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January 17, 2025

What's Happening in Alabama

Alabama Life And Culture

Acting legend, Laurence Olivier’s widow, dead at 95

Her career spanned 60 years.

By Mark Heim | mheim@al.com

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Alabama Life And Culture

‘A smouldering mass of brick and stone’: The ruins of Alabama’s capitol, burned in 1923

Alabama's second statehouse was built in 1826 when Tuscaloosa became the capital city. It was destroyed by fire in 1923.

By Kelly Kazek | kkazek@al.com

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Alabama Life And Culture

This store only sells goods made in Alabama, and it’s got just about everything

Everything sold in Prattville's Everything Alabama gift shop has one thing in common -- it's all made in our state.

By Amber Sutton

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Alabama Life And Culture

Legendary director David Lynch never got to make these movies and TV series

Many of these unrealized projects featured themes that were revived or reimagined for other projects years later.

By Todd Gilchrist Variety Entertainment News Service and Tribune Media Services

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Alabama Life And Culture

‘Moonshiners’ star dead at 68: ‘We lost a true legend’

The news of the death was announced in a Facebook post.

By Mark Heim | mheim@al.com

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Alabama Life And Culture

Controversial director claims Blake Lively used ‘megacelebrity’ friend to pressure him

Lawyers claim he texted "Lively to say that he had liked her pages and hadn’t needed (Ryan) Reynolds and her megacelebrity friend to pressure him.”

By J. Kim Murphy Variety Entertainment News Service and Tribune Media Services

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