After more than two months of surgeries, recovery and therapy in Charlotte, Lulu Gribbin is coming home to Birmingham on Sat., Aug. 24, and a celebration is being held in Mountain Brook. At 4 p.m. community members are invited to line the streets starting at Bromberg's down Montevallo Road into Crestline Village and to wave and cheer to show support for Lulu and her … [Read more...]

The Alabama Symphony Orchestra is kicking off its season Sept. 20 with its Maestro’s Ball, the orchestra’s largest fundraiser.This year’s ball, hosted by Catherine and Emmett McLean, celebrates the beginning of Music Director Carlos Izcaray’s 10th season with the ASO, the organization said in an announcement of the event. The ball will honor this milestone and launch a … [Read more...]

Runners will race for a good cause with the Finish the Fight Against GI Cancer fundraiser, running from Otey’s Tavern in Homewood to Otey’s sister tavern in Mountain Brook on Aug. 10. The race is a benefit for the Robert E. Reed Gastrointestinal Oncology Research Foundation. It was organized by the nonprofit’s junior board. It also aims to raise awareness of some of … [Read more...]

By Anne RuisiRoy L. Williams knows you can’t put a timeline on grief. His brother, Army Maj. Dwayne Williams, was one of the 125 people who died when terrorists slammed a hijacked American Airlines passenger jet into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.“I have learned over the last 23 years to stop focusing on how he died, but on the happy moments,” said Williams, who will … [Read more...]

By Anne RuisiA construction barricade blocks the inside view of the former auction house for now, but by fall a building in downtown Birmingham will be transformed into the new home of Terrific New Theatre.Work crews are converting the former Alabama Auction Room at 2112 Fifth Ave. North into the theater, a revival of a 1925 building that was vacant for 20 years before … [Read more...]