Kids, don’t ever stop
believing in magic of
holiday giving.

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Erik Jambor, co-founder and director of the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, resigned today, citing changes in adminstration made by the board of directors. Jambor’s departure comes a day after the festival parted ways with Kelly Marshall, the festival’s public relations director.

Jambor, 36, said that the board had been considering changes since summer, but after limited discussion with them, decided to leave rather than cede certain responsibilities. The Birmingham native plans to return to film production and editing, jokingly adding that he has no savings after working for a nonprofit organization for nine years. Jambor added that he remains open to working with the festival once the board finalizes plans and positions.

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When I fall in love,
it will be forever … I’ll
never fall in love.

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The Two Pack (formerly the Six Pack, formerly the Back Pack) is on its own against the junkie models, the beauty queens and crybabies. The Birmingham team, single moms Karlyn Harris and Lyn Turk, have barely made it this far in “The Amazing Race,” finishing in the bottom half every leg.

As the four teams headed back to Africa, they raced horses and worked like mules. One of the two all-female teams will make “Race” history, but which one had enough girl power to survive the leg? Caution: (worthless) Yield ahead.
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Turkey leftovers
still squat in corner of fridge
as pumpkin pie goes.

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City Stages is broke and broken — and has been for years. Can the downtown music festival be fixed?

In a new partnership, festival organizers have teamed with Catalyst, a grassroots Birmingham organization of young professionals, to raise $1 million by 2007. That amount would wipe out the more than $800,000 debt and restart a rainy day fund.

The effort, Sustain City Stages, faces a huge challenge: Erase a growing debt that the city’s biggest festival itself has been unable to overcome while developing a plan for growth, or as the name suggests, sustainability.

To that end, the two groups will hold a town hall from 5:30 to 7 tonight at the Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place.

We offer a few questions that deserve answers.

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Who would win: Christmas,
Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Solstice
or Drunkenness Day?

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Even an ocean
can’t separate lovebirds from
two home continents.

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Is Uncle Stan gay
or just really fond of tea
and muscle-bound men?

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Elusive perfect
present hides among aisles of
discounted baubles.

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Have a great holiday! Shop, gorge, watch parades and/or football, snack and give thanks.

Airy procession
marches down streets to delight
chilly spectators.

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Highways and airports
fill with travelers en route
to a home somewhere.

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Message to turkeys:
Sorry about the slaughter,
but you taste too good.

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If you think that’s bad,
wait until you hear about
my other gallstone.

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