Mark Hughes Cobb

Perils of repetition: I'd love for the Liberty Mutual commercials actor — who I once heard as a semi-pleasant rumble -- to never be hired to speak again.

As malls vanish and public spaces change, we are talking less and feeling more isolated. Here is why it matters.

Visit Tuscaloosa CEO Kelsey Rush was named Alabama's Tourism Executive of the Year for her work boosting the local economy.

As University of Alabama students and family begin to fill city and campus streets, there's good news, and other news, about Greensboro Avenue, the main north-south artery in downtown Tuscaloosa.

A new Cajun and Creole restaurant named Cajian has opened in downtown Tuscaloosa.

The University of Alabama's Weeks of Welcome (WOW) will run from Aug. 16 to Oct. 10. Students will form a giant script "A" on the football field as part of the welcome events.

This week in West Alabama, Aug. 13-19, Druid City Ballet hosts an '80s dance party, as a fundraiser; Carrie Fitts hosts Moms and Mimosas to help introduced parents of UA freshman to the world outside campus; Bookstore Romance Day at Ernest & Hadley; horror-comedy film showing at the Bama, and more.

The 2026-27 TuscArts OnStage season at the Bama Theatre will feature a variety of tribute performances and theater productions.

If you wanted to know, you'd go. Don't micturate on quads and aver its precipitation. Admit: "I didn't want to."

Tuscaloosa leaders addressing an audience of about 380 people at the University of Alabama's Bryant Conference Center largely agreed on progress, concerns and processes during the Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama's annual State of the Community luncheon.