Tag Archives: Birmingham

Last day for ticket amnesty, take two

Posted on August 29, 2008 | Leave a comment

If you’ve been sitting around for the last month upset that you didn’t pay your long overdue parking tickets back in July during the amnesty period, we’d like to remind you that the city extended the deadline until today.

That’s right, you can feel relaxed as you head to your game later this week if you’re not worried about a boot on the car.

So head over the city’s online payment center or run over to the courthouse and wipe that slate clean.

While you’re there, you may want to pay ours…

Photo: Untitled by megnificence/Flickr

It’s College Colors Day in Alabama!

Posted on August 29, 2008 | 4 comments

Gov. Riley signs College Colors Day proclamation

Photo: Office of the Governor of the State of Alabama.

As you’re getting ready for work this morning, you may want to take advantage of Governor Riley’s declaring today as College Colors Day as an excuse to show your support for your school. Yes, there’s a monetary purpose behind it, but who doesn’t want to support college scholarship funds – though it officially means that trash talking season is upon us…

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Posted in Quirky

Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, College Colors Day, college scholarshiips, Governor Bob Riley

On the agenda: a lot actually

Posted on August 26, 2008 | 6 comments

This morning’s City Council meeting is going to be interesting. Two new establishments that we’ve recently written about, Bonedaddy’s (soon to be Sweet Bones Alabama) and Black Market Bar, are on the consent agenda currently for receipt of their restaurant retail liquor licenses. For those that haven’t figured out where The Black Market will be, the address is 3411 Colonnade Parkway, Suite 800.

Several city agencies that have contracts with the city including Urban Impact, Main Street Birmingham and the BIrmingham Business Resource Center are poised to have them renewed. The biggest news that will come out of this morning’s meeting will probably not be what’s on the agenda, but what is not. Mayor Langford is prepared to ask the council to support a proposal for electronic bingo – an item that is currently legal in 6 of the counties in the state. In addition, he is asking the council via an addendum item to support a grant application to implement a Civil Rights Trail in the city.

We’ll see what happens.

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Posted in On the agenda

Tagged agenda, AL, Alabama, Birmingham, City Council, On the agenda

Keeping L.R. Auditorium closed down

Posted on August 25, 2008 | 2 comments

Birmingham City Council filed a request for a temporary restraining order, asking a judge to keep a downtown teenage hot spot closed for good.

Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Michael Graffeo will hold a hearing on the request Thursday.

The L.R. Hall Auditorium was closed last week, under the advisement of Mayor Larry Langford and Police Chief A.C. Roper. They have called the venue a public safety threat, saying there have been numerous police calls and hundreds of complaints of vandalism and gunshots.

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Posted in News

Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham City Council, L.R. Auditorium, nuisance

Come out and get a Taste tonight

Posted on August 25, 2008 | Leave a comment

We are still under a flash flood watch this evening in parts of the metro area, but we’re hoping that folks still take a moment and attend tonight’s Taste of the Nation event at the McWane Science Center. We’d like to thank those of you that entered the contest and those of you that visited the event’s website to learn more about this important cause. I’ll be there this evening and I hope that I’ll get a chance to meet some of you.

You may also want to venture over to Timetable just in case you aren’t able to attend tonight. Whitney’s gives readers a head’s up on a great show at The Bottletree while Andrea Walker reminds us that we can check out some of the art before ArtWalk invades downtown in early September.

WordCamp Birmingham – come on over

Posted on August 25, 2008 | Leave a comment

Late Friday evening, we announced that we would be serving as an organizing sponsor for WordCamp Birmingham, the first WordCamp that will be held in the Southeastern United States. The conference will take place on September 27 & 28. A quick primer – WordCamps are informal gatherings of WordPress enthusiasts, users and developers to talk the popular, open source software used to run several million blogs and websites (including this one).

I’ve got some interesting reasons for why we’re doing this and if you head over to My Birmingham today, you’ll get to read them all.

Skaters get creative in Birmingham

Posted on August 25, 2008 | 2 comments

Photo: GAL Photography

Those of you that use the 5^th Avenue North ramp to access Interstates 20/59 or 65 may only have a second to notice that there’s been a few changes in the landscape over there in recent weeks because of the removal of the skate park from Homewood’s Central Park in July.

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Posted in Random Shots

Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, Faith Skate Supply, photos, skate park, skateboard