Anna Curry has set out to to take on Mt. Kilimanjaro, and you can track her progress.

Birmingham doctor Jim McMinn says 90% of his patients are women. He ascribes to an integrated approach to medicine. “Ultimately there’s one thing that trumps science, and that’s the patient,” he says.

TalentQuest director pushes people to realize their potential in the changing labor landscape

On Sept. 23, 29-year-old Birmingham attorney Anna Curry will embark on a nine-day expedition to climb Kilimanjaro. Her endeavor is complicated by the fact that she has a rare genetic disorder called osteogenesis imperfecta, or OI. That disorder is responsible for her short stature, and it causes Curry’s bones to break with ease.

The brutally cold December air kept most of the revelers off the large front porch, but inside the funky, two-story house in Southside, Rebecca Jennings’ annual solstice party was going strong.

Rebecca Alice Jennings, a legendary figure in the Birmingham theatre community whose career spanned seven decades, died on Nov. 27 after a series of illnesses. She was 85 years old. A memorial service was held on Dec. 4 at Grace Episcopal Church in Woodlawn.

A touring production of the famed Radio City Christmas Spectacular featuring the Rockettes is coming to the BJCC Arena Dec. 12-14, and an aspiring dancer from Tuscaloosa has snagged one of the key roles.

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

“All men and kids love steam engines, steam locomotives and it’s kind of the same thing with fire trucks,” according to Terry Oden, a member of the Birmingham-based Southern Vintage Fire Apparatus Association. “I don’t know what it is. Big huge pieces of machinery. They’re red. They’ve got sirens and whistles and make a lot of noise. And they’re good-looking machines, too.”

The unlikely bond between Patterson, a Southern populist, and John F. Kennedy, a northern liberal, as well as Patterson’s troubled relationship with the President’s brother, Robert F. Kennedy, is one of the compelling stories found in Nobody But the People: The life and times of Alabama’s youngest governor, a biography of Patterson by Warren Trest, published by New South Books.

It has been 10 years since a Birmingham attorney named James E. Rotch authored the Birmingham Pledge and offered it to the attendees of a Martin Luther King, Jr. Unity Breakfast in Birmingham. His personal statement of commitment to end prejudice has now been signed by more than 115,000 people, including Desmond Tutu and Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Retired Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputy Dan Jordan talks about the case of Virgil Ware.

“Know thy users, for they are not you.” That’s the mantra of Lee Farabaugh, the Director of User Experience at Point Clear Solutions, an IT services firm based in The Innovation Depot downtown.

Why does it matter that a team of researchers led by Dr. Beatrice Hahn, M.D., a Professor of Medicine and Microbiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was able to trace the origin of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, to specific communities of African chimpanzees?

If the movement to ban capital punishment in the United States has a face, it is that of Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun from New Orleans. Since the early 1980s, she has ministered to many death row inmates and witnessed several executions.

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