Eric Essix Jazz Escape Adds Luxury to Birmingham’s Festival Scene
Taking the festival to a higher plane, Birmingham’s own jazz maestro Eric Essix ’s high-end Jazz Escape Festival is a luxury getaway and entertainment experience featuring some of the best names in this musical...
Riding the New Urban Wave
Some still wonder whether there are enough people wanting to live Downtown to justify the multi-million dollar loft condo projects currently underway. But the projects’ developers are too busy making plans to profit...
The Hope VI Experiment
in 2000, the Birmingham Housing Authority embarked on an experiment that would raze the Metropolitan Gardens public housing project to the ground and seed a new kind of neighborhood using a $35 million federal...
Harry Belafonte Comes to Birmingham for 50 Years Forward
Singer, Actor and Activist Harry Belafonte To Be Inducted Into Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
Induction, Film Festival and Other Appearances Are Part of the 50th Anniversary Commemorations of the 1963 Birmingham Civil Rights...
Birmingham’s New Urban Explosion
STORY and PHOTOGRAPHY BY VICKII HOWELL
WHAT DO ADAM COHEN, DAMIAN GILBERT, AND LEIGH FERGUSON HAVE IN COMMON? THEY ARE STALWART CITY CENTER PROMOTERS AND URBAN PIONEERS WHO BELIEVE DOWNTOWN BIRMINGHAM WOULD COME BACK...
Family Starts AIDS Organization to “Stop the Silence” on HIV/AIDS
What started as the McClure family’s wish to honor Michelle Renae McClure, who died of AIDS in 2007, turned into a new foundation with a mission to arm families locally and worldwide with...
Birmingham’s New Political Course
Birmingham is like a ship without a rudder. It turns here then plows through choppy waters there, but it seems headed in no particular direction.
In 1992, the City Council adopted what was then called...
Redefining Urban
The word “urban” pertains to things associated with cities. In the past several decades, it was a code word associated with ethnicity and lower socio-economic classes. However, urban today has as much to...
Master Planning Birmingham’s Master Park
A group of railroad preservationists and young professionals kept alive a long dormant dream for a park in the Railroad Reservation District. The growing impetus for Downtown revitalization and a strategic alliance with...
Downtown Neighborhood Power
Birmingham’s Central Business District sits almost entirely in two neighborhoods that wield considerably more power than most people realize. But changes in Downtown’s economic and social landscape could gauge just how well rich and...
