Mayor Walt Maddox has appointed Susan Snowden as chief financial officer, which went into effect Dec. 15.

Happy Holiday season, DCL readers! For this month, I thought I’d give you an easy one. This slow cooker beef tips in gravy is a flash to prepare and serve. This time of year, I’m always so thankful for my slow cooker. And these cheddar bay biscuits are a perfect compliment to a hearty, seasonal meal. From my family to yours, have a wonderful Christmas. 

Bon Appetit!  

Life passes us by quick enough as it is. Let your child be a child, regardless of how old they are. To help make sure your child isn’t robbed of their youth, here are several tips you can follow, one for each day of the week to think about.

The Arts Council of Tuscaloosa will honor artists and patrons of the arts at the 23^rd Druid Arts Awards on Thursday, March 28, 2019 at the Bama Theatre. A reception honoring the winners and their families will be held at the theatre’s Greensboro Room at 6 p.m. with the awards ceremony at 7 p.m.

Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse is no less than the seventh Spider-Man feature film to be released in this millennium. And watching it, you realize how many of those live-action films are basically carbon copies of each other. Spiderverse sets itself apart not just by being animated, but by being a colorful, 124-minute carnival of creative thinking. The filmmakers are clearly having fun playing with the animated form, moving from 2D animation to 3D animation, and mixing up tone and form and texture. Their efforts make you feel as if you’re looking at a living, breathing comic book. When young Spider-Man runs down the street, the thoughts in his head are displayed in thought-bubbles that pass by him like pedestrians. The movie is constantly moving, wonderfully alive, always revealing a new visual trick.