Kathy Moates’ most prized piece of Auburn memorabilia is a houndstooth hat. Each fall, she takes it out of her closet, dusts it off, and places it on her coffee table, where it stays all football season long. It’s the centerpiece to her living room’s Auburn decor. Folks come over for games. They look down. [...]

Whether it’s on the hardwood, the homecoming court, or the hallways, Auburn senior Blanche Alverson is always getting recognized. “People come up and talk to me all the time,” Alverson says. “Someone I don’t know will walk over to me at a restaurant or somewhere on campus and say, ‘You’re Blanche Alverson, right?’” But that’s [...]

“Catfish: The TV Show,” “The Biggest Loser,” “Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition” — you name it, and Holland Weathers has probably casted for it. The 2002 Auburn communications graduate is currently the casting social media director for MTV’s “Catfish: The TV Show.”  In the wake of the scandal surrounding Notre Dame star Manti Te’o’s fake [...]

It was filmed her freshman year in high school, when no one’s dad is cool, no matter how many hipster cinephiles think he is. “There’s a few parts in there when my dad asks me to put up posters, and I’m like, ‘Dad, I don’t want to do that!’” Lillian Hardy says of her small [...]

Laurie Webb is an Auburn University sophomore majoring in public relations. And she’s the sister of the most famous woman ever. Or at least it has seemed that way this week. TWER: How’s it been dealing with all the publicity your sister has received since Monday night? LW: “I feel like it’s kind of overwhelming. [...]

Those who know James Owens and his story understand how much his name means to Auburn University. Owens was the first African-American football player on scholarship at Auburn. He arrived on Auburn’s campus as a freshman in 1969. Being Auburn’s first African-American football player—and one of only a handful of African Americans enrolled at Auburn—just [...]

For some, it might be an image of Samford Hall. Others, the Toomer’s Oaks or the back of a No. 34 or No. 2 jersey. But for the last 46 years, the image that has come to mind for most when thinking of Auburn is the interlocking AU logo, thanks not to the work of [...]

Auburn Magazine ran a version of this in its latest issue. It was the cover story. Here’s the original. Taylor, Mississippi’s about 15 minutes outside Oxford down Old Taylor Road. The road twists and bends through pastoral greenery and sudden tilled fields toward the town. Might be best to say Taylor’s a village. Population’s right [...]

Trying to make any Auburn connection we can with the new breed of Television Is Better Than Movies shows out there is one of TWER’s many pet projects. We’ve got Mad Men covered, as covered as we can—tying in an old ad in the Plainsman with the episode with Peggy and The Relaxercisor was one [...]

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook [...]