Archive for September, 2006
too much to give up
Friday, September 29th, 2006pit of despair
Thursday, September 28th, 2006Wednesday Night Lights: Revenge is sweat
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006To no one’s surprise, the defending state champs are back in the playoffs. Can the Hoover Bucs win their umpteenth 6A championship, glory and free wings?
What cheerleader can’t spell or work a dictionary? Whose dad is a miserable camera-hogging drunk? And who really really really wants it more? These questions and more, on the next “Soap,” er, “Two-a-Days.”
welcome prez b
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006Sidewalk 2006: fin
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006This past weekend’s Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival was a winner. Great turnout, decent weather, fun parties and a strong slate made for an eighth outing worth remembering.
Before the final credits roll, a few more films we caught in the three-day frenzy …
venting too much
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006Simply Amazing: Mongol fever
Monday, September 25th, 2006Ten teams, including moms/friends Karlyn Harris and Lyn Turk of Birmingham, dashed across Asia in Sunday’s episode of “The Amazing Race.”
The pairs drove ox carts, took down tents and shot flaming arrows during the CBS reality competition, but temperamental jeeps turned out to be the biggest challenge of all. Would Team Birmingham lose because its car wouldn’t crank?
suffocating surroundings
Monday, September 25th, 2006coarse of political debate
Sunday, September 24th, 2006EXCLUSIVE: A death in the afternoon
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006I lost someone near and dear to me one year ago today. She and I had a nine-year relationship, and many knew her (if only by reputation) to be at times tough, dowdy, amusing, frustrating and downright forgettable.
No one will see her memorialized in the newspaper today, nor will they stop by her grave. She died a long and painful death, and her passing reminds us not only of the fragility of life but the certainty of death. And yet the city moves on, as indifferent to her in death as it was in life.
The Birmingham Post-Herald, May 15, 1950 – Sept. 23, 2005.
R.I.P.
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great grasp
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006Sidewalk 2006: Off and running
Friday, September 22nd, 2006Ten reasons to check out the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, which kicks off its eighth annual event tonight at the Alabama Theatre …
billowy festival
Friday, September 22nd, 2006Sidewalk 2006: YouTube the Motion Picture
Thursday, September 21st, 2006Every generation has its slackers, or “Slackers,” a cinematically scruffy group of aimless youth interested in no more than casual relationships, “art” and other passing pursuits. Such is the posse of unfortunately named “LOL,” a pastiche of scenes that may very well be perfectly suited to the crowd of teens still coming of age.
Viral videos allow anyone to be director and star, auteur and writer. This reality-tinged comedy seems little more than a strung-together series of YouTube clips, and not the compelling ones of embarrassing stunts or weirdly mesmerizing moments.
The movie screens as part of this weekend’s Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival.