Tag Archives: Alabama

Welcome WordCampers!

Posted on September 26, 2008 | 6 comments

We’ve been slightly quieter than normal this week because of preparing to host WordPress users from across the Southeastern United States at WordCamp Birmingham. the conference begins at the Martha Moore Sykes Studio at the Virginia Samford Theatre at Caldwell Park. They’ll be at Vulcan Park and The Bottletree on Sunday. Registration will remain open until 9 a.m. tomorrow (Saturday) morning, when the fun starts. We’d like to take a moment to direct you to this list of sponsors and supporters of this inaugural conference. And we’d like to invite you to check out the schedule as well.

What, you say you want to welcome them to town yourselves though you’re not planning to come to the conference? How about coming out to Jim ‘N Nick’s in Five Points tonight starting at 6 p.m. for an impromptu meetup/Tweetup for Terminal fans and WordCampers. Look for logo.

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Posted in Events

Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, current plans, WordCamp

Films and fun grace the Magic City this weekend

Posted on September 26, 2008 | Leave a comment

Geez, do you really need me to tell you that the biggest party in town will be downtown this weekend? Happy Anniversary to the Sidewalk folks as they celebrate 10 years of bringing fresh and new film to the Magic City while encouraging our own talented filmmakers. But if you really wonder if anything else is going on worth mentioning, keep reading over on Timetable.

A skate park update

Posted on September 24, 2008 | 2 comments

For those of you who haven’t ventured through the comments and the site to learn more about the skate park situation, allow me to share what Peter Karvonen of Faith Skate Supply posted under the relating Magic City Question:

“We are talking with people in the mayor’s office right now and they are very open to the idea of a public skatepark. We have gotten as far as looking for proposed sites now. The city owns the property at sloss north of 1st Ave. North. They are talking with the right people now in hopes that a skatepark conjoined with sloss furnaces would be a great relationship.

I invision a concrete park there with metal skateable sculptures that would be made there at the furnaces steel works! Sounds amazing to me!”

Definitely sounds like something that would be uniquely Birmingham depending on where the proccess goes… and it will lend itself nicely to my editorial tomorrow morning.

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Posted in Parks

Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, skatepark, Sloss Furnaces, update

Larry proposes citywide paving plan

Posted on September 24, 2008 | 8 comments

Well, we figured it would become a bigger story – and it did (with a bigger dollar amount attached). The Birmingham News reported on Birmingham mayor Larry Langford’s proposed $16 million/year plan in today’s edition after Langford announced his intentions to ask the City Council to approve $27 million to pave streets in the city center during his appearance at the Burger-Phillips Building‘s unveiling late last week. The plan according to the story is to pave 500 miles over the next three years, leading some to ask that question more of the same questions…

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Posted in traffic

Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, Larry Langford, proposal, street paving

Cafeteria trays disappear at Samford, across the country

Posted on September 24, 2008 | 8 comments

The new trend in the greening of America is the removal of trays from college cafeterias from Ohio to California). Birmingham’s own Samford University has joined in on the fun, leading to several degrees of reactions on the school’s campus. Here’s the story courtesy of the Samford Crimson. There’s also this piece (and the three pages of comments) over at Slashfood. Some food for thought (and hopefully for comments here too).

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Posted in environmental

Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, cafeteria trays, colleges, environmental, Samford University, university

Bike from Anniston to Smyrna

Posted on September 24, 2008 | 2 comments

Map to State Line - PATH Foundation

Map to State Line from Smyrna. PATH Foundation.

It’s been getting tons of coverage for the last month, with yesterday’s post on YP Now’s blog being the most recent mention, and this weekend it becomes a reality. A 95-mile paved bike trail will officially become the nation’s longest when it’s officially completed this Saturday. For those of you in metro Atlanta who can’t resist the call of the bike (which would normally include me), there’s information on the PATH Foundation‘s website about all of the activities planned for the day.

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Posted in Parks

Tagged Alabama, Anniston, bike trail, dedication, Events, Georgia, nation's longest, Smyrna

A new look for downtown recycling center

Posted on September 23, 2008 | 5 comments

If you look at it now, the property on 25^th Street and 2^nd Avenue North in downtown Birmingham has a few recycling bins, along with a run-down building. However, that area will eventually be transformed into a state of the art recycling center and office building. While it’s still in the early planning stages, the Alabama Environmental Council (AEC) wants to move their state offices into the building’s second floor, and convert the first floor into an educational recycling center. “Signage is going to be very distinct,” says Michael Churchman, AEC executive director. “This is going to be the public face of the council and expose people as to what kind of work we are doing.”

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