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My picks for #sundayread for Dec. 27, 2015, highlighting the year’s best reads:

• A Humble Pope @Pontifex, Challenging the World, by @JimBYardley
• Killing UAB Football Part of Larger Plan for UA Board of Trustees by @Doctor_Nicolas
• Mass. police chief’s new approach in city’s fight against heroin by @cbsweeney
• My new series/ebook “The Future of Birmingham” is free #futureofbham
• When Two Decide to Live Together and Combine Bookshelves, by @AlexanderChee
• The terrible and wonderful reasons why I run long distances by @Oatmeal
• CJR Report on Rolling Stone’s Rape Story Bad for Journalism, by @cshirky
• Everything you know about disciplining kids is wrong, by @KatherineLewis
• The Lions of Street Food, by Matt Goulding @mdgoulding
• Disney’s $1 Billion Bet on a Magical Wristband, by @CliffKuang
• Cover to Cover, by @TomGauld
• Anti-Intellectualism Is Killing America, by @ahadave
• 5 years after Deepwater Horizon: How the secrets were spilled by @BenHRaines
• The Secret to Love Is Just Kindness, by @EmEsfahaniSmith

More posts from Wade this week:

• Merry Christmas!
• Y’all Connect: Video: Stacey Ferguson on digital strategy for your brand
• The Birmingham channel: Super deluxe Christmastime special 2015!
• Video: The Super Easy Guide to Video for Content Marketing

The latest #sundayread tweets

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• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Video: Nick Offerman drinks whiskey by the fire for 45 hours.

Merry Christmas!

Enjoy this peaceful winter ritual during our balmy 77-degree day. Or watch this drone footage of holiday lights displays from across the state. Watch more Christmas videos from Birmingham.

Video: A Drone Before Christmas

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My picks for #sundayread for Dec. 20, 2015, highlighting the year’s best reads:

• Bart Starr’s drive to honor fellow Packer great Brett Favre, by @Ian_OConnor
• A Manhattan McDonald’s With Many Off-Menu Sales, by @Kim_Barker
• Funny drawings from “Doodle Diary of a New Mom” by @lucyspictures
• As Diverse a Conference Lineup as Fans Deserve: Wade Kwon at Y’all Connect
• Obergefell v. Hodges, a 5-4 ruling making gay marriage legal across US: [PDF]
• Hoda, 20, from Birmingham, runs away to Syria to join ISIS, by @EllieVHall
• Reddit: What do the poor buy, that others know nothing about? http://bit.ly/1YubTtm / http://wapo.st/1YubWWf
• The Meaning of Serena Williams, by Claudia Rankine
• Wendell Berry: The Pleasures of Eating
• @TheBloggess compiled all our humiliating moments. http://bit.ly/1O1qzPp / http://bit.ly/1O1qATl
• The Late, Great Stephen Colbert, by Joel Lovell @lovelljoel
• Gun violence costs America $229b a year, $700+ for every man, woman and child
• 35 Women Tell Their Stories About Assault by Bill Cosby & Culture That Wouldn’t Listen
• The Case for Melancholy, by Laren Stover @reine_des_fees

More posts from Wade this week:

• Sundayread 2015: the complete list
• Video: Content Curation for Smarties
• Y’all Connect: For your year-end budget-balancing needs …
• Y’all Connect: Kind words for our 2015 speakers

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for Dec. 13, 2015:

• What I’ve learned from 10 years of blogging
• The rehabilitation of @MichaelPhelps, by @SITimLayden (via @DeGuzmanSports)
• 900 Best of 2015 Book Lists from @largeheartedboy
• Y’all Connect: Laura Creekmore on knowing your audience
• The poetry of political speechwriting, by @JoelDeane (RT @BaxterSally)
• Dominique Moody: The Urban Nomad, by @LynellGeorge (via @18thStreetArts)
• Books: Excerpt from Tanner Latham’s “Know Thy Farmer”
• The best and worst journalism of 2015, by @DavidUberti (RT @romenesko)
• The boy who moved Christmas, by @MeaganCampbel12 (RT @susan_allan)
• Flashback: Five more urgently needed blog topics for Birmingham
• Patti Smith on Time, Transformation, Love and Loss (RT @IlseTreurnicht)
• What to Do in an Active Shooter Situation, by @BrettMcKay and Kate McKay
• Big Box Stores Are Becoming Even More of a Terrible Deal, by @olavecchia (RT @nvyoung)
• How to Make Me Come @howtommc, anonymous essays by women talking about female orgasm

The latest #sundayread tweets

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My picks for #sundayread for Dec. 6, 2015:

• To free UAB will require immense financial pressure
• How Walmart Keeps an Eye on Its Massive Workforce, by @SusanBerfield
• LinkedIn for smarties, a five-step program
• Star Wars. Trek. Marvel. DC. An era of infinite sequels by @jetjocko (via @JosephCBakerIII)
• Y’all Connect: Kerry O’Shea Gorgone on contests, giveaways and you
• Tech’s Big Gender Diversity Push, 1 Year In, by @SarahFKessler (via @BUmediaventures)
• Flashback: Excerpt from Carla Jean Whitley’s “Muscle Shoals Sound Studio”
• Surviving 10 Years on World’s Most Desolate Police Beat, by @Andrew_McMillen (RT @kickpointinc)
• Flashback: 1 year ago … On the murder of UAB sports
• The @NYTimes’ list of 100 Notable Books of 2015 (RT @JeffCoLibAL)
• How an episode of “The Simpsons” is made, by Chris @Plante
• Alabama, the South and the double-edged sword of imported jobs, by @ChicoHarlan
• Inside the Sony Hack, one year later, by @AmandaHess
• The hidden ways weather determines what you buy, by @AnaSwanson (RT @gsisson64)

The latest #sundayread tweets

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My picks for #sundayread for Nov. 29, 2015:

• Four business books to boost your 2016
• Should out-of-work miners learn to code? By @LaurenSmiley (via @IBLearning)
• Get Better at Expressing Feelings, by @JulieEBeck (via @adamleealter @cmansfield27)
• Y’all Connect: Meet our new Volunteer Coordinator, James
• Driving advice: Just hit the damn deer, by @AlCambronne
• The Laughs, Pathos, and Overwhelming Talent of Jan Hooks, by Mike Thomas @MikeTScribe
• Flashback: Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 33
• The Man Whose Maid Was Worth Millions, by Nilita Vachani (via @TeaAndTemerity)
• Jeong Kwan, the Philosopher Chef, by @JeffGordinier (via @lilimoun)
• Flashback: Books: Excerpt from Chelsea Berler’s “The Curious One”
• The Kidz Bop Is All Right: A Night With Our Shrillest Pop Franchise, by @JiaTolentino
• How one highway exacerbated poverty, segregation, by @AlenaSamuels (RT @shrivercenter) //Lesson for #Bham
• Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy, by Tim Urban @waitbutwhy (via @ewopened)
• Choose to Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier. By @ArthurBrooks (RT @vsisson13)

More posts from Wade this week:

• Happy Thanksgiving!
• Y’all Connect: Winner from our Birmingham Bloggers luncheon

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Video: Adele saves the day.

Happy Thanksgiving! Let it be a day of peace, turkey and Adele.

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My picks for #sundayread for Nov. 22, 2015:

• Adding hours of reading time with one audio app
• The Life and Death of an Amazon Warehouse Temp, by Dave @Jamieson
• Y’all Connect: Stacey Ferguson on bloggers and brands working together
• What It’s Like To Feed A Family For Under $20 A Day, by @EveTurow (via @shrivercenter)
• Y’all Connect: Save the date for 2016!
• The Machine, Elliot Spillers and a changing University of Alabama, by @Asher_Elbein
• Just finished “SPIN Selling” by Neil Rackham: Great tips, worth a re-read. Aff. link: http://amzn.to/1N11OxV
• Jack Hitt pans Paul Theroux’s “Deep South”
• Flashback: Review: “Fed Up”
• Ethiopian Jew shares convoluted journey to anonymity in US by @BrendanSpiegel (RT @hardcorekancil)
• Flashback: Books: Excerpt from Carrie Rollwagen’s “The Localist”
• Strategic limits, startling human costs of drone warfare, by @rdevro (via @ggreenwald)
• Being Poor Is Too Expensive, by Eric Ravenscraft @LordRavenscraft
• Fixed vs. Growth: 2 Mindsets That Shape Our Lives, by @brainpicker (RT @markdrasutis)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: A community conversation

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for Nov. 15, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: David Griner on writing headlines that matter
• Out from under, by Allie Gross @Allie_Elisabeth (RT @Emm7E)
• Living and Dying on Airbnb, by Zak Stone @_zs
• Apple News? Online and offline habits in 2015
• Rise and Fall of “Trading Spaces,” Home Design Show That Ruled World, by @TheSSKate
• Free book recommendations. What new skill would help you succeed in your business/your life?
• Flashback: Movie bargains in Birmingham: 3 ways to save big
• Our double lives: Dark realities behind “perfect” online profiles by Maureen Callahan
• The Case for Melancholy, by Laren Stover @reine_des_fees (via @FamilyNature)
• Flashback: Everything I would fix about your terrible restaurant website
• An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s “Double Dare,” by Barry Thompson @barelytomson
• The Other Paris: Are the suburbs incubators of terrorism? By George Packer
• Neruda poems “of extraordinary quality” found, by @AlisonFlood (via @AfrikaReads)
• Inside an “Anything Goes” Sex Club, by @NeilStrauss

More posts from Wade this week:

• Happy Veterans Day!
• The Birmingham channel: Hard times, mean streets

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Video: Live stream of the National Veterans Day
parade in downtown Birmingham, starting
at 1:30 p.m.

A big thank you to all the men and women who have served in our armed forces!

The National Veterans Day parade starts at 1:30 p.m., with live streaming available in the video above. Note that the route for 2015 has changed slightly because of construction downtown.

Map: National Veterans Day parade route

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Video: Drone footage of the 2014 National Veterans Day parade

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My picks for #sundayread for Nov. 8, 2015:

• My Birmingham Blogging Academy blog is available for FREE on Apple News for iOS
• Football in Alabama 1: The cash cow that is the Alabama Crimson Tide, by @JoeDrape
• Football in Alabama 2: UAB’s second chance, by @JoeGoodmanJr #freeuab
• Y’all Connect: Video: Wendy Lea on the world of social collaboration
• Email marketing (3 of 3): Big numbers, big rewards
• Can a 14-year-old Jehovah’s Witness choose to die? By @IsoldeRaftery
• Y’all Connect is available for FREE on Apple News for iOS
• The exorcisms of Latoya Ammons, by Marisa Kwiatkowski @IndyMarisaK (RT @Koons17112)
• Wade on Birmingham is available for FREE on Apple News for iOS
• The Secret Lives of Vinyl Hoarders, by April Greene @aprilweiz
• @TheBloggess compiled all our humiliating moments. 1: http://bit.ly/1PtwRqX / 2: http://bit.ly/1PtwTz8
• Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice (RT @vsisson13)
• Inside an FBI hostage crisis outside Dothan, Ala., by @MPhillipsWSJ
• Why we need thought experiments & daydreaming, by @WalterIsaacson (via @FamilyNature)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Every band for itself

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for Nov. 1, 2015:

• Email marketing (2 of 3): Expand your reach
• 100 Illustrators You Should Know Right Now (via @18thStreetArts)
• Y’all Connect: Ike Pigott on great brand interactions in the moment
• What happens when all-star chefs get in bed with Big Food? By @MikeSula
• E.O. Wilson, ant man
• 8 stories emblematic of Grantland — read ’em while you can
• Free bookmark, please!
• How the Ivy League is Forcing Out Student-Athletes, by Joon Lee @iamjoonlee
• Flashback: Vote 2014: How Alabama re-elected Dr. Bentley
• Garden & Gun profile of artist/Bham native Lonnie Holley, by @NicBrownnn (via @pinxy)
• Running Deep, the Roots of King Sunny Adé, by @FemkevanZeijl (RT @AfrikaReads)
• There Are No Innocent Black People, by @GregHoward88
• First, Let’s Get Rid of All the Bosses, by @RogerDHodge
• On the loss to readers when photojournalists fail, by @jterhaar (via @mikewmott)

More posts from Wade this week:

• Happy Halloween!
• The Birmingham channel: Looking out for others

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Video: Owl vs. owl

Happy Halloween! Enjoy Oakley the owl getting his Halloween groove on …

Photo: Paul (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for Oct. 25, 2015:

• Email marketing (1 of 3): Start spreading the news
• Complete Guide to Never Quitting Anything Again, by @heyseankim (RT @Kit_studios)
• Why food allergy fakers need to stop, by @NeilSwidey
• Want a free bookmark mailed to you?
• How design, branding helped app beat competition by @awilkinson (via @GreenhouseAds)
• Myanmar and the game nobody wins, by Spencer Hall @edsbs (via @majikwah)
• Y’all Connect: Taylor Robinson on better stories for brands
• iOS 9 & Allure of Ad-Free Internet by @AdrienneLaF & @yayitsrob (via @GauchoProd)
• Danny Meyer will drop all tipping at his restaurants. By @qualityrye (via @kickpointinc)
• Flashback: Books: Excerpt from @sthig’s “Trail Magic and the Art of Soft Pedaling”
• A Very Revealing Conversation With @Rihanna, by @Miranda_July (via @evaschulz)
• Deep inside the futility of modern content factory, by @samstecky (RT @jayrosen_nyu)
• Mass. police chief’s new approach in city’s fight against heroin, by @cbsweeney
• On Tinder, Off Sex, by @AliRachelPearl (RT @delfuego13)

More posts from Wade this week:

• Contest results: Wade on Birmingham’s 10th anniversary
• The Birmingham channel: A ukulele and a dream

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Congratulations to Leigh Monitor, of Nashville! Her entry was randomly selected in our Wade on Birmingham 10th anniversary book giveaway.

I’ve mailed her an autographed paperback copy of my new book, “The Future of Birmingham” (in fact, the only signed copy to date). If you’d like a free copy, download one by filling out the form on this special page.

Thanks to everyone who entered!