1954:
Jefferson County Commissioner Bobby Humphryes was born in Bessemer.
1993:
The Magic City Blues Society was incorporated.
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Tag Archives: Alabama
A look back: January 10
Posted in A look back
Tagged A look back, Alabama, bhamwiki, bhamwiki.com, Birmingham, Bobby Humphryes, history, Magic City Blues Society
Take a moment: The Community Kitchens of Birmingham is looking for volunteers
For those of you that made a resolution to give more of yourself in the coming year, here’s a request from The Community Kitchens of Greater Birmingham. They currently booking volunteer dates for the first three (3) months of 2008. The dates available as of when we received the information are:
| St. Andrews Southside | Grace Church – Woodlawn | |
| January 19, 26 | January 27 | |
| February 2, 9, 6, 23 | February 16, 23, 24* | |
| March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 | March 1, 22, 23*, 29, 30* | |
| * denotes a Sunday at Grace | ||
Interested parties are encouraged to sign up for other dates as well as for a series of dates throughout the year. They’ve also created a Yahoo Group to provide a one-stop shop for information (including volunteer guidelines). You can also just contact them by phone at 205.251.3569 or via email at ablackert@thecommunitykitchens.org.
Posted in Birmingham, Citywide, Take a moment
Tagged Alabama, Birmingham, Community Kitchens, Greater Birmingham, volunteer, volunteerism
Are you enough in the know about our local scene?
We freely admit that we’ve been slow to complete the transformation of our own arts and culture section into what we hoped it would be in the beginning (though we’re thinking that you might like the direction it’s appearing it will be going in).
A bulletin and blog post on MySpace yesterday though that made us begin to wonder about the local area’s web presence.
Which of course, leads to today’s Magic City Question.
We really want to know what you’re thinking on this one ( I think all of us websites are). Hopefully you’ll be able to give us an answer or two.
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Posted in Birmingham, Magic City Question, music
Tagged Alabama, Birmingham, link to The Great Room, local art, local music, Magic City Question, music, music scene, Online, online sources
A look back: January 9
2007:
Attorney Samuel Burr died.
Chief Dwayne Murray resigned from the BFRS to take a post in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Tagged A look back, Alabama, bhamwiki, bhamwiki.com, Birmingham, history, reference
Travelogue: So which Birmingham do the Tory MEPs really represent?
Screenshot of Tory MEPs website front page.
We do normally start our day out with John’s A Look Back column, (which will make an appearance around 8 a.m. today) but we figured we couldn’t pass up this opportunity to point out something from “across the pond.”
We can thank Tom Watson for pointing out this error on this regional site for the English conservative party.
Posted in politics, Quirky, Travelogue
Tagged Alabama, Birmingham, Conservative MEPs, Conservatives, England, image, photos, politics, skyline, Tories, websites
The First 100: “Watch me pull a city out of my hat…”
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| Current city seal | New city logo | |
Well, that’s not necessarily one of the opinions being offered up by one of the commenters to The News’ online poll this morning about Birmingham, AL’s new logo, but there’s still time; it may come up.
Just in case you missed it, the new logo was first unveiled with the launch of the city’s revamped website on January 1 (and only then if you really looked around on the site, particularly one of the headers, like we suggested). The reaction’s been mixed, though lively. Add your comments to the discussion, or you can always write something here too and keep it on topic.
UPDATED: 5.27.2008 to reflect that city seal is still in use in tandem with city logo, per comment by Dystopos.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, City of Birmingham, city seal, Larry Langford, logo, mayor, new logo, The First 100
The First 100: City of Birmingham launches new website
The first part of the overhaul of the City of Birmingham’s online presence started yesterday, when they unveiled their new birminghamal.gov website (and don’t forget to put the www in front of it when you put it in the browser). The empty space is actually filled with news from the city when you visit. We’d let you know what else it can do here, but then that wouldn’t give you a reason to check out the first post we wrote about it to learn more about some of the features, now would it?
With the unveiling of the city’s revamped site, a new plan to have wireless access in the city and possibly a in-chambers debut of Over C’s new single “Don’t Trash My Hood” geared towards encouraging area youth to do their part in the city’s efforts to be cleaner and safer, you’d think the first council meeting of 2008 should be fairly straightforward. Not necessarily…
Screenshot of http://www.birminghamal.gov.
Posted in technology, The First 100
Tagged Alabama, City of Birmingham, launch, release, screenshot, unveiling, website
