The amazing vocal quintet – Quink – hails from the Netherlands and performs in Birmingham on Friday, February 4, 2011 at 7 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Independent Presbyterian Church at 3100 Highland Avenue. The hall was packed for their last performance in Birmingham in 2004, and the audience loved them. It’s free, [...]
Unprecedented in Egyptian history, apparently, hordes of protesters all over Cairo – and other Egyptian cities – are taking over the city, so to speak, while riot police attack them with tear gas, cars burn and black smoke pours out into the atmosphere, making our CNN journalist cough. While the army quietly looks on, anti-Mubarak [...]
The idea that brainwaves synchronize with sounds in the environment might not be particularly new, but it seems (to me) that in the last ten years or so (or maybe more) there has been a great deal of interest in auditory phenomena. Of course, music and speech have been around for a while, needless to [...]
Amel Mathlouti is Tunisian and sings not only in French (“ma parole est libre!”) and Arabic, but also in Tunisian dialect. Her official website is in French and quite short. More can be learned about her by reading a little about Tunisia and the massive revolt and upheaval that led the president Zine El Abidine [...]
From the Cathedral Church of the Advent comes the following announcement: Friday, January 28 · 12:30pm – 1:00pm Cathedral Church of The Advent Episcopal 2017 Sixth Avenue North Birmingham, AL The Cathedral Church of the Advent’s Mid-Day Musical Menu series continues on Friday, January 28 at 12:30 p.m. in the Nave, with a free, 30-minute [...]
Alabama Chanin is a 10-year old design/fashion/clothing business based in Florence, Alabama that is owned and created by Natalie Chanin. Her beautiful garments are designed to give the wearer prosperity, love, joy, beauty and many other gifts. They are made of recycled materials, and they are one of a kind, constructed by people in areas [...]
Quite close to home is the work of Butch Anthony of Seale, Alabama, a rural town in Russell County not that far from the Georgia border and Phenix City. He is happy to define his work as folk art or outsider art. Call it what you will, the interesting thing about it is that the [...]
Reflecting the teachings of Jesus, feeding the hungry is one of the seven mercies catalogued by the Catholic Church and depicted in many great Renaissance paintings. The City of Houston, specifically the Health and Human Services Department, has shut down an operation that fed the homeless for more than a year – successfully and without [...]
Click here to buy tickets to hear Joshua Bell! You might remember hearing that Joshua Bell played his violin in a D.C. subway station as hordes of busy people passed him by. A youtube video captures the event — see below — and an article in the Washington Post by Gene Weingarten tells more. The [...]
Sharing is happening at phenomenal rates, says Rachel Botsman, the co-author of What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption Watch the video of her 15-minute introduction below and you will see what she means. She says that the internet is removing the middleman, and that reputation – as on e-bay feedback – is [...]
Since the metropolitan area of Brisbane is situated along the floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley, it is prone to catastrophic floods such as the one the city is seeing today – the most drastic since 1974. Brisbane has a reputation for being highly livable, although its European existence began with the Redcliffe penal colony [...]
January 24 update: The trial is coming to a close. Since neither of the owners were present when cheese was taken under state orders for testing, it seems it would be impossible to say whether the cheese tested was even from Morningland dairy at all. For more information on the trial, click here. A February [...]