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.

At a recent dinner at Avondale Bricks Gallery we were charged with the challenge of pairing wines for Chef Gray Byrum’s on-site cooking demonstration by Echelon Catering. So surrounded by the ambience of the art exhibition, we kept our focus to avoid striking any jarring dissonant chord with a wine that clashed with the cuisine.

Bureau of Land Management have said they are delaying the June 14 sale of gas drilling leases on almost 43,000 acres of public lands in the Talladega National Forest, a proposal which has sparked widespread and vigorous opposition from local citizens and some elected officials.

Olympya Ortiz lives in a modest section carved out of one of the former middle class homes in the Vedado (which means sequestered or forbidden) section of Havana.

It is hard to tell whether the works of Cuban painter and collage artist Vladimir de Leon reflect a mind within a maze or a maze within a mind. Whichever the case, Vlado is working his way into and out of the images like a miner. The trail of the labyrinth he leaves behind is as notable as the end destination.

Javier Paredes, from Chile's award-winning Torreon de Paredes winery will be in Birmingham Monday, April 25th to do a wine tasting at the Birmingham Weekly's Avondale Bricks Gallery, 5-7 p.m.

Jenn Patterson, Program Director for Black Warrior Riverkeeper won the James Lowery Service Award on March 17, 2012.   The Alabama Rivers Alliance selects one James Lowery Service Award winn

The Birmingham Weekly once again settles the question whether anyone can be a master or slave to fashion. Shlomi Dadon even transformed our publisher from a picture of doggerel verse to eglantine refinement, and everyone remembers that picture of shirtless savagery from the last makeover.

We'd like to welcome you to the first exhibition of the Avondale Bricks Gallery. The Birmingham Weekly sponsors all exhibitions at the gallery. The first exhibition is a collection of Cuban art brought back by Stephen Humphreys from his friends in the country over the course of 15 years.

We'd like to welcome you to the first exhibition of the Avondale Bricks Gallery.  The Birmingham Weekly sponsors all exhibitions at the gallery.  The first exhibition is a collection of Cub