The Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama presented its largest donation to date, amounting in $1 million dollars, to the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham on Jan. 18 at a luncheon at The Club. “The Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama is critical in making our breast cancer research program one of the best in … [Read more...]
Long-Distance Logistics: Wedding with Traditional Greek Charm More Than Worth the Effort for Mountain Brook Couple
By Ingrid HowardWhen Terpsithea Christou moved to Alabama from her hometown in Ioannina, Greece, she originally thought she’d move back home once she finished her orthodontics residency. But a few things kept her in the States, one of them being Jon Allen Bernstein. One of Christou’s fellow residents was engaged to one of Bernstein’s good friends. The now-husband and … [Read more...]
Healing Through Hotworx
Five years ago, chances probably were slim that you would have seen Vestavia Hills resident Leigh Ann Allen at a gym. You were much more likely to have seen her at the tennis courts, where she would have been one of the best players.But when Leigh Ann fell off of a second-story balcony four years ago, she didn’t know whether she would ever fully recover.She had bought, … [Read more...]
New Digs, New Opportunities as Artists Incorporated Moves to Grand River
By Ingrid Howard At the end of this year, Artists Incorporated will close its Vestavia Hills location. The art gallery opened 19 years ago at its location off Rocky Ridge Road in Vestavia Hills. For the past year, it also has been operating on Saturdays at a storefront in the Shops of Grand River mall in Leeds. By January, the artists plan to consolidate the gallery and … [Read more...]
If You Build It, They Will Laugh: New Birmingham Improv Theater Will Drop the Mic Five to Six Nights a Week
By Emily Williams In 2005, when David Grissom sold off an improv theater he owned for a time in Chicago, he told himself: “I will never do this again.” Luckily for Grissom, trained in the art of improvisational comedy at Second City in Chicago and current founder and chief creative officer of Positively Funny Improv, he has the skill to find the comic irony in his current … [Read more...]