For 21 straight years, the SEC Baseball Tournament has called the Birmingham area home at the Hoover Met. It’s that time of year again, so check out our comprehensive Fan Guide for everything you need to know to make this Memorial Day Weekend perfect from the top of the first to the bottom of the ninth!
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While you can find Aviate products in lots of shops around Birmingham, from the Elyton Hotel gift shop to Gus Mayer, two retailers that stock their BHM caps see the brand as a dual threat (in a good way).
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What to do on a rainy, gusty Sunday? Get out to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens to check out some top designers and vendors. Here’s a sample:
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Bham Now headed over to Vulcan Park to check out the eclipse viewing. The parking lot was full and the park was sold out of viewing glasses, but that didn’t stop us from having a great time. Take a look at our gallery to see who we ran into.
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By: Heather Skaggs
The brand new Finley Center at The Hoover Metropolitan Complex, managed by Sports Facilities Management (SFM), celebrated its grand opening Friday, June 16, 2017.
The Rotaract Club of Birmingham will host the first ever College Signing Day on Friday, April 28, at A.H. Parker High School. The ceremony will honor the achievements of 62 Parker High School college-bound seniors.
College Signing Day will celebrate graduating seniors, showcase student leaders and inspire younger classes to continue their education. Khadijah Abdullah, executive director of Teach For America and a Birmingham City Schools graduate, will be the keynote speaker.
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Birminghamians are no foreigners to bad weather. We know it will come, the question is just when. What we can do is prepare to be safe. Continue reading “Bad weather on the way? Storm Preparation Tips.”
Birmingham Audubon says, “Restoring native plant habitat is vital to preserving biodiversity. By creating a native plant garden, each patch of habitat becomes part of a collective effort to nurture and sustain the living landscape for birds and other animals.”
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Will Pearson and his business partner, Mangesh Hattikudur, founded Mental Floss magazine while they were still in college at Duke University in 2001. Mental Floss, which gained popularity based on its fun, inquisitive tone, grew over the years to be a successful national brand and was bought by a publisher in New York.
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As part of AT&T’s continuing efforts to boost internet adoption across the state, the Alabama State Department of Education and the Alabama Chapter of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) announced the Wenonah High School chapter of FCCLA won the #ATTCyberSeniors video competition.
Few companies and even fewer people live to be 100 years old, but the Civitan Club of Birmingham—the original club of Civitan International—celebrated that milestone birthday with a reception at UAB. Their official birthday is March 17, 2017. Members of the club hosted guests and media at the Civitan International Research Center (CIRC) on March 9th to bring awareness to the good work researchers are doing at the center.
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Andrew Mitchell, Program Manager for the Birmingham Education
Foundation, (ED) was directing traffic in and out of the Harbert Center like it was an airport. Approximately 200 11th graders representing all 7 Birmingham city schools came prepared to get coaching on interview skills from local Rotarians. Mock interviews were set up at tables, one on one, between student and Rotarian.
What do Birminghamians want when buying local roses? How do we select and take care of those fragrant beauties in our hot, humid climate?
Local rosarian Clayton Richard, in partnership with the Birmingham Rose Society, selected roses to be offered at the upcoming Birmingham Botanical Gardens Spring Plant Sale. Here’s what Richard had to say about selection and planting roses in the Magic City;
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Fresh water wells in Western Africa, a sensory park in Germany, proms for disabled students across the United States and a research center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have more in common than merely being good deeds. All of the examples listed, and thousands of others, have one thing in common—they all started over a cup of coffee and a sandwich 100 years ago in Birmingham.
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