Archive for: July, 2010

Battle of the Bands at Jupiter comes to an end

The final round of the Battle of the Bands 2010 at Jupiter Bar and Grill will be held tonight. The contest has been ongoing since July 8, said Jeremiah Jones, owner of the Jupiter Bar and Grill. There were eight bands that entered the contest with one band from each week continuing to the final [...]

Them Natives: Tuscaloosa’s experimentalists

Tuscaloosa duo Them Natives, on their grimy MySpace page, offer two helpful approximations of their sound. “It’s like Weezer tied to a U-boat during the Civil War,” writes someone. Elsewhere, simply: “cats in heat.” The prose-laden webpage smacks with heady fluster, cultlike in its sincerity, almost literary in its execution. Bizarre imagistic run-ons, pseudo-spiritual rhetoric, [...]

Facility workers keep UA afloat

Though some students rarely think of how buildings’ floors stay clean or how the power comes back on after a storm, there are men and women who make their living working at the University, but they are not part of the administration, nor are they teachers. For keeping buildings clean, maintaining landscaping and making sure [...]

UA students moving off campus

For thousands of University students, the initial magic of dorm life they feel on move-in day has turned into a dull existence by the end of the year. Fortunately for these students, Crimson Choice and the Tuscaloosa community offer many options for those wishing to move off campus for the rest of their time at [...]

Battle of the Bands at Jupiter concludes

The final round of the Battle of the Bands 2010 at Jupiter Bar and Grill will be held tonight. The contest has been ongoing since July 8, said Jeremiah Jones, owner of the Jupiter Bar and Grill. There were eight bands that entered the contest with one band from each week continuing to the final [...]

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