Birmingham-Southern’s “Dialogue on Food,” scheduled for Sept. 22-24 on the BSC campus, will include a screening of the powerful documentary FRESH.

Think Barack Obama’s a socialist? He’s practically Calvin Coolidge if you compare his ideas on health care to those of Jesus.

Last fall, as part of the UAB Writers’ Series, Birmingham-born Sonia Sanchez gave a reading at the [...]

When Alabama governor Bob Riley signed the Gourmet Beer Bill on May 22, Free the [...]

With a 4-24-2 record in three years as the head football coach at the University of Alabama, it’s no wonder that J.B. “Ears” Whitworth has been designated a pariah by the Tide fan base. But should the former coach shoulder all the blame for Alabama’s wayward years in the mid-to-late 1950s? Find out as Birmingham Weekly’s Matt Hooper pulls back the curtain on the darkest chapter in Crimson Tide football history.

The familiarity of the faces that fill each frame in “Just Down the Road” accounts for most of what makes this photo exhibit so engaging. Comprised of more than two dozen pictures taken in Jefferson and Walker County, the show — which opens on Tuesday, April 7, at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute — is a documentary project with the feel of a family album.

All is not so quiet on the Western Front — the Western Front of downtown Birmingham, that is. There is an increasing amount of development, much of it driven by entrepreneurs, in the often forgotten portion of downtown that stretches west from 18th Street to about I-65.

Sloss Furnaces doesn’t seem like it would be a great place to stage a play, especially a Shakespeare play. The blast furnace-turned-museum is a monument to Birmingham’s roots in heavy industry; its grounds are much more likely to make a visitor think of boilers and blowing engines than curtains and soliloquies.

Malls are dying, but Rachel Higgins has a better idea, and she’s calling it EVERYTHING MUST GO.

From the throne room of college basketball to Birmingham’s Southside, Mike Davis prepares for year one as UAB’s new basketball coach. Trace his journey from small town Alabama to his sport’s grandest stage and back home again in this October 2006 cover story.