Climb in. Buckle your seatbelt. And count down to the longest ride of your life. On July 13, the Alabama Organ Center is teaming up with Alabama Splash Adventure to host an eight-hour coaster marathon to raise funds and awareness for the Alabama Organ Center. Do you have the stamina to endure the ride?
July marks the 21st anniversary of Driver’s Way. Yep, this used-car dealership has been serving the greater Birmingham area for 21 years! How will Driver’s Way be celebrating the occasion? By showering their loyal customers with great discounts and one really amazing prize!
Happy 242th Birthday America!! Bham Now has compiled our top 10 list of 4th of July celebrations in and around the Magic City. This year, with the 4th landing on a Wednesday, some communities are celebrating our nation’s founding a week in advance.
Continue reading “10 places to celebrate the July 4th holiday in and around the Magic City”
The next 15 bands have been announced in the 2018 Secret Stages lineup. Are you ready? Continue reading “15 bands are revealed in Part 2 of the Secret Stages lineup, happening Aug. 3-4”
Did you catch us this past Saturday at SliceFest? If you missed it, you missed out! Here are our favorite shots from the Slice Pizza and Brewhouse festival: Continue reading “Shots from 7th annual SliceFest at Lakeview (photo gallery)”
The countdown is on! Sloss Music and Arts Festival hits Birmingham on July 14-15 at Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark. Are you ready for two jam-packed days full of live music performances, local vendors and makers, demonstrations and a whole lot of fun? Grab your tickets now!
Yesterday, Dorothy Levy, one of the founders of United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham, which is now United Ability, celebrated her 106th birthday at United Ability’s LINCPoint Adult Day Program.
Birmingham’s food scene is not the only one bursting with creativity, the music scene is growing with the addition of The Bham Loft Show! It is a monthly show featuring musicians, artists, writers, centered around creativity. Created for the community, by the community, you will want not want to miss the next show.
Continue reading “The Bham Loft Show: the latest in the growing Birmingham music scene”
The ‘Big Guy’ (Vulcan) atop Red Mountain will light-up Birmingham’s cityscape again this year with the most spectacular, thunderous fireworks show to celebrate the Fourth of July. Continue reading “Vulcan will forever light up Birmingham’s night sky after July 4th”
Birmingham is a city with a lot of passion, momentum and resources behind tech, startups and workforce development. But how do you get plugged in? Come to Birmingham Innovation Week, July 9 to 13, 2018. Register for events and sign up for updates today. Read on to learn about three major events, imerge 2018, Sloss Tech and Birmingham’s Smart Cities Initiative, PLUS this year’s lead organizer, Innovate Birmingham.
Remember those childhood days spent on the floor amidst a pile of colorful Legos? We do, too! Now you can relive those days and celebrate all things Lego during Lego Day at McWane Science Center on June 16. (And it’s just in time for Father’s Day weekend!)
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The upcoming, fourth-annual Zoo, Brews and Full Moon Bar-B-Que at the Birmingham Zoo is the can’t miss event of the summer.
Something about folk art always grabs me. It may be rustic, the product of a self-taught artist. It may be utilitarian and intricate, like an heirloom quilt. But it always captures something intangible and raw about the everyday human experience. No surprise, I can’t wait for The Original Makers Festival on June 16, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Birmingham Museum of Art.
What is a Beloved Community, and how can Birmingham learn from Atlanta how to aspire to be one?
There’s just a little over a month until Sloss Fest hits Birmingham on July 14-15. And we’ve got the full lineup for all you Sloss Heads out there. Continue reading “Sloss Fest hits Birmingham July 14-15. Have you checked out the full lineup yet?”
