By Rubin E. Grant The past year has been something of a roller coaster ride for Vestavia Hills senior Kaylee Dressback. It began last March when schools closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Alabama High School Athletic Association was forced to cancel the remainder of its spring sports seasons. Dressback, a standout soccer player for the Rebels, was thoroughly … [Read more...]
2021 OTMJ All-OTM Girls Basketball: Lady Bucs’ Kelly Completes Redemption Season With Player of the Year Honor
By Rubin E. Grant Perhaps no one on the Hoover girls basketball team took the Lady Bucs’ narrow 47-44 loss to Spain Park in the 2020 Class 7A championship game harder than Reniya Kelly. This season, Kelly wanted to make sure Hoover wouldn’t have another disheartening end to their season. The sophomore guard and team co-captain played like someone on a mission throughout the … [Read more...]
2021 OTMJ All-OTM Boys Basketball: Versatile Crawford Helps Put Spain Park Back on Track and Earns Top Player Honor
By Rubin E. Grant Cam Crawford wanted to play basketball so badly when he was a small boy that his mom fudged on his age so he could. “I was 3 years old and the league in Trussville said you had to be 4 to be able to play. So when my mom registered me, she said I was 4,” Crawford said with a laugh while recalling the story. Thus began a journey that culminated this season … [Read more...]
Birmingham Museum of Art Becomes Alabama’s First Certified Sensory Inclusive Art Museum
KultureCity has partnered with the Birmingham Museum of Art to make the museum and all its programs and events sensory inclusive certified. This new initiative will promote an accommodating and positive experience for all guests and fans with a sensory issue that visits the Birmingham Museum of Art. The certification process entailed the staff at the BMA being trained by … [Read more...]
Fruit Forward: BMA Museum Ball Chairs Put a Focus on American Art Collection
By Emily Williams-Robertshaw For the Birmingham Museum of Art, it’s Museum Ball 2020 Take 2. The event was canceled last year because of COVID-19. But mother-daughter pairings Sallie Johnson and Sumner Johnson Rives, along with Garland Smith and Lindsay Smith Puckett will be co-chairs of the event, as they were meant to be last year. The chairs are looking forward to … [Read more...]