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Radio just isn’t what it used to be. When the vast wilderness of the FM bandwidth was thrown wide open in the late 1960s by a new rule from the FCC banning the practice of duplicating AM programming on FM stations, the space was quickly (and more important, inexpensively) filled by DJs who played long… Continue reading Kings Of The Mountain

Terry Ohms is about to release his very first full-length album, and he doesn’t exist. That is to say, he exists only in some dusty corner of Vulture Whale frontman Wes Mcdonald’s brain, waiting patiently for his moment in the sun. Well, that moment is now, and the result is the confident and slightly silly… Continue reading Who is Terry Ohms?

Stop beating around the bush: As part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, a recent annual survey by the Violence Policy Center entitled When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2008 Homicide Data ranked Alabama third in the list of states with the highest rate of women killed by men. The study reached its conclusion by… Continue reading Hot Seat & Limelight

Who has time for learning anymore? The leisure time between working, sleeping and eating that used to be the domain of self-education has become filled with a thousand little digital chunklets all vying for our attention. Have you checked your Facebook feed? Have you tweeted? Have you read your email, downloaded that new app, checked… Continue reading Brain Food

For two days this weekend, Second Ave. North and the surrounding blocks will turn once again into the bustling art show known as Artwalk, now in its ninth iteration. In recent years, Artwalk has blossomed into a premium event, featuring scrumptious vittles, live music, wandering street acts, work by over 100 artists to peruse and… Continue reading Street Art

Human beings have an innate need to believe in something. We are capable of achieving things, great things, things well beyond our means, if only we believe that it is possible. Conversely, we can be drawn into some of the most reprehensible behavior mankind is capable of by belief. Some of the greatest humanitarian acts… Continue reading Believe In Doubt

If there’s one thing Birmingham has proven it knows how to do well these days, it’s vote. I’m not talking about the various elections that keep rearing their heads, turn-out is still woefully low for those occasions. I am, of course, referring to our uncanny ability to vote in winners of reality talent competitions on… Continue reading Third Time’s A Charm

Birmingham was born out of iron. “The Magic City”, so called because it sprang up out of nothing, seemingly over-night, fueled by the fertilizer of convenient and strategic location to industrial necessities. We may forget it now, mired as we are in a massive inferiority complex, but for the good part of a century Birmingham… Continue reading The Rebirth Of Sloss

When you’re an aspiring actor trying to make it in New York, any role is a good role. After countless hours waiting in line for cattle-call auditions, only to be told you aren’t going to be seen after all, you would take anything, any “Third Moron from the Left”, space-filler of a role. Not only… Continue reading More Than A MILF