MLK Day celebrates the life and achievements of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Check out these Birmingham events commemorating the federal holiday on Monday, January 21.
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Are you a podcast listener? A pop-culture lover? Either or all of the above? If yes, The Popcast, a podcast all about pop culture (yes, The Bachelor is featured heavily) needs to zoom right up to the top of your iTunes podcast app. Jamie Golden and Knox McCoy co-host two podcasts: The Popcast and The Bible Binge.
For most people, a day spent in the depths of a laboratory with dinosaur fossils would not be considered a romantic date. For James and Peggy Lowery, it’s been their weekly go-to date for over a decade.
While the partial federal government shutdown reached its 24rd day this Tuesday, January 15, companies such as AT&T are reaching out to their customers impacted by the shutdown to assist paying bills.
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King Cake is a traditional pastry that has ties to different holiday seasons around the world. In New Orleans, it is associated with Mardi Gras, but you can find King Cake many places in Birmingham if you are planning to celebrate!
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Shipt delivers groceries. TakeOut delivers pizza. Amazon delivers boxes of stuff. Now Yoshi—launching in Birmingham on January 14—delivers gasoline to your car. Yoshi knows you have better things to do than sit at a gas station or pump gas in the rain, so they offer gasoline and maintenance services on demand right from your phone. Get a FREE month and $10 credit using code BHAMNOW. Find out more.
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Inc., the nation’s leading magazine and digital publication about small businesses and startups ranked Birmingham 37th on their 50 Best Places in America for Starting a Business.
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Save the date. Â On Sunday, January 20, starting at 8:36PM, Birmingham will experience its only lunar eclipse for 2019.
Last week, when Western Super Market announced that their Highland Avenue store was going to be closed and the site re-developed, the first question many people asked … “What is going to happen to Taj India?”
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The show must go on! This weekend, despite the federal government shutdown, the 2019 Festival of the Cranes at the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge and at locations in and around Decatur, Alabama is ON!
Looking for something to do this weekend? Here are the top 30 events happening around the ‘ham.
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When the weather outside is getting chillier by the second, there’s no better way to keep the cold at bay then our favorite winter beverage, the hot chocolate. Nothing warms our hands (and hearts) quicker than a hot cup of cocoa, and these spots happen to serve some of the best cocoa in town.
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This post is organized alphabetically. Good thing G comes before J and P, because when it comes to jazz and blues in Birmingham, how could I not start with …
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The opioid crisis in Birmingham is real, just like it is across the United States. Actually, did you know Alabama has the highest prescribing rates in the nation? According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Alabama’s prescribing rate was 121 per 100 people in 2016.
Given how common these drugs are, we all need to know what we can do. To find out more, I talked with three Alabama experts:
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In 2017, we released our first guide to The Pizitz Food Hall, which you can find here. Since then, there have been a few changes to Birmingham’s first food hall, and it’s our duty to keep you in the loop. Without further ado, let’s get into it: the updated guide to The Pizitz Food Hall.
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