No, we’re not kidding. This morning Franklin Biggs and employees from his Homewood business prepared what has to be one of the largest Baby Blue salads ever… in the bed of a red pickup truck. A large crowd turned out despite the rain, and Biggs is hoping for a larger turnout as he prepares to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his Homewood Gourmet store this afternoon at the Children’s Dance Foundation. Learn more about it by visiting this post or you can click here to view the eVite.
Have you heard of What’s on 2nd?
No, it’s not the beginning of a joke. It is a new shop in downtown Birmingham and its having its gallery-style grand opening tonight (July 6) from 5 – 8 p.m. at 2306 2nd Avenue North, the site of an old gallery and frame shop. Head on over to Pop Goes the City to learn more about it.
UPDATE: 6:18 p.m., Joey Chestnut wins (eating 66 hot dogs), ending six-year winning streak of Takeru Kobayashi. Simpson tied for 6th with 35 hot dogs.
(Major League Eating website link to official results)
There’s a chance, by 12 p.m. local time, that we’ll see a new hot dog eating champion. There is a Birmingham representative at the 2007 Nathan’s Hot Dog eating contest today.
Chris "The Phenom" Simpson is representing the Magic City in Coney Island this morning. Simpson finished 6th in last year’s competition.
As we write this, he is currently at 10, putting him in 3rd place. We’ll let you know how he does. Continue reading
While many people are focusing on Lipscomb’s mayor using an impounded vehicle as his own (for city purposes of course), the more interesting story comes out of Pleasant Grove.
There they voted to add cats to the city’s leash law. Apparently there are a lot of cats roaming the streets of the Birmingham suburb. So it’s time to make sure that the little ones have tags identifying who they belong to, otherwise it’s $25 for the first offense, with fines going up to $50 & $75 afterwards. Wonder what happens when the cats meet up with the dogs while they’re out for their afternoon walks…
This digital newspaper box (yes, it’s glowing) is a personal project of Scott Walker, an associate editor at The Birmingham News. It delivers headlines, sights and sounds to his living room thanks to an Mac Mini and a few hours of work.
Maybe not the future, but it definitely says something about how we get our news nowadays. Maybe we could do that someday ourselves 
. Continue reading
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The Tuscaloosa News’ Tommy Stevenson ponders this question for us in a post on his blog. The idea of prolific yet controversial architect Frank Gehry producing work in the Magic City is definitely a question worth pondering. Continue reading
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Jeremy Harper, a Birmingham, Alabama resident, is counting to one million (1,000,000) and broadcasting it live via webcam.
He’s somewhere around 16,500 as of 2:15 p.m.
You may be asking why someone would do this; in Harper’s case it’s for a good cause. Continue reading
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