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There's more to these small wine retailers than just the bottles on their shelves. Here, the eight best wine shops in the U.S.

Roll Call, the city's newest rooftop bar and restaurant opens Friday evening on the top floor of the Alamite Hotel in the heart of downtown Tuscaloosa.

Courtesy of Wythe Press "Growing up in Alabama, I was well aware of the influence of the many talented architects at work in the state. We’ve had several generations of great classicists, but there is also a new generation of talent within our region fluent in a language that combines aspects of the more familiar historical architecture with a dash of vernacular charm and fingerprints of modernism," says Austin. "As Ken Pursley says in the book, it’s an architecture that dumps together the Lego sets of modernism and classical architecture, and the alchemy therein produced is quite magic...

Copy Although the use of arches in architecture dates back to the 2nd millennium B.C., it was the Romans who solidified them as both an engineering element and a symbol of military victories, which we now see excessively as memorial arches. Shortly after, different civilizations and cultures adopted the arch for their own purposes, bridging together structural necessity and aesthetics. In this article, we look at how arches evolved from significant structural elements to captivating decorative details. Similar to how the function of arches evolved throughout the years with different civilizat...