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Cracker’s David Lowery on Sunrise in the Land of Milk & Honey

By Courtney Haden
We are rarely visited anymore by rock greatness. When it happens, it’s usually while decent folk slumber and usually at the Nick. Nevertheless, Saturday night at a respectable hour, for a Humane Socie
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Counting the days until the return of Mad Men

By Courtney Haden
I’ve been thinking about turning off the cable again. The last time was 1988, after NBC cancelled Crime Story, arguably the greatest TV show Michael Mann ever produced. Oh, sure, Miami Vice had the
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Why the Birmingham Barons still matter

By Courtney Haden
As though people weren’t cantankerous enough in August, now we have to have a health care reform debate. Actually, if the folks subsidized by the shadowy organization called Freedom Works get their wa
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Information in formation – coping with news overload

By Courtney Haden
I see the guy sitting on Highland Avenue every day, and when I say “sitting on Highland,” I mean he’s doing practically that. He and his laptop are hunkered down parkside next to the sidewalk,
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Walter Cronkite & space exploration as uniquely American products

By Courtney Haden
I would have bet you on Walter Cronkite surviving till Monday at least, just to beat The Reaper to the deadline for the 40th anniversary of his marathon coverage of the first manned moon landing. I wo
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Charlemagne and Renaissance Records celebrate mid-summer & other anniversaries

By Courtney Haden
In the summer of ’77, Birmingham bustled with all manner of retail businesses, most of which no longer exist. In a cubbyhole of Fritz Woehle’s open-air attic on 10th Terrace South, known then as the G
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Perry County, Alabama takes on tons of toxic TVA sludge

By Courtney Haden
Somebody said, “That’s a strange tattoo You have on the side of your head.” I said, “That’s a blue print, left by the coal Just a little more and I’d be dead.” – “
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Remembering the Atlanta International Pop Festival

By Courtney Haden
Before there was Woodstock, there was Atlanta Pop. Forty years ago this weekend, an unimaginable multitude descended upon the Peach State for a weekend of peace and music that essentially marked the b
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Numerous non-profits queue up for city funding

By Courtney Haden
Six-dollar beer at City Stages? Nuts. A bunch of the boys were whooping it up at the annual post-festival deconstruction, sponsored by Advil, trying to pin down the reasons why our town’s preeminen
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City Stages: Eduardo Rojas at the Music Oasis

By Courtney Haden
Throughout the storied run of City Stages, countless spectators have dropped into the Music Oasis for the air conditioning only to be surprised to learn that music is being played there. It’s a natura
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