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Music

Robert Johnson loved not in vain

THE HUNDRED-YEAR REIGN OF THE KING OF THE DELTA BLUES

By Courtney Haden
The only time I ever studied abroad was in Cleveland, in 1998.
News

The master forecaster

JAMES SPANN ATTAINS APOTHEOSIS IN APRIL

By Courtney Haden
On that early spring afternoon, the air was unsettled and the temperature was in the 80s.
Green Space

There’s a party in my plants

VERNA GATES MYSTERIOUSLY BECAME CRESTWOOD'S MOST WANTED

By Courtney Haden
As we learned from our voracious Earth Day research last issue, there is a tiny little interval during which civic merrymaking can be comfortably enjoyed before the infernal brilliance of a Birmingham summer sears us in our own juices.
Politics

The more, the murkier

PART-TIME GOVERNING PAYS OFF FOR EVERYONE BUT THE VOTERS

By Courtney Haden
The presidency of Barack Obama ended April 4. It was a pretty good one, given that it lasted only two years. He managed to get some health care reform enacted, rescued a couple of car makers and generally helped the nation weather an economic tsunami resulting from eight years of a Bushquake.
Music

A day to celebrate a groove

PUMP UP THE VOLUME FOR NATIONAL RECORD STORE DAY

By Courtney Haden
If April 16 were National Refrigerator Store Day or National Radiator Store, this piece would take a radical turn toward the esoteric, but because it’s National Record Store Day, we shall stick to the mundanely arcane.
Column

To the young who must one day turn old

WHY THE FIGHT TO PROTECT MEDICARE IS, CRAZILY ENOUGH, YOUR FIGHT

By Courtney Haden
I know you don’t care about Medicare. The very word is redolent of mothballs and Aqua Velva. Medicare is old people’s business, a topic ill-suited to a zeitgeist manual such as Birmingham Weekly. However, the loosest cannons upon Capitol Hill are taking aim now at the largest health insurance program in the country, and if they succeed in destroying Medicare, they just might take your future with it.
Column

The kids were alright

GIANTS ONCE WALKED THE EARTH ON 21-INCH TV SCREENS

By Courtney Haden
It was a curious afternoon in the venerable Virginia Samford Theatre and the first time I’d been backstage. The occasion was a salute to the late Cousin Cliff Holman, legendary host of children’s television shows since Kermit the Frog was still in a fabric shop.
Column

Should we stay or should we go?

WHEN IT SAYS LIBYA, LIBYA, LIBYA ON THE LABEL, LABEL, LABEL

By Courtney Haden
Is this all about oil? Or are we actually saving people’s lives? Those questions recur every time American military might is brought to bear upon the Middle East.
Column

No nukes is good nukes

DISASTER OVERSEAS MIRRORS POSSIBLE DISASTER RIGHT HERE IN ALABAMA

By Courtney Haden
In the wake of the tsunami, we are reminded that nothing brings our enormous planet down to size quite like its basic building block.
Column

Serving hard time in democracy’s brig

THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT PFC BRADLEY MANNING

By Courtney Haden
It occurred to me the other day that the last bastion of true democracy is the license tag renewal line.
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