3+ week, 6+ day ago   (434+ words) The Gadsden Arts Center & Museum welcomed a standing room only crowd to celebrate 38th Art in Gadsden Juried Exhibition and hear award-winners announced on July 25. A longstanding regional tradition, the exhibition features contemporary artwork by artists from across North Florida, South…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1742+ words) Duane Allman was just 24 years old when he died in a 1971 motorcycle accident at an intersection in Macon, Georgia. Although his life was cut tragically short, the Allman Brothers Band leader left behind an amazing musical legacy. Since then, Allman's…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (678+ words) Get more from AOL Protection, support, and more. Pick what works for you. Under the sizzling summer heat, nearly 2,500 of students at the University of Alabama learned which sorority had chosen them during Bid Day. Depending on where you measure…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (302+ words) Montgomery native Laurel Taylor has advanced in “America’s Got Talent” and will perform live on Tuesday, August 18. Taylor is part of the Country Trap duo ‘Butter & Grit’, along with guitarist Luke Michael. They will next perform on ‘AGT Live Shows…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (770+ words) Soren Kierkegaard famously wrote, “Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it.” He kept going—“do this or that, either way you’ll regret it”. That insight feels relevant today because modern life is engineered to…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (812+ words) The Decatur Book Festival will be returning for its 21st anniversary Oct. 2-3 in downtown Decatur. The festival announced the first 16 names of more than 70 authors set to present this year. Tareasa “Reesa Teesa” Johnson, “What (TF) Do I Do Now?: Reclaiming…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (484+ words) The bronze sculpture will take centre stage at the Florence museum Italian Ministry of Culture, National Archaeological Museum of Florence It is as fierce as it is fearsome. The mythic Chimaera was as captivating to the Etruscans who crafted the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1086+ words) “I kept reading how you have to wait to sing this big repertoire,” Brownlee said. But there was one bit of Wagner — Wolfram’s “Song to the Evening Star” from “Tannhäuser” — that’s “a little bit lighter. I figured it was more…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (219+ words) A student at Auburn University isn’t regretting using a picture of him standing with U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville as an ad for his landscaping business, despite some of the pushback he received when the post went viral. “Hey, my name…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (934+ words) Shaded by the towering cypress trees that frame his property in the hills outside Florence, the hum of crickets buzzing from the green canopy, Jacopo Spadolini contemplates the villa that has been home to four generations of his family over…...