Mary Colurso | mcolurso@al.com

Mary Colurso is a lifestyle and entertainment reporter with more than three decades of experience covering music, television, celebrities, movies, theater, books, fine arts and more. She specialized in pop music for about 20 years at The Birmingham News and AL.com, interviewing artists ranging from major stars to newcomers. She also has reviewed hundreds of concerts in the Birmingham metro area, at venues large and small. She now covers a wide variety of topics as a member of AL.com's statewide Life & Culture staff. Before moving to Alabama in 1997, she worked as a features reporter and editor at the New Haven Register, Green Bay Press-Gazette and The Republic in Columbus, Indiana. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Syracuse University, and a bachelor’s degree from New York University.