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Viewing our world through Sam Sax’s poetry
6 minute readWet leaves plastered cracked, gray sidewalk. The Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center’s bulb-lit sign glowed in the dim. Downtown Tuscaloosa was quiet on Tuesday, October 21, the night Sam Sax came to west Alabama to read poetry as part of the university’s Visiting Writers Series.
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Becky Nurse of Salem finds home at Theatre Downtown
6 minute read · Ruhl’s Becky is not so much a condemnation of Miller’s Crucible as it is a companion, challenging the original’s ideas of women’s reproductive health, opioid addiction, grief, and political witch hunts in a timely production by Theatre Downtown.
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Fragments of history in the Jones Archeological Museum
5 minute read · We check in with the Moundville Archaeological Park and Museum at a crucial moment in its 800 years as a cultural site in western Alabama.