Birmingham’s oldest surviving theatre, the Lyric, located at Third Avenue North and 18th Street downtown, [...]

Josh Kelley and Tim Brantley don’t seem to have that much in common. Kelley lives [...]

Bettye Fine Collins threatened to have Birmingham Weekly columnist Kyle Whitmire escorted from the building after Whitmire asked her if she stood by a statement she made a week earlier.

Hello from the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Chicago, Illinois, where Kyle Whitmire and I are [...]

Nazis endorse Obama in the name of poetic justice. Irony for irony’s sake.

My thoughts/mild insights on the Obamumentary/Obamercial/30 minute ad spot. And there’s more! Secrets revealed!

Obama, the communist socialist non-American Muslim wrong-kind-of-Christian athiest terrorist sympathizer foreign-policy-wimp who is too much of a hawk when it comes to fighting terrorism and who has no record to speak of.

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

My serious advice for you is to take 30 minutes and read this Robert Draper [...]

Birmingham Weekly has learned that Southern Progress, a division of Time Inc., has laid off as many as 30 employees. The cuts seems to be part of a larger, company-wide reduction. Details to follow. In the meantime, feast on this from Gawker.

McCain’s Pennsylvania strategy…

Of course the big story today is Colin Powell’s ringing endorsement of Barack Obama for [...]

As our brave editor Glenny Brock noted this morning, this is the last week for [...]

I have The Fear. I don’t know if it’s Hunter S. Thompson’s brand of The [...]

Ten words that have lost meaning during the course of this election

FOXNews and CNN are screaming about ACORN, as I’ve done in the past. Sarah Palin [...]

Note: Sorry for the lack of post yesterday. I wrote one but didn’t post it [...]

The money section of today’s Birmingham News included a newsbrief about Creative Loafing, Inc. filing [...]

On Saturday, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and the Medill School of Journalism announced the [...]

If WBHM’s recent shift away from classical music baroque your heart, then there’s not much [...]