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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 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

The Paranoid Guide to the 2010 Census

The Paranoid Guide to the 2010 Census

Uncle Sam left something lurking in your mailbox. Dare you open it?

Suburban Legends

The King of Rock: No, Not Elvis

The King of Rock: No, Not Elvis

The world is designed to piss me off