Author William Barshop

5 PEOPLE YOU DIDN’T KNOW SPENT TIME IN TUSCALOOSA CONDOLEEZZA RICE Condoleezza Rice served as the secretary of state for the US from 2005-2009 under George W. Bush. She was born in Birmingham, but resided...

SMOOTH AND PRISMATIC // ALABAMA SHAKES AMAZES ON "SOUND & COLOR" Jesus preached against wasting your five talents, and Alabama Shakes has ten or twenty to spare. The first and foremost is the big,...

SMOOTH AND PRISMATIC // ALABAMA SHAKES AMAZES ON "SOUND & COLOR" Jesus preached against wasting your five talents, and Alabama Shakes has ten or twenty to spare. The first and foremost is the big,...

YELLOWHAMMER FESTIVAL // GOOD VIBES AT THE ARBORETUM // Isn’t it about time Tuscaloosa had its own music festival? For a town so full of youth, talent and a healthy love for the arts, a unifying...

CARRIE & LOWELL // A TENDER EULOGY FROM SUFJAN STEVENS A Sufjan Stevens fan posted a screenshot of the comment box of Stevens’ website a few months back. Their message to Sufjan: “you hurt me so...

ALABAMA WORKS TOWARDS CLEANER WATER // ACTIVISTS TAKE ACTION By Preston Thompson and William Barshop When a catastrophic spill of coal ash plagued Kingston, Tenn. and Swan Pond, the toxic grey sludge...

BLACK NOTES // MARY WEEMS CHANNELS VOLUMES OF HISTORY Mary Weems begins her journey through black history with a Negro spiritual, sung low and mournful as she appears before a crowd in Gorgas Library at the...

BAAK GWAII // TEN YEARS OF HONEST ROCK WITH JHON SNOWDEN This is an attempt at a mullet,” said Jhon Snowden, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of Tuscaloosa band, Baak Gwai. “I think I’ll go for a...

JOE DEVITA IS LIVING HIS DREAMS // AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT Joe DeVita was 1,800 miles from home when a five-car collision almost left him paralyzed in Durango, Col. In hindsight, he called it “one of the...

EURYDICE // UA THEATRE BRINGS THE UNDERWORLD TO LIFE // REHEARSALS Braving the underworld to save a lost damsel may be the stuff of myths, but did you ever wonder what the damsel was doing that whole time?...