Category Archives: Alabama

Random Shots: Signs of the Times

Posted on October 8, 2007 | Leave a comment

Photo credit: André Natta

It’s getting down to the wire for the candidates in this year’s mayoral election. Our Election ’07 site has been updated to include links to local websites, blogs, mainstream and alternative media and selected posts from our own coverage. We hope that this and other last minute changes to the site provide as complete a picture as possible for you to make a decision before the polls open tomorrow morning throughout Birmingham.

Check in with us tomorrow night as we provide coverage of returns.

A look back: October 6 – 8

Posted on October 8, 2007 | Comments Off

October 6:

1976

American Idol Taylor Hicks was born.

October 7:

2006

The UAB Blazers defeated Memphis 35-29 at Legion Field in the 9th Battle for the Bones football game.

October 8:

1989

The 55th Place thrift store opened in its current location in Woodlawn.

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Posted in A look back, Alabama, Birmingham, history

16th Annual Magic City AIDS Walk, Brother Bryan Park

Posted on October 6, 2007 | Comments Off

The walk is about 1.7 miles long and benefits Birmingham AIDS Outreach and other local HIV organizations. This year’s grand marshals are King & Queen Apollo XXX. The events begin at 12 p.m. with the actual walk starting at 3 p.m. For more information, you’ll want to visit either their website or their MySpace profile.

Clicking here will show you the official route for this year’s walk.

Cost: Free

Location:
Brother Bryan Park
22^nd Street & 10^th Avenue South

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Posted in 35205, Alabama, Birmingham, Events, Fundraiser, Timetable

Hand in Paw’s Wine Diva, Rosewood Hall

Posted on October 6, 2007 | Leave a comment

For those women among you looking for an alternative to the potential of watching runoff elections results for the Birmingham mayoral race, may we suggest an opportunity to give to Hand in Paw while enjoying some wine. If you want to learn more about them, click here to read a story posted during the summer months.

The event page on their official website says that it will be hundreds of women at Rosewood Hall in downtown Homewood, with “wine tasting, door prizes, hors d’oeurves and a diva costume contest.”

They promise to update the site as more information is available, so keep checking on it.

Cost:$50; available online (click here)

Location:
Rosewood Hall
2850 19th Street South
Homewood, AL 35209

Election ’07: A different perspective on Larry, and everybody else

Posted on October 5, 2007 | 6 comments

Kyle Whitmire over at Birmingham Weekly has written an extensive article about Larry Langford in this week’s edition. The piece takes a look primarily at his political career, with extensive focus on VisionLand (now Alabama Adventure) and recent personal problems.

It’s definitely an interesting time to run this piece, especially considering that the next Weekly will not hit the streets until after we’ve either determined a clear winner or at least know who’s got two more weeks of campaigning ahead of them in this year’s race to the mayor’s office.

This is of course not including the outrage over a political cartoon published in The Birmingham News Tuesday that has been viewed as an attack on both Langford and Kincaid, the last minute entries into the mayoral commercial campaign by Kincaid and Bell, the pronouncement about race being a major issue in the election or the interesting response given by Cooper about Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin endorsing the incumbent and holding a fundraiser for him on Wednesday morning.

Business is definitely about to pick up…

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Posted in Alabama, Birmingham, Citywide, Election '07, politics

13th Annual Magic City Reggae Festival & Jamaican Jerk Chicken Cook-off, 18th Street & 1st Avenue South

Posted on October 5, 2007 | Comments Off

The sounds of the Caribbean will be wafting through the city’s Southside! Come out and help crown the Caribbena King and Queen of Birmingham, enjoy arts and crafts, take part in a knitted Jamaican hat contest and enjoy the sounds of Mentholly Ill, Turpo Dawg and Small Head.

Cost:

Weekend Pass		$60.00
One day pass		$25.00
Cook-off entry		$200.00

*Weekend passes include a Jerk Chicken Dinner

Location:
18^th Street & 1^st Avenue South

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Posted in 35233, Alabama, Birmingham, Events, Festival, Timetable

Transit riders get a reprieve

Posted on October 5, 2007 | Leave a comment

It appears that Councilman (and mayoral candidate) William Bell‘s question about whether or not the transit rate hike that went into effect on Monday morning being legal has led to good news for passengers and questions of timing by those running against him for the mayor’s office.

The Birmingham Jefferson County Transit Authority’s board yesterday voted to rescind the 25¢ hike, returning the charge to ride on the system to $1. The increase would have been the first one for the system in 12 years.

Proponents say that the fare increase is necessary due to increasing costs and that without additional funding sources, reductions in staffing and routes may be needed.

Even though we already know what the Magic City Question is going to be today, we figured we’d ask one a little early:

What would it take to get you to use our transit system more than you do now (if at all)?