We were hoping to get up a special section about the three parks initiative before any more announcements were made. The guys at Red Mountain Park decided to put a wrench in that plan (albeit a welcome one).
They’ve planned a public presentation of their Final Draft Master Plan by the park’s designers, Wallace, Roberts & Todd, to the park’s commission at 3 p.m. at Vulcan Park.
Posted in 35223, Alabama, Birmingham, Nature
We’re holding our “post-launch” party at The Bottletree on Wednesday, August 29!
It will also double as the second annual Happy Hour for a Cause – and this year you’re choosing who gets to benefit from the event.
Click here to learn about the nominees!
If you have not already voted for a charity, please check out our front page and vote now. Used cell phones will also be collected at the door to donate to the Hopeline project.
We’ll get started at 5 p.m. and keep going until 8 p.m., (though we may be there after that). The folks over there will be kind enough to let us enjoy happy hour prices during the event as well as some specials (we’ll also have some appetizers to snack on).
We’ve got another crazy idea with regards to this event – which we’ll share later on this week.
Just start spreading the word!
Posted in Alabama, Birmingham, The Terminal, update
Don’t forget: There’s still time to submit questions for us to ask the candidates! Click here to learn more about.
Ignore the date in the post; the deadline to submit questions is this Friday, August 10.
It appears that we picked a bad day to skip the weekly city council meeting. We figured that the Southern Heritage Festival item would pass easily, so we played hooky. We’d also figured that current Birmingham mayor Bernard Kincaid was planning to announce his plans to run for a third term in office this week after learning that he’d removed himself from the municipal election commission. We just didn’t think he’d announce today (the office pool had him announcing tomorrow at the earliest, BTW).
Posted in Alabama, Birmingham, Citywide, Election '07
Thanks to all that have voted so far in our poll for the launch party. If you haven’t please visit this post to get more information and then go back to the front page and cast your vote. Stay tuned because we’ll announce where the event’s going to be held tomorrow morning…
Speaking of launch parties…
Tomorrow, on Timetable:
Big Julie’s Boom Boom Cocktail Room and Debate Club. We’ll activate a link here when it goes live. But in the meantime, go on over and check out some of the newer posts.
We need more questions!
We’re also still looking for more submissions of questions to ask the 2007 mayoral candidates. For those that have come on over because of the happy hour poll, click here to learn more about it. We’ve promised to share the questions with Catalyst for their upcoming September forum, so that gave us a reason to extend the deadline for submitting questions until this Friday, August 10. You can either click on the button located on the right side of the screen or click here to visit the submission page directly.
Photo credit:Bob Farley/f8photo
Posted in Alabama, Birmingham, The Terminal, update
Lisa at Scenic Alabama posted recently about the pending change in view for morning commuters coming into Birmingham, Alabama on the Stephens Expressway (U.S. 280 & U.S. 31 as they enter downtown). The problem is not that it’s coming down, it’s what’s going back up.
Posted in Alabama, Birmingham, Citywide, environmental
That’s right; this year’s festival would be held on September 1 & 2. There has been a lot of chatter wondering if the event would be held this year. A resolution approving a contract with the Birmingham African American Arts and Heritage Foundation is included as a consent item on this morning’s City Council agenda (page 23, Item 9). If approved, the $35,000 contract would call for the Foundation to “produce and present the 2007 Southern Heritage Festival.”
There is no confirmation of an event location or lineup, though last year’s festival was held on the site of the Railroad Reservation Park in downtown Birmingham.
Posted in 35233, Alabama, Birmingham, City Council, Citywide, Events
I’d like to take this opportunity to once again thank everyone that took the time to share their nominees for this poll question. We did whittle down the list as well as consider entries that were sent in via email and telephone before the 11:59 p.m. deadline on Saturday. Pop on over to my Birmingham and find out what was in our minds as figured it out.
The poll will magically appear at 3 p.m. today on the front page. If you click on the read more link, you will see links to all of the groups included in the poll. Stay tuned also for final details about our post-launch party on August 29.
NOTE: The poll will run until 11:59 p.m. this Friday!
Posted in Alabama, Birmingham, My Birmingham, Regionwide, The Terminal, update
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