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Posted on August 5th, 2009 by Brent Thompson

Review: Sweet & Hoffs make beautiful music together again

She made her splash in the ’80s as lead singer of The Bangles and he [...]

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Posted on October 24th, 2008 by Jesse Chambers

John Jeremiah Sullivan digs deep in the country blues

John Jeremiah Sullivan, award-winning author and feature writer, loves the country blues. “I’ve been obsessed [...]

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Posted on November 13th, 2007 by Brent Thompson

Review: Bruce Springsteen’s Magic Show

When an artist of Bruce Springsteen’s stature releases a new album, all listeners share one [...]

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Posted on November 2nd, 2007 by Glenny Brock

Allman joy

Greg Allman returns to Birmingham this week for a show at the Alabama Theatre. Weekly [...]

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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 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 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 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 July 6th, 2007 by Glenny Brock

Weekly Digest: July 5, 2007

DICK & DON DONE GONE
Oh, mama, can this really be the end? It’s hard to [...]

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Posted on June 21st, 2007 by Kyle Whitmire

WEEKLY DIGEST: June 21, 2007

YOU WANNA HEAR A STORY? WE GOT A MILLION OF ‘EM.

Well, it’s actually a million [...]

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Posted on June 5th, 2007 by John Seay

Through the Sparks Gaining Momentum

Birmingham be proud! Local band Through the Sparks is slowly but steadily reaching a [...]

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Posted on May 29th, 2007 by John Seay

“Bored Civilians” WAY Left of the Dial…

You know the album you’re listening to is WAY left of the dial when even [...]

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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 15th, 2007 by John Seay

The Other John Seay

I came to terms with my name a long time ago. After all, for [...]

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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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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

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

In lieu of politics, I bring you talking roaches. Cartoonists are primary NPD sufferers.

Suburban Legends

The King of Rock: No, Not Elvis

The King of Rock: No, Not Elvis

The world is designed to piss me off