The Lyric Theatre once hosted the Marx Brothers and Buster Keaton. Now it’s an Alabama “Place in Peril.” Come see it out during an open house Sunday June 7.
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One-way street conversions won’t hurt parking, engineer says
The conversion of several streets downtown from one-ways to two-ways would not reduce the amount on-street parking available in the area, according to a transportation engineer.
Read the rest of this entry »Food drive continues at What’s On Second
It’s not too late to take part in the community food drive taking place through [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Lyric Theatre on list of “Places in Peril”
Birmingham’s oldest surviving theatre, the Lyric, located at Third Avenue North and 18th Street downtown, [...]
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Denny McCay, owner of Southplace Tire & Auto at Third Ave. South and Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard, is disturbed by what he sees as the unsavory behavior of some of the donors at PlasmaCare, the plasma center located across Third from him.
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The last department store in downtown Birmingham has closed. Belk, Inc., based in Charlotte, N.C., closed its Regions Harbert Plaza store last Friday.
Read the rest of this entry »Going out west
All is not so quiet on the Western Front — the Western Front of downtown Birmingham, that is. There is an increasing amount of development, much of it driven by entrepreneurs, in the often forgotten portion of downtown that stretches west from 18th Street to about I-65.
Read the rest of this entry »The voice of the theatre
Theatrical impresario Jake Wells built the magnificent Lyric Theater at Third Avenue North and 18th Street in downtown Birmingham expressly for vaudeville in 1914, and there wasn’t another house like it in the city, perhaps in the Southeast.
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Steve Gilmer, the owner of What’s On Second, a new antiques and collectibles shop on Second Avenue North downtown, knows exactly the type of experience he wants his customers to have.
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