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		<title>Open house Sunday at the Lyric Theatre</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/06/04/open-house-sunday-at-the-lyric-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Chambers</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Buster Keaton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cahaba River]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dan Liles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stuart Thompson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>One-way street conversions won&#8217;t hurt parking, engineer says</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/05/22/one-way-street-conversions-wont-hurt-parking-engineer-says/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/05/22/one-way-street-conversions-wont-hurt-parking-engineer-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 17:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Chambers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andre Bittas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham Metropolitan Planning Organization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Center Master Plan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Operation New Birmingham]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tria Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virginia Sisiopiku]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Food drive continues at What&#8217;s On Second</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/05/14/food-drive-continues-at-whats-on-second/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/05/14/food-drive-continues-at-whats-on-second/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 21:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Chambers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downtown Birmingham]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michele Wilson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Gilmer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Wrzesien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Way]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban Standard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not too late to take part in the community food drive taking place through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lyric Theatre on list of &#8220;Places in Peril&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/05/12/lyric-theatre-on-list-of-places-in-peril/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/05/12/lyric-theatre-on-list-of-places-in-peril/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 01:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Chambers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Birmingham’s oldest surviving theatre, the Lyric, located at Third Avenue North and 18th Street downtown, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Business?</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/03/12/bad-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/03/12/bad-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Chambers</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[PlasmaCare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Denny McCay, owner of Southplace Tire &#038; 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.]]></description>
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		<title>Retail freeze</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/01/15/retail-freeze/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Chambers</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Belk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham retail]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regions Harbert Plaza]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The last department store in downtown Birmingham has closed. Belk, Inc., based in Charlotte, N.C., closed its Regions Harbert Plaza store last Friday. ]]></description>
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		<title>Going out west</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2008/08/07/going-out-west-business-is-booming-on-downtown-birminghams-western-front/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2008/08/07/going-out-west-business-is-booming-on-downtown-birminghams-western-front/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Chambers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>The voice of the theatre</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2008/07/03/the-voice-of-the-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Chambers</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eddie Cantor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Allen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Burns]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mae West]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Memory Business</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2007/10/11/memory-business-whats-on-second-offers-pictures-of-a-gone-world-and-more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2007/10/11/memory-business-whats-on-second-offers-pictures-of-a-gone-world-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Chambers</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steve Gilmer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>First cut of the day</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2007/05/10/first-cut-of-the-day-tutwiler-barber-shop-offers-haircuts-before-sunrise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2007/05/10/first-cut-of-the-day-tutwiler-barber-shop-offers-haircuts-before-sunrise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 16:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Chambers</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Gardiner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tutwiler Barber Shop offers haircuts before sunrise]]></description>
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