Insecure // ISSA RAE Reggie Allen September 11, 2017 Entertainment, Reviews 10 Comments Insecure // ISSA RAE Sometime around my sophomore year in college, a good friend of mine urged me to come to his place to watch a show he couldn't stop raving about. Aside from a shared interest in Glee,...
Book review//Sixteen and Counting Susan Ryder September 11, 2017 Entertainment, Reviews 13 Comments Book review//Sixteen and Counting The National Championships of Alabama Football Edited and with an Introduction by Kenneth Gaddy; Foreword by Bill Battle About the book Dramatic accounts of every...
9 Things to Do at The University of Alabama that aren’t Football Linda Johnson August 17, 2017 Entertainment, News & Sports 7 Comments 9 Things to Do at The University of Alabama that aren’t Football Despite attending the Capstone for two years, I can honestly say that I attended maybe a handful of Football games and that was only...
Dunkirk //A Fair War Movie Van Roberts August 17, 2017 Entertainment, Reviews 9 Comments Dunkirk //A Fair War Movie Traditional armchair generals should know Christopher Nolan's World War II epic "Dunkirk" has little to do with the battle of Dunkirk. You won't see German Panzer Corps careening...
Getting Out of the Mud Susan Ryder August 17, 2017 Entertainment, Reviews 15 Comments Getting Out of the Mud The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898–1928 Martin T. Olliff, Foreword by David O. Whitten Martin T. Olliff recounts the history of the...
Transformers // The Last Knight Van Roberts August 9, 2017 Entertainment, Reviews 8 Comments Transformers // The Last Knight “Armageddon” director Michael Bay’s extravagant, but preposterous, sci-fi, fantasy yarn “Transformers: The Last Knight” constitutes the fifth entry in the Hasbro...
Chris Young// I’m Comin’ Over Reggie Allen August 9, 2017 Entertainment, Music 12 Comments Chris Young// I’m Comin’ Over Chris Young is low key enough that if one hadn't paid attention to the country singles chart or a couple of significant creative developments in Young’s approach to...
Land of Water, City of the Dead Religion and Cahokia’s Emergence Susan Ryder August 9, 2017 Entertainment, Reviews 21 Comments Land of Water, City of the Dead Religion and Cahokia's Emergence Land of Water, City of the Dead explores the embodiment of religion in the Cahokia land and how places create, make meaningful, and transform...
JULY ACOUSTIC NIGHT WILL FEATURE THE MULLIGAN BROTHERS WITH SPECIAL GUESTS THE PARKERS Susan Ryder July 21, 2017 Arts, Entertainment 36 Comments JULY ACOUSTIC NIGHT WILL FEATURE THE MULLIGAN BROTHERS WITH SPECIAL GUESTS THE PARKERS The Arts Council of Tuscaloosa will present “An Evening with The Mulligan Brothers with Special Guests, The...
Mummy // It Takes a Monster To Defeat One Van Roberts July 21, 2017 Entertainment, Reviews 7 Comments Mummy // It Takes a Monster To Defeat One The latest incarnation of Universal Studios’ classic horror chiller “The Mummy” doesn’t deliver the same caliber of silly, scatterbrained shenanigans of the...