Photo: Maya Aleshkevich (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for October 6, 2019:

• Flashback: Wade on Birmingham’s Fourth Anniversary
• Riding OD Road
  By @RichELord
• The Curse of the Bahia Emerald, a Giant Green Rock That Wreaks Havoc and Ruins Lives
  By @LizWeil
• Flashback: Five years ago, comparing travel schedules of Birmingham mayor William Bell and President Obama
  https://itswa.de/1vLwblU #Bham #alpolitics
• Dying Gasp of One Local Newspaper
  By @RichardFausset
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Journalists on “aha!” moments that changed the way they work
  By @MatthewKassel
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: Celebrating the Wade on Birmingham 9th anniversary with nine #haiku
• The Empty Mason Jar of the Influencer Economy
  By Kayleigh Donaldson @Ceilidhann
• Welcome to Lower Duck Pond, a fake town of 82,000 people
  By @CianMaher0
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: SouthWired presentation: Slides from “Content Curation for Smarties”
• Building a Mystery: An Oral History of Lilith Fair
  Compiled by Jessica Hopper @jesshopp with @SashaGeffen and @JennPelly
• The Making of an American Nazi
  By @LukeOBrien
• The Making of a Mexican American Dream
  By @SarahMenkedick
• How the Most Satisfied Couples Balance Sex and Power
  By @HaraMarano

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Banks, bikes and Backstreet Boys

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for October 6 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

A look at Birmingham in videos …

Passing a tank on I-459. From Mista Rich.

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My picks for #sundayread for September 29, 2019:

• I listened to “Frankenstein,” all credit to young Mary Shelley for her genius and her creativity.
  https://buff.ly/2nUW5u4
• Chika’s story: A fight to cure the incurable
  By @MitchAlbom
• Gunfire on a South Carolina school playground still haunts the first graders who survived
  By @JohnWoodrowCox and @ChrisAlcantara
• Nobody Would Have Been Surprised If I Had Died
  By @KatherineFugate
• Becoming an American in the Age of Trump
  By Andrew Sullivan @sullydish
• How women became suckers for the hard labor of self-optimization
  By @JiaTolentino
  (via @sundaylongread)
• 44 years. 41 sexual abuse allegations. How the past caught up to a former Olympian.
  By @MikeSKessler and Mark Fainaru-Wada @markfwespn
  (via @sundaylongread)
• .@RollingStone feature on @TaylorSwift13
  By Brian Hiatt @hiattb
• The Em Dash Divides: Why do people care so much about a piece of — no offense — punctuation?
  By Kate Mooney @yatinbrooklyn
• A teen girl posed for 8 years as married man to write about baseball and harass women.
  By @LindseyAdler
• Black motherhood on TV has never been so nuanced
  By Kellee Terrell @kelleent
• If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? (an excerpt from “Rebooting AI”)
  By @GaryMarcus and Ernest Davis
  (via @@nxthompson)
• The Desperate Battle to Destroy ISIS
  By Luke Mogelson
• .@Pornhub Is the Kinsey Report of Our Time
  By @MaureenOCo nnor

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Why not us?

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 29 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

A look at Birmingham in videos …

Elevator at Saks Fifth Avenue at the Summit. From Ih8escalators.

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My picks for #sundayread for September 22, 2019:

• I listened to @Prof_ErikaLee’s “The Making of Asian America: A History,” a good starter on Asians in America from the 1500s till today.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2Ob2lZA
• The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea
  By Evan Osnos @eosnos
• The Prisoner: A question of justice. And mercy.
  By @SkipHol landsworth
• How Albert Woodfox Survived Solitary
  By @RachelAviv
• What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian-American Identity
  By @JayCaspianKang
• Fire on the Mountain: A night of terror in Gatlinburg
  By @JustinHeckert
• Flashback: WordCamp Birmingham: Slides from Ethical blogging
• There Are Places You Cannot Go
  By Brent Crane @bcamcrane
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Trump is a voracious reader of newspapers, magazines and printouts of online articles.
  By Daniel Lippman @dlippman
  (via @sundaylongread)
• David Simon’s Vision of America
  By Alan @Sepinwall
• How Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann’s “SportsCenter” Changed TV Forever
  By @BryanCurtis
• Victims, Families and America’s Thirst for True-Crime Stories
  By @BrittKPeterson
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Does anyone in the White House really understand what the Department of Energy actually does?
  By Michael Lewis
• .@GQMagazine profile of John @Mulaney
  By @JonahWeiner

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The dollar tour

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 22 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

A look at Birmingham in videos …

Chicago student Lance on the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (our vertical video of the week). From Polaris Charter Academy.

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My picks for #sundayread for September 15, 2019:

• I listened to Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina,” an interesting look at 19th-century Russian society but didn’t really grab me.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2LVL9ou
• .@AlanDersh owitz, Devil’s Advocate
  By Connie Bruck
  (via @sundaylongread)
• When the Revolution Came for @AmyJCuddy
  By @SusanDominus
• Flashback: Goals for business blogging
• Transforming Birmingham with Feminist Books
  By Rose Norman
  #Bham
• “Did fire come to Paradise or did Paradise go to the fire?”
  By @Arax_Mark
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: Gibberish
• The Adopted Black Baby, and the White One Who Replaced Her
  By John Eligon @jeligon
• Raising a Teenage Daughter
  By Elizabeth Weil @LizWeil
• Flashback: Why WordPress is my favorite blogging software
• .@RollingStone profile of pop star @BillieEilish
  By @JoshEells
  (via @sundaylongread)
• What Bullets Do to Bodies
  By Jason Fagone @jfagone
• The graffiti kids who sparked the Syrian war
  By @MarkMacKinnon
• “Car Talk’s” Long Goodbye
  By @ErikShilling

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: In search of …

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 15 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

A look at Birmingham in videos …

Driving around Pinson (our vertical video of the week). From Bacc Doe.

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Photo: Brian Evans (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for September 8, 2019:

• I listened to “The Sun Does Shine”: Anthony Ray Hinton’s compelling story shows the best — and worst — of this godforsaken state.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2UAsu5c
• A Home Health Aide: On the Job, 24 Hours a Day, 27 Days a Month
  By Andy Newman @andylocal
• Natalia Kanem @Atayeshe, a Woman’s Voice for Women at UN Agency for Reproductive Rights
  By @RickGladstone
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• Flashback: From 2009, 30 Twitter tips hath September
• Is the Secret to Success … Faking It? On re-marriage and beating the averages.
  By @MichaelNGraff
• How the Media Fell Short on Jeffrey Epstein
  By @DavidFolkenflik
• Flashback: Why curation? Master the tsunami of information.
• Driven to the end: Olympic cyclist Kelly Catlin could do it all. Until it all became too much.
  By @KentBabb
  (via @sundaylongread)
• The Culture Is Changing, With Feminist Cheese
  By @AlexandraJacobs
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• Flashback: Watch With Wade: Happy trails, “King of the Hill”
• Oh we almost had a book from Prince …
  By Dan Piepenbring
  (via @stevesilberman)
• The spy with no name
  By @JeffMaysh
• Dirty John, a six-part series
  By @LATChrisGoffard
• On the Midway With the Carnival Game Investigators Out to Protect Your Fun
  By @JessicaHester

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Burlesque, bikes and bears
• Happy Labor Day!

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 8 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

A look at Birmingham in videos …

Detroit gospel group the Whitfield Company performs in June at Sardis Baptist Church in Fairview. From Darlene Dock.

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Video: A cowboy explains Labor Day.

Happy Labor Day!

Photo: Maya Aleshkevich (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for September 1, 2019:

• Flashback: 5 years ago, I gave up watching football for good.
• PPE, the Oxford degree that runs Britain
  By Andy Beckett
• Listened to @MargaretAtwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”: Claire Danes’ narration was excellent, though I kept picturing Offred as Angela Chase.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2ZGHzmX
• Frankenstein at 200: Why hasn’t Mary Shelley been given the respect she deserves?
  By @FionaRSampson
• What Students Gain From Learning Ethics in School
  By @LindaFlanagan2
  (RT @amandacdykes)
• Why Is Everyone Always Stealing Black Music?
  By @Wesley_Morris
  (via @emilynussbaum)
• Flashback: I’d rather spend a day blogging
• Their Mothers Chose Donor Sperm. The Doctors Used Their Own.
  By @JackieMroz
• Busted: Tens of thousands of people every year are sent to jail based on the faulty results of a $2 roadside drug test
  By @RyanGabrielson and Topher Sanders @ReporterTopher
  (via @Cory_Dowd)
• Happy 50th! How “Sesame Street” Started a Musical Revolution
  By @MelenaR yzik

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Summer’s end

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 1 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

A look at Birmingham in videos …

Talking with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. From Alabama NewsCenter.

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My picks for #sundayread for August 25, 2019:

• Another re-reading of “Getting Things Done” by David Allen @gtdguy: A great time for a refresher in this complex time-management system.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/33Tz2An
• Nightmares at 0 and 30,000 Feet: Paying a Price for 8 Days of Flying in America
  By @SarahLyall
• Bussed out: How America moves thousands of homeless people around the country
  From The @Guardian
  (via @ForBeginners)
• Writers: Stop reading, start writing.
• How Do You Publish the Work of a Scientific Villain?
  By @MeganMolteni
  (via @EmilyDreyfuss)
• What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now
  By @SalmanRushdie
• I listened to “Lean In,” by @SherylSandberg: My involuntary eye-rolling prevented me from getting all that I could out of this modern feminist guide.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2HmLWND
• What Happened When I Tried to Cut the Negative People Out of My Life
  By @MichaelNGraff
• Beyond Boko Haram’s Reach, Love and Feminism Flourish
  By @DionneSearcey
  (via @kikiochieng)
• Flashback: 10 years ago, Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 14
  #haiku #poetry
• Miles Morales, Jar Jar Binks, Carmela Soprano: The 25 Most Important Characters of the Past 25 Years
  From @Slate
• 2°C: Beyond the Limit: Extreme climate change has arrived in America
  By @StevenMufson, @ChrisCMooney, Juliet @Eilperin and @JohnMuyskens
• Parents Are Giving Up Custody of Kids to Scam Need-Based College Financial Aid
  By @JodiSCohen and Melissa Sanchez @msanchezMIA
  (via @sundaylongread)
• The Scarface of Sex: The Millionaire Playboy Who Murdered His Way to the Top of Porn
  By @JeffMaysh

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Zoo bisou bisou

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for August 25 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

A look at Birmingham in videos …

Getting ready for movie night at Brown Elementary School in Belview Heights. From OTTV25 DA8TV.

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