The UAB Foreign Film Series continues on Tuesday, Oct. 14, with a screening of the award-winning Mexican film, The Violin. Directed by Francisco Vargas and shot in black-and-white, the film tells the

I spent most of my childhood and not an insignificant amount of my adulthood thinking that I would be a poet when I grew up. This ambition made it very important to me early on to know the names and w

Local omnivores whiled away their Sunday afternoon at the Pepper Place on Oct. 5, savoring the myriad flavors on offer at Break 'N Bread, the annual food and wine festival sponsored by Birmingham Orig

If you're already in withdrawal from last weekend's Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, there's a little relief to be had tonight as the UAB Foreign Film Series continues with a screening of The Yacoubi

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

The exhibition whose title is literally translated means "Before There was Nothing," is something. And when I say "something," I mean it in the exclamatory sense — the "Boy, that's something," sense,

Time was, the Sunday worship service I favored most started around 10 p.m. and involved a bright-red jambox, two or three blank tapes (usually Maxells) and a Garfield phone handed down from my brother

It's tough to be a movie-lover in Birmingham (altho Sidewalk does provide some relief). The local cinemas rarely include art-house or independent films in their lineups, opting instead for blockbuster

This week's edition of Birmingham Weekly includes a ruminative piece by Jim Fahy on his 36-hour encounter with the local work of anonymous yet well-known graffiti artist Banksy. Even though Banksy's "

Anybody hoping to have a fancy fried sandwich anytime soon is out of luck: Birmingham Weekly got word late Sunday night that the Burly Earl has closed its doors for good. The decades-old dive bar has