Heads and tales: Abuse your noodle

It’s not downsizing, it’s DiGiorno: Kraft Foods is closing the DiGiorno pasta plant in Hoover, cutting 61 jobs. It’s part of the corporation’s plan to cut 8,000 jobs and close 20 factories. While profits are up, one report says it’s because Americans are eating out more than cooking at home. Pasta la vista, baby.
• Kraft Foods closing pasta plant in Hoover [Birmingham News]

Down from the mountain: The Birmingham Museum of Art has scored another grand exhibit, Pompeii: Stories from an Excavation. The show, possibly in October 2007, will have relics buried in the 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Birmingham will be one of three stops for the exhibit in the United States. Meanwhile, the museum features Ethiopian art in a double exhibit: “Ethiopian Art from the Walters Art Museum” and “Painting Ethiopia: The Life and Work of Qes Adamu Tesfaw” starting Sunday.
• Museum among three U.S. stops for Pompeii relics frozen in time [Birmingham News]

Orange and black and blue: The Auburn University board of trustees has failed a big exam. It asked for an independent review of the school’s operations and leadership in November. The report, released Tuesday, reinforces the long-standing rumblings: bad leadership from the trustees, along with the faculty senate and alumni board. Ouch. And leading this parade of mismanagement? His name rhymes “Bobby Lowder.” The report goes on to make 142 recommendations, but and none of them have to do with recruiting top-rated linebackers.
• Report blasts Auburn leadership [Birmingham News]

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