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

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:
18th Street & 1st Avenue South

Reminder: Win tickets to Pompeii Preview Gala

We figured we’d remind you since we still haven’t uploaded the button to the front page to take you directly there. We are giving away two (2) tickets to the Preview Gala next week. Make sure you’ve entered!

Click here and good luck!

Ecofest 9, WorkPlay

UPDATE: For folks looking for information about EcoFest 10, check out the listing over on our new calendar, destinations (in beta).

The Southern Environmental Center at Birmingham-Southern College will holding EcoFest 9 on Thursday, October 11,  from 6 – 9 p.m. at WorkPlay on Birmingham’s Southside.  This year’s gourmet food will be provided by Gray Bynum of Culinard & Chris Dupont of Cafe Dupont.  Tickets can be purchased by calling the SEC at 205.226.4934.

Cost: $50 per person

Location:
WorkPlay
500 23rd Street, South
Birmingham, AL 35233

Click here to visit the Southern Environmental Center’s site to see the poster for the event.

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Click here to learn more information from our calendar entry on the event.

It’s time to be Happi

Happi Boutique logoMen and women now have a new place to go shopping for that just right outfit. Before you say that it’s not necessarily needed, have you noticed how many new after hours events there are for folks in metro Birmingham? Click on over here to see just a taste of the new options available for young professionals and those young at heart to keep themselves busy socially.

Happi Clothing Boutique will be opening its doors tomorrow evening for its opening celebration. Co-owner Camilla Barungi from Project Runway, Season 3 on cable’s Bravo Channel will be on hand for the event and word has it she will be taking on an active role in the development of the business. Representatives for the owners say that the shop will keep an artsy and energetic atmosphere, possibly even having the occasional DJ dropping in to spin a new tune at any given time.

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Win 2 tickets to the Junior Patrons Pompeii Preview Gala!

pompeii logoThat’s right! Our first ever online contest gives you the opportunity to win two (2) tickets to the Preview Gala. Thanks to the Birmingham Museum of Art Junior Patrons for providing these tickets that are worth $40 – $60 each! Click on the image to find out information directly from the museum’s site.

Click here to find out the details and to enter.

Click here to view the Timetable calendar entry.

Good luck!

The Original Blues Brothers Band, Alys Stephens Center

Get out that rubber biscuit, turn on your Soul Man, and shake a tailfeather! The Original Blues Brothers Band has put together the ultimate rhythm and blues review. Enjoy an evening at the Alys Stephens Center, 1200 10th Ave. South, with original members handpicked by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd including Steve Cropper of Booker T. and the MG’s fame and former Saturday Night Live band members Alan “Mr. Fabulous” Rubin and “Blue Lou” Marini. Expect to hear such hits as “Soul Man,” “Knock On Wood,” “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love” and “Sweet Home Chicago.” And while frontman Eddie Floyd wasn’t in the first movie, he did appear in “Blues Brothers 2000.” And he’s an Alabama native having been born in Montgomery. Now, if you have never seen “The Blues Brothers,” the movie inspired by Belushi and Aykroys’ SNL skit, do yourself a favor and rent it or turn into TV Land Friday (Oct. 5) at 9 p.m. or noon Saturday (Oct. 6).

Cost: $25-45/students $10