... and it's about damn time This morning John Archibald wrote one of those columns that makes me sick — sick that I didn't write it first. He dug through Mayor Larry Langford's year-end campaign fina

Mixed Media is trading up. The blog isn’t yet one year old, but we couldn’t wait for it to grow. Over the weekend, we installed a new Wordpress theme, replete with features — Flickr images from the pr

UPDATE APPENDED 4:20 PM: Council Admin retracts security memo. Not that there was any question, but Birmingham City Hall is under occupation. Mayor Larry Langford has enacted strict security procedu

Today, the Birmingham City Council approved a contract with The Birmingham News to publish the city’s legal advertising at $23.10 per column inch. The decision to approve the contract comes a week af

Last month we reported how Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford was withholding legal advertising from The Birmingham News because of his personal vendetta against the city’s paper of record. Word comes to

To millions of television viewers, Mike Farrell will always be remembered for his days on M.A.S.H. as Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt (1975-83) and as Providence's Dr. James Hansen (1999-2002). But beyond his T

Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton And Me by Pattie Boyd & Penny Junor (Harmony Books) Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton (Broadway Books) Forever linked by their involveme

Member papers of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) this week are providing links on their websites that direct their readers to the many places on the Internet where the home address o

DayPortPlayer.newPlayer({articleID:"547",bannerContainer:"bannerArea",playerInstanceID:"1",domain:"wiat.dayport.com",categoryID:"29"}); WIAT CBS 42 has posted video from last night’s deba

This is ugly, but it’s real. And there's a lot more where that came from. Call it inadvertent citizen journalism here in the so-called Magic City, an armchair anthropologist’s goldmine posted on the