AltWeeklies Wire
Soul Revivalnew
With a little help from Chicago, Birmingham's homegrown soul is back.
Birmingham Weekly |
Phillip Jordan |
08-21-2006 |
Music
Looking into 'The Eyes of Babylon'new
A Marine stages an act of conscience -- a one-man show that details his decision to leave the service.
Birmingham Weekly |
Glenny Brock |
08-07-2006 |
Theater
Tags: theater
Sense and Strivingnew
Like the characters she creates, Mason never wastes a word -- she speaks only when there's a need for something to be said.
Birmingham Weekly |
Ginny Phillips |
07-24-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bobbie Ann Mason, Nancy Culpepper
Men of Convictionnew
Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy are found guilty of political payola.
Birmingham Weekly |
Kyle Whitmire |
07-10-2006 |
Politics
Piecing Through the Piecesnew
Alabama's blockbuster election bombs at the ballot box.
Birmingham Weekly |
Kyle Whitmire |
06-19-2006 |
Politics
Tags: 2006elect
Are the Dems Dead?new
The Alabama Democratic Party survives still, almost in spite of itself -- but if its lingering life ever expires, the obituary will surely read that the deceased died of an extended illness.
Birmingham Weekly |
Kyle Whitmire |
06-05-2006 |
Commentary
A New Norwoodnew
Birmingham's historic neighborhood is now an experiment in mixed urban living.
Birmingham Weekly |
Phillip Jordan |
06-05-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Never Mind Name-Callingnew
Pinback transcends prog rock, math rock, indie and alternative.
Birmingham Weekly |
Daisy Winfrey |
05-22-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Trial of the (6-Year-Old) Centurynew
The Scrushy-Siegelman case will expose the state of Alabama politics in 2006.
Birmingham Weekly |
Kyle Whitmire |
05-08-2006 |
Politics
Band of Brothersnew
Safety in Numbers is more than just an album title to Umphrey's McGee.
Birmingham Weekly |
Brent Thompson |
05-01-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Umphrey's McGee
Missing Piecesnew
Stolen recounts the largest art heist of the 20th century.
Birmingham Weekly |
Hugh Merrill |
04-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Rebecca Dreyfus, Stolen
A New Voice in an Old Debatenew
Alabama's Hispanic community gets involved in the immigration consternation.
Birmingham Weekly |
Phillip Jordan |
04-03-2006 |
Immigration
No Moore Left to Saynew
The infamous "Ten Commandments" judge, now a gubernatorial candidate, decides to stick with the GOP, even as polls show he trails Bob Riley by a mile in the primary.
Birmingham Weekly |
Kyle Whitmire |
03-24-2006 |
Politics
Tags: 2006elect
Under the Coversnew
That iPod skin's got nothing on the quaint paper sleeves that held LPs.
Birmingham Weekly |
Courtney Haden |
03-24-2006 |
Music
'Crash' From the Pastnew
Despite being the only Best Picture nominee set in the present, Crash already feels old.
Birmingham Weekly |
Hugh Merrill |
02-27-2006 |
Movies
Tags: Oscars
