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Posted on November 12th, 2009 by Amanda Storey

Highlights of the 2009 Alabama Food Summit

Highlights of the 2009 Alabama Food Summit

Farmers and families are attempting to expand the local discussion about food.

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Posted on October 29th, 2009 by Amanda Storey

Getting real about school lunches

Getting real about school lunches

Slow Food Birmingham’s “Taste $3.57,” will show what a healthy school lunch should taste like.

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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