Photo: Bob Farley/f8Photo
The historic Lyric andAlabama Theatres will be open for tours this Sunday afternoon from 2-4 p.m. Historian Dan Liles will be on hand to give the history of the Lyric. Organ crew chief Larry Donaldson will be available to answer questions about Alabama Theatre’s Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ and the Alabama’s technical director, Jeff Kizziah will be up in the projection booth.
Posted in Random Shots
Tagged 35203, AL, Alabama, Birmingham, downtown, information, interior, Lyric Theatre, open house, photos
A helicopter was seen and heard hovering less than 100 feet above Joe Muggs and The Cheesecake Factory’s patio around 12 p.m. Saturday afternoon. It stayed overhead for about 15 minutes and changed directions a few times. This seemed to cause some distraction and confusion on Summit Blvd. (the main road through the Summit) and started blowing a slight wind and dust on the patios for Joe Muggs, California Pizza Kitchen and The Cheescake Factory.
It could be assumed that it was a news crew or photographer getting footage of The Summit’s new phase 6 construction.
If anyone has any info on the mystery chopper, leave us a comment below.
Posted in Quirky
Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, flyover, helicopter, mystery, The Summit
No, we’re not kidding… we are giving away one (1) family four pack of tickets to next week’s performances of Dora the Explorer LIVE! Search for the City of Lost Toys at the BJCC Concert Hall courtesy of Nickelodeon and Broadway Across America. There will be three performances in two days, June 9 & 10, and the lucky winner will need to be available for any of the times (Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. with a matinee performance at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday).
Click here to access the entry form. You’ve got until 12 p.m. on Monday. Good luck!
BTW – If you need some help figuring out plans for the weekend, Jason’s picks are up over on Timetable.
Posted in contest
Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, Dora the Explorer, giveaway, information, ticket
We’re joining Birmingham Weekly in reporting that The Birmingham News has made an additional 7% average reduction in salaries for its full-time employees. They also announced the closure of all suburban news bureaus by September and layoffs of some part-time employees, though there are no additional furloughs expected for now.
We also learned that employees at The Anniston Star and its subsidiairies found out that they would also be experiencing a 10% reduction in salary, just days after launching its new website.
Ike Pigott broke both stories via Twitter earlier this afternoon.
Photo: Bob Farley/f8Photo
Posted in Business
Tagged AL, Alabama, Anniston Star, B'ham, Birmingham, Birmingham News, closing, layoffs, newspaper, part time, pay cut, reduction, salary, suburban bureaus
The Birmingham News recently shared the news that Century Plaza had officially closed (save for the Sears location which will still be open through June 14) effective Sunday evening.
NBC 13 provided visitors to their website the chance to read the press release from the mall’s owner, General Growth Properties, distributed yesterday morning while Fox 6 garnered comments from city councilmember Carol Duncan and others, leading us to today’s Magic City Question,
Posted in Business
Tagged AL, Alabama, announcement, Birmingham, Century Plaza, closed, closing, closure, development, east side, General Growth Properties, info, information, news coverage, press release
We’re going to host a meeting this evening (Tuesday, June 2) at 5:30 p.m.upstairs at Shift WorkSpace (@2308 2nd Avenue North) for those interested in contributing to bhamterminal.com in all of the ways that you can think of (writing, photography, video, audio, etc.).
We’ll talk a little bit about the direction that the site plans to go in the next few months and about interest in some long term projects that we’d like to implement. Plus, you get to see our new offices. You’ll want to come in through the door to the right of the main entrance.
If you’ve got any questions in advance, drop us a line at info@bhamterminal.com.
Posted in The Terminal
Tagged AL, Alabama, bhamterminal, Birmingham, contributors, interest, staff meeting, The Terminal
McWane Science Center‘s introducing their two newest online stars today. Shark and Ray are going to be featured in a new series of shorts that will be posted on YouTube (the first of which was posted today) in conjunction with their Wish for Fish campaign which will culminate with a new Shark and Ray aquarium in July. If you want to keep up with their latest adventures, you can follow them on Twitter or Facebook as well.
Still image courtesy of Shark & Ray.
Posted in Online
Tagged 35203, AL, Alabama, aquarium, Birmingham, McWane Science Center, Shark and Ray, video, Wish for Fish, YouTube
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