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...]
Vestavia Chamber Presents Awards, New Spring Fundraiser for VHHS
At a luncheon on Jan. 15 at Vestavia Country Club, the Vestavia Hills Chamber of Commerce dolled out its 2019 awards to recognize those who have gone above and beyond in service to the community during the past year. Awards and recipients included former mayor Butch Zaragoza, volunteer of the year; Erin Holtz of Pure Fitness LLC, ambassador of the year; Ben … [Read more...]
War Paint: Local Artist Webb Paints Narratives at Cancer Center Art Fundraiser
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...]
All In Mountain Brook to Host 2019 Parenting Conference on Jan. 10
All In Mountain Brook, an anti-drug coalition for the city of Mountain Brook, will be hosting a parenting conference on Jan. 10 at Mountain Brook High School geared specifically towards parents of children in grades 6-12.The event will be held from 5:30 to 7:45 p.m. and will include speakers discussing a variety of topics that the organization considers to be some of … [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...]