Entries Tagged as 'Travelogue'

Bettola’s Lewis involved in new Aspen concept restaurant

June 20th, 2012 · Comments Off · food, Travelogue

chefs-club interior. courtesy of their website

The executive chef of Birmingham’s Bettola restaurant, James Lewis, is one of four past winners of Food & Wine’s New Chef award tasked with helping the magazine open a new concept restaurant in Aspen, CO this month.

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Travelogue: Kyle shares photos from her Moveable Type visit

December 20th, 2011 · Comments Off · Art, Travelogue

Moveable Type visits Birmingham. acnatta/Flickr

The mobile letterpress shop – and Kickstarter success story – known as Moveable Type made a stop in Birmingham, AL back on December 1. Kyle’s finally gotten a moment to share photos from that visit and one she made in Huntsville the following day.

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Travelogue: Lou’s Pub makes Esquire’s list of best bars

May 31st, 2011 · Comments Off · food, Travelogue

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Lou’s Pub has once again made Esquire Magazine’s list of the Best Bars in America. It’s the only bar in the city of Birmingham (& the state of Alabama) included in this year’s list. Congrats!

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Travelogue: Design*Sponge shares a guide to the city

May 24th, 2011 · Comments Off · Travelogue

Design*Sponge logo

Today the Magic City gets a mention on one of the larger home and product websites in the country – and we see someone else using their platform to raise awareness about our regional tornado recovery efforts.

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Good news, Birmingham

February 28th, 2011 · Comments Off · Travelogue

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We’re not really sure if people have noticed, but there’s been a lot of press focused on the positive happenings in Birmingham, AL recently. A quick look at how a couple of major outlets have approached their coverage of the Magic City recently – CNN & NPR.

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Good thing we saved the fire station in July…

January 3rd, 2011 · 3 Comments · The City, Travelogue

Surveying Engine No. 22

Last summer’s victory by neighborhood advocates to save a structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places was celebrated by preservationists in metro Birmingham, AL and elsewhere. A recent decision elsewhere in the Southeastern United States may make how future victories are achieved that much harder.

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Learn more about the Other Birmingham

January 3rd, 2011 · 3 Comments · Travelogue

screenshot from "The Other Birmingham"

Birmingham, AL is often compared to its namesake city “across the pond” in the United Kingdom. Travel writer Fiona Cullinan decided to look at the ways that the cities are similar and different and has ended up with an ever-expanding project.

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Travelogue: Not quite abandoned yet

February 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off · Travelogue

A look up into the Lyric Theater. acnatta/Flickr

There’s never a bad time to remind folks in Birmingham, AL about the efforts to renovate and restore the Lyric Theater and the building it’s housed in.

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