If you’re in the ‘ham this weekend you’ll want to swing by the Vestavia Hills library. Their BIG annual book sale kicks off this afternoon at 5pm and runs through Tuesday. The library opens at 9am on Saturday and 1pm on Sunday.
I’m thinking about taking elbow pads and a helmet, in case it’s anything like last year’s sale. Some people are CRAZY about $1 books and I always seem to be in their way!
The Chad Fisher Group has wrapped up recording on their 3rd album, Cinematic. To help promote the new tunes they have two local gigs lined up.
B’s dad was featured in the Birmingham News yesterday. It was a neat article about him as the new pastor of Bluff Park Baptist Church and the “shot in the arm” has taken to help revitalize the church. B’s folks moved to the ‘ham last year after serving at a church outside of Dothan and now live over in Bluff Park.
We’ll post the picture from the paper as soon as we get a copy.
The Central Birmingham Library starts percolating on Monday. Today they announced their partnership with Safari Cup in opening a cafe in the library’s atrium. Right now, they are set to serve between 9am and 4pm, Monday through Friday.
They already provide free wi-fi and this sounds like a cool idea too, as long as the noise is kept in check.
Print artist Charles Buchanan’s latest work will debut tonight at Naked Art. He’ll be at the gallery 5pm-9pm and then again tomorrow 1pm-6pm.
We’ve been keeping up with Charles over on his blog, and can’t wait to see what he brings to the show.
You’ll also be able catch him on HGTV’s “That’s Clever” the season.
…that doesn’t mean a thing! Belk has announced that they’ll be moving an office to Birmingham. I’m not exactly sure how the press release reads, but basically what they are doing is moving their “Western” division office (which oversees their “western” stores) from Greenville, SC to Birmingham. Their corporate office with all of the buying functions will still be located in Charlotte & us Parisian folk will still be out of a job by the end of March. I think this is a sincere attempt to try to make nice with the city, but if they turn all of the Parisian stores into what Belk at the Galleria looks like, bringing 20 jobs to the city isn’t going to save them in this market. They have the potential to do good things… and I’m not just saying that because they’re now signing my paychecks… or am I??!!
This month, the Birmingham Library’s Central Branch has the coolest book exhibit. It features the book arts program over at the Univeristy of Alabama. We’ll take our camera when we go.
The library’s blog has the full scoop.
Birmingham boasts a busy book buying weekend the first of December.
On Decemeber 1st, Jimmy Carter will be in the ‘Ham. He’s making the rounds promoting his new book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
You can only get yours signed if you have a ticket. Tickets can be bought at the Alabama Booksmith’s site or at the store. You buy one book, you get one line ticket. Makes sense.
Also, on December 1st and carrying over to the 2nd…
The Birmingham Public Library is hosting an Authors Expo. At last count, nearly 40 area authors have plans to be there, selling and signing. That event kicks off at 10 a.m. on December 1st.
Whew! What a weekend!
Dome stadium or no dome stadium, The Magic City has landed a bowl game. Though not sure it’ll raise the dough the city is looking to score from major sporting events.
Though the new PapaJohnsPizza.com Bowl did get us some press. If even just for a day. I bet it will be a good game, even if it doesn’t carry a lot of prestige.