Tag Archives: anniversary

How should we celebrate three years?

Posted on March 4, 2010 | 2 comments

As this month’s b-metro column suggests, I’ve been thinking about how to celebrate three years of existence.

Yeah, it seems quite weird to think it’s been three years already, but it will be a week from Sunday…

So after I realized that I wasn’t doing a good job coming up with ideas myself, I thought it would be best to turn to all of you.

How do you think we should celebrate our third anniversary?

Whatever it is will probably not happen on March 14 itself but later on in the month – that’s the hope at least. (BTW – yes, that image you see above is of the front page of The Terminal from April 2007). Things have changed, haven’t they? Share your suggestions in the comments section.

Also, folks signed up for our e-newsletter, the express, (hint, hint) will get a message tomorrow about helping test a new section of the site. Please note that if you do sign up today it is a double opt-in process, so let us know if you don’t receive a confirmation email.

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Posted in The Terminal

Tagged AL, Alabama, anniversary, B'ham, Birmingham, blog, suggestions, The Terminal

Hunting for hidden treasure in Birmingham

Posted on June 26, 2009 | 2 comments

Scott Register (of Reg’s Coffee House fame) let folks in on a little secret around metro Birmingham today via his Facebook account. Apparently Levy’s Jewelers… we’ll just let you read it as Reg wrote it:

“…They cleaned out a bunch of nice jewelry that was stuck in inventory, wrapped it up in their signature silver boxes & blue ribbons and randomly hid them all over Birmingham. Finders Keepers so to speak…”

According to the comments in the Facebook status, they’ve hidden one silver box tied with a piece of blue ribbon for each of the years they’ve been in business (87 in all) everywhere from groceries to hospitals and everywhere in between. Sounds like a fun scavenger hunt to us.

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Posted in Quirky

Tagged 87, AL, Alabama, anniversary, B'ham, Birmingham, Citywide, downtown, finders keepers, gifts, hidden treasure, jewelry, Levy's Jewelry, Regionwide, surprises

Come out to The Bottletree tonight!

Posted on March 26, 2009 | Leave a comment

bldglogo No, I have not been screaming from the top of the City Federal building asking you to come out to The Bottletree tonight for our fairly mellow celebration of this site’s two years of existence (though that does give me an idea for next year).

Hopefully the weather won’t be too bad this evening and the basketball games on the screens should keep your attention if the announcement I’ll be making doesn’t…

See, now don’t you just want to come because of that last sentence alone? The radio silence can be blamed partially on tonight’s announcement as well, but not entirely. The fun’s starting around 5 p.m., there will be some white Terminal Ts given away to some of the lucky attendees (we’ll have a few for sale as well).

If you can come out, great; if not, pass this evite link along to a friend.

Thank you, Birmingham!

Posted on March 13, 2009 | 4 comments

We’ve been rather quiet today, perhaps being a little too retrospective for our own good. But I want to do three things right now…

1) Thank all of you who’ve read us for the past two years (I’ll drop a note to consider supporting us some other ways too).

2) Thank those who’ve written for us in the past as well as our current contributors: Bob Farley, Josh Self, Jason Donaldson, Gordon Bell and when available, Terri (Dann) Osborne.

3) Announce that while our anniversary is tomorrow, our anniversary happy hour will be on Thursday, March 26 at The Bottletree. We’ll have more info on Monday. We’ll have a couple of other announcements then as well.

4) Make sure you head on over to Timetable this afternoon and check out Jason’s picks (and add your own to them).

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Posted in From the Stationmaster

Tagged Andre Natta, anniversary, Events, information, stationmaster, thank you, The Terminal, Timetable

We turn 2 on Saturday!

Posted on March 9, 2009 | 4 comments

No, it’s not necessarily big news, but it’s news nonetheless. What are we going to do to celebrate? I have no idea. We’d like your feedback to help figure that out. If anyone has an idea about where they’d want to meetup to celebrate our second anniversary, add your suggestion to the comments section.

While I’m at it, I’d also like to remind you that we’re still taking submissions for our Be Birmingham photo contest until Thursday afternoon, March 12, at 5 p.m. I’ll be blunt and say that I was hoping to see more entries reflective of actual places and people in Birmingham, but there’s still time to see if those types of entries will come in.

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Tagged AL, Alabama, anniversary, Birmingham, The Terminal

A solemn occasion

Posted on September 15, 2008 | Leave a comment

Photo: Four Girls Memorial. acnatta/Flickr

A marker now stands at the corner of 16^th Street and 6^th Avenue North as a permanent reminder to the Birmingham community (and the world) about the events that took place at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church 45 years ago today. Services were held yesterday at the church to mark the completion of the historic church’s exterior rehabilitation, including the dedication of the new marker, with images representing the four girls killed in the bombing of the church, and the recently installed replacement neon sign.

Thanks for coming out on Friday!

Posted on March 17, 2008 | Leave a comment

We’d like to take a moment and thank everyone that came out to our anniversary party on Friday evening. The weather ended up playing nice and it sounds like a good time was had by all. At least, we hope so… Click on the image to the left to see photos from the event.

We’re working on uploading some audio, but I still think that Friday’s editorial says what’s needed much better. We’ll keep trying though… We’re holding off the announcement for one more day to make sure everything’s working OK.

We’ve got some folks to thank today for helping to make this event possible, so pardon us while we use this space to do so:

		Verizon Wireless
		Harvey Fast – Empire Realty
		The Bottletree
		Urban Standard
		Java and Jams
		The Bomb Shelter – keep an eye out for information about tomorrow’s farewell performance later on today
		o2 Ideas

You can also click on the image above or here and check out the photos taken by Bob Farley at the event.