Tire tires of
inflated existence, goes
flat on principle.

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What happens when models pick their own names and unleash them on Hollywood’s C list? An annoyed rapper, soaked contestants and Paris Hilton?!

Yes, we’re making faces, on purpose, after Wednesday’s episode of “America’s Next Top Model,” and our weave is about to fly the coop. Plus, Montgomery’s Dionne Walters puts her best feet forward.

All the photos, after the jump … (more…)

Loosen up. Slip off
worries of the office with
a glass of stomped grapes.

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It’s hot. It’s cold. It’s
hot. It’s cold. Spring, such a coy
mischievous season.

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If ever there were
a time for vacation, it
would have been today.

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Maybe the Hoover Bucs didn’t have the best season ever. Their hopes of a mythic national championship crashed hard earlier in the season. But the high school football powerhouse could still fulfill one record-breaking goal: a fifth straight state championship.

And so, Coach Propst and company are back on familiar turf, battling for the ring in one last game. It’s time for players, couples and teams to face their destiny in the hour-long season finale of “Two-a-Days.” (more…)

A fool and his love
are soon parted. At least, that’s
what she said to me.

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That blur you see is
me trying to keep up with
schedule gone awry.

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We leave for our Magic City Mission on Easter morning, but we could still use a few more items.

Our Hands on Birmingham team of six volunteers will be working next week with Hands on New Orleans to help rebuild the city. Thanks to your generosity, we’ll be taking enough donations to fill two pickups, including refurbished laptop computers from TechBirmingham, a new chainsaw, cleaning supplies and goodies for the long-term volunteers and staff there.

If you’d like to help, you still have time to give — check out the wish list, which shows what’s still needed and drop-off points near you.

Please consider a gift card (easy to transport, fits all budgets, doesn’t expire):

• Home Depot
• Office Depot
• Sav-A-Center
• Shell
• Wal-Mart
• Whole Foods

You can order them online or at store locations. (If you have them shipped, please send them directly to Hands on New Orleans, 2309 Dryades St., New Orleans, LA 70113.)

The drop-off deadline is Wednesday, April 4, so hurry!

We’ll send you postcards from New Orleans throughout the week as we help our neighbors in Louisiana and remind them that Birmingham still cares. Thank you for your support.

Masters lead by their
collars and leashes so their
two-legged friends follow.

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Drops fall from heaven
to scrub miserable grains
of pollen from earth.

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Selma endures prez
hopefuls. Obama, Clinton
to be prez footnotes?

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Four years in Iraq:
one nation bleeds while other
dickers over plan.

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Women’s history:
Anthony, Tubman, Curie,
um, Paris Hilton?

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