Heads and tales: Mall or nothing
By Wade Kwon
Eastwood euthanized: The long slow death of Eastwood Mall will soon end. Wal-Mart is set to tear down one of the Southeast’s first enclosed malls in May, with a brand new Supercenter arriving in the second quarter of 2007. The nearby Irondale Wal-Mart will close, but the Sam’s Club will be expanded. And the whole shebang will face Montclair Road, rather than Crestwood Boulevard. Just as long as we can get to those $4.99 car stereos and $12.99 vacuum cleaners …
Update: The City of Birmingham will reveal its redevelopment plan for the Century Plaza/Eastwood Mall area at 6 p.m. Feb. 9 at the former Rich’s in Century Plaza.
• Wal-Mart set to tear down Eastwood [Birmingham Business Journal]
Mockingbird maven: One of our favorite authors, Harper Lee, appeared Friday in Tuscaloosa for the awards ceremony for an essay contest based on "To Kill a Mockingbird," her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. She has attended the ceremony at the University of Alabama each year since it began in 2001, despite her reluctance to give interviews or appear in public. Lee’s sole novel has sold 10 million copies in its 46-year existence.
• Harper Lee, Gregarious for a Day [New York Times]
You got Cirqued: Cirque du Soleil is coming March 30-31 to the BJCC Arena for the first time. The traveling show, Delirium, will focus more on music and dance than acrobatics. We hope it’s as enchanting as Mystere, based in Las Vegas. It certainly will be as pricy: Tickets, which go on sale Feb. 6, will be $70 to $100 (not counting Ticketma$ter charges).
• Canadian circus troupe Magic-City bound [Birmingham News]
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