Culture — Page 12

Paul Gradl, a principal engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center here in Huntsville, won the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ 2022 Premier Award for Engineer of the Year. […]

Can you dig it? CoalFest weekend comes to Brilliant

BRILLIANT — A communitywide coal mining festival will kick off in Brilliant this month. CoalFest pays tribute to the roots of the coal mining industry with two days of family […]

HUNTSVILLE — The 2022 Southern Fried Film Festival takes center stage at the new Orion Amphitheater in June. Tickets are on sale for the four-day-long event. After the June 9 […]

Orion Amphitheater opens tonight with First Waltz

HUNTSVILLE — Upon first impression, the Orion Amphitheater is a song within itself. Standing outside the gates this bright, sunny morning, you can imagine the sound of musicians tuning their […]

HUNTSVILLE — You can’t help but wonder what Benjamin Franklin would think. Blue Origin’s private foundation, Club for the Future, basically establishes a send and pickup mail service to and […]

Have a Blast (Music) at the library

Stop letting that robot tell you what to listen to! I know. I get it. I am just as guilty as you are. It is so simple. Pick a song […]

Less than a year since the NCAA policy went into effect, the Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) system is already completely out of control. Does it matter? In a sport […]

Huntsville is “The Rocket City” due to Dr. Wernher von Braun’s work here. But why Huntsville? And who came up with the nickname? The truth is, we narrowly missed the […]

HUNTSVILLE — It is an electric week for the Rocket City leading up to this weekend’s much-anticipated opening of the Orion Amphitheater at MidCity. As the internationally known performers arrive […]

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 […]