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Posted on January 8th, 2009 by Glenny Brock

Weekly Digest: Jan. 8-15, 2009

Weekly Digest: Jan. 8-15, 2009

Are you dancin’ in 2009? ‘Cause we’re askin’…

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Posted on November 26th, 2008 by Glenny Brock

Weekly Digest: Nov. 27 – Dec. 4, 2008

We are thankful to have finished the print edition of the paper a day early [...]

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Posted on October 17th, 2008 by Glenny Brock

WEEKLY DIGEST: Oct. 16-23, 2008

WEEKLY DIGEST: Oct. 16-23, 2008

Every year about this time, I get Lionel Ritchie’s song “All Night Long” stuck in [...]

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Posted on October 10th, 2008 by Glenny Brock

WEEKLY DIGEST Oct. 9-16, 2008

WEEKLY DIGEST Oct. 9-16, 2008

It’s a bang-up beautiful issue, methinks, with a cover story about the Leonardo da Vinci [...]

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Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Glenny Brock

WEEKLY DIGEST: May 8-15, 2008

THE RACE IS ON: And on and on and on, much like the war in [...]

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Posted on March 21st, 2008 by Glenny Brock

WEEKLY DIGEST: March 20-27, 2008

In Birmingham we are fighting history, race against race and class against class.

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Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Glenny Brock

WEEKLY DIGEST: March 6-13, 2008

We’re taking Ginny Phillips off the masthead. Now that she’s a published author, it only [...]

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Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Glenny Brock

Weekly Digest Feb. 21, 2008

IT TAKES A VILLAGE: Just ask Joe Minter, who took his backyard in Titusville and [...]

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Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Glenny Brock

Weekly Digest Feb. 14, 2008

SURPRISE, SURPRISE! In this city, a mysterious package is the last thing you want to [...]

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Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Glenny Brock

EVERYONE IS HUNGRY

So sing the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars in this week’s issue. Bobby Fischer checkmated. The end of the Bomb Shelter, Pompeii’s last days and more.

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Posted on January 17th, 2008 by Glenny Brock

BACK ON OUR TOES

T.S. Eliot said April was the cruellest month, what with all the lilacs bred from [...]

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Posted on January 10th, 2008 by Glenny Brock

WEEKLY DIGEST: Jan. 10-17, 2008

WE ARE WHAT WE EAT & ALWAYS HAVE BEEN: Birminghamians are obsessed with food, with [...]

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Posted on November 17th, 2007 by Glenny Brock

Weekly Digest: Nov. 15 – 22, 2007

THE CONTENTS PAGE IS FULL OF LIES: Yep. The table of contents for Vol. 11, [...]

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Posted on November 1st, 2007 by Glenny Brock

WEEKLY DIGEST: Nov. 1-8, 2007

DEAD BUT NOT GONE: That’s the best way to think of your dearly departed, particularly [...]

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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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WEEKLY PICKS: do more now

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    REQUIEM FOR A SCHEME: The featured composition at Saturday’s Alabama ...

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    BLAZE THE TRAIL: Or, at the very least, help trim ...

Weekly Tweets

  • Can Jefferson County break the bank? The meaning of Jefferson County's suit against banking behemoth JPMorgan: http://bit.ly/2JfcKk #bham 10 hrs ago
  • @WadeOnTweets I don't see Dr. Davis on Twitter any time soon. We're plugging your blogging academy classes in next week's Weekly Picks btw. 1 day ago
  • Nice to see @bhamterminal 's @acnatta on Fox6 w BSC's Natalie Davis discussing #bham mayoral race. Video @WadeOnTweets: http://bit.ly/1o93gZ 1 day ago
  • @brightsides Thanks for comments on last week's cover. It was designed by Jeremy Markham (http://bit.ly/1l7Yx1). More: http://bit.ly/4bvRoK 1 day ago
  • Forest Perk Coffee opened today--new coffee shop on Clairmont (next to Piggly Wiggly). Just went by there--the coffee's good. Check it out. 1 day ago
  • Shout out to @DNicholAdams for her tweeting of the #bham mayoral forum tonight. She did a great job. Thanks for the live feed! 2 days ago
  • Also slated to appear: William Jason Sumner (?) & Jimmy Snow. No Smitherman or Hoyt? Election Dec. 8. Educate yourselves. We'll help. #bham 3 days ago
  • Mayoral forum information came from Delta Sigma Theta Alum association, who is putting on forum and was kind enough to call me back. #bham 3 days ago
  • William Bell, Patrick Cooper, Emory Anthony, Scott Douglas, Stephannie Huey, Jody Trautwein and others coming to #bham mayoral forum tonight 3 days ago
  • Don't forget there's a mayoral forum tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Huffman High, and a meet & greet Thursday at Highland Hotel, 5-7 p.m. #bham 3 days ago
  • I think if you count the fact that council started about 30 minutes late, this may be the quickest council meeting I've ever seen. #bham 3 days ago
  • Council meeting over except for old & new business. Hoyt says he is the fried turkey king, and will fry turkeys when done w/ politics #bham 3 days ago
  • More updates...

War on Dumb

Can Jefferson County break the bank?

Can Jefferson County break the bank?

Jefferson County has declared war on JPMorgan.

Upon Further Review

Lane Kiffin’s (allegedly) lost boys

Lane Kiffin’s (allegedly) lost boys

Lane Kiffin’s players are undisciplined? You don’t say…

Column

Surviving the New Depression with sweet taters

Surviving the New Depression with sweet taters

Political commentary plus a recipe for sweet potato pie.

Film

2012 blows up the world real good

2012 blows up the world real good

2012 may be the hugest, craziest, most preposterous disaster film ever made

Small World Cartoons

Jobless Recovery

Jobless Recovery

Things are looking up for the economy! Or they’re not.

Suburban Legends

The Wedding Planner

The Wedding Planner

A classic from the Suburban Legends Vault