Cathedral Church of the Advent, Birmingham Fortunately, there are still distinctive old church buildings in the northside city center of downtown Birmingham with congregations founded within a year or two of the 1871 founding of the city. The Cathedral Church of the Advent, an 1883 Gothic sandsto...
“Shotgun Houses; Bessemer, Alabama,” Nick Gruenberg One of my favorite photographs by photographer Nick Gruenberg (www.nickgruenberg.com) is a photo of a row of shotgun houses in Bessemer, a former industrial town a few miles southwest of Birmingham. Each house has been painted a vivid br...
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A few weeks ago, on Father’s Day weekend, my family decided to forego the hassle of a restaurant and eat a farm-fresh Sunday dinner at my parents’ house as a joint celebration of Father’s Day and my mother’s birthday a couple of days later. On Saturday morning, I went to my p...
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Southern Crescent southern culture Southern food and drink southern foodways Southern Foodways Alliance Southern gardening southern hunting Southern literature Southern Makers Southern National restaurant Southern plays Southern politics Southern Poverty Law Center southern recipes Southern Research Institute Southern...
The Friends of the Café series of chefs and dinners is always announced in advance (www.alabamachanin.com). However, the August chef is kept secret until a few weeks before the event. This dinner always happens on the Thursday night before the opening of Billy Reid’s weekend-long “Shind...