By Emily Williams When it came time for Lindy Walker of Vestavia Hills to tell her son and two daughters that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, she put her husband in charge. “We waited a little while before we told them,” Walker said. She had three separate lumpectomies before the doctors gave her the news that she had cancer. “You never think it will happen to … [Read more...]
Food Network: Holler & Dash Teams up With Southern Food Producers
By Donna Cornelius Holler & Dash Biscuit House in Homewood partners one of the South’s most traditional treats with not-so-traditional ingredients. There’s a biscuit called the Pork Rambler, with fried pork tenderloin, blackberry butter and fried onion straws. The Garden Goat is made with fried goat cheese, kale, lemon Dijon vinaigrette and tomato jam. And the Hamabama … [Read more...]
Floors Plus Lots More: Issis & Sons Takes on Three Rooms at Decorators’ ShowHouse
Story by Donna Cornelius • Photos by Lee Walls Jr. This year’s Decorators’ ShowHouse would have a very different look without Issis & Sons.Those who attend the Alabama Symphony Orchestra’s annual fundraiser will see three rooms designed by the retail flooring and furniture company. Issis & Sons also refinished original hardwood floors throughout the house and … [Read more...]
Gracious Living: Plantation-Style House Is This Year’s Decorators’ ShowHouse
Story By Donna Cornelius • Photos By Lee Walls Jr. For more than 40 years, the Decorators’ ShowHouse has been a spring highlight in Birmingham. Those who rarely miss the Alabama Symphony Orchestra’s event are accustomed to seeing a showstopper of a house with creatively designed rooms and expansive grounds. This year’s ShowHouse, the Johnston-Clark Estate, is no … [Read more...]
Art Administration: MBAA President-Elect Preps for Annual Spring Show
By Emily Williams Ed Wilson of Mountain Brook said he isn’t a lifelong painter so much as an accidental one. It was Wilson’s career in pathology that brought him to Birmingham. He was a pathologist at Children’s of Alabama, and after his retirement from Cunningham Pathology in Mountain Brook, he stumbled upon painting as one way to stay active. “The joy of painting caused … [Read more...]