There are very few modern-day commercials I enjoy watching, especially the ones you see on nearly -every- commercial break. I understand that's the nature of the business today. I don't have to like it, but I accept it.

Luckily there's nothing preventing me from putting the TV on mute every once in awhile and looking up commercials from the better era of ads (read that as 'before I was born.') I remembered a great ad I saw on a TV special about, of all things, the greatest commercials of all time. It starred dancer Ann Miller, and was a spectacle for the now defunct Great American Soup company. What grabbed my attention was the final line, after Miller's big, expensive song and dance. Her TV husband embraces her and asks, "Emily, why do you always have to make such a big production out of everything?"

Thursday February 2nd - Bit Brigade

9:00-11:30 PM, $7 Admission

Gamers, Bit Brigade with Oto Benga at 9pm. Bit Brigade elevates game music to the foreground of epic technical rock and plays the games like they don't need extra lives. Located at the Flying Monkey Theatre on the second floor of Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment.

By Tricia Forbes 

There are 46 historic cemeteries on the grounds of Redstone Arsenal. Though one seems to get more attention than the others because of the legend of a little girl who's buried there.

The Timmons family owned a large plantation that thrived in the 1800's, but many of their children did not. Now one grave represents all of the infant children they lost. It sits alongside at least dozen other graves of the family.

"It's got a large yard in front of it, and there may be unmarked graves out there too," said Ben Hocksbergen with Redstone Arsenal.

One grave has a legend that still lives to this day.

"The guards tell stories of the ghost of a young girl darting across Buxton Road in the middle of the night.