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  • REV Birmingham shoots for $1M in capital campaign

    REV Birmingham was formed last year when Operation New Birmingham and Main Street Birmingham merged, and has already been a big player in the recent redevelopment projects in downtown Birmingham, like loft renovations and plans for light installations near Railroad ...

  • Outdoor athletes converge on Ala park for race

    PELHAM, Ala. (AP) - Hundreds of athletes are converging on Alabama's largest state park for a major competition this weekend. About 1,000 pro and amateur athletes will be at Oak Mountain State Park in Pelham beginning Saturday for the XTERRA Southeast Championship. The triathlon includes a one-mile swim, a 20-mile mountain bike ride and a 10k off-road run through woods just a few miles ...

  • News Minute Here is the latest Alabama news from The Associated Press

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Supreme Court has reinstated a $3.2 million malpractice verdict awarded to the estate of a Montgomery woman who died in 2005 after being treated at the Baptist East Emergency Room in Montgomery. Lauree Durden Ellison had visited the Baptist Medical Center-East emergency room, operated by the Health Care Authority for Baptist Health. She was initially released ...

  • ALDOT U.S. 280 highway project begins Sunday with incentives to...

    BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- The Alabama Department of Transportation's project to modify traffic flow along U.S. 280 in Jefferson and Shelby counties begins Sunday night -- weather ...

  • Rep. Terri Sewell to appear at four town hall meetings in Birmingham area next Friday

    Terri Sewell , D-Birmingham, will appear at a series of four "Congress in Your Community" town hall meetings in the Birmingham area next Friday, including three in the Western ...


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Movie Review

Menace II Society

After viewing "Menace II Society," it was hard for me to believe that Allen and Albert Hughes, the two brothers who wrote and directed it, were only twenty-one years old at the time of its completion. That two filmmakers could, at such a relatively young age, produce a work so mature and so well done is a testament to the sheer prowess of natural filmmaking ability. They had no formal training, ... ...

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