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My picks for #sundayread for Dec. 21, 2014, highlighting the year’s best reads:

• Louisiana Loses Its Boot, by Brett Anderson @BrettEats
• Pixel & Dimed: @SarahFKessler spent month hustling for gig economy
• Giving up crimson: A farewell to football
• Quest for the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie, by @DavidLeite
• Love People, Not Pleasure, by @ArthurBrooks
• Project Bulk – Month 20: Achievement unlocked
• How Anonymous incited vigilantism from Tunisia to Ferguson, by @DavidKushner
• 10 Life Lessons From a Navy SEAL, by Adm. William H. McRaven
• In Alabama, Judges Play God, by @williams_paige
• Myth vs. Fact: Violence and Mental Health, by @LoisBeckett
• Be more skeptical: 20 tips for interpreting scientific claims
• Resegregation of America’s Schools, with look at Tuscaloosa, by @nhannahjones
• The $9 Billion Witness: JPMorgan Chase’s Worst Nightmare by @mtaibbi
• Big in Japan: An author discovers his surprise fame overseas. By @DavidGordonX

More posts from Wade this week:

• Sundayread 2014: the complete list
• Kwanzaa 2014: events around Birmingham
• Oprah to interview Julie from ‘Real World’ and Natalee Holloway’s mom
• PBS World to show ‘Our Mockingbird’ documentary
• Scouts raise more than $15,000 for KIND fund
• The Birmingham channel: Hearts of Dixie
• Y’all Connect: Christmastime in the Magic City
• Birmingham Blogging Academy: The power of Facebook groups

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My picks for #sundayread for Dec. 14, 2014:

• Eight ways to celebrate Hanukkah 2014
• J.K. Rowling Releasing 12 New Harry Potter Stories for Christmas, by @bfishbfish
• “Access w/o understanding & facts w/o context have become daily diet.” (RT @cloudspark)
• Y’all Connect: If your most important asset is people, invest in them now
• Actor/author @Nick_Offerman answers Reddit questions
• The rise & fall of the Columbia House record club — and how we learned to steal music
• I’m sorry for breaking the Internet
• “I haven’t gone w/ anyone on Tinder, bc I don’t want to be murdered.” -@AmbermRitchie
• Eating Well at the End of the Road, by @julia_omalley
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 105: Eat like it’s your job
• @TheAVClub picks 35 best TV shows of 2014: http://avc.lu/1321DCq / http://avc.lu/1soAVjM
• 50 yrs ago today, SCOTUS ruled against Ollie’s BBQ in desegregation: http://bit.ly/1321Ohc / http://n.pr/1soBytS
• Rise of online vigilantism replaces “citizen” journalism, by @cwarzel (RT @ajkeen)
• An Oral History of “Boogie Nights,” by @frenchalexm and @howiekahn_

More posts from Wade this week:

• Birmingham-area Christmas restaurant options 2014
• Snow and Christmas coming Saturday to Railroad Park
• ‘Dean and Company Christmas Special’: 35 years on track
• The Birmingham channel: Keep the Ham weird
• Alabama to face Ohio State in Sugar Bowl

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My picks for #sundayread for Dec. 7, 2014:

• Green and gold and black and blue: On the murder of UAB sports
• New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2014
• You’re not special. Blog anyway.
• The Rise and Fall of Comedian Bob Hope, an interview with @rzoglin, plus excerpt
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – As you assemble your editorial calendar for next year …
• Longreads Best of 2014 weekly picks
• Books: Excerpt from Carla Jean Whitley’s ‘Muscle Shoals Sound Studio’
• How textbooks become toilet paper, by @JonDReed
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 99: For whom the kettlebell tolls
• How I Built a Big Email List Just About Books I Liked by @RyanHoliday (RT @tferriss)
• @ChrisRock on Ferguson, Cosby and Obama, by @frankrichny
• In Alabama, Judges Play God, by @williams_paige #alpolitics
• Aliens in the Valley: The complete history of Reddit, by @sfiegerman
• How @CamMiPham Hacked Tinder

More posts from Wade this week:

• “The 12 Days of Christmas,” Birmingham 2014 edition
• Alabama Theatre 2014 Holiday Film Series: the ultimate guide
• German Christmas market coming Saturday to downtown
• The Birmingham channel: Culture after culture after culture

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My picks for #sundayread for Nov. 30, 2014:

• Monkey business: MailChimp to sponsor Y’all Connect 2015
• A girl denied the chance to grow up: The Real Lolita, by @sarahw (RT @BooksLIVESA)
• Books: Excerpt from @ChelseaBerler’s ‘The Curious One’
• How a Honolulu Noodle Factory Fueled America’s Ramen Boom by @MarthaCheng (via @CAAM)
• Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 33
• Best of 2014 Book Lists, compiled by @largeheartedboy
• Thankful for …
• Compendium by Awesome Librarians of Awful Books, by @MessyNessyChic (RT @mitterista)
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Month 15: What I eat
• How a schoolteacher helped create 1st black Peanuts character, by @ChristErickson
• The Definitive Ranking of Every Episode of “The Wonder Years,” by @LouisPeitzman
• Babysitting the Bomb, by @ReidCherlin (RT @DanielinPDX)
• The Astonishing Rise of Angela Merkel, world’s most powerful woman, by George Packer
• The Whiskey Wars That Left Brooklyn in Ruins, by Rebecca Dalzell (RT @auroberjo)

More posts from Wade this week:

• Four Birmingham teams headed to state championships in Auburn
• Christmas 2014: parades and tree lightings across Birmingham
• Happy Thanksgiving!
• Q&A with UAB’s Rhodes Scholar Ameen Barghi
• The Birmingham channel: making it in the Magic City

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My picks for #sundayread for Nov. 23, 2014:

• Books: Excerpt from Carrie Rollwagen’s ‘The Localist’
• Program to aid ppl harmed by vaccines fails, keeps claimants waiting (via @Jay_Reeves)
• Y’all Connect: Nichole Kelly talks social media and business strategy
• Librarians pick favorite books of 2014, compiled by Lily McLemore (RT @WeKnowBooksETC)
• Thread alert: Best Birmingham T-shirts
• Why People Keep Trying to Erase the Hollywood Sign From Google Maps, by @awalkerinla
• Review: “Fed Up” @fedupmovie: http://itswa.de/1C04qMT
• Top Books of 2014 – Little Professor Edition, compiled by @medusasmirror
• Everything I would fix about your terrible restaurant website right now
• How far Uber will go to silence journalists, attack women, by @sarahcuda (via @csledzik)
• Oral History of the Poop Emoji (Or How Google Brought Poop to America) by @LaurSchwar
• A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault & Struggle for Justice at UVA, by @SabrinaRErdely
• The Secret Life of Passwords, by @ian_urbina
• “Science … For Her!” excerpt + interview with @meganamram

More posts from Wade this week:

• ‘Muscle Shoals’ documentary returns to PBS
• Three-and-a-half Nutcrackers
• Friday’s Fall Festivale pouring it on at Regions Field
• Movie bargains in Birmingham: 3 ways to save big
• The Birmingham channel: The downtown scene

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My picks for #sundayread for Nov. 16, 2014:

• Internal debate: Should UAB football continue?
• New Orleans police didn’t investigate 1,100+ sex crimes in 3-yr period (h/t @Jezebel)
• @annietravel, @artmeripol visited 75+ restaurants in 50+ cities for new Ala. BBQ book
• Jenny Schmitt dissects millennials (figuratively)
• How to Gather 100,000 Emails in One Week, by @JeffreyRaider (RT @SurvivalPlanKit)
• A Birth Story, by Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano
• Boost your confidence with body language
• Why won’t journalists ask Bill Cosby the tough questions? By @hitsville
• How chicken went from rarely eaten backyard bird to huge food source (RT @legalnomads)
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 76: Steady on
• “Supernatural” at 200: The Road So Far, An Oral History, compiled by @lauinla
• Gambling in Alabama: A game of political intrigue, by @Josh_Moon (via @WarOnDumb)
• The Sex-Abuse Scandal Plaguing USA Swimming, by @resturtz (via @legalnomads)
• Jon Stewart answers Reddit’s questions

More posts from Wade this week:

• Trussville’s Art Show and Tasting Event to raise scholarship money
• Birmingham-area Thanksgiving restaurant options 2014
• St. Paul and the Broken Bones, a virtual concert
• Happy Veterans Day!
• The Birmingham channel: Wonders of fall, out at night, on the set

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My picks for #sundayread for Nov. 9, 2014:

• UAB study: Common blood pressure drug eradicates diabetes in mice
• @DianeRavitch reviews @YongZhaoUO’s book on China’s “super” schools
• Spotify, Taylor Swift and the mess of royalties, by @BAHjournalist (via @scottperry)
• Mailbag: How to budget for Y’all Connect 2015
• Army covered up suicide of soldier who refused to torture prisoners in Iraq (RT @joshjonsmith)
• The challenge of music clearances for beloved TV series to DVD, by @tvoti
• Project Bulk: My 60 days of ice baths: Experimenting with testosterone and vitamin D
• Why Better “Research Methods” Are Necessary: Beyond the Catcalling Video, by @zeynep:
• Now our government tracks our snail mail, too. By @nixonron
• AUM presentation: The absolutely essential Twitter workshop
• “Sports Night,” An oral history, compiled by @ktatkinson
• The $9 Billion Witness: JPMorgan Chase’s Worst Nightmare by @mtaibbi (via @scottperry)
• Black-Owned Businesses Are Quietly Powering Detroit’s Resurgence, by @KABBEYL
• 26 Things You Didn’t Know About the “Terminator” Films, by @IvanMCohen

More posts from Wade this week:

• Frozen Tide battles Razorbacks tonight, Saturday on home ice
• Veterans Day events include memorial service, Wounded Warrior fund-raiser
• Vote 2014: Alabama general election results
• Vote 2014: Midterm voting starts now
• The Birmingham channel: To serve, to sculpt, to skate

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My picks for #sundayread for Nov. 2, 2014:

• 9 things to prepare you for Moss Rock Festival today
• The New Glenn Beck, by @MooneyMichaelJ
• As concussion awareness grows, HS football rosters dwindle (RT @ikepigott)
• Y’all Connect: Shelly Kramer on the need for inbound marketing
• Amy Poehler answers Reddit questions
• How Edward Snowden Smuggled Secrets Past Danger, by @MicahfLee (via @acarvin)
• Why the collapse of the Birmingham media ecosystem is a good thing: What you said
• Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy
• A Foodie Repents, by John Lanchester
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Month 14: Fall back
• Billy Joel, 33 Hit Wonder, by @NickPaumgarten
• The Red Cross’ Secret Disaster
• How poor Mississippi got left behind by Obamacare, by @SarahVarney (via @nelson_aj)
• Excerpt from Amy Poehler’s new memoir, “Yes Please”… On Taping “SNL” While Pregnant

More posts from Wade this week:

• Dia de los Muertos rises Sunday
• Happy Halloween!
• Birmingham’s Sarcor, Slice featured on PBS series “Start Up”
• Russian/Slavic Food Festival: Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out
• The Birmingham channel: The Classic 2014, wandering souls

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My picks for #sundayread for Oct. 26, 2014:

• Dalai Lama at Alabama Theatre now, live streaming video #bham
• OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by John @Siracusa
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 52: Yogi barely
• Y’all Connect: Alison Groves on search plus social media
• Excerpt from Scott Thigpen’s @sthig “Trail Magic and the Art of Soft Pedaling”
• How A/B testing became publishers’ go-to traffic builder, by @lmoses (via @NiemanLab)
• Advanced email marketing (and more) with Ramit Sethi
• The Tragedy That Was My Summer of A/B Tests, by @JenHavice (via @johnhaydon @sue_anne)
• How a 19th-Century Math Genius Taught Best Way to Hold Pizza Slice, by @aatishb
• Flashback: Wade’s 101 – Haiku retrospective 29
• An Oral History of “The Wonder Years,” by Amy Plitt @plitter
• Fake news sites use Facebook to spread Ebola panic, by @JoshDzieza (via @zpower)
• Contradictory world of Thought Catalog, a most reviled site, by @TimHerrera
• Friends of Homewood Public Library to hold $5 bag sale 2-4 p.m. 11/9

More posts from Wade this week:

• Men’s Health winner Noah Galloway to visit “Ellen”
• Butcher shop Bottle and Bone opens in Uptown
• Magic City Classic 2014: a guide to the week
• Second Design Week Birmingham offers workshops, talks
• The Birmingham channel: In the air, on the run, on 2 wheels

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My picks for #sundayread for Oct. 19, 2014:

• 30 Birmingham women to be honored for service
• Ernest Angley church rocked by accusations involving abortions, vasectomies, by @BobDyerABJ
• Flashback: Media of Birmingham: Only site ever banned from al.com’s state blog list
• South Alabama Football Breaks Out of the Lab, by @HollyAnderson
• Y’all Connect: Inspiration from the women of Hollywood
• Finalists for the 2014 National Book Award
• Content Curation for Smarties: What you said
• Hope in a Bottle, by Andrew O’Hagan (via @hunteryharris)
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 49: Milestone
• My former Southern Living pals @annietravel, @ArtMeripol created “Alabama Barbecue” [aff. link]
• Lessons of the Fall: 3 Things We’ve Learned From 2014 TV Season, by @AndyGreenwald
• Future of Culture Wars Is Here, and It’s Gamergate, by @kylenw (via @jayrosen_nyu)
• Telling My Troll Story Because Kathy Sierra Left Twitter, by @AdriaRichards
• How we created the “Saturday Night Live” 40th season title sequence, by @AlexBuono

More posts from Wade this week:

• Vestavia boy to compete on ‘Project Runway: Threads’
• Video: What area in metro Birmingham is this?
• Recycling in the short term and long term
• 12th annual Jewish Food Festival adds pony rides, cornhole
• The Birmingham channel: Gurneys, blood moon, AFI, cystic fibrosis

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My picks for #sundayread for Oct. 12, 2014:

• To the nines: Wade on Birmingham’s ninth anniversary
• Why the Trolls Will Always Win, by Kathy Sierra  (h/t @griner)
• Southwired presentation: Content Curation for Smarties
• American Way of Birth, Costliest in the World, by @nytrosenthal
• Y’all Connect: Andrea Weckerle on online conflict management
• King of click: the story of the greatest keyboard ever made, by @thedextriarchy
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 40: An expanded vocabulary
• 15 Business Books Recommended by 350 Entrepreneurs, by @KatelErickson (RT @tferriss)
• Video: My Tiger Mom
• Finding Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich, Then Vegas Made Them Pay, by @kpoulsen
• Author David Sedaris answers questions on Reddit
• Alabama Supreme Court justice Parker’s guide for overturning Roe v. Wade, by @ByNinaMartin (via @glennybrock)
• Ferguson more divided than ever 2 mos after Michael Brown’s murder, by @AmandaWills
• A Couple Gaining Independence, and Finding a Bond, by @DanBarryNYT (RT @vsisson13)

More posts from Wade this week:

• Birmingham Blogging Academy: Speaking gigs: Navigating Today’s Media, October 2014
• Video: Emmylou, Alabama Shakes on ‘Austin City Limits Celebrates 40 Years’
• Vote 2014: Sample ballots for Jefferson, Shelby County general election
• Cask and Drum 2014 video preview
• Gabriel Tajeu releases single, ‘The Beat Goes On’
• Mayor Bell has left Alabama more times than President Obama has traveled abroad

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