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Iron Bowl

It’s time, once more, for one of the vital storied faculty rivalry video games in soccer. The Alabama Crimson Tide will face the Auburn Tigers on Saturday, Nov. 26 at 2:30 p.m. in Bryant-Denny Stadium for the 86th Iron Bowl. The traditional conflict shall be broadcast on CBS and different streaming companies. In the 2021 matchup, the Crimson Tide received 24-22 in 4 overtimes.

The Iron Bowl is Nov. 26 at Bryant-Denny Stadium. (Kent Gidley / UA Athletics)

The Iron Bowl is Nov. 26 at Bryant-Denny Stadium. (Wade Rackley / Auburn Athletics)

The Iron Bowl is Nov. 26 at Bryant-Denny Stadium. (Wade Rackley / Auburn Athletics)

Glow Wild: An Animal Lantern Celebration

Get prepared for the Birmingham Zoo’s larger-than-life illuminated expertise, Glow Wild: An Animal Lantern Celebration. The celebration is underway by Monday, Jan. 16 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. It’s open on Martin Luther King Day 2023 however closed this upcoming Thanksgiving, Christmas and Christmas Eve. Watch the zoo come alive with wild animal and sea life lantern creations brilliantly lighting up the night time. Take a trip on the Red Diamond Express Train or go for a spin on the Protective Life Carousel. Glow Wild is a weather-dependent occasion with nights being topic to cancellation. Tickets are on sale at birminghamzoo/glowwild.

Galaxy of Lights in Huntsville

Explore the flowery lights on the Huntsville Botanical Garden by Saturday, Dec. 31. Between strolling nights and driving nights, new options at this 12 months’s Galaxy of Lights embody a 150-foot tunnel of lights, comprising 40,000 channels of sunshine; lighting results in and across the Damson Aquatic Garden; a show of 96 gentle poles, every 10 toes tall, programmed to bop to music within the Van Valkenburgh Daylily Garden; greater than 300 colourful floodlights that emphasize the backyard’s pure options and panorama; greater than 10 illuminated swings unfold all through the expertise; and an expert photograph alternative within the backyard. For tickets and data, go to hsvbg.org/galaxy. Click here for the entire vacation schedule. The venue is at 4747 Bob Wallace Ave.

Holiday Tree Lighting – Birmingham

The metropolis of Birmingham will host its annual vacation tree lighting in Linn Park Sunday, Nov. 27 from 4 p.m. to eight p.m. Bring your garden chairs and revel in free concert events, a dance efficiency, distributors, meals vans, vacation images and Coca-Cola samples. The festivities will happen in entrance of City Hall on twentieth Street North.

Events embody:

• 4 p.m. – Magic City Market Place distributors and meals vans.
• 5 p.m. – Ursula Smith dance efficiency.
• 5:15 p.m. – Ampliphied Noiz.
• 6 p.m. – Tree lighting ceremony.
• 6:15 p.m. – Dave and the Party Rockers live performance.

For extra particulars, go to the website.

Turkey Day Classic – Montgomery

Alabama State University (ASU) welcomes the University of Arkansas Pine-Bluff (UAPD) on the 98th annual Turkey Day Classic (TDC), Thursday, Nov. 24 at 2 p.m. in ASU Stadium in Montgomery. In addition to the joy surrounding one of many nation’s oldest traditionally Black faculty and college soccer classics, a fun-filled schedule of occasions is deliberate for the TDC, from the annual Alumni Brunch to the annual TDC live performance, to the annual TDC parade in downtown Montgomery earlier than the showdown between the ASU Hornets and UAPD Golden Lions. Click here for the entire lineup. Follow alongside on Facebook.

Alabama State University will play the University of Arkansas Pine-Bluff on the annual Turkey Day Classic within the ASU Stadium Nov. 24. (David Campbell)

Alabama State University will play the University of Arkansas Pine-Bluff on the annual Turkey Day Classic within the ASU Stadium Nov. 24. (David Campbell)

Alabama State University will play the University of Arkansas Pine-Bluff on the annual Turkey Day Classic within the ASU Stadium Nov. 24. (David Campbell)

Alabama State University will play the University of Arkansas Pine-Bluff on the annual Turkey Day Classic within the ASU Stadium Nov. 24. (David Campbell)

Alabama State University will play the University of Arkansas Pine-Bluff on the annual Turkey Day Classic within the ASU Stadium Nov. 24. (David Campbell)

Alabama State University will play the University of Arkansas Pine-Bluff on the annual Turkey Day Classic within the ASU Stadium Nov. 24. (David Campbell)

Ice skating rink at The Wharf

Grab a pair of skates and glide, spin or fall into the season on actual ice by Monday, Jan. 16 at The Wharf in Orange Beach. Skaters are required to complete a waiver earlier than taking part. Follow this link for the entire vacation schedule and ticket data. General admission is $15.The rink is underneath the big white tent close to the Main Street entrance.

Poarch Band of Creek Indians Annual Pow Wow to Celebrate 50-Year Anniversary

After a two-year break resulting from COVID-19, the Poarch Band of Creek Indians will rejoice one in every of its most enduring Thanksgiving traditions with its annual Pow Wow. The two-day celebration shall be Thursday, Nov. 24 and Friday, Nov. 25, marking the fiftieth anniversary of a gathering on Poarch’s reservation lands that started in 1971 as a homecoming celebration for the tribe’s members. Thousands of Alabama households and other people throughout the nation are anticipated to journey to Atmore to expertise Poarch’s custom and to honor the tribe’s place in Alabama’s historical past. The occasion is full of household actions for all ages: the crowning of the Poarch Creek Indian Princesses, crafts and items, vendor cubicles, handmade objects, conventional home-cooked barbecue, fire-roasted corn and buffalo burgers. The venue is at 6477 Jack Springs Road on the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation in Atmore. For full particulars, go to the website. Admission is $5. Children ages 6 and youthful are admitted free. Read extra in regards to the Poarch Band of Creek Indians here.

The Poarch Band of Creek Indians, the one federally acknowledged tribe in Alabama, will rejoice their fiftieth annual Pow Wow Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving Day) and Nov. 25 on the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation in Atmore. (contributed)

The Poarch Band of Creek Indians, the one federally acknowledged tribe in Alabama, will rejoice their fiftieth annual Pow Wow Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving Day) and Nov. 25 on the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation in Atmore. (contributed)

The Poarch Band of Creek Indians, the one federally acknowledged tribe in Alabama, will rejoice their fiftieth annual Pow Wow Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving Day) and Nov. 25 on the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation in Atmore. (contributed)

The Poarch Band of Creek Indians, the one federally acknowledged tribe in Alabama, will rejoice their fiftieth annual Pow Wow Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving Day) and Nov. 25 on the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation in Atmore. (contributed)

The Poarch Band of Creek Indians, the one federally acknowledged tribe in Alabama, will rejoice their fiftieth annual Pow Wow Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving Day) and Nov. 25 on the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation in Atmore. (contributed)

The Poarch Band of Creek Indians, the one federally acknowledged tribe in Alabama, will rejoice their fiftieth annual Pow Wow Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving Day) and Nov. 25 on the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation in Atmore. (contributed)

The Poarch Band of Creek Indians, the one federally acknowledged tribe in Alabama, will rejoice their fiftieth annual Pow Wow Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving Day) and Nov. 25 on the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation in Atmore. (contributed)

The Poarch Band of Creek Indians, the one federally acknowledged tribe in Alabama, will rejoice their fiftieth annual Pow Wow Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving Day) and Nov. 25 on the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation in Atmore. (contributed)

The Poarch Band of Creek Indians, the one federally acknowledged tribe in Alabama, will rejoice their fiftieth annual Pow Wow Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving Day) and Nov. 25 on the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation in Atmore. (contributed)