Culture — Page 12

A nearly 1,000-year-old collection of cave drawings is secretly embedded within North Alabama’s mountain range along the foothills of lower Appalachia. While researchers are keeping the cave’s location under wraps, […]

GUNTERSVILLE — Spring has sprung, and there’s no better place to enjoy the sunshine in North Alabama than at the new City Harbor at Lake Guntersville.  While some of the […]

DECATUR — Donna C. Coleman, Calhoun Community College alumna and founder/CEO of Huntsville’s Aetos Systems, will speak at this year’s commencement exercises, the school announced. More than 450 graduates are […]

HUNTSVILLE — Research to propel microsatellites and CubeSats will take a University of Alabama in Huntsville student to Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico this fall. Andrew Walsten, a native […]

HUNTSVILLE — Taking it “1×1,” country singer Jake Owen will take the stage Saturday to open Huntsville’s Orion Amphitheater for the 33rd annual Huntsville Classic Concert. Owen brings his Up […]

Stephen Tyler Davis proves you can go home again. The Huntsville native has been named the first artistic director of the Fantasy Playhouse Children’s Theater & Academy. “I am absolutely […]

HUNTSVILLE — U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) called for a drastic increase in the defense budget Wednesday to face growing threats from Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. Aderholt, who […]

Terrell Owens catches a pass during a FCF game.

The Fan Controlled Football League is a hidden gem amidst the revolving door of spring football leagues. I am a person who views Internet culture as an annoyance at best […]

HUNTSVILLE — NASA has recognized a new generation of potential space explorers who competed in the agency’s 28th annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge. The annual event challenges high school and […]

CULLMAN — A strawberry-filled day is planned for this weekend in downtown Cullman. Saturday’s annual Cullman Strawberry Festival promises plenty of strawberries but also a whole bushel of hometown fun […]

HUNTSVILLE — Never, perhaps, has a single industry been so negatively affected by unexpected circumstances as the local hospitality industry was during the pandemic. But it is on the comeback […]

Sheffield’s Ritz Theatre brings stage to screen

SHEFFIELD — The Ritz Theatre here opened in 1927 during the silent-movie era. This month, the movies scheduled for the big screen are anything but silent.  Every Thursday evening in […]

The best outdoor activities in North Alabama

With rolling green mountains, sparkling lakes, lush forests, and roaring rivers, “Alabama the Beautiful” is best experienced outdoors. Now that the weather has warmed and the days are longer, it’s […]

Two University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) space scientists who are research directors in a heliophysics DRIVE Science Center at Boston University (BU) in which UAH is a partner had […]

The University of North Alabama, the Shoals legislative delegation and the City of Florence broke ground this week on the school’s new 45,000-square-foot computing and mathematics building. The facility will […]

HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology has teamed up with Huntsville’s Urban Engine, a nonprofit specializing in innovation programs, to host the fifth HudsonAlpha Tech Challenge (HATCH). This year’s hackathon event will […]

Just as the Rocket City is about to launch a powerful music scene into orbit, University of Alabama in Huntsville alumna Danaё Xanthe Vlasse fired the first rocket when she […]

“Keep Huntsville Magical” is one of Fow Wow Design’s most popular T-shirts. Founder Johnathan Fowler said when he started in 2014, there weren’t a lot of local goods highlighting what […]

Screenshot of the NFL Draft

The SEC fan's guide to the NFL Draft

Why should SEC fans care about the NFL Draft? In the South, we love football. That’s not a secret. Whether it’s the NCAA national championship or a 2A slobberknocker between […]

Girls Inc. of Huntsville has received a Community Action Grant from META’s Huntsville Data Center for $15,000 to help support STEM education for Girl’s Inc.’s summer camp program. This grant, […]

New Century Technology Demo High School placed second among high schools based on US News & World Report’s new Best High Schools in Alabama. Five other high schools in North […]

PorchFest Five Points 2022

PorchFest Five Points is set for May 7 from 6-10 p.m., all along Pratt Avenue in downtown Huntsville. As the country began to emerge from a global pandemic at the […]

Parents and students have only until Friday, April 29, to nominate teachers for the What’s Pop’N Kernels of Knowledge campaign throughout the Huntsville, Madison City, Madison County, Decatur and Hartselle-area […]

The Brass Band of Huntsville will host the North American Brass Band Association (NABBA) Championship competition in the Von Braun Center’s (VBC) Mark C. Smith Concert Hall, Playhouse and North Hall […]