We just received word that the current associate director of the Birmingham Public Library, Irene Blalock, has been named its new director. She was one of several candidates for the position, which received a lot of attention from The Birmingham News earlier this month. Barbara Sirmans, the former director, announced her retirement in August; Pamela Lyons has been serving as the organization’s interim director. According to the News’ account, Blalock has spent her entire career with the BPL.
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Irene Blalock named new BPL director
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Tagged AL, Alabama, announcement, Birmingham, Birmingham Public Library, information, Irene Blalock, new director
Birmingham Heritage Festival to return in August
This morning the Birmingham Heritage Festival announced that it will return, with the music portion of the festival taking place August 14-16 in downtown Birmingham’s Linn Park. The festival will also include community empowerment seminars running from August 11-13 at Boutwell Auditorium.
Urbanham.com posted the official press release which contains the names of the first acts to be confirmed for this year’s festival as well as a link to its new website. Announced acts include Keyshia Cole, Angie Stone, Chaka Khan, Flo Rida, and Atlantic Starr. The website also lists Musiq Soulchild as scheduled to perform though they were not included on the press release.
There had been an announcement made via the Internet in late January.
Come on over to MCQ and let us know what you think about this summer of music so far.
Festival logo courtesy of official website.
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Tagged 2009, 35203, acts, AL, Alabama, Angie Stone, announcement, Atlantic Starr, Birmingham, Birmingham Heritage Festival, Boutwell Auditorium, Chaka Khan, downtown, Flo Rida, Keyisha Cole, Linn Park, Musiq Soulchid, website
Samford to take down Ramsay Hall
We just received word that Samford University has announced plans to take down Ramsay Hall, the all-male residence hall that suffered a roof collapse in March of 2008, having “…reached a resolution in the insurance process.”
The announcement was made earlier this evening via an email sent by the university’s vice president for operations and planning, Dr. Sarah Latham, to students and faculty.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, announcement, Birmingham, demolition, Education, hall, Ramsay Hall, replacement, residence, Samford University, tear down
No more Super 6 in Birmingham
Football is more than a pastime in Alabama, and the crowds that gather at the annual Super 6 state football championships here in Birmingham at Legion Field represent that status more than anything else. Make that used to represent…
This afternoon CBS 42 broke the news that the championships would no longer be played in The Magic City and instead alternate between Tuscaloosa and Auburn, just like the Iron Bowl decided before it.
What does it mean to our local economy? Representatives from Birmingham’s Convention and Visitors Bureau told Chris Pollone of NBC 13 that they think it could cost the region more than $4 million.
We do get to keep the state basketball championships, but some are already arguing that a multipurpose facility’s time has finally come.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, announcement, Auburn, Birmingham, championship, CVB, football, game, impact, Legion Field, move, moving, Progressive Electorate, state, Super 6, Tuscaloosa
Arrington’s back
That’s the simple version of what’s been reported by two outlets in recent days. The recent edition of The Birmingham Times reported on its front page that the former mayor Richard Arrington, Jr. had changed his official residential address back to The Magic City’s Vinesville neighborhood and was thinking about creating a new political coalition based on the Jefferson County Citizens Coalition he founded more than 20 years ago.
Today’s front page story in The Birmingham News digs a little deeper into the situation, getting an interesting response from the former mayor in terms of whether or not he’d consider running for office again in 2011 as well as the current office holder‘s opinions about Arrington’s recent actions.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, announcement, Birmingham, city elections, coalition, Jefferson County Citizens Coalition, political, politics, Richard Arrington
UPDATE: City Stages 2009 | Acts announced, website unveiled
This morning we’ve started seeing the first acts for City Stages 2009 be announced and dissected (courtesy of The Birmingham News and Wade on Birmingham respectively). So, what else can we add?
Well, for starters the festival ‘s new website is scheduled for launched today – this morning actually. Whether that happens or not, it’s our understanding that It has been built using WordPress, the same CMS program used to operate The Terminal. The site will feature the festival’s new logo and allow you to share your favorite City Stages memory. We also know that we’re planning our own special City Stages section again this year, though it is still not ready for its own unveiling as of yet.
So for the time being, we want to know what you think – as Birmingham’s world class music festival is the basis of today’s Magic City Question.
Image: Screenshot of new City Stages website.
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Tagged 2009, AL, Alabama, announcement, Birmingham, City Stages, Festival, lineup, music, opinion, WordPress
Get ready to welcome The Hub
Good morning Birmingham (and elsewhere)! First of all, thanks to those of you that came out last night – it was a lot of fun, and I think that you enjoyed yourselves as well.
The big news story from last night’s event – we’re doing a beta launch of a social network for Birmingham!
The goal is for The Hub to launch on Monday morning, at least, that’s what our web team is thinking right now. The general idea of launching a social network is not to reinvent the wheel. The idea is to provide a place to have the conversation take place for Birmingham online.
For the techies in the area, we’ll be using BuddyPress to build the network and we’re hoping to be able to use Facebook Connect so that you don’t have to create yet another account log in. It will be a beta, so I’ll apologize in advance for site outages and issues, but I think that it will help us
If you’re interested in being a beta tester for the network, feel free to email us at info@bhamterminal.com.
There will be a little more about this later on today. Enjoy the ride!
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Tagged AL, Alabama, announcement, Birmingham, buddypress, social networking, The Hub, The Terminal, website
