http://bhamweekly.com/birmingham/articles.sec-67-1-out-of-my-head.html Since 1990 and the dawn fun & Stuff, and the first official publication of the Birmingham Weekly in 1997, much has changed in what a newspaper is supposed to do as you can read in the Birmingham News some days but not others. We have spun off several other publications ourselves and they are spinning off as well.]]> Well things do have a way of rolling around to the same juncture, and maybe that´s what it means that an electron can be in two places at once, and why the Greeks offered wine to their ancestors. Last time I wrote about the year that has passed since I took over the Birmingham Weekly--again.]]> Some of you came to receptions and dinners here, even Rev. Shuttlesworth's 90th birthday dinner--and I had half a mind to think the Rev would appear.]]> We have had lots of prizes and giveaways before, but this is one that requires the most serious commitment. We have been telling you about this one for a while on the back cover of the paper, but now the time is nigh for you to pack up your camping gear and go spend a weekend in Manchester, Tennessee.]]> But he does not want stereotypes of what ballet should be to hold it back. He choreographed the new ballet himself. But the new ballet is the story of the beginnings of ballet in Birmingham, when Figueroa, a dancer from the ghetto in Harlem, teamed up with Virginia Simpson, an heiress and patron of the arts.]]> I always seem to have a lot of people telling me what I should do. The country girl, for example, would shine a light in my face at a quarter to three in the morning with her marching orders. Scarlet counsels against springtime urges of the blood, though not particularly appealing to reason.]]> By the time you read this, if you weren't lucky enough to be there, you may have already missed it. Sorry about the timing. It was good for spontaneous people who were ready to take their jobs at the Gallerias and Harbert Centers and shove them and head on over to join the revolution in Avondale.]]> On March 8, Birmingham Weekly's Avondale Bricks Gallery will unveil its first show, EN CADA BARRIO,REVOLUCIÓN. The title comes from an authentic propaganda poster I pulled down off a wall in Old Havana and brought back from Cuba. You can see it on the cover of the Birmingham Weekly.]]> I am afraid to say I kept quiet for too long. I have been harboring a secret right by our office in Avondale that I have been dying to spring. There was a little hole in the wall restaurant that I could not wait to let you know about. But I did for too long.]]> Yeung Lap Ming wrote to tell me, from far afield by the looks of the name, that he has a lucrative business proposal for me. But John Zidek also emailed to let me know me that I have already won 1.5 million pounds sterling (I added the sterling myself just because I like the way it sounds) in the Liverwood promotion.]]> I also like A Beautiful Mind and not just because of Jennifer Connelly or because they filmed it on my college campus--that's where I walked to class! Right where Russell Crowe is! He only seemed to have lost his mind right in front of Whig-Clio Hall at Princeton.]]> I try not to pontificate at excessive length about politics like some pundits, as I had enough of that to last me. I used to run back and forth between the Capitol dome and the White House every day, and even got to bask in the glow of Bill Clinton's charisma and Al Gore's rosy cheeks' unnatural glow.]]> I did have the pleasure of grabbing a quick interview on the run with Birmingham author Gin Phillips between relieving babysitters and running off on a book tour, and I promise a thoughtful review of her book, Come in and Cover Me, that just came out, as soon as I have time.]]> If by chance you have not heard the great news from one of this cities greatest institutions, Southern Living, Birmingham has been chosen to compete for the very cool title of “tastiest town in the South”. Among the competition are ten other great Southern towns with rich food histories and great pride in their food communities.]]> I hope you are not still too stuffed from the holidays because this just turned out to be a food issue, for various and sundry reasons.]]> ]]>