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
Category Archives: Birmingham
We’re still alive
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 event.
Enjoy whatever you’re doing this evening.
Posted in Alabama, Birmingham, The Terminal, update
A look back: August 29
2003:
The inaugural Writer’s Block graffiti exposition was held at Sloss Furnaces.
Courtesy: Bhamwiki.com
Posted in A look back, Alabama, Art, Birmingham
We Have Too Much Heart – now on YouTube
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. I hope Joey submitted it to Sidewalk, because this seems this would be an instant favorite in the Best Short Documentary Film category.
Part 1 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d1Tv4tZh3A
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ9MX5IghIQ
Editor’s Note: You may also want to check out this interview done by The Awareness Program that gives those not familiar with Cave 9 some more background on this Southside venue.
Posted in Alabama, Birmingham, Movies, music
Election ’07: Smitherman’s got a MySpace profile too
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 preview at tomorrow’s night’s launch party at The Bottletree; click here to learn more about it and here to view the door prizes.
And if you’re still inclined to, our questions for the candidates submission form is still available by clicking here. The form is still set up for the six candidates that we assumed would be in the race at that time. If your specific question is directed to Raymond Brooks, Barry Taylor or Willie Hendrix, please just make sure that you type their name into the appropriate text box before the beginning of your question.
We hope to meet with the candidates in the next week, posting their responses to your questions beginning September 10. We will keep you informed with that and other developments as we are able.
NOTE: Hear their answers to your questions on our Election ’07 site!
Posted in Alabama, Birmingham, Citywide, Election '07, politics
A look back: August 28
1902:
Bessemer police officer John Flowers was shot and killed by by a boxcar hobo.
Courtesy: Bhamwiki.com
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Posted in A look back, Alabama, Birmingham, history
Election ’07: Bell creates MySpace profile
One of the issues that has come up during this year’s mayoral campaign in Birmingham (at least among us out here on the web) is the candidates’ web presence. There are very few extensive websites, though one candidate has now expanded his campaign into the world of MySpace.
Following the lead of national presidential candidates, William Bell has become the first person running for Birmingham’s mayor’s office to create a MySpace profile. His actual site is still not up and running; however, as of the time of this posting, the current City Councilor for District 5 already had 54 “friends” who had accepted his invitation to join his page on the popular social networking site. Time will tell if others will follow suit and use other Web 2.0 technologies as the race continues on.
NOTE: Hear their answers to your questions on our Election ’07 site!
Posted in Alabama, Birmingham, Citywide, Election '07, politics
