There's a rare Monday show at Java & Jams tonight: The splendid Packway Handle Band out of Athens, Ga., will be doing their string thing starting at 8 p.m. Cover is $5. \ \ You can check out thei

Three weeks ago, Birmingham Weekly columnist Courtney Haden made plain his disappointment with the way Rep. Artur Davis voted on the FISA Amendments Act, the latest re-tooling of Foreign Intelligence

Two weeks ago, Birmingham Weekly columnist Courtney Haden made plain his disappointment with the way Rep. Artur Davis voted on the FISA Amendments Act, the latest re-tooling of Foreign Intelligence Su

The Monday after a holiday always hurts, but Marty Eagle made my day this morning by turning me on to the music of John-Alex Mason. If I had just happened to see a handbill advertising a one-man band

Tickets for the July 3 Tom Waits concert at the Alabama Theatre will go on sale this Friday, May 16, at 11 a.m. Central Time. Tickets cost $85 plus applicable service fees. You may purchase tickets vi

"If you're lucky, you will hear parts of your life \ played out on a golden harp." \ \ \'96 Sharrif Simmons \ \ Saturday, May 10, marks a year to the day since Sharrif Simmons was shot at point-bla

".. even after April by God there is no excuse for May," which is to say, it doesn't have to be National Poetry month for we Weeklies to be psyched about poems and the people that make them. To wit: w

THE RACE IS ON: And on and on and on, much like the war in Iraq, which Sen. John McCain will doubtless continue into the 22nd century, should he become the next Commander-in-Chief. Let's just hope tha

There\'92s the Broadway crowd, comprised of folks who actually go to New York at least once a year to take in a few shows, and then there\'92s the Broadway Across America crowd, comprised of folks who

In terms of participating in internet commerce, I'm something of a Luddite. I have only purchased four items on Amazon ever and I've never participated in a single eBay auction. But my life as an onli