First Tunisia, then Egypt, now Yemen…3,000 demonstrators are confronting police and pro-government supporters in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, according to AlJazeera’s report today. While the army in Egypt urges a return to “business as usual,” it is beginning to look like business, when it does return, won’t be as usual. Here is more discussion [...]
Roberto Kaplan, Doctor of Optometry, Practitioner of the American Holistic Medical Association, and Integrative Medicine, believes his true education began after he began to undo the conditioning to which he was subject in his education. He argues that learning to see has everything to do with freeing a person from his or her conditioning. It [...]
The Society of Humane Friends of Georgia and the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Department in Atlanta are collaborating in a new program that matches dogs with no future with jail inmates who provide obedience training and loving care to the animals. This removes the dogs from death row: Sheriff Butch Conway says that normally 7500 dogs [...]
The proposed and partially permitted Shepherd Bend Mine is close to a major Birmingham drinking water intake and would discharge heavy metals and wastewater in violation of federal and state law. Read on… Shepherd Bend Mine Opposition Continues: Updated 2/10/2011 ~ Maps, Pictures, Articles and Documents Below Black Warrior Riverkeeper opposes the Shepherd Bend Mine, [...]
Homewood City Code Officials recently put a stop to the painting of You Are Beautiful on the side wall of a Homewood business – Monarch Cleaners at 903 Broadway, although the owner of the business had already given his permission. The Special Interests Committee wants all 11 members of the City Council to vote on [...]
Results of the Election. School district officials are thrilled with the results of the election, apparently, though there is no indication of how teachers and parents responded. Today’s vote – February 8, 2011 – will decide whether a Shelby County property tax will be renewed until 2041, another thirty years. Although the tax renewal has [...]
A 26-year old Muslim girl, Asmaa Mahfouz, in traditional headdress, told her facebook friends she was heading for Tahrir Square on January 25. Then she video-blogged the message you see below in Arabic with English subtitles, a call for freedom, honor, human dignity…a call for Egyptians to stand up and say they are free human [...]
A play that has been threatened with closure, censored and even banned, Wedekind’s “Spring Awakening” was written in 1890-91, but not staged until Max Reinhardt took on the challenge in 1906. Even on the English-speaking stage it was banned and infrequently performed. Wedekind wrote it at the age of 26 during an era in German [...]
They are appearing in amazing places, such as the retaining wall across the road from Vulcan — where the traffic is usually so unpredictable you would have to be extremely careful if you were out with a paintbrush. Then there’s another one on the roof of the First United Methodist Church on 19th street downtown. [...]
The Chenault Organ duo from Atlanta perform at the Cathedral Church of the Advent Sunday, February 13. Charles Kennedy has the following announcement: Sunday, February 13 · 4:00pm – 5:00pm Location: Cathedral Church of The Advent Episcopal 2017 Sixth Avenue North Birmingham, AL By Charles Kennedy On Sunday, February 13th at 4:00 p.m., Raymond and [...]
The city of Jeddah (or Jeddah or Jidda or Jedda) in Saudi Arabia is one I had never heard of, and I also missed word of the massive floods that hit the city in January of this year. I never even heard of the December, 2009 floods in Jeddah – also pictured in a video [...]