stage 0 (2008)
Friday, June 13th, 2008Engel Stage leaking
and without power (but I’ve
called the landlord twice).
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Archive for June, 2008
Heads and tales: Let’s rock and/or roll
Thursday, June 12th, 2008A round-up of City Stages 2008 infotainment …
Money to burn: Should the City of Birmingham hand over $700,000 in taxpayer money to a 20-year-old event, one that has been in debt for years (especially when the mayor’s pending budget is a mess)? What’s president George McMillan doing with a $68,000 expense account? These and other questions loom as the three-day downtown music festival launches Friday. An even better question: Why didn’t the reporter ask festival officials for comment, and what would they have said?
• Hat in Hand [Black and White]
Wrist-takers: Tickets are $50 for advance three-day passes, $28 per day. Headliners include Diana Ross (pictured), Old Crow Medicine Show, the Flaming Lips, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals and Robert Earl Keen. The weather: highs in the low 80s, lows in the low 70s, with possible thunderstorms Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday afternoon.
And while in past years, visitors could re-enter with stamped hands or wristbands, this year’s scheme is different. Friday: no re-entry. Saturday and Sunday: re-entry with wristband, which must be requested before 6:30 p.m. each day. And no white shoes after Labor Day. (That last one is more of a suggestion than a rule.)
• City Stages explains gate policies, wristbands [Birmingham News]
We repost, you decide: Still can’t decide who to see this weekend? Allow us to help …
- Our video preview of the lineup
- Our 20th anniversary playlist
- The Birmingham News’ clever database of performers
- Picks and capsules:
- Lee E. Bains III, Thicket magazine
- Black and White
- Mary Colurso, Birmingham News
- Chip Frazier, Amber Waves of Twang
- David Gutowski, Largehearted Boy
- Chris Pow, Alabama Live
- Scott Register, Reg’s Coffee House
- Caleb White, The Crimson White (Tuscaloosa)
Also:
- Costumed characters scheduled to pass out on 20th Street
- Vendors offer organic funnel cakes, tofu gyros
- Cops to monitor vomiting all along the watchtower
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Complete City Stages 2008 coverage.
stage 1 (2008)
Thursday, June 12th, 2008stage 2 (2008)
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008City Stages 2008: The playlist
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
The big 2-0. Yes, City Stages 2008 launches its 20th edition on Friday. (Oh, how we miss the tongue-twisting title sponsor …) In honor of this milestone, we present our best of the fest playlist.
Look for artists from every stage and every style. Enjoy the sonic diversity of these 20 tracks, even if you can’t make it this weekend.
One’s a freebie, the rest will run you about $20 on iTunes.
The songs in detail, after the jump …
stage 3 (2008)
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008stage 4 (2008)
Monday, June 9th, 2008stage 5 (2008)
Sunday, June 8th, 2008stage 6 (2008)
Saturday, June 7th, 2008The 2008 Ultimate Summer Movie Guide
Friday, June 6th, 2008
Time to go to the movies. But not just the standard Hollywood fare at the multiplex.
Welcome to the 2008 Ultimate Summer Movie Guide, with more than 60 movies in over a dozen venues. And most of them are free — some even have free food and drink.
It’s a comprehensive look at all films in all places around Birmingham. So thank you, and enjoy the movie.
Updated with full alphabetical and chronological lists …
i love the 90s
Friday, June 6th, 2008Heads up: Get downtown
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Happy (early) Juneteenth! To mark the end of slavery, or to put kids in moonwalk bounces, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute will hold its 13th annual Juneteenth Celebration on Saturday.
Among the highlights:
- Free admission to the museum starting at 10 a.m.
- Walking tours of the Fourth Avenue Business and Civil Rights Districts, also at 10.
- Live music and spoken word performers onstage, with headliners the Dazz Band at 7:15 p.m.
- Fashion show, quilting demonstration, storytelling, rock wall and children’s activities
The free event starts at 11 a.m. in Kelly Ingram Park [map].
• Press release
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car trips 2008
Thursday, June 5th, 2008Heads up: The biggest festival in Alabama
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Like camping and/or music? The BamaJam Music and Arts Festival, a new three-day festival, kicks off Thursday just north of Enterprise [map]. Its lineup eclipses the other music festivals in state and echoes June Jam, the Fort Payne event put on by country legends Alabama in the ’80s and ’90s.
Who’s on the lineup? An all-star roster of country, bluegrass and rock, including:
- Gov’t Mule
- Miranda Lambert
- Randy Owen
- ZZ Top
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Hank Williams Jr.
- Ricky Skaggs
- Old Crow Medicine Show
- Ralph Stanley
- Nanci Griffith
- Dan Tyminski
- Claire Lynch
- Marc Broussard
Up to 30,000 attendees are expected. Hotels have already begun to fill up.
One-day tickets start at $49.50 in advance and $59.50 at the gate, and three-day tickets are $129.50 in advance, $159.50 at the gate. Additional charge for on-site camping. Part of the proceeds go to charities targeting Coffee County.
• Official site
Video previews, after the jump …
anti-semantic
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008When others don’t budge,
they’re obstinate. But when I
don’t budge, I stand firm.
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