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East Union Elementary students and parents got a crash course in aerodynamics.

Twelve years ago, north Alabama leaders stood in front of a vacant parking lot on Second Avenue and dreamed of creating a space to introduce and expose Calhoun Community College

On the eve of Dream Weavers’ opening night of “Hello Dolly” this past summer, Caleb Baldwin and Gadge Wigginton discussed, for the umpteenth time, the state of theater in Decatur.

Take a nerdy florist assistant, psychotic dentist, doo-wop songs and an exotic plant with a carnivorous appetite to get a horror-comedy rock musical with an ominous warning.

Take a curious mermaid, a trusty flounder, an anxious crab, an evil octopus and, of course, a prince charming, to get a classic under-the-sea adventure.

The free movie we have as this week's Friday Fright Nights feature is the supernatural horror movie Dark Entities

 In the first-ever play commissioned by the Alabama Center for the Arts, acclaimed NYC playwright, Crystal Skillman explores the German Rocket Team that was instrumental in the development of the US Space Program turning the small farming community of Huntsville, Alabama into 'Rocket City, USA'.