Since 1990 and the dawn fun & Stuff, and the first official publication of the Birmingham Weekly in 1997, much has changed in what a newspaper is supposed to do as you can read in the Birmingham News some days but not others. We have spun off several other publications ourselves and they are spinning off as well.

Fuimos almorzar la semana pasada al camion Pineda con mesa picnic, e igual al Little Donkey, los dos ambos. Me sorprende que Escarlata fue conmigo hasta el camioncita taqueria en el autopista Pinson Valley. Se encuentra a menudo tomando margaritas en Homewood sin embargo.

Well things do have a way of rolling around to the same juncture, and maybe that´s what it means that an electron can be in two places at once, and why the Greeks offered wine to their ancestors. Last time I wrote about the year that has passed since I took over the Birmingham Weekly--again.

She doesn´t mean to disprove the adage, "You are what you eat." After all, the food we eat is the source of the energy that produces our thoughts, if not the energy produced in turn by them..

(Anonymous Translation) Once again our publisher went looking for Mexican food that is not a Tex-Mex adulteration and didn’t come out of a microwave (not just another gratuitous jab at the country girl, since use of this unpreferred cooking method is not uncommon). And he was looking for an authentic environment, where Spanish is spoken by recent immigrants who really eat the food in the place. Worthy goals, but even he admits his commentary on Hispanic demographics and culture in Birmingham is a little silly.

After four tries my Sunday school class finally made it through Genesis Chapter One, albeit with several mysteries unsolved in our wake.

Some of you came to receptions and dinners here, even Rev. Shuttlesworth's 90th birthday dinner--and I had half a mind to think the Rev would appear.

We have had lots of prizes and giveaways before, but this is one that requires the most serious commitment. We have been telling you about this one for a while on the back cover of the paper, but now the time is nigh for you to pack up your camping gear and go spend a weekend in Manchester, Tennessee.

But he does not want stereotypes of what ballet should be to hold it back. He choreographed the new ballet himself. But the new ballet is the story of the beginnings of ballet in Birmingham, when Figueroa, a dancer from the ghetto in Harlem, teamed up with Virginia Simpson, an heiress and patron of the arts.

I always seem to have a lot of people telling me what I should do. The country girl, for example, would shine a light in my face at a quarter to three in the morning with her marching orders. Scarlet counsels against springtime urges of the blood, though not particularly appealing to reason.