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Those of you that use the 5th Avenue North ramp to access Interstates 20/59 or 65 may only have a second to notice that there’s been a few changes in the landscape over there in recent weeks because of the removal of the skate park from Homewood’s Central Park in July.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, Faith Skate Supply, photos, skate park, skateboard
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Nearly 200 contestants and thousands of BBQ and music fans enjoyed the first night of the 4th Annual Stokin’ the Fire BBQ and Music Festival Friday night a Sloss Furnaces. Mark Kozelek put on the 8 p.m. show at the main stage while hundreds of canjun dancers and fans enjoyed Willis Prudhomne. For those coming for the music, Saturday features seven acts on the main stage and five on the Water Rower Stage. For fans of the BBQ, professional judging starts at 11a.m. and amateurs turn theirs in at 2:30 p.m. There activities for the children and various other events including a parade at 1:30 p.m.
There are more pictures from Friday night in our gallery.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, barbecue, BBQ, Birmingham, Random Shots, Sloss Furnaces, Stokin' the Fire
Go to La Paz Thursday night (that’s tonight) and that tip you leave for good service will go to a good cause. The wait staff is pooling their tips to help out a co-worker, Alfredo Colin. The long-time employee and married father of four is recovering from surgery to remove a brain tumor. The surgery was a success but Colin is now facing mounting medical bills without the benefit of insurance. From 4 p.m. to midnight, all tips will be donated to Colin and the funds matched by La Paz. La Paz Restaurante and Cantina is located in Crestline Village at 99 Euclid Ave.
Thanks to Madison over at B’ham Weekly for the heads up.
Today’s council agenda is 44 pages long and includes good news for those in town that were wondering about the status of development in Railroad Reservation Park. It also contains good news for those wanting to see a shorter meaning as a vast majority of the items currently listed are on consent.
Once you finally get past all 31 pages of item one, the first item that will possibly lead to an interesting public hearing is the one that calls for changes to the city’s curfew law, including the raising of fines charged (item 5). Items 14, 15 & 16 are currently on the consent agenda, meaning that there will most likely be no discussion of the contracts Bhate Geosciences Corporation (assessing the retaining wall for the park) and Building and Earth Sciences (providing various monitoring services for the park).
We’re figuring you’ve still got time to tune in to the meeting if you haven’t already…
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Tagged agenda, AL, Alabama, Birmingham, City Council, curfew, Railroad Reservation Park
Whitney had some fun covering the launch of Live 100.5 FM on Friday, and the station’s been having fun getting established in town. They’ve already got a Facebook group (remember, you’ve got to have a Facebook account to see it – and 185 folks have already found it), a live stream of the station available on the station’s website and (in case you missed it) Matt over at AL.com’s got the first 15 songs ever played so you’re ready for that quiz that will inevitably come up.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, Facebook group, first 15 songs, Live 100.5 FM, new station, radio, update, website
1937:
Hugo Black was sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
2004:
The University of Alabama announced that they had played their last home game at Legion Field.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, bhamwiki, Birmingham, Hugo Black, Legion Field, University of Alabama
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If you didn’t think Larry was serious…
It’s all there, the pros, the cons and a comment or two towards the end that resembles the crux of what I wrote about it back when it was first announced in June.
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