Screenshot of CBS 42 Twitter profile page.
CBS 42 has become the latest media outlet to add Twitter to their arsenal of news dissemination. They follow ABC 33/40, NBC 13 and The Birmingham News into the Twitterverse, leaving one major media outlet out of the tweeting – Fox 6. No word yet on when they’ll finally join the rest of us on this one…
Don’t forget we’re on Twitter too @bhamterminal. Still haven’t heard from the alt weeklies on Twitter yet either, have we?
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Artist Laura Lockhart will show her work for a fifth year at this weekend’s Magic City Art Connection. Her art is inspired by her travels – she uses the photos she takes on her trips abroad and combines the prints with painting. These works are created on masonite and involve an intricate process layering photographs, wax and acrylic. In some cases, sand, grass or seaweed is also used to create unusual textures.
She was inspired to create her series of travel imagery by a quote from Mark Twain:
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
Check out Charles’ In Love With post about the Connection over on Timetable.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, artist, Birmingham, Laura Lockhart, Magic City Art Connection, photographs, Random Shots
Trust us, the site looks really cool – the official website for the 2008 Magic City Brewfest at Sloss Furnaces that is.
If you don’t believe us, check it out yourself. So you may just want to keep May 31 & June 1 free on your calendars…
Posted in Events, food, Online
Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, information, logo, Magic City Brewfest, website
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Birmingham News photographer Tamika Moore just got back from the 65th annual Pictures of the Year International (POYi) awards where she accepted a first place award for her photography column In Focus. Click here to see examples of her work.
Moore is seen here photographing this week’s Earth Day parade in downtown Birmingham. POYi began as a photographic contest in the spring of 1944 in Columbia, Missouri, when the Missouri School of Journalism sponsored its “First Annual Fifty-Print Exhibition” contest. Its stated purpose was, “to pay tribute to those press photographers and newspapers which, despite tremendous war-time difficulties, are doing a splendid job; to provide an opportunity for photographers of the nation to meet in open competition; and to compile and preserve… a collection of the best in current, home-front press pictures.”
The contest has tens of thousands of entries each year and has expanded to dozens of categories, including magazine photography.
Posted in Random Shots
Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham News, photograph, Pictures of the Year International, POYi, Random Shots, Tamika Moore
1958:
Basketball player Carl Bailey was born in Birmingham.
2006:
Birmingham Children’s Theatre actor John Hallum died in Birmingham.
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Tagged A look back, AL, Alabama, bhamwiki, bhamwiki.com, Birmingham, Carl Bailey, history, John Hallum, reference
There are days when you just want to curl up and hide; unfortunately that was one of those days for me, so I was not in attendance at the weekly city council meeting when Mayor Larry Langford drew comparisons between The Magic City and the City of Nineveh in the language used for his proclamation announcing “a day of prayer in sackcloth and ashes”. Like we said earlier, today was a busy day for the city’s chief executive.
Check out the Birmingham Weekly for a PDF of the proclamation and some video to go along with it.
You may want to let us know what you think about it… preferably over on Magic City Question.
Tagged AL, Alabama, April 25, Birmingham, City of Birmingham, day of prayer, information, Larry Langford, link, mayor, opinion, proclamation
Mayor Langford speaks to students at Phillips Academy during Wachovia’s Way2Save event on April 22. acnatta/Flickr.
Larry Langford’s been a busy individual this morning. Here he’s seen talking to area school children during today’s Wachovia Way2Save event. Representatives from four area schools each received $2,000 for their scholarship funds at the event. The mayor spent most of the time he was at the event taking pictures with the children and answering questions about this morning’s approval of his proposal to pay for free bus rides in Birmingham beginning in May and running through August by the City Council.
According to the blog post made earlier today by The Birmingham News, the BJCTA board still needs to approve the proposal during their board meeting tomorrow.
Posted in Citywide, Education, Transit
Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, bus service, City Council, event, Free, Larry Langford, passes, proposal, Wachovia
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