A poem about an ex-mayor & a prisoner-to-be.

Leonard Cohen fronts the house band in Purgatory.

Some 26,227 citizens went out of their way to vote for Larry Langford, but last Sunday only .002% of that number came out to pray for his immortal soul.

The new statue of Alabama native Helen Keller in Washington D.C. is not only the first representation of a child and the first of a disabled person in the Capitol, but also likely the first bronze rendering of a radical socialist activist erected there.

Jim Lauderdale reigns as one of the busiest players in the music industry, writing hit songs for artists like George Strait and working on projects with everyone from Willie Nelson to Donna the Buffalo.

Annie Clark is a girl on the cusp of transmutation.

There will be debate over war in Afghanistan, waged by those struggling for political advantage, while those who wage the actual war in the hard place on our behalf do so in abysmal circumstances.

People buy champagne for the bubbles. In radio, the fizz comes from an on-air attitude that reflects the interests of its listenership.

Jerry Desmond was 13 years old when he first heard about Birmingham, Alabama. Throwing papers [...]

The Moon Pie is a distinctive pastry treat dating back to the First World War, predating Chattanooga’s [...]

We are rarely visited anymore by rock greatness. When it happens, it’s usually while decent [...]

I’ve been thinking about turning off the cable again.
The last time was 1988, after NBC [...]

As though people weren’t cantankerous enough in August, now we have to have a health [...]

I see the guy sitting on Highland Avenue every day, and when I say “sitting [...]

 
I would have bet you on Walter Cronkite surviving till Monday at least, just to beat The [...]

In the summer of ’77, Birmingham bustled with all manner of retail businesses, most of [...]

Somebody said, “That’s a strange tattoo 
You have on the side of your head.”
I said, “That’s [...]

Before there was Woodstock, there was Atlanta Pop. Forty years ago this weekend, an unimaginable [...]

 
Six-dollar beer at City Stages? Nuts.
A bunch of the boys were whooping it up at the [...]

The Sunday afternoon before City Stages, Steve Ellis brought me over to the Homewood Library [...]