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Artwalk’s accepting application for 2008

Posted on February 13, 2008 | Leave a comment

Image from Artwalk 2007It’s time to start thinking about Artwalk… well at least if you’re an artist.

Birmingham Artwalk has announced that they’re now accepting artist applications for the 2008 edition. Interested artists may download the application at www.birminghamartwalk.org ; or send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to:

Birmingham Artwalk
P.O. Box 55405
Birmingham, AL 35255

Submissions postmarked by April 1 are eligible for a discount in fees. All submissions must be postmarked April 30, that’s a Wednesday, to be considered.

This year’s festival will take place on September 5 & 6.

Photo credit: Bob Farley/f8photo

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Snow falls on Birmingham… again

Posted on February 13, 2008 | Leave a comment

snow downtown

André Natta/Flickr

Light snow fall has decided to grace metro Birmingham with its presence again this morning. Here’s the scene downtown across from our offices on Morris Avenue. Eventually it’s supposed to stop, but we may as well enjoy it for the time being.

I mean, it’s not necessarily stopping this from happening today.

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The other guys cover the Mims situation

Posted on February 13, 2008 | Leave a comment

First of all, here’s a link to the report that everyone’s been talking about surrounding the city of Birmingham’s school system.

Now let’s take a look at how the local media’s been covering this story since it broke yesterday…

Throughout most of last night’s coverage, outlets stressed Mims’ acceptance of responsibility for the existence of two reports. Perhaps the best example of this is in NBC 13’s coverage. They were also able to provide the opinion of the state superintendent, who was in town for the proceedings.

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A look back: February 13

Posted on February 13, 2008 | Comments Off on A look back: February 13

2006:

The Hoover Historical Society installed a historic marker at Ross Bridge.

Courtesy: Bhamwiki.com logo

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Leading Edge Institute Lighting the Way Gala, Southern Progress Campus

Posted on February 12, 2008 | Comments Off on Leading Edge Institute Lighting the Way Gala, Southern Progress Campus

Leading Edge Institute’s 8th annual Lighting the Way Gala is fast approaching. Join them for an evening of great food, jazz music courtesy of Eric Essix, and inspiration from their guest of honor, Emmy award-winning Alabama filmmaker Celia Carey (Mr. Dial has Something to Say). They will also be celebrating the dynamic young women of Class VIII and the changes they’re making in their own lives and the lives of others.

The attire is “After Five.” There will be child-friendly activities and food provided.Cost:
Tickets are $40/individual; $75/couple; various sponsorship levels.

Tickets and sponsorships can be purchased online by clicking here and entering the ticket or sponsorship amount.

For more information or to purchase tickets/sponsorships please contact us at bonycle@leadingedgeinst.org or 205.879.9045.

Location:
Southern Progress Corporation
2100 Lakeshore Drive (directions)

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Now hear this: Matthews vs. Murphy online

Posted on February 12, 2008 | 6 comments

It’s currently one of the featured posts over on Birmingham Weekly’s Mixed Media blog – Kyle’s piece about Frank Matthews’ “exchange”with Matt Murphy on Murphy‘s February 8th broadcast resulting from John Archibald’s* blog post on February 7 about Larry Langford’s mayoral campaign’s media dealings. Now you can hear how it went down.

WAPI-AM has posted the audio from this exchange on-air; listen up and let us know what you think:

http://www.wapi1070.com/getpodcast.aspx?sid=22245&lid=5017&id=581546&source=2&url=http://podcasting.fia.net/5017/2405697.mp3

*Incidentally, I’ll finally get a chance to meet the Birmingham News columnist when he and I join Wade Kwon as panelists at today’s PRSA meeting beginning at 11:45 a.m.

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Yes, Parliament House hotel’s coming down on Sunday

Posted on February 11, 2008 | Leave a comment

UPDATE: 2.16.2008 – Street closing information

We were hoping we’d be able to get that news up this evening before anyone else did, though the Birmingham Business Journal ended up beating us to the punch. We actually confirmed it with sources yesterday morning.

As far as a time goes, let’s just say that you’ll probably want to wake up pretty early this coming Sunday morning if you want to watch history take place – maybe some time around dawn. So there will probably be a few folks doing a double take as they drive down 20th Street on the way to church later Sunday morning.

We’d also not recommend trying to get too close if you do go down to “watch”; there’s a reason they normally keep you a few blocks away…

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