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UPDATE: The Lego Store’s coming to The Galleria

Posted on June 11, 2009 | Leave a comment

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UPDATE: 7.14.2009 – The Birmingham News has now reported the story and has additional information.

Yes, it’s true – no longer do you have to travel down to Orlando to get your Lego fix. you won’t have to drive all the way to Charlotte either (since they’re getting one too). You’ll just have to go down the road to Hoover and the Riverchase Galleria…

Metro Birmingham is one of twelve U.S. locations announced for the building block’s stand alone stores to be opened in the near future. The store’s site is already up, allowing folks interested in specifics to keep track of the store’s progress. Now, if we can only score some Lego sets based on Birmingham landmarks, similar to the Frank Lloyd Wright series (or a relaunch of the Zack commercials)…

Photo: Lego bricks. Courtesy of The Lego Group.

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Helicopter mysteriously hovers over The Summit

Posted on June 7, 2009 | 2 comments

A helicopter was seen and heard hovering less than 100 feet above Joe Muggs and The Cheesecake Factory’s patio around 12 p.m. Saturday afternoon. It stayed overhead for about 15 minutes and changed directions a few times. This seemed to cause some distraction and confusion on Summit Blvd. (the main road through the Summit) and started blowing a slight wind and dust on the patios for Joe Muggs, California Pizza Kitchen and The Cheescake Factory.

It could be assumed that it was a news crew or photographer getting footage of The Summit’s new phase 6 construction.

If anyone has any info on the mystery chopper, leave us a comment below.

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No free cones this year in Birmingham

Posted on April 20, 2009 | 4 comments

Free Cone Day banner - Ben & Jerry's official websiteMetro Birmingham residents were looking forward to their annual trek into one of the two area Ben & Jerry’s ice cream locations for their free cones. Unfortunately, it will be regular price for ice cream cones while other stores across the country take part in the annual Free Cone Day activities…

…that is, unless you feel like making the drive up to Huntsville for it. If there’s a bright side, it’s that it will be a little cooler tomorrow anyway. Of course, as suggested on Twitter, maybe another local provider of ice cream will be willing to step in.

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UPDATE: For the love of squirrels atop Red Mountain

Posted on April 7, 2009 | 8 comments

UPDATE #2: We’re happy to report that it was an issue with Twitter, and its profile is up again as of 9 p.m. 

UPDATE: A quick check of the profile at 8:30 p.m. shows that it’s been taken down.

Seriously…

Apparently one of Birmingham’s furry “critters” has been visiting the news set at NBC 13‘s studios atop Red Mountain, notably during the morning broadcasts. How popular has the squirrel become? It’s already got its own Twitter profile (and 63 followers already).

All we can hope is that it doesn’t get to the point where it’s not getting fed making it bad for others or worse, it decides to make its presence known in a more visible fashion…

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The mayor… in an Indy Car?

Posted on March 20, 2009 | 2 comments

Imagine my surprise when the FedEx delivery guy comes in where I’m sitting in downtown Birmingham and asks if any of us saw the Indy Car speeding down 20th Street North yesterday morning with Mayor Larry Langford driving. None of us there had, but, after some digging around on Twitter, we found at least one photo floating around online (thanks @vulcansmuse & @rachelpinson). Plus, there’s also this video courtesy of Fox 6 available on their site this morning.

Turns out the mayor wasn’t behind the wheel, but enjoying the ride as he reminded folks about this weekend’s Indy Car test runs out at Barber. Others who were out at the Firestone store in Pelham had the same opportunity to ride in an Indy Car yesterday afternoon.

There were some folks though that wished that they had seen the mayor in person later in the day… in Southtown.

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1,000 DVDs on sale tomorrow downtown

Posted on March 6, 2009 | 2 comments

Apparently The Bottletree‘s Brian Teasley will have his entire DVD collection (estimated to be somewhere around 1,000) available for sale tomorrow at What’s on 2nd? at 2306 2nd Avenue North in downtown Birmingham. The sale starts at 11 a.m. with some of the titles available for as little as $5. According to the email that went out earlier this evening, it will be “a virtual horde of great classics, documentaries, tv series, rare British comedy, Criterion collection, and foreign films.”

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The train’s getting in early

Posted on February 20, 2009 | Leave a comment

Remember that post last week about the locomotive moving to Sloss Furnaces? Well, the date’s changed – to tomorrow morning!

They’re expecting it to pull on to the site at approximately 9 a.m. though the time may change yet again because of the complexity of the operation. Maybe one of us will see you there…

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