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Generating the Next Fusion Reaction

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Generating the Next Fusion Reaction
By STEPHEN HUMPHREYS
Since 1990 and the dawn fun & Stuff, and the first official publication of the Birmingham Weekly in 1997, much has changed in what a newspaper is supposed to do as you can read in the Birmingham News some days but not others. We have spun off several other publications ourselves and they are spinning off as well.

I Love You Just Because You're You...

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

I Love You Just Because You're You...
By Taomi Ray
You can make it, you can do it! I'll be here cheering watching you get through it! It doesn't matter what you do or don't do, I love you anyway, I love you just because your you!!!.

Back to School Primer - V is for Valium

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Back to School Primer - V is for Valium
Mix my martini, fast: it’s back to school in the Magic City. As summer slowly folds up like the last beach umbrella at sunset, we shake the sand out of our sandals, dust off the Mary Janes, and brace ourselves once again for the sheer horror of what lies ahead: the back to school ride through hell.

Avondale Bricks Weekly Dinners

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Catalan, a highly acclaimed Spanish restaurant in Washington, D.C., before returning to Birmingham to work in some of the most prestigious restaurants. His career includes stops at the Five Star and Five Diamond resort The Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia, as well as Citronelle, iRicchi, and the Ritz- Carlton in Washington, D.

Art Opening at Avondale Bricks

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

You will also have a chance to view the long-term installation of Cuban artwork by artists in prestigious collections around the world from the Museum of Modern Art in New York to the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama..

Instudio

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Instudio
By Bill Deason
Palo Pallas is fascinated with transformation: most particularly in how transformation relates to individuals and life experience. Pallas also believes that thought is energy and as energy cannot only be transformed but transferred. These concerns are the basis for an exhibit of the artists’ work at Avondale Bricks Gallery opening August 30.

What Can Happen When Computers Have Too Much Power?*

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

What Can Happen When Computers Have Too Much Power?*
First there was the botched Facebook IPO which caused alleged losses at some banks totaling $365 million. This was due to so called computer issues with the electronic stock exchange the NASDAQ. Apparently, computers used to drive the auctions were overwhelmed by order cancellations and updates in the opening moments of the IPO.

The Green Future

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The Green Future
By Drew Johnson
The upside is you won't need much space for appliances. Environmentalist guru Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, notes that a 60 percent reduction in fossil fuel usage would result in a dramatic reduction of carbon emission per person.

Zipping Through Time

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Zipping Through Time
While crossing from platform to platform in the trees, you will sometimes swing across, sometimes cross a rope bridge, sometimes go for a short ride hooked to the zipline strung from tree to tree, and sometimes glide for a hundred yards or more with your feet dangling in the air.

Lunch Uncorked Again at Bottletree

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Lunch Uncorked Again at Bottletree
By Anonymous
After roughly a year-long hiatus, lunch is back at Bottletree Café, and it may be better than ever. I used to take the crazy girl there, because it had all the vegetarian and even vegan dishes she preferred.

Crestwood Coffee to Café

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Crestwood Coffee to Café
By Anonymous
If you thought Crestwood Coffee as just a place to stop for some Zambesi roast (just like you thought Bottletree was just a place to hear The Great Book of John), then you may want to think again next time you are styling down Crestwood Boulevard with hunger pangs, heading east with nothing but fast food and an abandoned Hooters ahead.

The Pine Grove y El Año Pequeño

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The Pine Grove y El Año Pequeño
By STEPHEN HUMPHREYS
Fuimos almorzar la semana pasada al camión Pineda con mesa picnic, e igual al Little Donkey, los dos ambos. Me sorprende que Escarlata fue conmigo hasta el camioncita taqueria en el autopista Pinson Valley. Se encuentra a menudo tomando margaritas en Homewood sin embargo.

Pineda and Little Donkey

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Pineda and Little Donkey
By Anonymous
So there goes the publisher again, trying to impress us with his versatility, not resting on his laurels by adventuring all the way to El Girasol in Roebuck last time, but ranging all the way from a Jim n’ Nick’s version of a Mexican restaurant in...

Gazpacho: An Italian family's love affair with Tomatoes

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Gazpacho: An Italian family's love affair with Tomatoes
By Chris Vizzina
When the Summer growing season finally arrives in Alabama, I always look forward to the fresh, local, and sustainable produce that's always readily available. When I was a child my father Sidney Vizzina and my mother Grethcen Vizzina always had tomato plants and cucuzza growing in our back yard.

POT LIQUOR

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

POT LIQUOR
By Sephira Shuttlesworth
Sweet tea, smothered pork chops, fried green tomatoes, blackberry cobbler, okra, lima beans, hopping john, chow-chow pickle, tea cakes... these are only a few of the tasty delights you might find on a hunt for bon-a-fide southern cuisine. The list goes on and on.

By Red Mountain Miners

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

By Red Mountain Miners
The extensive woodlands that house deer and even a wild boar population, used to be forbidding to all but a few humans willing to dare the expanses of kudzu and poison ivy.

AVONDALE RISING

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

AVONDALE RISING
AUGUST 15, 2012 AUGUST 30, 2012 FREE.