After all that rain, I sure do want to get outside and run around in the sunshine. We live in a lucky city that way — lots of parks near and not too far, good green spaces with more to come. So my theme this week is getting out of the house, literally.
Tag Archives: Alabama
Last day for ticket amnesty, take two
If you’ve been sitting around for the last month upset that you didn’t pay your long overdue parking tickets back in July during the amnesty period, we’d like to remind you that the city extended the deadline until today.
That’s right, you can feel relaxed as you head to your game later this week if you’re not worried about a boot on the car.
So head over the city’s online payment center or run over to the courthouse and wipe that slate clean.
While you’re there, you may want to pay ours…
Photo: Untitled by megnificence/Flickr
It’s College Colors Day in Alabama!
Photo: Office of the Governor of the State of Alabama.
As you’re getting ready for work this morning, you may want to take advantage of Governor Riley’s declaring today as College Colors Day as an excuse to show your support for your school. Yes, there’s a monetary purpose behind it, but who doesn’t want to support college scholarship funds – though it officially means that trash talking season is upon us…
Posted in Quirky
Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, College Colors Day, college scholarshiips, Governor Bob Riley
On the agenda: a lot actually
This morning’s City Council meeting is going to be interesting. Two new establishments that we’ve recently written about, Bonedaddy’s (soon to be Sweet Bones Alabama) and Black Market Bar, are on the consent agenda currently for receipt of their restaurant retail liquor licenses. For those that haven’t figured out where The Black Market will be, the address is 3411 Colonnade Parkway, Suite 800.
Several city agencies that have contracts with the city including Urban Impact, Main Street Birmingham and the BIrmingham Business Resource Center are poised to have them renewed. The biggest news that will come out of this morning’s meeting will probably not be what’s on the agenda, but what is not. Mayor Langford is prepared to ask the council to support a proposal for electronic bingo – an item that is currently legal in 6 of the counties in the state. In addition, he is asking the council via an addendum item to support a grant application to implement a Civil Rights Trail in the city.
We’ll see what happens.
Posted in On the agenda
Tagged agenda, AL, Alabama, Birmingham, City Council, On the agenda
Keeping L.R. Auditorium closed down
Birmingham City Council filed a request for a temporary restraining order, asking a judge to keep a downtown teenage hot spot closed for good.
Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Michael Graffeo will hold a hearing on the request Thursday.
The L.R. Hall Auditorium was closed last week, under the advisement of Mayor Larry Langford and Police Chief A.C. Roper. They have called the venue a public safety threat, saying there have been numerous police calls and hundreds of complaints of vandalism and gunshots.
Posted in News
Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham City Council, L.R. Auditorium, nuisance
Come out and get a Taste tonight
We are still under a flash flood watch this evening in parts of the metro area, but we’re hoping that folks still take a moment and attend tonight’s Taste of the Nation event at the McWane Science Center. We’d like to thank those of you that entered the contest and those of you that visited the event’s website to learn more about this important cause. I’ll be there this evening and I hope that I’ll get a chance to meet some of you.
You may also want to venture over to Timetable just in case you aren’t able to attend tonight. Whitney’s gives readers a head’s up on a great show at The Bottletree while Andrea Walker reminds us that we can check out some of the art before ArtWalk invades downtown in early September.
Posted in Events
Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, information, Taste of the Nation, Timetable
WordCamp Birmingham – come on over
Late Friday evening, we announced that we would be serving as an organizing sponsor for WordCamp Birmingham, the first WordCamp that will be held in the Southeastern United States. The conference will take place on September 27 & 28. A quick primer – WordCamps are informal gatherings of WordPress enthusiasts, users and developers to talk the popular, open source software used to run several million blogs and websites (including this one).
I’ve got some interesting reasons for why we’re doing this and if you head over to My Birmingham today, you’ll get to read them all.
Posted in Events, My Birmingham
Tagged AL, Alabama, announcement, Birmingham, information, reasons, WordCamp Birmingham
