Author: Caleb Wood

The Andy Kennedy era of UAB basketball begins today, as the Blazers take on Alcorn State at Bartow Arena. We sat down with Coach Kennedy and asked about he feels about being back at UAB, how the program is handling COVID-19 and what his expectations are for the UAB basketball program.  This interview has been edited for accuracy and concision.   The Kaleidoscope: Okay, so you played at UAB, and you were here as an assistant coach as well. So, what is it like now to return to your alma mater as a head coach? Does this feel any different than…

The first game of the Andy Kennedy era at UAB is set to tip off tomorrow. This is as unpredictable a season as the sport has ever seen, due to the COVID- 19 pandemic. Between cancelled games, missing players and back-to-back opponents, it is hard to predict what will transpire on the court. UAB has an added unpredictability to it. Under new head coach Andy Kennedy, this team is quite different than what was on the court last year. Of the 13 scholarship players, eight of them are new to the program. Despite this unpredictability, there is a lot of…

“Disconnect” is no ordinary play, and that is by design. The latest production from UAB’s Department of Theater is a hybrid theatrical experience shaped by and created in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The show is a livestreamed event with short, prerecorded segments. “Disconnect” exists at the intersection of several different stories of people who have been “disconnected” by the pandemic in the vein of works like “Love, Actually” and “Magnolia”. “It’s really a story about how we have become dependent on social media, through quarantine, through the last year, and how we can grow from this place into…

Photo provided by Laura Casey Laura Casey runs for Public Services Commission Laura Casey gained headlines for her fight with the Public Services Commission after they ejected her from a hearing in 2019. Now she is running to chair that very commission and push for change from the inside. The commission she is running for, the Public Services Commission, is not as glamorous a position as governor or attorney general. It is not even one that many people are aware exists, but it serves an important role that affects almost every Alabamian. The PSC is the part of Alabama’s government…

For Election Day: “Boys State” (2020) This recent documentary follows four teenagers during the 2019 Texas Boys State, a week-long program sponsored by the American Legion where high school juniors are tasked with running for office and creating their own government. What follows is a fight between quiet bipartisanship and outspoken conservatism where dirty tricks abound. The state of our government becomes more understandable while watching the depressing ways in which our future leaders are created. For Veteran’s Day: “Da 5 Bloods” (2020) Spike Lee’s sprawling epic about four Vietnam veterans returning to the country to retrieve the body of…

Tommy Tuberville had a large victory over Senate incumbent Doug Jones Tuesday night. Republicans statewide faired well. The senate race was thought of as competitive entering the night, but Tuberville won just over 61 percent of the vote with 90 percent of the vote reporting. Tuberville improved heavily on Roy Moore’s 2017 performance with 11 counties that had voted for Jones in the 2017 special election flipped to Tuberville including major population centers in Madison, Mobile and Tuscaloosa counties. “Tonight, the liberals of California, New York and Washington, D.C. learned the hard way that Alabama’s senate seat cannot be bought,” Tuberville said in his victory speech to a…

The UAB Blazers football team is headed to Mobile for Thursday night matchup. Read our preview here.

The coronavirus pandemic has shown us just another reason why absentee and mail-in voting has got to be expanded.

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