Discover 23 Thrilling Trunk-or-Treats and Fall Festivals in Calhoun County
What’s one little ghostly white lie associated with everyone’s favorite hair-raising holiday–Halloween? Our fib? We titled our last coverage of 2024 Halloween events “The Ultimate Guide to Horrific Halloween Adventure in Calhoun County.” While it was, indeed, a helpful guide covering many Calhoun County events, guess what? There were gobs more trunk-or-treat events nestled in […]
Get Your Jazz Hands Ready for the 2024 Mainstreet Anniston Jazz and Art Festival!
Are you ready to let the New Orleans-style good times roll? Mainstreet Anniston and Cheaha Creative Arts are bringing the Big Easy spirit to downtown Anniston, Alabama with the 2024 Jazz and Art Festival! This toe-tapping, brush-stroking event will paint the town with rhythm and color on Friday, October 11, and Saturday, October 12, 2024. […]
The Ultimate Guide to Horrific Halloween Adventure in Calhoun County 2024
With October only a hop, skip, and lanky leap away, it’s time to dust the cobwebs off your ghoulish home decor, order a new costume (or resurrect an old favorite), light the glowing lanterns, and get ready for Halloween 2024 to make its ghostly entrance to Calhoun County, Alabama! There are so many bewitching […]
Eat Like a Local: RNB FINZ N Chicks
We love our local food trucks, and it was high time that I visited RNB FINZ N Chicks. This bright blue rolling kitchen hit the streets of Calhoun County on July 4th of 2022 and has built up a following of several thousand fans of their tasty soul-inspired fish and chicken dishes. The “RNB” represents […]
Calhoun County’s Best Pumpkin Patches and Fall Festivals 2024
Given you’re likely living in or near Calhoun County, Alabama, you may not be aware that fall is nipping at our heels (as it’s not very nippy outside as yet). While temperatures may disagree, our calendars have us squarely in September, which means that there are plenty of fall festivals to attend and pumpkin patches […]
Musical Spotlight: Sticky Foot
For music aficionados, what could be more entertaining than going out on a Saturday night and grooving to grit-laden strains of a funkadelic jam band? Calhoun County has got the golden ticket in the Oxford/Anniston band Sticky Foot. This music collective, featuring Tyler Bohannon on lead vocals and guitar, Todd Pirkle on lead guitar, Trevor […]
The 2nd Annual Downtown Anniston Restaurant Week 2024
The summer of ‘24 in Calhoun County has been quite a scorcher. While it’s true that the concrete around here could literally fry an egg, the restaurants of Anniston, Alabama are promising to sizzle up some savory specials in their kitchens as we enter the 2nd Annual Downtown Anniston Restaurant Week 2024! This food-inspired celebration […]
Eat Like a Local: Boatwright’s BBQ Food Truck
Have you been driving around Oxford lately and suddenly caught a whiff of food so sumptuous that you were tempted to do an action movie-style 180 and follow the scent trail at maximum speed? If so, then you may have been passing by the corner of Snow St. and Hamric, or possibly commuting down Quintard […]
Romarin et Corbeaux — Calhoun County’s Most Colorful Curiosity Shop
Romarin et Corbeaux — Calhoun County’s Most Colorful Curiosity Shop If you haven’t noticed that Downtown Anniston is evolving into one of the trendiest places to hang out in Calhoun County, then perhaps a curiosity shop will entice you to Noble Street! Romarin et Corbeaux, owned by Aubrey Fullbright, is actually in its fourth year […]
Eat Like a Local: Yoki Buffet Oxford
You had me at “buffet!” It’s ironic how just a couple of weeks ago, I was joking with my sister and her family about how much I love a good ol’ fashioned buffet, and she jokingly said, “We should make you a t-shirt that says, ‘You had me at buffet!’” I may just […]