2019-03-08 17:16
Nearly 80 years after Walker Evans and James Agee shined a light on life in Hale County, Alabama, Greensboro and its environs are taking center stage again, this time in RaMell Ross’ O… Read More
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2019-03-01 17:12
Jarrett Key knows how to make an entrance. You’ll hear him before you see him. After straightening his hair with a hot comb, like his grandmother used to do, putting it up in a ponytai… Read More
2019-02-22 05:09
High-tech space travel and down-home hospitality have seemingly little in common, but for Bradley Dean, owner and creative director of Bradley Dean Creative Services, they both serve as sour… Read More
2017-12-07 23:08
Marcia Weber wasn’t supposed to be a gallery owner. Her plan was to teach.
But while working at the Montgomery Museum of Art, that plan went by the wayside.
The Corcoran Gallery in Was… Read More
2017-12-01 20:47
Like everyone in New Orleans, Brandan “Bmike” Odums’ life was changed forever by Hurricane Katrina.
Odums is a natural-born artist who was encouraged to pursue art early on… Read More
2017-10-27 22:51
Elliott McPherson has a word of advice for kids out there dreaming of becoming rock stars. Don’t.
“I don’t know that I would advise a young child to aspire be a rock star… Read More
2017-10-18 21:49
When Jeanie Thompson attended a holiday party at the Mount Meigs campus of the Alabama Department of Youth Services (DYS) in 1997, she was probably expecting non-alcoholic eggnog and cookies… Read More
2017-09-23 22:19
Most artists spend their lives trying to get to New York or Los Angeles. For Garland Farwell, it was the opposite. For the Los Angeles native, and sometime New Yorker, light bulbs of inspira… Read More
2017-08-24 22:34
If you drive around downtown Opelika, you’ll probably notice that you keep seeing the same green sign over and over. The signs are fairly small and affixed to the outside of old cotton… Read More
2017-08-03 17:21
Standing in front of 3614 Jackson Highway, it’s easy to believe that this small brick building was once a coffin factory. It’s a little harder to imagine that it was once one of… Read More
2017-05-23 18:54
Standing in front of The Sound Wall in downtown Opelika, it’s hard to imagine that just over a year ago this place was in shambles. Google maps still show 605 Avenue B in its primal s… Read More
2017-05-07 06:16
With Mother’s Day fast approaching, you may be tempted to grab some generic item from a big-box retailer for the special women in your life. But if you’re anywhere near Tuscaloo… Read More
2017-04-12 17:25
There have been a lot of rock stars with ties to the Shoals area of Alabama, but none quite like Tom Hendrix. But unlike the Rolling Stones and the Black Keys, Hendrix’s medium was no… Read More
2017-03-02 22:01
If it’s Friday night in Seale, Alabama, you can be certain that the Possum Trot is packed. After all, it’s kinda sorta the only place in town that’s even open. Plus, the… Read More
2017-01-05 16:11
I have a lot of favorite Charles Bukowski poems. There’s one called “Oh, yes” that ends:
And there’s nothing worse
than
too late.
The morning of January 4, 2014, I w… Read More
2016-10-18 03:03
For most people, being passed by would be sort of a bummer. But for Scott Peek, owner of the design/print shop Standard Deluxe, it was an excuse to throw a party.
In the year 2000, the St… Read More
2016-09-27 03:16
You might expect the owner of an Alabama racetrack — especially the one nicknamed the “Daytona of Dirt” — to be all rah rah and amped up, bu… Read More
2016-03-26 02:46
The first time I went to Jerry Brown Pottery I was trying to make it from Alabama to Mississippi before nightfall. I hate road tripping at night because you can’t see anything, so what… Read More
2013-11-15 03:11
I don’t exactly remember the first time I went to Alabama. It was sometime after my first trip to Mississippi (2001) and before the movie “Sweet Home Alabama” came out (200… Read More
2013-11-07 05:16
Driving through the cemetery the other night got me thinking about time I’ve spent in New Orleans.
Some of that time was devoted to petitions and offerings at St. Louis No. 1. One vis… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Two things passed thru my inbox this morning. One, was a piece written by woman from NY or LA letting the world know about some of the things she’s learned about the South (e.g. it&rsq&hell…Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
March 2001: Today is about choices. There’s a sign in our hotel room telling us that the water is brown because the Great Mississippi River runs underground straight through town, but… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Alabama Chanin introduced a DIY Stag T-shirt kit last week. It immediately reminded me of this piece from Walton Creel’s “Deweaponizing The Gun” series which is created wit… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
R.C. Hagans is an Auburn-based multidisciplinary visual artist, an MMA fighter and the son of a minister. He’s currently enjoying one of the most prolific times in his career as an art… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Every year at the end of July, I start thinking about Dusty Tittle. I met Dusty in 2001 while on a road trip from St. Louis to New Orleans. Traveling along the Great River Road […] Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I got an email from a dead man today. His name was Bobby Ray Stewart and he was known to his friends as “HI-WAY,” a rapper and a member of the Outcast Motorcycle Club in [&hellip&hell…Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Rebecca Hubbard spends weekend nights on the streets of Uptown Columbus, GA. The Lord led her there so she could tell the people to give their life to Jesus. Stranger things have happened to… Read More
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