Prattville – Serious issues are cropping up at Cooters Pond Park in Prattville. While surveying the upper level area of the park on Friday, several items in the picnic areas were found to be in either deteriorating or downright dangerous condition.
Of the utmost concern is an area of fencing that separates the park from the [...]
Montgomery – Branko Medenica, of Yugoslavian and German descent, designed and created the cast bronze memorial sculpture, Duty Called, located on the south lawn of the State Capitol in Montgomery. Branko used an actual police officer in Birmingham (where his studio is located) as the model for his creation.
Duty Called was made [...]
Beth Nielsen Chapman is a singer/songwriter who was born in Harlingen, Texas in 1956. Beth joined the rock group Harmony (previously called Harvest) in 1976. The band included Montgomerian Tommy Shaw (pre-Styx days) and they played at Kegler’s Kove, a small bar inside Bama Lanes on Atlanta Highway in Montgomery, Alabama.
Chapman has had many [...]
I remember the pain of growing up. If you looked up “awkward” in the dictionary, my picture was there. My older siblings were always involved with everything. My sister was class president and head cheerleader, and my brother was the star athlete. Both were popular kids. I was not sure what I [...]
Prattville – Now when you walk out of Penney’s at the High Point Town Center you can smell the delicious aroma of mom’s homemade cookies baking…only it isn’t mom who’s doing the cooking. It’s Tim Tidwell and crew at the new Nestle Toll House Café.
After working as a Human Resources manager for [...]
Montgomery – The Montgomery Campus of Troy University unveiled a bronze Trojan statue on January 21. It is a replica of the statue that Larry Strickland, Troy University Alumnus and artist, designed and created for the Troy Campus. Donated by Chinese artist Hou Bau Zhu, it sits on the Montgomery Campus Curry Commons area. [...]
Montgomery – The Davis Theatre originally opened its doors on January 25, 1930, as the Paramount Theatre. The era of sound had begun and the price of adult matinee admission was twenty-five cents.
The movie was shown from metal reels in the old style projectors and the film frequently broke, resulting in whistles [...]
Montgomery – The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts is the oldest fine arts museum in Alabama. It was established in 1930 by a group of local artists and patrons (under the name of the “Alabama Society of Fine Arts”) to exhibit and promote the work of Alabama artists.
The museum’s original home for the [...]
Montgomery – The Alabama Shakespeare Festival located in Montgomery in the Blount Cultural Park is the seventh largest Shakespeare festival in the world. It features about twelve to fourteen productions a year, typically including three works of William Shakespeare. Other new plays are sometimes presented with an emphasis on Southern themes.
Showing now is [...]
Prattville – Something can be said for the fact that one can bowl and play arcade games, then just walk a few steps to hear live music or to play poker.
The Blue Iguana is located at 1714 East Main Street in Prattville right between Bama Lanes and the Pratt Pub & Oyster Bar. [...]
