A call has been sent out to all artists, musicians, poets, prose, and liberal thinkers to “…relocate and create our own Art’s District here in the shadows of Birmingham.” The Keep East Lake Weird and East Lake Arts District movements have Yahoo Groups that have been in existence for at least the last year. Organizers are attempting to leverage the development of an artists community among the area’s 1920s era bungalows with the potential revitalization of the community’s downtown area – the blocks near 1st Avenue North and Oporto-Madrid Blvd.
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East Lake wants to stay weird
Tagged AL, Alabama, arts, Birmingham, downtown, East Lake, East Lake Arts District, Keep East Lake Weird
UPDATE: Is the Heritage Festival returning?
UPDATE – 5.19.2009: According to Urbanham.com, the festival will return in mid-August. Here are the details.
A quick look around the Internet late last night brought up this page of information for folks wondering about the future of the Birmingham Heritage Festival.
There is no location listed but there are dates for this year’s event (in August) and contact information for anyone looking to be involved in the festival. We’ll keep an eye on it and look forward to doing some coverage of it this summer.
Posted in Events
Tagged 2009, AL, Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham Heritage Festival, information, restart, return
Ms. Ledbetter is going to Washington
The word’s gotten out that Lily Ledbetter, for whom the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 is named for, is heading up to the Nation’s Capital from Jacksonville, AL to be present when the President signs it into law tomorrow morning. The White House seems to have been looking forward to this event themselves, as evidenced in one of their first blog posts going so far as to provide a link to the measure as it was presented to and passed by boh the House and Senate via THOMAS. Today’s Birmingham News shares the story of where she’s come from and how she got ready for her trip into Washington today.
Photo: Lily Ledbetter. Lindsay Beyerstein/Flickr.
JeffCo county manager issues moves to forefront
One issue that appears to be high on the priority list for Jefferson County delegation of the Alabama State Legislature as the new session fast approaches is the installation of a county manager to help deal with, well, you know. Both sides appear to be taking the pulse of the community to see what they think.
There is currently a rally planned for tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at 9 a.m. by the League of Women Voters of Greater Birmingham to show support for the bi-partisan bill being introduced by Rep. Paul DeMarco. This evening (Monday) JeffCo Commissioner Sheila Smoot and Team Seven plan to hold “an important town meeting” to deal with several issues facing the county, including the idea of a county manager, the sewer debt and the recent occupational tax ruling.
Looks like it’s going to be an interesting ride this session.
Bridging the BJCC
Construction continues on the skywalk projects at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention. The renovations to the BJCC include the construction of two exterior bridges connecting the Sheraton Birmingham hotel to the North and South Exhibit Halls as well as the BJCC Arena. The bridges are due to be completed by this July and are part of the complex’s six-year, $52 million capital improvement project.
Photo: Bob Farley/f8Photo
Posted in Random Shots
Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, BJCC, Bob Farley, bridge, construction, Random Shots
Dean and Co. invade the interwebs
Screenshot of the new Dean and Company website.
So, those of us that have cable service here in Birmingham, AL are familiar, or at least know about Dean and Company. They’ve been on television for 30 years and now they’ve got a website. They were on Rick and Bubba this morning to formally launch it and It’s just as off the wall and… well, you go ahead and take a look for yourselves.
Posted in Online
Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, Dean and Company, local access, Online, website
