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THE LAUGH TRACK // THE RETURN OF STAND-UP COMEDY TO TUSCALOOSA The laughs in Tuscaloosa have taken a hit in recent months. Beginning in 2013, Stand-Up Tuscaloosa was a collective of Tuscaloosa comedians,...

FOR LEGALIZATION // CARLY'S LAW IS HISTORY-MAKING In recent years, Alabama politics have been notoriously combative, slow-moving, and occasionally corrupt. However, there is one person able to unite Alabama...

PEE WEE'S PLAY SUIT // I HAD ONE BEFORE HE DID After many decades of living, loving and getting by, I’ve come to the conclusion that everybody feels cool at least once in a lifetime — maybe even...

CLOSING OF ALABAMA ABORTION CLINICS HAS CONSEQUENCES IN T-TOWN A steady rain poured from thick gray clouds on the morning of April 18 in Tuscaloosa, outside one of only two open abortion centers currently...

The immaculate cinematic adaptation of Veronica Roth’s futuristic bestseller “Divergent”, set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago, is neither as gripping nor as gritty as its literary counterpart.  I read the...

By Judah Martin   Most days if it’s not raining, you can hang a left at the red light next to the Alberta Winn Dixie, keep driving for a spell, and you’ll run right into Billy Carr. He’s on...

Jen Sorensen, whose editorial cartoons appear in the Planet Weekly,  was named the winner of the 2014 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Sorensen is the first female to win the Prize since it began in...

By Judah Martin Lynn Gregory was a little disappointed that she didn’t get to spend any one-on-one time with the residents of Aliceville Federal Correctional Institute. Gregory, 59, has lived in Greene...

By Ryan Phillips Thanks to a collective push by the local business community and citizens, the road has been paved in Tuscaloosa for unorthodox, yet appealing business models.  In one downtown...

By William Barshop Tuscaloosans are known to proclaim the town’s place in Civil War history by telling the story of the Union invasion on April 4, 1865. It’s a surviving seed of animosity for the...