The Birmingham Museum of Art has scored another major exhibit for Fall 2008. It will be the first time that these works, including one of Leonardo’s most celebrated notebooks, the Codex on the Flight of Birds, will be loaned to a U.S. museum. The exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings from the Biblioteca Reale in Turin, will open September 28 and run through November 9.
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da Vinci drawings come to town in September
UPDATE: Coming Sunday: Parliament House implosion pics
UPDATE: 2.17.2008 – Images are up
UPDATE: 2.16.2008 – Street closing information
Bob Farley/f8photo
As many of you already know, the Parliament House Hotel is being imploded on Sunday morning at 7 a.m., weather permitting. Check in with us on Sunday morning after 8 a.m. to see pictures from this unique event. You can bookmark this page as we’ll have a link from here to the gallery.
Posted in 35223, architecture, Events
Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, building, images, implosion, information, leveled, links, Parliament House Hotel, photos, southside
Here’s what you’re missing on Tuesdays this month
André Natta/The Terminal
We’re posting this a little later than we wanted to… but we wanted to be sure that you were aware of just what you’re missing if you’re not showing up at Vulcan Park’s Collective Perspectives series on Tuesdays this month.
Here’s a taste of this week’s performance by Miles College’s jazz band, the Milestones:
[audio:http://bhamterminal.com/audio/Milesjazz2008.mp3]Next week’s presentation will feature short films created by UAB Ethnographic Filmmaking course. Check out our destinations calendar entry for more information. We look forward to seeing you there.
Posted in 35209, Art, Events, music
Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, Black History Month, Collective Perspectives, jazz, Miles College, Milestones, mp3, performance, sample, Vulcan Park
News, Weekly take one, two punch at Mayor Langford
Birmingham’s mayor made the front pages of two of the area’s print publications, though not necessarily for good reasons. The stories result from both The Birmingham News and Birmingham Weekly obtaining copies (warning – it’s a big file) of what has been identified as Larry Langford’s June 2007 testimony to the SEC (no, the other one).
The Birmingham News ran their coverage below the fold of this morning’s paper. Their story focused on the then county commission president’s testimony that he regularly asked recipients of county contracts to give to charities that he was associated with and controlled.
Kyle Whitmire follows up two teases on the Weekly’s blog (here’s the latest one) with a War on Dumb filing (we’ll link when it gets posted) that digs a little deeper into the mayor’s testimony, contrasting it with comments made during the mayor’s inaugural address.
Definitely an interesting time for these stories to break, especially considering some of the heated discussion that took place at Tuesday’s marathon council meeting.
Which leads us to ask: What do you think?
Click on the question to let us know…
Posted in Media, The First 100
Tagged Alabama, Birmingham, controversy, coverage, information, Larry Langford, links, mayor, Media, SEC, testimony, The First 100
Random Shots: Freedom burns eternal in Linn Park
André Natta/Flickr
The Eternal Flame of Freedom now burns again at the corner of 20th Street North and Park Place as a result of the efforts of one man, some stamina and one well-timed phone call. The Birmingham News shared the story on their blog yesterday afternoon.
Incidentally, the monument will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2009 on the same day that Bhamwiki will celebrate its 3rd year.
Posted in Random Shots
Tagged again, Alabama, bhamwiki, bhamwiki.com, Birmingham, burns, dispute, Eternal flame, eternal flame of freedom, flame, photo, relit
A look back: February 14
Posted in A look back
Tagged A look back, Alabama, Alan Hunter, bhamwiki, bhamwiki.com, Birmingham, birthday, history, Mel Allen, reference
