Media

18 Days Out: My fear of commitment

I have The Fear. I don't know if it's Hunter S. Thompson's brand of The Fear (his normally had more to do with the impending lack of drugs or the presence of too many) but it's probably related to tha

Media

20 Days Out: Ten words that have lost meaning and debate preview

Ten words that have lost meaning during the course of this election

By Madison Underwood

Don't forget that, like every Wednesday, Birmingham Weekly columnist Kyle Whitmire will be on WBHM (90.3 FM) at 4:30 pm.\ \ Ten words that have lost meaning during the course of this election (due to

Media

21 Days Out: Seeing the forest for the (ACORN-producing oak) trees

By Madison Underwood

FOXNews and CNN are screaming about ACORN, as I've done in the past. Sarah Palin has talked about the voter registration arm of ACORN on the stump and today on Rush Limbaugh:\ And given the ties betwe

Media

26 Days Out: Ayers and Obama, and debate thoughts

By Madison Underwood

Note: Sorry for the lack of post yesterday. I wrote one but didn't post it for some reason. There most likely won't be a 25 Days Out post tomorrow or for the rest of the weekend, as I'm going out of t

Media

CL bankruptcy will not affect Bham Weekly

By Glenny Brock

The money section of today's Birmingham News included a newsbrief about Creative Loafing, Inc. filing for bankruptcy protection on Monday, Sept. 29, noting that CL is a minority owner of Birmingham We

Media

Birmingham columnists on WBHM

By Kyle Whitmire

If WBHM's recent shift away from classical music baroque your heart, then there's not much we can do for you (except maybe suggest Pandora). In the meantime, Birmingham's public radio station is takin

Media

A Tweet Retort: Why Courtney was wrong about Twitter

I and millions of others find Twitter to be engaging, useful, and far from an exercise in vapidity.

By Madison Underwood

Last week, Birmingham Weekly columnist Courtney Haden examined the increasingly pervasive social networking tool known as Twitter. In his column, Haden derided Twitter as an example of America's "brea

Media

Siegelman Scrushy case revisited

By Kyle Whitmire

We can tell from our site analytics that a lot of readers have been searching here for information about the Don Siegelman/Richard Scrushy case, and many readers have asked us directly to look at the

Media

Langford peeved over (imaginary?) council leak

Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford is upset again with city councilors, who he claims are leaking information to the media.

By Kyle Whitmire

Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford is upset again with city councilors, who he claims are leaking information to the media. In his regularly scheduled comments at the beginning of the council meeting Tue

Media

God’s Gangster Riles Again

Frank Matthews is causing a stir again. On Friday the mayoral aide got into an on-air shouting match with talk show host Matt Murphy.

By Kyle Whitmire

Frank Matthews, the former talk show host turned mayoral flunky, is causing a stir again. On Friday Matthews got into an on-air shouting match with talk show host Matt Murphy, ranting and raving on WA