WEEKLY DIGEST: Nov. 1-8, 2007
By Glenny Brock
DEAD BUT NOT GONE: That’s the best way to think of your dearly departed, particularly if you plan to attend the fifth annual Dia de los Muertos celebration at Bare Hands Gallery. This week’s cover story offers some history of the local celebration of the Mexican holiday known as the Day of the Dead.
In fact, we’ve got cross-cultural offerings aplenty in and around the ‘Ham this week – the Jewish Food Festival at the Levite Jewish Community Center, the Russian Food Festival in Brookside, Ala., the Taste of Asian Cultural Festival near George Ward Park and Deepawali at Taj India.
If you eat, drink and make merry in half-a-dozen different languages, it might be enough to take your mind off the fact that a charity with connections to Birmingham mayor-elect Larry Langford is under investigation by the FBI and that Daylight Savings Time makes no sense. J’Mel Davidson’s stories of clowns and magicians don’t make a lot of sense either but we like them, particularly the one about Uncanny Alfie.
Oh, and the Steeldogs are done and gone. You can read about the way they were here.
