Author Linda Johnson

OKRA FESTIVAL // ANNUAL EVENT SUSTAINS RURAL COMMUNITY by Amanda Burleigh The 14th annual Okra Festival will be held in Burkville, Alabama, on August 30 this year. What started as a neighborhood party...

SIMPSON'S "REPTILE ALIENS MADE OF LIGHT" // PROOF THAT COUNTRY'S MORE THAN BEER, BREAKUPS AND BIG-ASS TRUCKS by Jordan Cissell This is a quality album. Sturgill Simpson stuffed his first record, last...

LOCAL MUSIC – AUG 7 - AUG 22 THURSDAY AUGUST 7 Cooter Brown, Rhythm & Brews FRIDAY, AUGUST 8 Uri, Copper Top Another Hero, Rhythm & Brews Who Shot Lizzy?, Mike's...

T-TOWN & iTUNES // AFTER THE LIVE PERFORMANCE Every night in the bars and theaters of Tuscaloosa patrons can hear the sounds that define the musical landscape. Rock, folk, country, electronic and...

BREAKFAST / DINNER Brown Bag 9425 Jones Road | Northport // 333.0970 Its speciality, fried green tomatoes, joins barbecue plates and fish filets on an extended list of meats and vegetables. Tues...

FARM-TO-TABLE // THE FUTURE OF FOOD IS IN YOUR HANDS, MAYBE NOT THE FARMERS' “Shake the hand that feeds you,” a quote taken from Michael Pollen’s In Defense of Food: An Eaters Manifesto. Pollen’s...

UP-TO-DATE RESTAURANT LISTINGS BREAKFAST / DINNER Brown Bag 9425 Jones Road | Northport // 333.0970 Its speciality, fried green tomatoes, joins barbecue plates and fish filets on an extended list of...

FAN FOLLOWING // PHOTOGRAPHER INSPIRED BY THE BLUES // PW INSPIRED BY THE PHOTOG Staff from the Planet Weekly had the opportunity, recently, to attend a performance of the Debbie Bond Trio in the...

TUSCALOOSA'S TONEY BROOKS // "ENGENDERING SYNCHRONICITY" By Bridgett Trejo When one admires a butterfly in all its elegance and beauty, the transition it experienced seldom gives pause. The chrysalis that...

GONE FOREVER // WHERE DO PRESERVATIONISTS GO FROM HERE? By Anne R. Gibbons I was appointed to the Tuscaloosa Historic Preservation Commission for a three-year term in April 2011. I had been approached a...