came over me independent of the temperature when I walked […]

A couple of cats can produce a litter that, over the course of the next six years, can balloon to 70,000 offspring if none of them are ever spayed or neutered. It’s part of the battle facing animal shelters across Alabama, including Shelby Humane in Columbiana. The staff of 43 is awaiting the annual spring influx of puppies […]

A volunteer cleanup at Double Cove Park at Lake Logan Martin has put some springtime shine on this public recreation space, just in time for Earth Month. The group of 18 volunteers gathered for a public cleanup day and focused on picking up trash throughout the park, around pavilions and along the shoreline and hiking trails that […]

The scandal rocked the nation for two years. It was the origin of the “gate” reference to most every other scandal and the genesis of my interest in presidential history. Intruders entered the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington’s Watergate Hotel on June 17, 1972. Investigators linked the burglars to the president’s reelection committee. President […]

Crack! The solids and stripes scatter across the table in all directions. Ed Gill is shooting pool, and his opening breaks for 8-ball and 9-ball games are as strong – and as accurate – as those of many of his competitors, who are one, two and even three generations younger. So are his long shots […]