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Posted on October 25th, 2007 by Glenny Brock

WEEKLY DIGEST: Oct. 25 – Nov. 1, 2007

FINE ART & HAUNTING ARTIFACTS: Visitors to “Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption” will be treated [...]

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Posted on October 5th, 2007 by Glenny Brock

Weekly Digest: Oct. 4-11, 2007

THIRTY YEARS IN THE TAKING: That’s the subhead of this week’s cover story, “Larry Langford’s [...]

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Posted on September 19th, 2007 by Kyle Whitmire

Mayoral Debate Online

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Posted on September 13th, 2007 by Kyle Whitmire

NEWS: Making a million

Almost three months ago, Jeremy Harper began his one-to-million shot — counting to one million [...]

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Posted on September 6th, 2007 by Glenny Brock

WEEKLY DIGEST: Sept. 6-13, 2007

THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW that says no self-respecting publication in the city of [...]

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Posted on August 21st, 2007 by Molly Folse

Newsflash: Men and women are different!

OK, so there’s no big surprise there. But according to one sexual health professional, the [...]

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Posted on August 12th, 2007 by Glenny Brock

Weekly Digest: Aug. 9-16, 2007

Every year around this time, we Weekly people get sentimental about our halcyon college days [...]

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Posted on August 3rd, 2007 by Glenny Brock

Weekly Digest: Aug. 2 – 9, 2007

Some weeks are full of history and music, and so are some weeklies, particularly this [...]

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Posted on August 1st, 2007 by Kyle Whitmire

Lou’s Pub turns 20

Tonight Lou’s Pub will celebrate 20 years of business. A split pub and package store, [...]

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Posted on July 19th, 2007 by Glenny Brock

WEEKLY DIGEST: July 19-26, 2007

It’s not often that anybody gets to write about the Alien Tort Statute outside of [...]

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Posted on June 18th, 2007 by Kyle Whitmire

T-minus one million and counting

UPDATE: Check out this week’s Cover Story at Bhamweekly.com
Jeremy Harper is counting to [...]

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Posted on June 8th, 2007 by Kyle Whitmire

WEEKLY DIGEST: June 7, 2007

WOWEE ZOWEE, THE BOARDS ARE ON FIRE: “On the boards” is fancy for “now playing [...]

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Posted on June 8th, 2007 by Kyle Whitmire

POLITICS: Sonuvabitch-slap

Here’s the video from yesterday’s Alabama Senate brawl between Sen. Charles Bishop and Sen. [...]

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Posted on May 23rd, 2007 by Kyle Whitmire

WEEKLY DIGEST: Over the Top

Asked how many songs he knew the words to, the inimitable Topper Price was said [...]

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Posted on May 17th, 2007 by Kyle Whitmire

WEEKLY DIGEST: MAY 17, 2007

I WAS UP UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF OTHER FORCES: Was what Sun Ra said about [...]

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Posted on May 9th, 2007 by John Seay

That time I played in City Stages’ Battle of the Bands…and Won!

It was 1999 and my band Exit Io had just “released” our debut album, Moonlit [...]

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Posted on April 25th, 2007 by Kyle Whitmire

VENUES: Diggin’ up bones

Birmingham’s favorite pet parade is still a month away, but it’s not too early to [...]

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Posted on April 23rd, 2007 by Kyle Whitmire

NEWS: Root of our evil

When the protective hand of Reconstruction lifted from Alabama in the late 19th century, it [...]

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Posted on March 22nd, 2007 by Kyle Whitmire

VENUES: WorkPlay up for sale

Ever been jamming with your garage band and thought you’d make it big if only [...]

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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