Photo: Office of the Governor of the State of Alabama.
As you’re getting ready for work this morning, you may want to take advantage of Governor Riley’s declaring today as College Colors Day as an excuse to show your support for your school. Yes, there’s a monetary purpose behind it, but who doesn’t want to support [...]

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While many students returned to school today, several folks took advantage of the first day of The World’s Longest Yard Sale, otherwise known as the 127 Corridor Sale. Even with rising gas prices, the fact that you could leave Gadsden, AL and arrive in West Unity, OH and have a lot more stuff is just [...]

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If you’re driving down 20th Street heading towards Southside today, you may notice a couple of small yellow signs up on lightpoles to your left as you approach Morris Avenue. If you were to stop and take a quick look, you’d be a little shocked by what they say:

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You’d be shocked, until you paid a [...]

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A recent book review in the New York Times was taken to task by 17 year old Birmingham resident Alec Niedenthal.
The Syntax of Things blog has a synopsis of the situation and links to the original letter published in the June 1 edition of the paper and a subsequent interview of the young man [...]

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Well, apparently Vulcan is tall and old (he just celebrated his 104th); he’s just not the tallest statue in the South. That honor goes to The Golden Driller in Tulsa, OK. The Big Guy atop Red Mountain does get to claim being the fifth tallest according to the list posted to Southern Living’s Tales from [...]

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The 3-ton, smoke-breathing statue of UAB’s mascot, Blaze, was unveiled Tuesday afternoon in front of the Bartow Arena. The 9 foot tall by 16 foot long, 7,000 pound smoke spewing statue created by artist T.J. Neil of Homosassa, FL. It cost approximately $30,000 was commissioned by the UAB National Alumni Society. UAB president [...]

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So you’ve just finished seeing the unveiling of a 9′ tall Blaze the Dragon (if you haven’t, we think we’ll have photos shortly) and you’re feeling like an ice cream cone. Yes, we know it’s in the high 50s but it is springtime…
and since we’ve been on this food kick since yesterday, we figured you [...]

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