By Donna Cornelius For the second year in a row, Lynne Coker has designed a girl’s bedroom for the Decorators’ ShowHouse. But this year, she’s created a place for sweet dreams that’s very different from the room she did for the 2017 Alabama Symphony Orchestra fundraiser. “Usually I start with fabric,” said Coker, owner of Lynne Coker Interiors in Homewood. “But I was shopping … [Read more...]
St. Jude Field of Dreams Celebrates Local Patients’ Successes and Their Families
By Emily Williams Though the hospital is in Memphis, Tennessee, St. Jude Hospital’s reach can be felt in Alabama through the patients and families who have been treated there and the discoveries they share with the world of pediatric cancer research. To give back to the hospital that gave their children a new lease on life, mothers in the Birmingham area and community … [Read more...]
Prom Night Precautions: School Resource Officer Designs T-Shirt to Discourage Drinking and Driving
By Sarah Kuper High school seniors everywhere look forward to the rite of passage that is the prom. But Mountain Brook High School seniors aren’t just excited about picking prom dresses and renting tuxedos – they are excited about T-shirts. “These kids love a good T-shirt. They have them for everything and they wear them everywhere,” said Officer Richard Knecht, … [Read more...]
Pink with a Purpose: BCRFA Junior Board Hosts Inaugural Pink Up the Pace 5K
Clear skies and warm temperatures set the perfect scene for the inaugural Pink up the Pace 5K run, hosted by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama’s junior board April 28 at Crestline Field in Mountain Brook. Pink powder filled the air as runners took off for the 5K color run and returned to the finish line with clothes covered in pink pigment. A Dolly Dash, … [Read more...]
A Work of Art for Mother’s Day: Annual Art in the Village Event Moved to Mother’s Day Weekend
By Sarah Kuper For more than three decades, the Mountain Brook Art Association has had its spring art show in April, but now the event has been permanently moved to the Saturday before Mother’s Day. “Because of Easter moving around, we could never have a specific weekend, and with A-day and Magic City, the weekend was always changing,” said Janet Sanders, Art in the Village … [Read more...]