Posts Tagged ‘downtown Birmingham’

Posted on June 4th, 2009 by Jesse Chambers

Open house Sunday at the Lyric Theatre

Open house Sunday at the Lyric Theatre

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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Posted on May 22nd, 2009 by Jesse Chambers

One-way street conversions won’t hurt parking, engineer says

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.

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Posted on May 14th, 2009 by Jesse Chambers

Food drive continues at What’s On Second

Food drive continues at What’s On Second

It’s not too late to take part in the community food drive taking place through [...]

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Posted on May 12th, 2009 by Jesse Chambers

Lyric Theatre on list of “Places in Peril”

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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Posted on March 12th, 2009 by Jesse Chambers

Bad Business?

Bad Business?

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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Posted on January 15th, 2009 by Jesse Chambers

Retail freeze

Retail freeze

The last department store in downtown Birmingham has closed. Belk, Inc., based in Charlotte, N.C., closed its Regions Harbert Plaza store last Friday.

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Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Jesse Chambers

Going out west

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.

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Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by Jesse Chambers

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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Posted on October 11th, 2007 by Jesse Chambers

Memory Business

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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Posted on May 10th, 2007 by Jesse Chambers

First cut of the day

First cut of the day

Tutwiler Barber Shop offers haircuts before sunrise

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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