Photo: Untitled. jflint/Flickr.
That’s the question being asked by many of them as they learned that the skate ramps they’d recently created on the site of the old Terminal Station – and next to the 5th Avenue North on ramp to I-20/59 – had been removed early yesterday by the Alabama Department of Transportation. The makeshift ramps had been constructed as a result of the dismantling of the Homewood Central Park skate ramp this summer.
Photo: Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford sitting between City Councilors William Bell and Valerie Abbott during this morning’s press conference at the Burger-Phillips building downtown. Bob Farley/f8Photo.
We figured that since some of you are going to watch the mayor’s remarks online this afternoon about the civic center expansion (read: 1 p.m.) that you may want to know about some of the remarks Larry Langford made this morning during the unveiling of the recently remodeled Burger-Phillips Building in Birmingham’s city center (photos are coming). The issue – street paving. Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama, Birmingham, city, improvements, Larry Langford, streets, transportation
Takeru Kobayashi massages his injured jaw before losing the Mustard Belt to Joey Chestnut at the Coney Island hot dog eating contest. Photo: Takeru Kobayashi – drivenbyboredom/Flickr
If you’ve ever wanted to see multiple world-recording holding eating champion Takeru Kobayashi in person, then you’ll just have to head to this Saturday’s UAB Blazers football game against Alabama State at Legion Field. He’ll be in town for the Krystal Square Off World Hamburger Eating Championship qualifier that was originally supposed to take place in Blazer Village next to the Old Gray Lady before the game. Instead, due to security concerns, it’s been moved inside. According to this report on the Krystal Square Off blog, they’ll even be broadcasting the competition on the Jumbotron screens. Thanks to Nathan for the tip.
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Tagged 35204, AL, Alabama, Birmingham, Krystal Square Off, Legion Field, qualifier, Takeru Kobayashi
We’re full of questions today over here…
There’s a press release that went out yesterday that’s got some folks thinking that the popular video game character may be making an appearance in Birmingham, AL tomorrow. The info that we do know? A Nintendo “authority” will be in attendance at Kirby Middle School for interviews and it’ll be optimal to see the spectale between 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. That and it’s a cute press release. Our money’s on the little guy being in the Magic City himself plugging his new game (due out on September 22), but we’ll see…
Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, character, Kirby, new game, press event, video game
Photo: SmartCar invasion begins. acnatta/Flickr.
If you haven’t seen a SmartCar yet (the one above was on Morris Avenue about a month ago), be prepared to see many more in the coming months and years cruising around town. The car first made an appearance in town last year as part of a cross-country promotional tour. Now, one of the 72 SmartCar dealerships in the country is located in Hoover. They received one of their first car shipments about two weeks ago (I didn’t have a camera – doh). Anyone out there own one of these yet?
Screenshot of bjcta.org What’s New page, accessed 9.16.2008.
Not quite, but yes! It was a little weird when we visited the BJCTA’s (a.k.a. our bus system’s) website earlier today while getting ready for the Tuesday morning City Council post. We went back later to check on it; the item posted at the top of the What’s New items section of their website is a link that takes people to another site, Learn Spanish Today, that offers people to take free Spanish lessons – via a widget dictionary that can be installed on your website or blog or another link on the site.
Before you ask, yes, we did email the BJCTA about the link – we hope to share their response with you soon.
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Tagged Alabama, Birmingham, bus system, Free, Online, Quirky, spanish classes
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