It’ll be a few weeks before everything’s finished and the next project is underway, but Regions Field and the Birmingham Barons appear ready for their closeup this evening as the eyes of the baseball world shift to Alabama’s Magic City.
Entries Tagged as 'Birmingham'
Aereo announces expansion into Birmingham
January 10th, 2013 · 1 Comment · technology, television
There are a lot of tiny digital antennas like the one you see to your left already set up in New York City for TV tech start-up Aereo. Now, thanks to an infusion of $38 million in financing, they’re about to create similar setups in 22 more cities, including Birmingham.
Tags:Aereo·Birmingham·expansion·over the air·press release·streaming·television
See Jane Write panel looks at blogging and community journalism this Thursday
January 9th, 2013 · Comments Off · 35203, blogging
Are you interested in community journalism and how you may be able to contribute to it? Well, there are 11 slots left available for a January 10 See Jane Write panel on that very topic and it should be a lot of fun.
Tags:Birmingham·blogging·community journalism·panel·see jane write
Safari Cup faces a fight against Starbucks… in Chicago
December 10th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Business, food
Safari Cup Coffee unexpectedly left Birmingham’s coffee scene a little more than three years ago. It’s spent most of those three years in Chicago becoming a staple of the city’s Lakeview district. Now, it’s getting a new next-door neighbor – Starbucks.
Tags:battle·Birmingham·Business·Chicago·Online·Safari Cup Coffee·update
Area taxis become latest tool in efforts to fight crime
October 22nd, 2012 · 1 Comment · Crime, transportation
The latest tool in the city of Birmingham’s effort to fight crime is a portion of its taxis. Yes, taxis. Birmingham, AL has become the latest city to join a nationwide initiative to leverage private transportation companies as additional eyes and ears for local police.
Tags:AL·Baltimore·Birmingham·Crime·Denver·initiative·TOP·TOPS·Yellow Cab
ALDOT shares Plan A, then springs possible Plan B for I-20/59
July 19th, 2012 · Comments Off · traffic
A small crowd showed up to participate in what they thought would just be a regular ALDOT public hearing involving plans to replace the I-20/59 deck between U.S. Highway 31 and Malfunction Junction. Then came a request from the City of Birmingham and Jefferson County…
Tags:ALDOT·Birmingham·bridge deck·I-20·I-59·Jeffco·replacement·request·total
A website launches for 2013 commemoration
July 17th, 2012 · Comments Off · Online, The City
There have been a lot of residents in Birmingham wanting to know more details about the city’s plans for next year’s commemoration of the events of 1963. There’s a website that may be able to start answer some of those questions.
The latest on the USFL and Birmingham? We’ll find out tonight
July 16th, 2012 · Comments Off · Sports
Back in May we learned a reimagined USFL was considering Birmingham, AL as one of the eight cities it wants involved in its 2013 inaugural season. Monday evening, July 16, their CEO will present what could be to those interested via radio (while the UFL attempts a relaunch of its own).
