Comedian Brian Regan has appeared on the David Letterman Show 25 times, which tells you something about his gourd, along with 207,000 likes on his Facebook page. He talked to our editor about his perf

I drive past the white picket fence surrounding the beautiful, ideal American dream because I know it doesn't belong to me, wasn't meant for me. I see the lamp posts and the buildings of the colonial village lit up on Friday nights, quiet but shining like a city on a hill.

The worldwide phenomenon Wicked landed in Birmingham on Monday, not in a farmhouse, but in eleven semi trucks. The musical, based on Gregory Maguire’s best selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, has become worldwide box office magic, selling out shows around the globe.

Darlings, you all know how I love nothing more than dinner and the theatre, (except for a good laugh, of course, and this show has that, too!) and I am thrilled beyond belief to tell you about a wonderful show that is running at Terrific New Theatre, and you simply do NOT want to miss it!.

If you're beginning to feel all depressed and glum because you have already fallen off of your New Year's resolution to get in shape and lose weight, then you are in luck, because this week there are several opportunities for you to laugh your a** off.

I hate Valentine’s Day. Call me the Love Grinch if you will, but as far as I’m concerned, never has there been a more loathsome, extraneous and humiliating holiday than the orgy of consumerism known as Valentine’s Day.

Dancing. We all do it, whether we trot our stuff on the dance-floors of Birmingham’s local clubs or wiggle to a favorite mix in the privacy of our own bedrooms. Even the most bumbling wallflower has surely tapped a toe to a good beat now and then. Dancing is a part of human nature, the physical embodiment of our urge to express emotion through movement.

The smell of death is all around us, and it is rather pleasant. Or rather, one of the signature smells of fall, that of decaying leaves, has begun to permeate as the trees finally begin to drop the brittle carcasses of their foliage.

Something different and unexpected was what Sanspointe Dance Company’s Artistic Director Shellie Chambers had in mind when organizing “Kinetic Canvas,” a dance installation inspired by the works and space at the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA).

The marriage of art and literature with beer is commonplace, with one frequently crossing into the realm of the other.