By Emily Williams According to Sarah Soule Webb, a local artist who lives in Birmingham, creating a work of art under a time limit is like skydiving. “It absolutely forces you to use parts of your brain that you don’t normally tap into when you have a lot of time to work on a piece,” she said. Webb has been painting live at weddings for a while and participated for the first … [Read more...]
Good – and Good for You – Eats: Nourish Makes It Easy to Keep Those New Year’s Food Resolutions
By Donna Cornelius Deciding to eat well – as in “healthy” – tops a lot of New Year’s resolutions lists every January. “People resolve to eat better, to go to the gym, and by the end of January, the wheels will have fallen off this plan,” Mary Drennen said. Drennen and her business partner, Tiffany Vickers Davis, own Birmingham-based Nourish Foods. The meal delivery service … [Read more...]
New in Town: High-Profile Food Folks Will Open Birmingham Eateries in 2019
By Donna Cornelius Birmingham food has been getting pretty good press in recent years, but 2018 took the city to the top of the culinary charts. Highlands Bar and Grill won the James Beard Foundation Award for best restaurant in America, and Highlands’ Dolester Miles was the foundation’s outstanding pastry chef. The Beard awards also showed some love to Timothy Hontzas of … [Read more...]
Watford Dominates as Spartans Rout Bucs
By Rubin E. Grant When Mountain Brook took the basketball court at Hoover last Thursday, the Spartans had one big advantage, namely senior forward Trendon Watford. Watford at 6-foot-9 created a matchup nightmare for the Bucs, whose tallest starter was 6-4 senior forward C.J. Melton. The Bucs tried everything they could to contain Watford, at times double- and triple-teaming … [Read more...]
Homewood’s McBride Credits His Players for Soccer Coaching Award
By Rubin E. Grant Homewood boys soccer coach Sean McBride wasn’t about to take sole credit for being named the 2018 Spring South Region High School Coach of the Year by the United Soccer Coaches. In fact, he pointed to his players. “The award is recognition to all players, past and present, for bringing five state titles to Homewood High School and the city,” McBride … [Read more...]