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Posted on August 27th, 2009 by Alyssa Mitchell

Spending green and shopping green

Spending green and shopping green

What does it mean to shop your conscience? Birmingham green retailers offer an investment in community.

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Posted on July 15th, 2009 by Alyssa Mitchell

Potter 6 puts fun back into the franchise

Potter 6 puts fun back into the franchise

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince dispels the gloom found in the latest Potter movies by [...]

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Posted on June 25th, 2009 by Alyssa Mitchell

City Stages bites the dust

The Schaffer Eye Center Crawfish Boil may have had the best year ever, but today City [...]

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Posted on June 25th, 2009 by Alyssa Mitchell

Recycling center finds partners, makes improvements

Recycling center finds partners, makes improvements

The Alabama Environmental Council announced this week that it has joined forces with several recycling partners to make it easier and more efficient for eco-lovers to recycle.

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Weekly Tweets

War on Dumb

Birmingham 101: What will history say about us?

Birmingham 101: What will history say about us?

‘The city of perpetual promise.’ Does that mean incessant failure? Or rather, that Birmingham never gives up hope?

Upon Further Review

Bama wins, 2010 and amen

Bama wins, 2010 and amen

Part two of the college football season recap.

Column

Ties that bind

Ties that bind

A four-in-hand is worth two in the bush

Film

Casualties of war

Casualties of war

“The reasons we go to war always matter,” says the soldier played by Matt Damon [...]

Small World Cartoons

The Paranoid Guide to the 2010 Census

The Paranoid Guide to the 2010 Census

Uncle Sam left something lurking in your mailbox. Dare you open it?

Suburban Legends

The King of Rock: No, Not Elvis

The King of Rock: No, Not Elvis

The world is designed to piss me off