August 30:
1908:
An unsuccessful strike by 18,000 United Mine Workers members was called off by union officials.
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A beautiful view outside of The Bottletree during The Terminal’s Launch Party this evening. We’ll post the winners of the door prizes from the launch party tomorrow morning. Thanks to all that attended.
Photo credit: Bob Farley/f8photo 

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Yes, we’ve been quiet today, but since we’re holding a party over at The Bottletree we figured you’d understand. We hope that you’ll be able to come on out tonight. But if you don’t, we’ll give you a taste of what’s going on a little after 7 p.m. when we start posting images from the [...]

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2003:
The inaugural Writer’s Block graffiti exposition was held at Sloss Furnaces.
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According of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) website, every 16 minutes someone dies by suicide. You can help the AFSP raise money for research and education programs to prevent suicide by participating in the local Out of the Darkness Community Walk, one of several across the country.
The walk will be held Saturday, Sept. [...]

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Fresh off the MySpace bulletins… check out the Cave 9 documentary We Have Too Much Heart by Joey Brown. It’s uploaded on YouTube in two parts (about 6-8 minutes each) and gives great insight into what Cave9 is, who runs it, and why it has become such an important part of Birmingham’s independent music scene. [...]

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We’ve been informed since our post earlier this morning about Councilor Bell’s MySpace profile that City Council president Carole Smitherman has also created a MySpace profile for her campaign. Here’s a link to it. These are some of the things that we’d like to provide for you in our Election ‘07 section which we will [...]

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