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One of 323 covers created by Norman Rockwell for the Saturday Evening Post, showing in the exhibition Norman Rockwell's America at the Birmingham Museum of Art beginning September 16. (See page 6.)

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Cover: “Wet Paint,” an oil painting by Norman Rockwell that was commissioned for the cover of the April 12, 1930, Saturday Evening Post. This work is featured in Norman Rockwell’s America, an exhibition that begins September 16 at the Birmingham Museum of Art.

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3 black & white • www.bwcitypaper.com • September 06, 2012 PUBLISHER’S NOTEBOOK ountain Brook, Alabama, is one of 3,400 am a certified arborist and live near that area, I drive M American communities affiliated with ‘Tree by there every day, and I’m saddened that in a few City USA,’ a program sponsored by the Arbor Day NAKED weeks all of these trees will be bulldozed to make way Foundation that provides assistance and national for a large new development. I’m wondering if this is recognition for urban and community forestry pro- a wise plan. I believe in Smart Growth and I’m not grams throughout the country. Most homes in this sure this is adhering to best practices,” she said. bedroom community sit on large lots crowded with Developers at Daniel Corporation articulate that trees. One city law could potentially punish any resi- the area is in a flood plain and, in order to mitigate dent for chopping down a tree in their front yard these issues, fill dirt will have to be brought in to raise without permission. Like many historic communities, the grade by as much as two to three feet. Under those one would think this is a city serious about its trees. conditions, the old trees would not survive. “We will be So it is ironic that the city is preparing to remove raising [the grade of the] site to meet the city’s require- some 200 legacy trees in Mountain Brook Village to ments and the trees will not live through that,” said make way for a new retail, office, and residential Patrick Henry of Daniel Corporation. “We’re working development called Lane Parke. Another several on a plan to save as many trees as possible, but I am dozen trees will be removed from the right of way not prepared to get into a public dialogue about that.” adjacent to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens in Rogers believes that more of an effort should be order for Lane Park Road to handle additional traffic made to save the trees, but she has met some resist- for the new development. While the project has ance. “There are well-intentioned people looking at already been debated and approved by the zoning this project but there are also facts to be considered,” committee and city council, some folks are not happy said Don Cafaro, a Tree Commissioner for the City of to now learn that these trees will soon be lost forever. Mountain Brook. “We’d like to save as many trees as On August 22, Katie Rogers brought attention to possible but the grade of the area is going to have to the issue on her blog, The Sparklit (thesparklit.blog- be raised and there are hundreds of questions that spot.com). She has since received a great deal of have to be answered. Bigger and older trees are least publicity from her posts. In a post titled “Man-Made BIRMINGHAM tolerant to disturbance and the damage that happens Tornado To Come Through Birmingham,” Rogers during construction. It feels good to talk about saving laments the city’s decision to remove a large canopy BY CHUCK GEISS trees, but this is a large and complex effort. There is a of foliage that has stood in that area for decades. “I replacement landscape plan that has been approved with the design and review committee. As far as how many trees are going back in, I do not know,” he said. “The vast majority of those trees will be cut down,” said Sam Gaston, Mountain Brook’s City Manager. “There are people that want to keep them there but in order to develop that property most of the trees will be lost.” According to Gaston, construc- tion is scheduled to begin sometime in October, but further investigation suggests that the schedule might not be set in stone. A major part of this project includes the relocation of several ten- ants in the Mountain Brook Shopping Center. Little Hardware and Western Supermarket intend to sign new leas- es with the Lane Parke development group, but nothing has been executed at this point. Other businesses, includ- ing Smith’s Variety and The Dande’ Lion, will close their doors. One prob- lem that remains is the long-term lease for the Rite Aid pharmacy; it’s is a sticking point in moving the new when the day is finally development forward. Without some agreement with Rite Aid, demolition of the current shopping center cannot begin, which makes one wonder whether bulldozing other areas of the over, Lane Parke property and proceeding with the removal of some 200 trees is join your friends for dinner and a good idea. Daniel Corporation will not discuss the matter. “I am reacting to the fact that one day people will drive down that road drinks. and all of those trees will be gone,” Rogers added. “I didn’t think a lot of people knew that was a part of the plan. We’re taking down trees to put up new buildings, buildings that sometimes end up empty after a few Join us for Ruth’s Hour Monday–Thursday in our lounge | 4:30–6:30pm short years.” Featuring select half-priced appetizers from our bar menu It appears nothing can stop the Lane Parke project from eventually start- ing construction if all the leases are exe- cuted to everyone’s satisfaction. I’m not particularly pleased that those beautiful old trees will be lost, but perhaps devel- opers and the city can come up with a plan to save some of them. In any case, we can thank Rogers for bringing the matter to our attention. As one Little | | Hardware employee told me while 2300 Woodcrest Place (at the Embassy Suites) 205.879.9995 ruthschris.com standing on their back dock, pointing to a massive oak, “I hope they don’t cut down that one, she’s a real beauty.” &

4 September 06, 2012 • www.bwcitypaper.com • black & white PERSONALITIES of water on Mars and getting to amateur.” He’s a science writer, he’s Europa, a moon of Jupiter where not a statured scientist. He doesn’t Red Fire Ants on there’s this big sheet of ice with an publish, do research, or publish in a ocean underneath. peer reviewed journal where his arguments would be tested. And he’s Can religion and science ever fussing because I put out a theory on the Road to Hell coexist? the origin on advanced social behav- Yes. I dealt with that in the book The ior, which I think is winning the day, Naturalist E.O. Wilson discusses religious zealots and Creation. I addressed religious which is very new. And it happened his discovery of insects with devilishly fierce jaws. believers directly. I made it in the to knock the props out from under form of a long letter to a [fictional] what he had been using as some of By Ed Reynolds Southern Baptist pastor. We call them his most effective science writing. “pastors.” They’re Southern Baptists; And, of course, he didn’t like that. I we’re not supposed to be looking up guess he had to say publicly that he researcher, entomologist, con- national park in the Mobile-Tensaw to any priests. [laughs] We’re all our was all against my ideas. A servationist, and philosopher of Delta and the Red Hills of Florida. In own interpreter of the Bible but that sorts, 83 year-old Edward O. Wilson is the southern Appalachians, I think doesn’t seem to be the way it works You were one of the first regarded as the number one authority that there are about 14 known species out with the Southern Baptist two people to identify the in myrmecology, the study of ants. of oaks. That’s a lot. In the Red Hills Conference. I was a guest of the red fire ant. Wilson encountered his first colony of just north of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, Mormon leadership in Salt Lake City. I actually found the first colony in red fire ants as a 13-year-old in an the number of oak species found I had a meeting with them, of all Mobile in a vacant lot next to our abandoned lot next to his family’s today is 24. The number of turtle things, in the President’s Room, house. I was 13 years old, in 1942. I house in Mobile. He spent much of species [both land and sea turtles] which is a rare event. They wanted to was doing a Boy Scout survey of all his life near the Gulf Coast where the found along the south central Gulf talk about the environment and the ants, and I found the colony. I region’s wildlife mesmerized him. Coast, including Alabama, is the assure me—and I guess they saw me didn’t know what it was at the time. Though a secular humanist and largest in the world. as a kind of spokesman—that the But in just five years the ants had skeptic, Wilson does not rule out the Mormon Church is very pro-environ- spread from Mobile and were importance of potential Divine Were you excited by the ment. They had a lot of land they becoming so abundant that it was Influence as the mystery behind recent Mars lander mission? were taking good care of and so on. causing a lot of concern. It was Creation. In his book The Social Yeah, very. I love it. I think this is At any rate, that book [The Creation] beginning to harm the ground of Conquest of Earth, he writes: “The one of the great things humanity actually met a lot of approval and nesting wildlife, disturbing crops, creation myth is a Darwinian device should do. Not just for the science very little disapproval. The disap- making it difficult to work in pas- for survival. Tribal conflict, where but also because [it’s] spiriting. And proval came, and I heard about it tures and so on. And it was at that believers on the inside were pitted particularly where you have a coun- mostly just indirectly, from the Far time that we ran the identity down. against infidels on the outside, was a try like ours leading in this kind of Right. Probably Evangelicals. And the We started calling it the “imported” principal driving force that shaped exploration, that’s what lifts us up. reason is simple. These are the ones fire ant. I did the first study of it for biological human who say, “We’re on this the Alabama Department of nature. The truth of Earth for just one pur- Conservation in 1949. I took three each myth lived in the pose. This is just a ‘way months out from my senior year at heart, not in the station.’ We should pros- the University of Alabama. Me and rational mind.” He per, we should be OK another student, we roamed all insists that belief in and take care of our- around [the affected] area and grandiose, unbeliev- selves and our families. worked out where the ant was and able religious tales sat- But our main job here is what it was doing and so forth. isfy a “primal need.” to save souls. So, this That’s what I wanted to do. I wanted Regarded as the hard Far Right set, in to be a professional entomologist. “father of sociobiolo- effect [says], “Stop wast- gy”—a field of study in ing our time about trying My first memory is an which social behavior to save species and trying encounter with a pesticide is viewed as a product to save the planet as it is called chlordane. (Used on of evolution—Wilson in its natural condition termites and fire ants but has jousted with fel- because there are more banned in the 1980s due to its low genetic theorist important things to do, carcinogenic effect.) I ate Richard Dawkins (a which is saving souls.” some when I was four and my staunch atheist) in a And that’s it! Dad was in a panic as he series of fascinating drove like a maniac taking me debates. Do you consider to the emergency room. Winner of the yourself an agnostic? Woooo! Here’s to Rachel Carson! Did 2012 Alabama Yeah. I like to put it this you know that in the 1950s, when Humanities Award, way—and I try to do it the fire ant was really spreading out, Wilson will be the without scandalizing all that the United States Department of keynote speaker at the Alabama We need more big ideas for big my religious friends down in Agriculture developed an extermina- Humanities Foundation Annual things, what we can do together. Alabama. In a way, I’m not an agnos- tion plan that would involve spraying Awards Luncheon on September 10 Things that we’re all be thrilled by tic if you define an agnostic as a per- chlordane or other hydrocarbons at The Club. The topic of his address and aspire to. And [while] I think son who believes that it will never be over the ant’s entire geographic will be “On the Origin of the Human space exploration is not overwhelm- known. I’m not sure that that’s true. range? We were so ignorant back Condition.” Visit http://www.alabama- ingly a big thing, it’s one of the The real problem is there are hun- then. We didn’t realize that fish humanities.org for further details. things we can do that makes people dreds of religions, some big and some would be killed and lots of other proud, excites them, and it’s spiritu- little. But each one has it own insects would be killed. And that al. I’ve expressed this in The Social Creation story and it’s all about kids would be eating chlordane. & Black & White: A friend claims Conquest of Earth; in the last chap- supernatural forces that have created that biodiversity is one of the ter, it said: Forget about sending humanity and created a particular last true gems of planet Earth. people into space. Why should we tribe and so on, and every one differs Wilson: The surprising thing is that risk the delicate bodies of people? Of from the other. They create their own the two current political campaigns course, you know, it’s nice to think identity by faith, and to the people Do You Want to are scarcely ever even mentioning any of one of us standing on some place who also believe exactly or close to of the environment. The world’s pop- like Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, or what they do. That’s known as tribal- Quit Smoking? ulations are beginning to go green. I wherever. It’s thrilling but then that ism. It’s very powerful in humans and think we’ve really come a long way fades quickly. We are so far advanced it’s one that tends to tear us apart. As part of a new research study, since the early 1990s in terms of now in robotic information technolo- UABisofferingafreetreatment awareness. But even in the best part gy and propulsion techniques, we You participated with Richard of it, it’s much slower than what peo- can do the equivalent of what we’ve Dawkins in a series of programforsmokersthatcombines ple hoped for. Things like reducing just done on Mars, which is send debates, including one at medication and counseling. the greenhouse gases and so on. robotics of that quality to do the Samford University several Alabama is one of the richest states in equivalent of walking, testing, pick- years ago. Are you and For more info, please call biological diversity., and we are only ing up blocks. And we can all sit Dawkins still arguing? 1-855-232-7721 beginning to explore what’s here. I there and watch it live. I hope I live That’s another issue. I said to the belong to a group in Mobile who are long enough to see the results of Guardian, “I’m not arguing with SCHOOL OF exploring the possibility of a new drilling down to the aqueous layers Richard Dawkins. Basically, he’s an PUBLIC HEALTH

5 black & white • www.bwcitypaper.com • September 06, 2012 THE ARTS AT THE GALLERIES A SAMPLING OF NOTEWORTHY EXHIBITS

The artist we couldn’t not in the hands of millions of Americans notice: Norman Rockwell’s roughly once every month. His Post America at the Birmingham work appeared less frequently from Museum of Art 1950 until 1963. That particular arrangement might have made a By David Pelfrey household name of any artist, but Rockwell was also illustrating covers “I was showing the America I knew and interiors for, among numerous and observed to others who might not popular weeklies, Ladies Home have noticed.” —Norman Rockwell Journal, Look, McCall’s, Life, Collier’s, Popular Science, American This fall, the Birmingham Museum of Magazine, The Country Gentleman, Art is hosting Norman Rockwell’s Literary Digest, and Boy’s Life. America, a finely detailed study of That’s a daunting list of assign- the most recognized, and arguably ments, but to that bounty of clients the most popular, illustrator in Rockwell also added commercial American history. It’s a stunning exhi- work for Post Cereals, Coca-Cola, bition that includes more than fifty Parker Pens, Maxwell House, Jell-O, original works and, get this, all 323 Ford Motor Company, Encyclopedia of Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post Britannica, and several others. That covers, which span 1916 to 1963. A was in addition to the Boy Scouts of supplemental exhibition will feature America calendars, illustrations for Rockwell’s ads for Coca-Cola. Hollywood productions, portraits of Included in the exhibition is a free, movie stars and presidential candi- original audio tour (accessible by cell dates, and sundry one-off projects he phone or mobile device) featuring took on throughout his career. It comments by special guests. It’s fair wasn’t necessary then to be an avid to say that the BMA is pulling out all reader to find Rockwell’s work. the stops for this exhibition organ- During that span of the American ized by the National Museum of Century’s most vibrant decades— Detail from Freedom of Speech poster, 1943, U.S. Government Printing Office American Illustration (Newport, from the late years of the Great Rhode Island) that premiered in Depression to the year a man walked not getting a response. They assured- goals for a free society. The illustra- London to great response in 2010. on the moon—it may have been ly were. The Post almost always tions ran in the Post alongside essays, At a purely practical, by-the-num- impossible to walk into a municipal enjoyed a boost in circulation when prompting an unprecedented bers level, it is easy to understand building where War Bonds were sold the cover featured a Rockwell paint- demand for reprints and a U.S. War why Norman Rockwell is an or advertised, sit in a waiting room ing. His “April Fools” covers (cleverly Bonds poster run of about four mil- American icon. After illustrating or lobby where magazines were loaded with subtle errors and gags lion copies. Along with its poster pro- Christmas greeting cards and serving stacked, pass by a newsstand, or that the reader was required to dis- duction, the Treasury Department as Art Editor for Boy’s Life while still enter any establishment where adver- cover) were the topic of discussions organized a tour of Rockwell’s origi- a teenager, he was barely into his tising calendars adorned the desks or on radio programs. One of nal Four Freedoms oil paintings in an twenties when Rockwell landed his walls, and not see an illustration by Rockwell’s most successful ven- effort by to sell war bonds in 1943, debut Saturday Evening Post cover Norman Rockwell. tures—and perhaps most iconic— ultimately raising just under $133 for the May 20, 1916, issue. Five It’s essential to note that, while was the series of illustrations known million. (Adjusted for inflation, a more followed that year, launching a ubiquity and prolificacy often go as The Four Freedoms, inspired by comparable effort today would earn nearly half-century-long association hand in hand, Rockwell’s work FDR’s Address to Congress in 1941, about a billion and a half dollars.) with the Post. From 1922 until the would not have remained in demand which proposed four basic human Hollywood also noticed that late 1940s, a Rockwell Post cover was by his clients if the illustrations were rights as necessary and attainable there was a market for the particular The Most American of American Artists Black & White spoke with Graham Boettcher, the Birmingham Museum of Art’s Curator of American Art, about Norman Rockwell’s America.

B&W: Do you have any expectations about the response to then, so that was needed. But with Rockwell, as a storyteller he holds signifi- this exhibition? cance because he provided, very skillfully, a window on a particular time in Boettcher: Actually, I can’t think of any other exhibit here that has had this American history. He was extremely in touch with what was going on, and his much buzz. I have never been asked so many questions, or so many times, talent was in relating that with great depth. He got to the core of those moments in advance of any exhibition. I do think people will be surprised by what of the passing scene by capturing the elements that make us who we are as a they learn from this one, primarily because patrons will be seeing oil paint- society. I think that establishes him as the most American of American artists. ings, large ones, that they may know only as Saturday Evening Post covers. In the large form, they have such an impact, and Rockwell’s skill really What are you enjoying most about this exhibition? comes to the forefront. People are often surprised that all those covers were That it’s a chance for people to understand Rockwell as an artist, apart from created from an oil painting in the first place, or for that matter that his work being so familiar and interwoven with American culture. I’m eager Rockwell did 4,000 of them during his lifetime. for everyone to see, just for one small example, how closely Rockwell resembles the Old Masters with his use of light. But more than that, there is The very idea of museum exhibitions was a long time com- a depth to these paintings that will be apparent for anyone who looks close- ing for Rockwell, it seems. ly. “The Doughboy and His Admirers,” which we have used in some of our For a long period there was a firm separation of illustration and fine art, but we advertising for the exhibition, looks at first like a purely patriotic image, are way past the old suspicion that, because it is a commercial effort done as with those kids playing soldier and the parade scene evoking pride and a promotion, or assists in telling a story, that illustration cannot exist as a stand- victorious return. But notice that doughboy’s eyes; he’s seen some things. alone work of fine art. It is odd that the story-telling function of illustration And if his expression doesn’t convince you, look closely at the medals on his would undermine its status, after all, the Sistine Chapel ceiling is illustration uniform. A Medal of Honor is there because he was part of something itself. Religious icon art, for example, consists of works that tell very complex sto- extraordinary, beyond the call. There’s always more than meets the eye with ries, and served three main purposes: as reminders of virtue, as excitation to Rockwell. I really hope everyone who comes to the exhibition will stay a devotion, and relating the Bible through images. Very few people were literate while, look carefully, and ponder. &

6 September 06, 2012 • www.bwcitypaper.com • black & white kind of American that Rockwell was capturing and/or creating on his can- vas. One finds in the faces, gestures, and sheer physical presence of cer- tain characters in pictures by John Ford, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, or Howard Hawks any number of the characters that Rockwell created for those first three decades of magazine covers. If Jimmy Stewart or Ma and Pa Kettle had not existed, Rockwell would have had to paint them. However, in terms of critical assessment, such wide appeal was a problem for Rockwell as an illustra- tor: his work was distinctly American and boldly nostalgic; it was immense- ly popular and highly commercial. (By 1955, Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney were running first and second as the most familiar visual artists in the nation, with no one holding a close third.) While it might have been difficult to find anyone in mid-centu- ry America who hadn’t seen a Rockwell work during the past week, it would have been impossible to locate one who could see his paint- ings in a major gallery or museum. As Graham Boettcher, the BMA’s Curator of American Art, points out, we are now “way past the suspicion that, because it is a commercial effort done as promotion, or assists in telling a story, that illustration cannot exist as a stand-alone work of fine art.” It’s true that, today, leading scholars in the art establishment rec- ognize Rockwell’s virtuoso use of light, his craftsmanship, anatomical accuracy, and consistency of style apparent in some 4,000 oil paintings that were done in the creation of printed images. There’s no debating that Rockwell worked from the influ- ence of the Old Masters, that his paintings often recall Vermeer, and that he found his deepest inspiration in genre painting and illustration of the late 19th century. Rockwell, who remained keenly alert to his lack of critical status among the fine art “The Doughboy and His Admirers,” 1919, oil on canvas, published as the cover of the Saturday Evening Post Feb. 22, 1919. cognoscenti, notes in his autobiogra- phy, “Ever since I can remember, to address realistic concerns. certainly knows someone like that.” he makes a mistake; teenage boys Rembrandt has been my favorite That matter of pure imagination It’s possible to apply that logic to and girls don’t just sit somewhere for artist. Vermeer, Breughel, Velásquez, and utopian vision is part of an Rockwell’s work, most effectively by hours and fall in love. Nothing of Canaletto; Dürer, Holbein, Ingres as assessment that, in countless varia- working from the opposite end of import ever took place on a front draftsmen; Matisse, Klee—these are a tions, held sway as far back as the the argument. To reject his illustra- porch, at a train station, or in a bar- few of the others I admire now. late 1950s, and certainly gained tions as wholly nostalgic for an bershop, and no Americans, any- During my student days I studied momentum during the following America that never existed, we mere- where, have ever been caught in the closely the works of Edwin Austin tumultuous decade. Rockwell’s focus ly need to claim that we have never act of being themselves, or stooped Abbey, J.C. and Frank Leyendecker, on civil rights and political issues was met a person so lost in their chosen to help a small child or stray dog, or Howard Pyle, Sargent, Whistler.” regarded as a welcome departure vocation that all attention to clothing took joy in the good fortune of a Somehow, it still appears in many from utopia. That view in turn fos- and physical appearance was aban- neighbor. When a soldier on leave instances that taking into account his tered the stronger notion that doned years ago. We never saw a kid flirts with a girl at the airport, or skill as a painter is just an end run Rockwell’s initial wholesome, upbeat, on the ball field who, in spite of his when a store clerk takes a moment to around the objection to Rockwell’s and nostalgic view of America was at complete lack of skill, somehow collapse after the Christmas rush, themes, tone, and subjects. Rather best a kind of denial of our society’s seemed like the kid we would most and when a family gushes over that than argue against the claims that failings, fears, and errors—and at want on our team. There was never a roasted turkey that a grandmother Rockwell was an idealist trafficking in worst an outright lie about the moment when a little boy emulated a proudly brings to the Thanksgiving the bucolic and nostalgic, Rockwell’s American experience. It was as uniformed service man, fireman, or table—all of this transpires strictly in proponents address instead the mar- though an entire body of work deter- policeman, and none of those men the realm of the wished-for and the velous quality of the paint on the minedly evoked a realm that was ever found delight in taking time out imagined, as opposed to the here canvas. Just four years ago (echoing a wished for, but never existed. to entertain that boy’s wonder. No and now. And all of that is true long-held view), PBS introduced That assessment can actually be little girl ever considered having the because we haven’t been anywhere, Rockwell in its “American Masters” dismantled on its own terms, irre- family doctor take a careful look at and we haven’t done anything. Surely program with this faint praise: spective of Rockwell’s talent or finely her doll, nor did she model her Norman Rockwell’s art is the clearest Mythical, idealistic, innocent, his developed skills, and it’s probably mother’s wedding dress in the mir- evidence of that. & paintings evoke a longing for a time something that should have been ror. There was never a moment and place that existed only in the done long ago. Orson Welles (for when, during a town council meet- rarefied realm of his rich imagina- whom Rockwell illustrated advertise- ing, an awkward, shy speaker Norman Rockwell’s America is show- tion and in the hopes and aspira- ments for The Magnificent addressed the group with a dissent- ing at the Birmingham Museum of tions of the nation. . . . In the 1960s, Ambersons) was once asked if a cer- ing opinion and suddenly sounded Art from September 16, 2012, prompted by his third wife, new tain type of character in his pictures like the smartest person in the room. through January 6, 2013; admission markets, and by the times, Rockwell actually existed in the real world, and Dogs never steal scenes, boys are is $15. A preview party with private began to exhibit a strong sense of did he himself ever meet such a per- never clumsy around girls, and viewing will be held on Friday, social consciousness. His images, son. Welles offered a withering grown men and women, given the September 14, at 6 p.m.; exhibition which had primarily dealt with a response: “Well, anyone who’s ever chance, never behave like children. details at www.artsbma.org or 254- utopian vision of the country, began been anywhere, or done anything, Sports fans never turn on a player if 2565, for group tours 328-7628.

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January 25–May 18, 2013 The Alabama Ballet Macbeth The Alabama Ballet has achieved national prominence as one of only February 8–March 3, 2013 seven ballet companies in the world Ethel permitted by the Balanchine Trust to perform George Balanchine’s The March 8–May 18, 2013 Nutcracker. The Ballet promotes the To Kill A Mockingbird development of classical and con- temporary works through perform- March 28–May 9, 2013 ance, dance education, and commu- Twelfth Night nity outreach. (975-ARTS; www.alabamaballet.org. ) April 19–May 19, 2013 Around the World in 80 Days Sept. 28–30 and Oct. 5–7, 2012 Alabama Ballet At Home April 18–May 19, 2013 God of Carnage October 26–28, 2013 La Sylphide: A Witch’s Revenge July 11–August 4, 2013 Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny December 12–23, 2012 Cash George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker • • • February 21-24, 2013 The Sleeping Beauty Alabama Symphony • • • Orchestra October 5–6, 2012 January 4–5, 2013 The Alabama Symphony Orchestra has Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto been hailed by The New Yorker as one Alabama of the country’s most adventurous October 9, 2012 January 10, 2013 Shakespeare Festival regional orchestras thanks to the inven- Contemporary Visions. Classical Edge: Gabriel Kahane’s tive creativity of Music Director and An Alabama Symphony Orchestra Crane Palimpsest The Alabama Shakespeare Festival Maestro Justin Brown. In 2008, Brown program of chamber music by living (ASF) is considered among the ten introduced Birmingham audiences to composers, including the premiere January 12, 2013 largest Shakespeare production com- Jonny Greenwood’s (Radiohead) of a commissioned work by The Music of Ray Charles with Ellis panies in the world, and performs “Popcorn Superhet Receiver” and the University of Montevallo composer Hall from the Carolyn Blount Theatre in premiere of Paul Lansky’s Joseph Landers. Montgomery, Alabama. The ASF pro- “Shapeshifters” as a part of their February 1–2, 2013 duces 10 to 14 productions annually, Classical Edge series. The majority of October 26–27, 2012 Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich typically including three works of performances stay true to classical sta- Ingrid Fliter Plays Mendelssohn William Shakespeare. Other plays ples with Daniel Szazs leading an February 9, 2013 sample various genres and play- exceptional violin section and conduc- November 2, 2012 Hollywood’s Legendary Hits with wrights with an emphasis on tor Christopher Confessore overseeing A Broadway Romance Chris Confessore Southern works. (www.asf.net.) an orchestra that has performed with November 16–17, 2012 February 14, 2013 October 6–20, 2012 the likes of Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Lang Lang, Art Garfunkel, and Justin Brown Plays Bach Classical Edge: Judd Greenstein The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Roberta Flack. (www.alabamasympho- ny.org or 975-2787.) November 30–December 1, 2012 February 19, 2013 October 19–21, 2012 Bartok, Mozart, and Dvorak Czech Piano Trios. Late Nite Catechism September 14–15, 2012 Justin Brown joins the Alabama Susanna Phillips Sings Barber December 8, 2012 Symphony Orchestra on piano for November 23–Dec. 23, 2012 Holiday Cirque de la Symphonie Smetana’s Piano Trio in G minor, Op. A Christmas Carol September 21, 2012 15 and Dvorak’s Piano Trio Dumky, The Indigo Girls Op. 90.

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February 22–23, 2013 November 1, 2012 Rock of Ages. Birmingham Festival Brown Conducts Sibelius Anthony Bourdain: Guts and Glory An arena-rock love story told through the hits of Journey, Night Ranger, Theatre Styx, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, March 2, 2013 November 2, 2012 This small local theatre offers inven- Linda Eder Peabo Bryson Twisted Sister, Poison, Asia, Whitesnake, and more. tive local productions managed by an all-volunteer board of directors. March 28 November 10, 2012 BFT’s mission supports the develop- Classical Edge: Eric Jacobsen Todd Green’s World Music Adventure • • • April 5–6, 2013 December 14, 2012 Dvorak’s Cello Concerto Martin Short April 20, 2013 December 15, 2012 Neil Sedaka A Dickens Vest Pocket Christmas Carol

April 26–27, 2013 • • • Brahms: A German Requiem May 4, 2013 Broadway In Sweet Home Alabama Symphony Birmingham May 10–11, 2013 Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Mozart and Haydn Valli and the Four Seasons, high- lights the 2012-2013 season. This May 21, 2013 highly acclaimed musical production A Fiddler’s Tale. has drawn huge crowds and rave Alabama Symphony Orchestra’s per- reviews from New York City to Las formance of jazz, passion, and ambi- Vegas. Known for staging large scale tion. The 21st century takes on the old events such as Wicked and Phantom tale of a musician’s pact with the devil. of the Opera, this year’s slate of pro- ductions offers five productions of May 31–June 1, 2013 Broadway entertainment for Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Birmingham audiences. (www.magic- space.net/birmingham; 458-8489.) • • • November 28, 2012 Mannheim Steamroller Christmas. Alys Robinson Grammy Award winner Chip Davis has created a show that features the Stephens Performing Christmas music of Mannheim Arts Center Steamroller along with multimedia effects. The Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center is a state-of-the- November 30–December 2, 2012 art performance facility considered to West Side Story. be the city’s urban center for arts, The story of star-crossed lovers, Tony entertainment, and education. Seasonal and Maria, as they struggle to rise programming includes an aggressive above the hatred and intolerance mix of pop, jazz, classical, dance, the- that surrounds them. atre, and comedy, in an up close and personal setting. It is also the home of February 5–10, 2013 the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. Billy Elliot: The Musical. (www.alysstephens.uab.edu, 975-ARTS.) Set in a small town, the story follows Billy as he stumbles out of the box- September 13, 2012 ing ring and into a ballet class, dis- Inter-ART-ive featuring Red Baraat covering a surprising talent that inspires his family and his whole September 21, 2012 community and changes his life for- The Daily Show Live ever. Tickets and details: 458-8489; www.magicspace.net/birmingham. September 28, 2012 Cirque Alys Aerial Music April 2–14, 2013 Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie October 11, 2012 Valli & The Four Seasons. Paul Huang Story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes October 17, 2012 in pop music history. Emmylou Harris and her Red Dirt Boys May 3–5, 2013

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ment of theatrical talent by reaching tic group of intriguing women as the great Spanish poet Federico March 9 and 16, 2013 out to artists with a variety of visions they open the closet to show us who Garcia Lorca still wanders through Sleeping Beauty Recommended and by presenting shows written and they are and how they got this way. the streets and converses with the ages 7–12. originated by local playwrights. living, this play is by Pulitzer Prize (www.bftonline.org.) January 10–26, 2013 winner Nilo Cruz. Beauty of the April 9-May 2, 2013 Yankee Tavern. It’s 2006, five Father is the story of a young Charlotte’s Web Recommended September 13–29, 2012 years after 9/11. In a shabby New American girl who travels to this part ages 5–12. Black Pearl Sings! Alberta “Pearl” York bar, intrigue and conspiracy of the world to meet her estranged Johnson is in a Texas prison in 1933. hang heavy in the air. Is there an end father and his Moroccan companion. April 13-May 2, 2013 She has “a father in Hell, a mother in to the war on terror? You tell us. This passionate triangle explores the Rapunzel and the Rabbit Heaven, and a daughter in Houston.” conflict between love and sacrifice. Recommended ages 2–6. But she’s not in Houston, and no March 7–23, 2013 one knows where she is. Can Pearl Red. Renowned artist Mark Rothko is June 13–29, 2013 June 4–8 and 11–15, 2013 use the disappearing songs of her working in his New York studio on the The Last Flapper. Spend a few Hansel and Gretel youth to sing her way out of prison now-famous murals in the exclusive hours of March 10, 1948, with Recommended ages 2–6. and find her daughter? Four Seasons restaurant. Can the voice Montgomery’s Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald of his muse be heard above the siren in Asheville, North Carolina. F. Scott July 23–27 & July 30–August November 1–17, 2012 call of the big commission dollars? Fitzgerald’s muse and spouse, Zelda, 27, 2013 Love, Loss & What I Wore. What is exciting, original, witty, talented, Cinderella Recommended ages 2–6. were you wearing when he pro- April 25–May 11, 2013 and tormented. She’s brilliant and posed? At your thirteenth birthday Beauty of the Father. Set in unpredictable. This is the real Zelda, • • • party? To your prom? Join this eclec- Andalusia, Spain where the ghost of not the legend. And that’s the more interesting. Birmingham-

• • • Southern Theatre This is a professional and education- Birmingham al theatre with material crafted by students that are actively involved in Children’s Theatre technical stage design, directing, and One of the nation’s oldest and producing innovative works. A vari- largest professional theatre compa- ety of productions typically test the nies for young audiences, BCT pro- boundaries of drama, musical the- duces professional theatrical enter- atre, and comedy. (226-4780; tainment and arts education experi- www.bsc.edu.) ences for children and families. As the resident professional theatre October 4–7, 2012 company of the Birmingham- Richard III by William Jefferson Convention Complex Shakespeare. The story of Richard’s (BJCC), BCT operates from the 150- bloody rise to the throne and his seat Dominick Studio Theatre for short and troubled reign as king. students ages 3 to 6 and the larger 950-seat Mainstage Theatre for stu- November 15–18, 2012 dents ages 6 and up. (458-8181; Next to Normal. Rock Musical www.bct123.org.) that grapples with mental illness in a suburban family. September 18-October 20, 2012 The Gingerbread Boy January 24–27, 2013 Recommended ages 2–6. The Who’s Tommy. The classic rock opera from the 1960s that tells October 10-20, 2013 a story of a young boy named The Trumpet of the Swan Tommy who, after witnessing a hor- Recommended ages 7–14 rific event involving his mother and father, becomes catatonic, hiding November 19-December 14, 2012 from the world. Ho, Ho, Ho. A Merry Mouse Christmas Recommended ages 2–6. April 26 and 28, 2013 Die Fledermaus. Story of mistak- November 27- Dec. 14, 2012 en identity, comic irony, and revenge. Peter Pan Recommended ages 7–14. • • • January 28- February 22, 2013 Three Little Kittens The Library Theatre Recommended ages 2–6. Located in Hoover, the Library February 5-22, 2013 Theatre is an intimate venue that has a reputation for hosting a variety of Young Abe Lincoln performances, ranging from popular Recommended ages 7–14. touring musicians to adventurous theatrical productions. (444-7888; 10 September 06, 2012 • www.bwcitypaper.com • black & white SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION Cirque De La Symphonie Andrew Grams, Conductor Tito Muñoz, Conductor

www.thelibrarytheatre.com.) for his innovative finger-picking on tions in Alabama. RTMC productions David Friedman. both 6 and 12-string guitars and is an take place in their own Cabaret September 7-8, 2012 undisputed master of his instrument. Theatre in downtown Birmingham, as Lorrie Morgan. Awarded with 14 April 4–7, 2013 well as the Virginia Samford Theatre on Little Women top ten hits and four Female Vocalist March 7-8, 2012 Southside. (www.redmountainthe- of the Year credits, Lorrie Morgan Leahy. This multi-talented musical atre.org; 324-2424.) brings her national tour to the coun- ensemble of eight brothers and sis- May 2–19, 2013 The Wedding Singer try music stage. $25. ters is a whirlwind of ferocious fid- September 27–October 14, 2012 dle-driven instrumentals, step-danc- The Color Purple October 5–6, 2012 ing and vocals, augmented by key- July 11–August 4, 2013 42nd Street Circurious. Aerialists, acrobats, and boards and percussion. $25. November 2–4, 2012 contortionists balance, toss, twist Guys & Dolls Junior and intertwine in a ballet of strength April 12–13, 2013 July 19–21 and August 2–4, 2013 Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Junior and stamina. $25. Tap - The Show. In each vignette, December 6–21, 2012 dancers and singers will explore tap Holidaze • • • November 2–3, 2012 moments from the past, including Samford University Pride and Prejudice: An LA recreations of Fred Astaire and Gene February 9–10, 2013 Theatre Works Production. Kelly numbers, soft shoe, flamenco, Youth Programs Showcase Theatre Classic romantic comedy written by tribal, Irish, step, and more. $25. A modest schedule of theatrical and Jane Austen exploring manners, February 21–24, 2013 musical productions are produced morals, relationships, and disap- May 4, 2013 Listen to My Heart. Starring by the Samford University School of pointments. $25 Edwin McCain. He merges bluesy Broadway and Disney composer the Arts. Most of these events are adult contemporary a gritty southern December 6-7, 2012 edge and boasts 11 platinum-plus The Travelin’ McCourys. The sons albums on his musical resume. $25. of bluegrass legend Del McCoury con- tinue their father’s work in the latest • • • incarnation of the most awarded band in bluegrass history. $25 Red Mountain January 17-18, 2012 Theatre Jane Monheit. Jane Monheit is a modern day diva who has found her Originally known as Summerfest under niche in the jazz-pop continuum. $25. the direction of the late James Hatcher, Red Mountain Theatre has grown to February 21-22, 2012 become one of the only year-round Leo Kottke. Kottke is well known professional musical theatre organiza-

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11 black & white • www.bwcitypaper.com • September 06, 2012 SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION staged in the Leslie S. Wright Fine father’s papers, Catherine speculates productions, staged from three dif- Arts Center which is also the home the link between madness and ferent facilities on the campus of the for the Alabama Ballet, Opera genius. $12–$15. Times vary. University of Alabama. (205-348- Birmingham, the Alabama Dance 3400; theatre.ua.edu.) Festival, the Birmingham Music Club, November 7–10 and 14–18, 2012 and the Alabama Symphony Don’t Trifle with Love. Tragi- September 24–30, 2012 Orchestra’s SuperPops Series. comedy of passion, jealousy, and Fools. Leon Tolchinsky arrives at (www.samford.edu/arts/) manipulation between a baron, his Kulyenchikov to find that it is living niece, and his son. $6–$15. under a 200-year old curse of October 20–23, 2012 “chronic stupidity.” To win the heart The 39 Steps by Alfred Hitchcock February 20–24, 2013 and marry the object of his desires, Charley’s Aunt. A misadventure of Sophia, he must break the curse. December 1–3, 2012 young love and outlandish deception White Christmas by Irving Berlin involving Charley and his roommate October 15–21, 2012 Jack who desperately wish to pro- Side Man. Clifford, son of jazz March 1–4, 2013 pose to their sweethearts before they trumpet player and an alcoholic The Three Sisters go abroad. $6–$15. Times vary. mother, tells a story of smoke-filled Nicholas Phan, Tenor music clubs, his broken family, and March 29–April 1, 2013 March 11–15, 2013 the decline of jazz. February 4–9, 2013 Momentum: A Dance Concert 10th Annual Festival of 10- Design for a Living. Comedic Minute Plays. Greatest hits collec- October 16–19, 2012 tale of a ménage a trois involving April 26–29, 2013 tion of eight of the most notable Dance Alabama! Fall Concert. Otto, a painter, Leo, a playwright, A Little Night Music by Stephen crowd-pleasing short plays from the UA students take the stage with cho- and Gilda, the woman they love. Sondheim last decade. Plays do contain adult reography and performances ranging language and themes. $5. from musical theatre, hip-hop, mod- • • • February 18–23, 2013 ern dance, and ballet. Othello. Story of loyalty, tempta- April 17–21, 2012 tion, jealousy and murder between UAB Theatre Dames at Sea. A dancing, singing, October 29–November 3, 2012 Othello, the Moor, his esteemed gen- Accredited by the by the National 1930’s style musical where an under- A New Brain. Comical musical eral, lago, his ambitious lieutenant Association of Schools of Theatre, UAB study saves the show and becomes a about a composer during a medical Cassio, and Desdemona, Othello’s Theatre stages five full-scale produc- star. $6–$15. Times vary. emergency. The composer, Gordon, new bride. tions each year from their home at the discovers his tumor has allowed him Alys Robinson Stephens Performing • • • to compose the songs he yearns to April 8–14, 2013 Arts Center on the campus of UAB. produce. The Clearing. A story of love, pas- (975-2787; www.uab.edu/theatre.) UA Tuscaloosa sion, betrayal, and ethnic cleansing November 12–18, 2012 in 17th century Ireland. October 3–7, 2012 Theatre Misalliance. Comic examination of Proof. A mathematician suffers a the mating instincts of a varied April 15–21, 2013 As a student-driven program man- group of people gathered at a mental breakdown, prompting his aged by the Department of Theatre Show Boat Story of three genera- daughter Catherine to care for him. wealthy man’s country home one tions of show folk on the Cotton and Dance, UA Theatre nurtures tal- summer weekend afternoon. When a revolutionary mathematical ent collaborating on a wide variety of Blossom floating theatre down “Ol’ theory is discovered among her Man River.

excellent Quinton Cockrell as Hoke. hit gay marriage comedy Judge Roy Birmingham Festival Moore is Coming to Dinner, with A Harvest of Theatre moves into its fifth decade Jamie Lawrence directing and playing with Black Pearl Sings!, a two- dueling in-laws with Susan Lawrence, woman play with music set in the Celeste Burnum and Don Everett Homegrown 1930s, directed by Janelle Cochrane Garrett. Brian Webber returns as and starring Donna Thornton and Alabama’s once (and future?) supreme Nancy Malone. BFT is bringing play- court justice, and Annie Joe Edwards, wright Frank Higgins in for the open- who stole scenes in Woody Allen’s Performing Arts ing weekend. Higgins will be at the Bullets Over Broadway, promises to opening night performance and steal the show here as well. The show By Tom Wofford reception and will host a Q&A after runs at the Carver Theatre, with 11 the performance on Friday, shows from October 11-27. all is traditionally the season second show on Friday, September 7. September 14. (Anyone planning a The Park Players begin the F when the Magic City’s local per- One all-star revue deserves ‘Girls Night Out’ might want to fall in their new Crestwood home forming arts veterans unveil their another, and so the Birmingham- check out BFT’s Love, Loss & What I (on the campus of the Waldorf new seasons, and for 2012 the offer- Southern Alumni Showcase arrives Wore by Nora Ephron and Delia School) with a production of ings from the hometown folk come the next evening on Saturday, Ephron, November 1-17). Molière’s 17th-century comedy of in all scales and styles, and from the September 8, at 7:30 p.m. A long list At Terrific New Theatre, Carl manners, The Misanthrope. (It’s all traditional to the more experimental. of BSC department of theatre veter- Stewart directs Alfred Hitchcock’s written in verse.) There are seven If you have time to see only a few ans (spanning four decades) will The 39 Steps, adapted for the stage as shows, October 11 through 20. local productions before Thanksgiving, take part in the production, which a fast-paced romp using a cast of Also in October fans of improv here are some top choices. includes selections from Company, only four to portray more than 140 comedy can catch This fall the former Little Theatre Sweeney Todd and Side By Side, as characters. As if the show needed Extemporaneous Theatre on Caldwell Park celebrates a decade well as a staged reading of a new additional enticement, one of the Company’s campaign-themed show since it reopened—after a million-dol- one-act by Dr. Alan Litsey, Marian four is the fearless Nick Crawford. Electile Dysfunction, running lar facelift—as the Virginia Faustus, Ph.D. This event is free The 39 Steps opens September 13 October 4-6 at Theatre Downtown. Samford Theatre. VST’s 10th (although seating is limited). and runs through October 6, with (You can also catch ETC for free Anniversary Celebration is a star-stud- Opening September 13 in the evening performances at 8. every month at Railroad Park.) ded revue of some of the historic the- VST’s Martha Moore Sykes Studio, City Also opening on September 13 is For those who haven’t yet heard atre’s best shows from the past Equity Theatre presents The Theatre Downtown’s production Birmingham’s top-drawer choral decade, directed and choreographed Seahorse, which runs for eight shows of The Graduate, adapted by Terry music organization, the Magic City by the talented Carl Dean. The shows through September 23. Directed by Johnson from the novel and cult Choral Society will perform for free represented by the sampled scenes Patrick Ian McCall, the show puts veter- film, and directed by Dianne Daniels. at Avondale Park on September 16 (at are a Whitman’s sampler of musical ans Alan and Francie Gardner on stage B.J. Underwood takes on the role Magic City AIDS Walk), and then more theatre treats: Always…Patsy Cline, together for the first time in 20 years. that made Dustin Hoffman a star, formally at their Halloween Benefit Evita, South Pacific, Les Miserables, In October, VST Productions with Jane Caswell playing Mrs. Bash, Saturday, October 27, 8 p.m. to Fiddler on the Roof and Sugar Babies. brings back the treasured Carole Robinson. There are ten shows midnight. (You can also get in your The A-list $100 champagne perform- Armistead to reprise the title charac- through September 29. early caroling with them at Pepper ance is Thursday, September 6 at 7:30 ter in Driving Miss Daisy (October In October, the new Actors Place Holiday Caroling, Friday, p.m., followed by a more affordable 11-21). Roy Hudson directs, with the Theatre of Alabama revives the November 15 at 6 p.m.) &

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bringing food, culinary arts, and lit- erature together. Free. Events, loca- EVENTS tions, and details: http://www.bplon- line.org/eatdrinkfest. 9/6, Thursday 9/9, Sunday Fashion Night Out A runway fash- ion presentation showcasing fall National Grandparents Day styles, fashion, beauty exhibits from Fashion Show Fashions will repre- area retailers, and live music on the sent A Night at the Theatre, Bedtime street. Benefits the Junior League of Stories, and Dress for the Holidays. Birmingham. 7 p.m. Brookwood 2–4 p.m. $5–$10. Aveda Institute, Colonial Village, 780 Brookwood 3200 Galleria Circle, Hoover. Details: Village. Details: . www.seasonedperformers.org. Nuclear Safety Issues for the 9/7, Friday Alabama Public 2 p.m. Unitarian Art Themed Social Event “Art on Universalist Church, 4300 Hampton the Rocks.” Live music by Cory Chisel Heights Drive. Details: www.uucb- and The Wandering Son, food, creation ham.org. station in the sculpture pit, and scav- Lecture Felder Rushing will speak enger hunt. Event is themed around on how to help gardeners get past the Norman Rockwell’s America exhibi- the rules of horticulture. Rushing will tion. 6–10 p.m. $10–$20. Birmingham be signing copies of his book Slow Museum of Art, 2000 Eighth Avenue Gardening: A No-Stress Philosophy North. Tickets and details: 254-2565; for All Senses and Seasons. $15. 2 www.artsbma.org/events/artontherocks. p.m. Birmingham Botanical Gardens, 2612 Lane Park Road. Details: 414- 9/7–8, Friday–Saturday 3950; www.bbgardens.org. The Daily Show Live Indecision Tour 2012 Arts Festival “Artwalk.” Featuring Crestwood Tour of Homes See A 2007 poll by the Pew Research Center asked Americans to name the journal- the work of more than 100 visual inside houses that span decades of ist they most admired.Jon Stewart, the fake news anchor of Comedy Central’s artists, live musicians, street perform- architectural styles. Learn about each “The Daily Show,” came in at No. 4, tied with real news anchors Brian Williams ances, food and drink vendors, and house’s history. $20. Noon–3 p.m. and Tom Brokaw of NBC, Dan Rather of CBS, and Anderson Cooper of CNN. children’s activities. Friday night has Crestwood Park, Crestwood Blvd. Stewart scored particularly high with people age 18 to 29, who various studies been compared to a huge gallery Details: 592-4566. have claimed are as likely to get their news from “The Daily Show” as from any opening with a street festival atmos- of the country’s major newspapers or network newscasts. Whether you find phere, while Saturday afternoon 9/10, Monday that to be a ominous sign of the decline of “serious” journalism, or simply a caters more to the family crowd with ❖ Lecture Rod Penuel, Alabama natural effect of the ever-changing media landscape, there’s no denying that special children’s activities. Friday, Dept. of Industrial Relations, Mining “The Daily Show” currently has a real impact on our national discourse. September 7 from 5–10 p.m. Saturday, and Reclamation Division, will speak Fans will have an opportunity to experience “The Daily Show”s” skewer- September 8 from Noon–6 p.m. about the restoration of land and ing brand of political comedy in person when The Daily Show Live Indecision Birmingham’s historic loft district on water resources that have been Tour 2012 comes to the Alys Stephens Center on Friday, September 21, at 8 Morris, 1st and 2nd Avenues North affected by past mining practices. 7 p.m. While Jon Stewart will not appear at the event, the show will open with a between 22nd and 25th Streets. p.m. Hoover Public Library, 200 short video introduction from Stewart, which will be followed by stand-up Details: birminghamartwalk.org. Municipal Drive. Details: bps-al.org. performances from some of the comic talent behind the show, including 9/8, Saturday Contributor John Hodgman, Correspondent Al Madrigal, and Co-Executive 9/12–10/22 Producer Adam Lowitt. The evening will also include a Q&A session with the Psychic Fair Tarot, rune casting, ❖ Film The Barber of Birmingham: speakers, who will discuss what it’s like to write for and perform on a wildly sortilege, energy healing, aura read- Food Soldier of the Civil Rights successful television comedy show. Tickets are $28–$48. For more informa- ings, and more. Readings will be $10 Movement. A film about Birmingham tion, call 205-975-2787 or visit www.alysstephens.org. —Jane Longshore for 15 minutes. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Books, Beans & Candles Metaphysical Shoppe, 1620 Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd. S. Details: 453-4636; http://bookbeancandle.com/bbcms. ❖ Meditation “Half Day of Mindfulness.” Sitting and walking meditation, guided meditation, deep relaxation, and vegetarian meal. No experience necessary. 9 a.m. Free; donations accepted. Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham, 4300 Hampton Heights Drive. Details: www.uucbham.org; 945-8109. ❖ Health Fair No-cost health screenings for aging people and those with low incomes, information booths, a healthy snack lunch, free diabetes screening, cholesterol eval- uation, eye examinations, hearing tests, prescription medicines coun- seling, and blood pressure checks. Activities for children include face painting and moonwalk. 8 a.m.–11 a.m. Avondale United Methodist Church, 500 South 40th Street. Details: 592-3739; avonumc.net. 9/8–15, Sunday–Saturday ❖ Festival “2nd Annual Eat Drink Read Write.” A series of programs

13 black & white • www.bwcitypaper.com • September 06, 2012 # CALENDAR barber and civil rights activist James neering, water issues, wilderness Armstrong and his efforts in the fight preservation, citizen activism, and for racial equality in Alabama. There more. 6–9 p.m. $10–$25. Workplay, Eat Drink Read Write Festival will 14 free screenings at 13 library 500 23rd Street South. Details: 322- For gourmands, the next best thing branches. Locations, details, and 6395; www.alabamarivers.org/- to preparing and eating food is schedule: http://tinyurl.com/94kthes. events/wildandscenic. reading, writing, or watching films about food. The Birmingham Public 9/13, Thursday 9/14, Friday Library will serve up heaping help- ings of each for the second annual Book Signing Launch of Man in Lecture “Becoming Norman Rockwell.” Explores the early 1940’s Eat Drink Read Write Festival, taking the Blue Moon by Michael Morris. place September 8 through 15 at Everyone who purchases a book will when Norman Rockwell became associated with American values and the downtown library, Pepper Place, be entered for a chance to win a and the Desert Island Supply Co. in painting by artist Melanie Morris. 4–6 became the lead artist for the Saturday Evening Post. Free. 6 p.m. Woodlawn. Admission is free, but p.m. Alabama Booksmith, 2626 19th reservations are required for certain Place South, Homewood. Details: Birmingham Museum of Art, 2000 Rev. Abraham Woods Jr. Blvd. events. Highlights of the festival www.alabamabooksmith.com/event/m schedule include: ichael-morris-man-blue-moon; Details: 254-2565; www.artsbma.org. www.melaniemorrisart.com. Preview Party “Norman Rockwell’s Tuesday, September 11, 6 p.m. Musical Performance “Inter-ART- America Exhibition.” American food, Paul and Angela Knipple will discuss ive.” Outdoor party featuring live drinks, music, and private viewing of their book The World in a Skillet: A music by Indian bhangra and brass the exhibition. 6–10 p.m. $25. Food Lover’s Tour of the New band Red Baraat. UAB’s drumline Birmingham Museum of Art, 2000 American South, which focuses on restaurants run by first-generation immi- will open, followed by Juka Tribe, Rev. Abraham Woods Jr. Blvd. Details: grants in the South. Mr. Chen’s Authentic Chinese Cooking of Hoover, which and a community drum circle. 254-2565; www.artsbma.org. is mentioned in the book, and will cater the event. Reservations required: Cantina on Wheels, Spoonfed Grill, worldinaskillet.eventbrite.com. (Birmingham Public Library, Arrington NOLA Ice, and Dreamcakes will serve 9/14–15, Friday–Saturday Auditorium, 2100 Park Place) food. Free. Rain or Shine. 6–9 p.m. Ice Skating “Magic City Ice Alys Stephens Center, Engel Plaza, Classic.” Observe USFSA sanctioned Wednesday, September 12, 7 p.m. 1200 10th Avenue South. Details: figure skating competition for basic Participants will have five minutes to tell a true, personal story about 975-2787; www.alysstephens.org. through senior level skaters. Free. food. No notes are allowed in this challenge, known as “Food Stories,” an Happy Hour “Cocktails in the Friday, 3–8 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m.–6 event modeled after National Public Radio’s “The Moth: True Stories Told Gardens.” Live music with Kathy G. p.m. Pelham Civic Center, 500 Live.” Birmingham Originals member restaurants will provide refresh- Offering full cash bar and tasting Amphitheater. Details: 426-8461; ments. Two free drinks (craft beer or wine) will be provided, courtesy of menu. $5. 4:30–7:30 p.m. http://www.bhamfsc.org. The J. Clyde. A cash bar will also be available. Reservations required: Birmingham Botanical Gardens, foodstories2012.eventbrite.com. (Desert Island Supply Co., 5500 First 2612 Lane Park Road. Details: 414- 9/15, Saturday Avenue North) 3965; www.bbgardens.org/cocktails. ❖ Family/Nature “Animal Thursday, September 13, 6:30 p.m. Film “The Wild and Scenic Film Adaptations.” In order to survive Tuscaloosa filmmaker Andrew Beck will screen his documentary Eating Festival.” Watch films about bioengi- changing weather conditions, ani- mals have to adapt. Learn about Alabama: A Story About Why Food Matters and lead a discussion after- some methods animals use to sur- wards. The film follows Beck and his wife, who set out to eat the way their vive. 10 a.m. Admission rates apply. grandparents did—locally and seasonally—after returning to their home Oak Mountain State Park, state of Alabama. However, they soon realize that nearly every aspect Campground Pavilion (B-Side), 200 today’s food system is stacked against their goal. Birmingham Originals Terrace Drive. Details: 620-2520; ala- member restaurants will provide refreshments. Two free drinks (craft beer park.com/oakmountain. or wine) will be provided, courtesy of The J. Clyde. A cash bar will also be available. Reservations required: http://eatingalabama.eventbrite.com. Car Show “Annual Sports and (Birmingham Public Library, Arrington Auditorium, 2100 Park Place) by David Auburn Classics at the Creek Car Picnic.” PROOFThe Sirote Theatre October 3-6 at 7:30pm Friday, September 14, 6:30 p.m. October 7 at 2:00pm The library’s Bards & Brews monthly poetry performance and beer-tasting DON'T event is enhanced for this special event. Chef Corey Hinkel of MIX Bakery TRIFLE by Alfred de Musset. and Cafe will discuss beer and cheese pairings, while Chef Chris Dupont Translation by Nagle Jackson VULCAN VAPE of MIX Bakery and Cafe and Cafe Dupont will prepare appetizers using The Odess Theatre WITH November 7-10 and 14-17 ingredients donated by Whole Foods Market. There will also be a poetry at 7:30pm slam; prizes go to the top three winners. Avondale Brewing Co., Back LOVE November 18 at 2:00pm E-CIGS Forty Beer Co., Bell’s Brewery, and Good People Brewing Co. will furnish the beer. The Reflections, a band comprised of library employees, will per- form. Attendees must be at least 18 to attend and 21 or older to be served. Charley’s Sold in 50 States (Birmingham Public Library, Arrington Auditorium, 2100 Park Place) To learn more about the festival, call 205-226-3670 or visit www.bplon- by Brandon Thomas and 50 Countries line.org/eatdrinkfest. —Jane Longshore Aunt The Sirote Theatre February 20 - 23 at 7:30pm BANNED IN VESTAVIA February 24 at 2:00pm AND BESSEMER Arrive with your sports or classic car Stick Roller Derby of Baton Rouge, theatre UAB after 9 a.m. No entry fee. Potluck LA. $10–$15. Doors open at 4 p.m. B ual lunch provided by members of the Team at 4:45 p.m. and main event at festival Birmingham Motoring Club. You 7 p.m. Zamora Shrine Temple, 3521 may bring a side dish if you want. Ratliff Road. Details: 534-0166; of Awards at 1:30 p.m. Helena http://tragiccityrollers.com. Ten Minute Amphitheater, 816 Hwy 52. Details: Environment “E-Recycling and www.birminghambmc.org. Plays The Odess Theatre Shred It.” Bring electronics that can March 11-15 at 7:30pm Festival “Oktoberfest Trussville.” be recycled and reused. Paper shred- Family-friendly event with German ding for sensitive or unneeded docu- D food, music, and desserts accompa- ments available onsite. Free. 9 DAMESAMES nied with arts and crafts, a silent auc- a.m.–1 p.m. Walk Park Pool Parking tion, a “white elephant” auction, and Lot, 1973 Merryvale Road, Vestavia. Lyrics by George Haimsohn & AT Robin Miller children’s activities. Take a hayride to a For list of acceptable items and SEASEA Music by Jim Wise pumpkin patch where you can pick a details: 978-0100. The Sirote Theatre pumpkin to take home. Free. 9 a.m.–3 Benefit “Zoo Gala: Feast Among April 17 - 20 at 7:30pm LOCALLY OWNED & LOCATED IN HOMEWOOD p.m. Holy Infant of Prague, 8090 Beasts.” Enjoy a train ride to Trail of April 21 at 2:00pm 2783 BM MONTGOMERY ST. Gadsden Hwy, Trussville. Details: 629- HOMEWOOD, AL, 35209 Africa, cocktails, live music, and a 7338; www.oktoberfesttrussville.com. For tickets please call 975-ARTS. MON-FRI 11 A.M.–6 P.M.; SAT 11 A.M.– 3 P.M. seated dinner catered by Kathy G & www.uab.edu/theatre 205-834-8373 • vulcanvape.com Roller Derby Double header fea- Company. Individual $350. Couple turing Tragic City Rollers vs. Red $500. Cocktails at 6:30 p.m. Dinner

14 September 06, 2012 • www.bwcitypaper.com • black & white participants at The Exceptional ❖ Jazz “Taste of 4th Avenue Jazz Foundation create art to sell at this Festival.” Several area jazz bands will event. The proceeds enable the foun- perform, with saxophonist Euge dation to keep program fees affordable Groove as the headliner. Business for participants’ families. Music, wine, seminar, art, and children’s activities. food, and beer. Silent auction dona- Free. 2–9 p.m. Fourth Avenue tions will include participants’ artwork, Historic District, 4th Avenue North a local artists’ section, and items donat- and 18th Street. Details: 616-1735; ed by local businesses. $35. 6–9 p.m. www.justataste.org/fr_home.cfm. The Exceptional Foundation, 1616 Oxmoor Road. Details: www.excep- 9/23, Sunday tionalfoundation.org. ❖ Music Event “Vulcan AfterTunes.” Concert series featuring 9/21, Friday live music by The Secret Sisters. 3 “❖” Denotes a new listing. crafts show. Proceeds benefit the ❖ Political Satire “Indecision p.m. Vulcan Park, 1701 Valley View Laura Crandall Brown Ovarian Tour 2012: The Daily Show Live.” Drive. Details: 933-1409; www.vis- Events Cancer Foundation. $35. 8 a.m.–4 Meet and laugh with cast members itvulcan.com. p.m. The Preserve, 616 Preserve Rob Riggle, Al Madrigal, and Adam ❖ Garden Concert and Social 9/8, Saturday Parkway. Registration and details: Lowitt from the Emmy Award win- “Aldridge Gardens’ 10th Anniversary.” www.thinkoflaura.org/headoverteal. ning show. The evening begins with 5K/Family Fun Run “9th Annual Music by the Dill Pickers. Free. 4–7 ❖ Run/Walk “Sebastian’s a 10-minute video introduction by p.m. Aldridge Gardens, 3530 Lorna Miles for Smiles.” Race to benefit Jon Stewart followed by stand-up Cahaba Valley HealthCare. Race at RunWalk for a Cure.” Registration Road. Details: 682-8019; begins at 7:30 a.m. 5K RunWalk performances and Q&A session. www.aldridgegardens.com. Crestline Elementary, 3785 Jackson $29–$49. 8 p.m. Alys Stephens Blvd at 8:30 a.m. Post-race party at begins at 8:30 a.m. 1-mile kids’ fun run/family walk begins at 10 Center, Engel Plaza, 1200 10th 9/27–29, Thursday–Saturday Otey’s Tavern, 224 Country Club Avenue South. Details: 975-2787; a.m. Benefits the Alabama Center ❖ Park at 10 a.m. $15–$28. www.alysstephens.org. Festival “40th Annual Greek Registration and details: active.com. for Childhood Cancer and Blood Festival.” Greek cuisine, live Greek ❖ Disorders. $25 adults. $15 chil- Comedy “Brian Regan.” Regan music, and dancing. Greek market- Run “Monkey C Monkey Run 5K dren 12 and under. Town of Mt. specializes in clean, family-friendly and 1-Mile Fun Run.” Benefits Camp place with imported food, icons, Laurel. Details: 638-9007; comedy. 8 p.m. $39. BJCC Concert jewelry, and art. 10 a.m.–10 p.m. 307 Smile-A-Mile. $20–$25. Registration www.sebastiansrunwalk.org. Hall, 2100 Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd opens 6:30 a.m. 5K Starts 8 a.m. 19th Street South. Details: 716-3088; N. Tickets and details: 800-745-3000; www.bhamgreekfestival.com. Homewood Central Park, 1604 9/16, Sunday www.brianregan.com. Oxmoor Road. Details: 323-8427; ❖ Walk “Magic City Aids Walk 9/28, Friday http://tinyurl.com/cx3dnh5. 9/21–23, Friday–Sunday 2012.” Benefits Birmingham AIDS ❖ Western’s Wine and Food ❖ 9/15, Saturday Outreach. 4 p.m. Avondale Park, Orchid Show Orchid societies and Festival Sample more than 650 4101 5th Avenue South. Details: vendors from the southeast will dis- wines from regions around the Walk/Run “Paws for the Cause.” www.birminghamaidsoutreach.org. play hundreds of blooming orchids. Fundraiser for non-profit rescues world. 6–9 p.m. Tickets available at Displays may be view during show Emmet O’Neal Library and the and shelters in Birmingham and the 9/23, Sunday hours. Vendors will also offer orchids surrounding areas. $30–$35. 5K Mountain Brook, Rocky Ridge, and ❖ Walk “Birmingham Walk to for sales, which may be purchased Highland Avenue locations of Western 8:30 a.m. Fun Run/Pet Walk 9:45 during sales hours. Show hours: a.m. Veterans Park, 4800 Valleydale Cure Diabetes.” Juvenile Diabetes Supermarkets. $45–$55. The Research Foundation fundraising Saturday, Sept. 22 from noon–6 p.m. Birmingham Zoo, 2630 Cahaba Road. Road. Details: www.theanimal- and Sunday, Sept. 23 from 11 a.m.–4 leagueofbirmingham.com. event. $25. Registration and lunch Tickets and details: http://westernsu- 1 p.m. Fun-Run 2 p.m. Walk 2:15 p.m. Sales hours: Friday and Saturday permarkets.info/buy-online. Run “Head Over Teal 5K and p.m. Veterans Park, 4800 Sept. 21–22 from 10 a.m.–6 and Family Fun Day.” Awards, children’s Valleydale Road. Details: www.jdr- Sunday, Sept. 23 from 11 a.m.–4 p.m. activities, food, and an arts and falabama.org. Free admission. Birmingham Botanical Gardens, 2612 Lane Park Road. Details: 933-8688; bbgardens.org. at 8 p.m. Tickets and details: 397- church pews while attendees vote on 3856; www.birminghamzoo.com/sup- a winner for each season. 4:30–7 9/22, Saturday port-the-zoo/zoogala-2012. p.m. Birmingham Botanical Gardens, ❖ Fundraiser “Black Warrior River Family “Animal Adaptations.” In 2612 Lane Park Road. Keeper’s 10th Anniversary.” Live order to survive changing weather Details: www.rentPEWS.com. music by The Locust Fork Band, Earl conditions, animals have to adapt. “Guitar” Williams, and the Juke Band. 9/20, Thursday Good People Brewing Company, 114 RHYTHM & Learn about some methods animals use to survive. 10 a.m. Admission ❖ Environmental Lecture Ed 14th Street South. Details: blackwar- rates apply. Oak Mountain State McMahon of the Urban Land riorriver.org; www.causes.com/black- BREWS Park, Campground Pavilion (B-Side), Institute will speak on topics relating warriorriverkeeper.com. 200 Terrace Drive. Details: 620-2520; to sustainable development, land ❖ Gardening “Japanese Maples: EVERY THURSDAY alapark.com/oakmountain. conservation, smart growth, and his- The Aristocrat of Trees.” See examples toric preservations. 7 p.m. UAB, Hill of different cultivars of Japanese FEATURING 9/16, Sunday University Center, Alumni Maples. Learn proper site selection Avondale Brewing ❖ Book Signing Poet and artist Auditorium, 1400 University Blvd. and tree care, including planting, Craig Legg will be signing copies of Registration and details: 983-8028; pruning, and fertilizing. 9:30–11:30 Company & Good People his art book Brook of Drams. Book thegreenregister.com/events. a.m. $12–$15. Aldridge Gardens, 3530 Brewing Company and individual art prints will be for ❖ Comedy “Margaret Cho.” Lorna Road. Registration and details: sale. Free. 4–7 p.m. Rojo, 2921 Comedian, fashion designer, actress, 682-8019; www.aldridgegardens.com. HappyHourSun-Fri5to7p.m. Highland Avenue. Details: 328-4733; author, and singer-songwriter best www.rojobirmingham.com. known for her stand-up routines. $31. LIVE MUSIC ❖ Costume Sale “Annual Bargain 7:30 p.m. Comedy Club Stardome, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Costume Closet.” Find an array of 1818 Data Drive. Details: 444-0008; Fridays, and Saturdays. costumes, dancewear, dress-up www.stardome.com/events.php. clothes, shoes, accessories at bargain ❖ Lecture “Hispanic Heritage prices that have been donated from Month.” Actress Rosario Dawson of RESTAURANT individuals, dance studios and Men in Black II, Sin City, and The groups. 2–4 p.m. Children’s Dance Rundown will speak. Dawson is co- Foundation, 1715 27th Court South, founder of Voto Latino, which “pro- Homewood. Details: 870-0073; motes an enfranchised America by HOME COOKING www.childrensdancefoundation.org. leveraging celebrity voices, technolo- CLOSE TO HOME gy, and youth promoting positive 9/18, Tuesday changes.” 7 p.m. Free. Alys Stephens Meat-and-3 • Veggies Center, 1200 10th Avenue South. ❖ Competition “1st Annual Burgers • Meals to go Decorating Competition.” Florists, Details: http://tinyurl.com/9nf6mwu. TwoDexterAvenue designers, and other wedding ven- ❖ Benefit “The Exceptional Lunch 11 am~2 pm •Dinner 5~8 pm Crestline • (205) 414-7878 dors will have decorated antique Foundation Art Show.” Special needs 205-803-3005 • Crestline Mafiaozas.com

15 black & white • www.bwcitypaper.com • September 06, 2012 # CALENDAR with experimental instruments along Birmingham Civil Rights Institute 40 photographs from a collection of THEATRE & DANCE with aerial performers, floating per- 520 16th Street North; 328-9696; early 20th century glass plate nega- cussion machines, and light effects. www.bcri.org tives. Collection of photographs is a “❖” Denotes a new listing $25–$55. 8 p.m. Free after-party for all visual record of life in rural Alabama. Through November 25 ticketholders. Tickets and details: 975- ❖ BCRI continues to celebrate its 20th “Alabama Members’ Showcase 2787; http://alysstephens.uab.edu/- anniversary year with the exhibition Exhibit” Includes aqua media works 9/13–15, 20–23, 27–29 events/?id=306. “Vision and Voice; Freedom and by The Watercolor Society of ❖ The Graduate Stage adaptation of Future.” The exhibit uses archival Alabama’s members. Opening recep- the film which gave us the line, “Mrs. images, video, articles, and interac- tion and awards presentation Robinson, are you trying to seduce tive media to chronicle the 20 year September 23, 2:30–4 p.m. me?” Times vary. $12–$17. Fifth Avenue history of BCRI and its impact locally, Antiques, 2410 5th Avenue South. GALLERIES nationally and internationally. Daniel Day Gallery Tickets and details: 565-8TDT; “❖” Denotes a new listing. 3025 6th Avenue South; 731-9420. www.theatredowntown.org. Birmingham Museum of Art Through October 29 2000 Eighth Avenue North; 254- 9/13–23, Thursday–Sunday “Aquatic Dreams IV.” Exhibit about Aldridge Gardens 2565; www.artsbma.org. water and the refreshing world fea- ❖ The Sea Horse A love story that 3530 Lorna Road; 682-8019; Through September 16 turing work from Bruce Andrews, progresses through a ritual courtship www.aldridgegardens.com “Warhol and Cars: American Icons” is Jean Campbell, Jeff Faulk, Sarah between to abrasive characters that Fendley, Jerry Griffies, Chris Mason, ❖ “The Women’s Art Show.” Five the first exhibition to examine Andy fight, make up, fight again, spin Genie McElroy, M. Musick, Nolan artists from the southeast will exhibit Warhol’s use of automotive vehicles dreams, deflate them, make love, Ots, Tommy Stevenson, Jay Strong, a variet of painting styles. Artists as products of American consumer and reveal their locked up secrets. and Kevin Worley. include Melissa Payne Baker, Leslie society. The exhibition features more Times vary. $15–$22. Virginia Barron, Margaret Elliot, Cathy than 40 drawings, paintings, photo- Samford Theatre, Martha Moore Dixon-Ballog Glass Gallery Lancaster, and Lee Wilson. Free. 8 graphs, sculptural models, and relat- Sykes Studio, 1116 26th Street 2040 Old Montgomery Hwy; 402- a.m.–5 p.m. Weekdays only through ed archival material spanning the South. Tickets and details: 251-1206; 2333; www.dixon-ballog.com September 28. Pop Art icon’s entire career. www.virginiasamfordtheatre.org. ❖ Through November 18 Gallery opening reception featur- 9/20, Thursday Art Folk Gallery ❖ “Intimate Interiors.” Show cap- ing all gallery artists. Friday, 1731 1st Avenue North; 908-3665; tures portraits of moments and September 14. 8–5 p.m. ❖ Menopause The Musical www.artfolkgallery.org. spaces such has places of workshop, Inspired by a hot flash and a bottle of Four Seasons Gallery September 14–30 in bedrooms, and while entertaining. wine, four women with nothing in 2910 18th Street South; 803-4059; ❖ “Reading the Rails.” Group exhibi- Through January 20 common but a black lace bra, night www.4seasonsantiquesandart.com tion featuring work by artists sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, “Arctic Beauty.” This exhibition pres- inspired by or part of American ❖ “Art Works.” Organic ceramic not enough sex, too much sex, and ents 87 works of art made by the Inuit Railroad Culture. Includes graffiti, sculptures by Nada Boner. day-to-day challenges with aging par- people of Canada. Formerly known as sculpture, photographs, monikers, September 21. 5:30–7 p.m. ents, aging children and aging partners Eskimo, the Inuit are descended from video, and music. Opening night share their ups and downs through cultures that have inhabited the Arctic Friday, September 14, 5:30–9 p.m. Incubate Gallery baby boomer songs from the 60’s, 70’s, regions of Canada, the United States, Art Folk is open noon–4:30 on 130 41st Street South, Suite 104; and 80’s. 8 p.m. $36–$48. BJCC Greenland, and Russia for over a Thursdays and by appointment only. 202-4558; www.incubategallery.com. Concert Hall, 2100 Richard Arrington thousand years. Jr. Blvd N. Tickets and details: 800-745- First Thursday of the Month Through September 29 3000; www.ticketmaster.com; Artists Incorporated “First Thursday: After Hours at the “Hatch I.” Exhibition featuring an 3365 Morgan Drive ; 979-8990; www.menopausethemusical.com. BMA.” The Birmingham Museum of Art eclectic collection of work by over 15 www.artistsincorporated.com presents an after-hours experience on local artists. Open Tuesday–Saturday, 9/24–28, Monday–Friday ❖ Opening reception for featured the first Thursday of each month when 11 a.m.–Until. artists Pat Dicas, Barry Ivker, Chuck ❖ Performance “Cirque Alys Aerial the museum is open until 9 p.m. Jones, Rick McCrary, and Ruth Monty Stabler Galleries Music.” Art and music event working General Admission is free. Wander the Yarbrough. Wine and food. Free. galleries, sip cocktails in the garden, 1811 29th Avenue South 879-9888; September 7, 5:30–8:30 p.m. catch a movie, or sit down with friends www.montystablergalleries.com for tapas at Oscar’s. Birmingham September 6–30 Beta Pictoris Museum of Art, 2000 Rev. Abraham ❖ “The Dog Days of Summer.” Kevin Your 2411 Second Avenue North; 413- Woods, Jr. Boulevard. 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16 September 06, 2012 • www.bwcitypaper.com • black & white Cooking Classes Chef Clif Holt of River Run, Thursday, 4–6 p.m. Little Savannah imparts his culinary www.pigglywigglybirmingham.com. knowledge in a series of cooking Pleasure Is All Wine (Pelham) classes. Every other Saturday, 9 a.m. Saturday, 3:30–4:30 p.m. Free. 985- Food&Drink $100. Pepper Place Saturday Market, 4760 or www.pleasureisallwine.com. 2817 2nd Avenue South. Details: 591- Rucker Place First Thursday of CALENDAR 1119; [email protected]. each month, beginning in May, 5–9 Sushi Classes Beginning, intermedi- p.m. $5. 558-2485 or www.rucker- “❖” Denotes a new listing. ate, and advanced sushi classes. Learn place.com. 9/20, Thursday to make inexpensive, healthy meals in V. Richards Market Friday, 5–7 p.m. ❖ Special Tasting Chef Warren hands-on classes. Private classes and $5. 591-7000. 9/12, Wednesday Weiss from MetroPrime Steakhouse parties available. Details: 460-5859; Cooking Class “Beyond the Pasta.” will be preparing a tasting menu of birminghamsushiclasses.com. The Vintage Wine Shoppe Learn traditional and foundational some of MetroPrime’s dishes, includ- Friday, 5–6:30 p.m. Free. 980-9995. pasta-making techniques. Menu ing the black and bleu chopped salad, • • • Vizzini Farms Winery (Calera) includes rustic, wide-cut egg pasta beef tournedos with creamy mashed Tastings and winery tour, served in tomato and basil sauce, hand- potatoes, and crispy onions. $40. 6:30 Monday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. made tomato fettuccine tossed in a tra- p.m. Birmingham Bake & Cook, Co., Wine Tastings Free. 685-0655 or www.vizzinifarm- ditional butter and cream sauce and 5291 Valleydale Road. Details: 980- swinery.com. 3661; bakeandcookco.com. The following establishments have garden-fresh herb pasta. $40. 6:30–9 ongoing wine tastings. Western Supermarket (Mountain p.m. Birmingham Bake & Cook, Co., 9/20–22, Thursday–Saturday J. Simpkins Gallery First Monday Brook) Thursday, 5:30–6:30 p.m. $5; 5291 Valleydale Road. Details: 980- Rocky Ridge Road, Friday, 5:30–7 ❖ of each month, 5:30–6:45 p.m. Free, 3661; bakeandcookco.com. Food Festival “31st Annual p.m. Free. 879-8784 or 822-5920 Middle Eastern Food Festival.” Food, with interactive discussions. 1608 Whole Foods Market Friday, 9/14, Friday Arabic dancing, and live Arabic band. Floyd Bradford Road, Trussville. 572- 1295, www.synthesissoutheast.com. 4:30–6:30 p.m., free. Details: 912- Special Dinner “Beer Dinner and Free admission. Drive-thru available. Morgan Creek Vineyards 8400 or www.wholefoods.com. Hootnanny.” Five-course dinner featur- Lunch 10:30 a.m.– 2 p.m. Dinner (Harpersville) Tastings and winery The Wine Cellar Thursdays, 5–7 ing Cahaba Brewing Company beers. 4–9 p.m. Drive-thru service 11 tour, Monday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Free. 979-2151 or $59 plux tax and gratuity. 6:30 p.m. a.m.–2 p.m. and 4–7 p.m. Details: p.m. Free. 672-2053. www.thewinecellar.info. John’s City Diner, 112 21st Street saintgeorgeonline.org/food-festival. North. Menu, details, and reservations: Ozan Vineyards (Calera) Tastings The Wine Loft Wednesday, 322-6014; http://johnscitydiner.com. Ongoing Events and winery tour, Friday–Saturday, 11 5:30–7:30 p.m. Free. 323-8228 or a.m.–6 p.m. Free. 205-668-6926 or www.wineloftbham.com. Cooking Classes: The Birmingham 9/16, Sunday www.ozanwine.com. Wine’d Down Friday, 6–7:30 p.m. Bake and Cook Company maintains ❖ Free. 988-9463, Festival “Trucks by the Tracks.” a full schedule of classes on a wide Piggly Wiggly Bluff Park, www.wineddown.com. Live music, entertainment, and food variety of subjects. Classes are Thursday, 4:30–6:30 p.m.; Clairmont, trucks. Free. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Railroad offered at varying times and dates Thursday, 4–6 p.m.; Crestline, Park, 1600 1st Avenue South. Details: throughout the month; registration Thursday, 4–6 p.m.; Homewood, 521-9933; www.railroadpark.org. is required. Details: 980-3661 or Beer tasting on Thursday, 4–6 p.m., www.bakeandcookco.com. Wine tasting on Friday, 4–6 p.m.;

# CALENDAR gouache paintings. Public reception tions Saturday, September 8 from 11 Market Norwood Market at the September 11, 5–7 p.m. Exhibit a.m.–3 p.m. at the Southeastern Trolley Stop will be having fresh pro- through September 25. Gallery open ANNOUNCEMENTS Bible College, 2545 Valleydale Road. duce, chef demonstrations, music, Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Bring a headshot and resume if you art, zumba, yoga, pilates, a kids zone, ❖ App The new IN Guide app for have one. Details: swordplaymin- and drum circle. Every Saturday 10 UAB Visual Arts Gallery mobile devices has been launched. [email protected]. a.m.–2 p.m. through September 29. The app features more than 270 of 900 13th Street South; 934-0815; Fencing Classes The Birmingham Norwood Blvd at 32nd Street North. the city’s hot spots as nominated by www.uabvisualartsgallery.com Fencing Club will have new classes Skateboarding Team Ping meets Birmingham area residents. ❖ “The Front.” Group exhibition starting in September with beginning at Alabaster’s Veterans Park skate Download the app at www.inbirm- from New Orleans based artists. classes for ages 8–12, teen/adult, and park bowl every Saturday and ingham.com/app. Through September 21. Gallery a class for kids between the ages of 5 Sunday at 2 p.m. for a skateboarding hours Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–6 p.m. Art Classes “ART!Fix.” Every and 7. Private lessons also available. session. Session is aimed at riders 35 and Saturday noon–4 p.m. Tuesday evening, from 6:30–8:30 The Birmingham Fencing Club, 1425 years and older. All skill levels p.m., join Trent Thomas and Space Montgomery Hwy, Vestavia Hills. accepted. Alabaster Veteran’s Park, Unitarian Universalist Church of One Eleven for painting classes. On Details: 823-4448; arias@fencing- 7305 Hwy 119. Details: 664-6800. the last Tuesday of the month, art cri- Birmingham club.org; [email protected]. Teen Poetry Workshop Every first tiques will be open to the public. 4300 Hampton Heights Drive; Hospice Volunteers Needed Saturday, this monthly workshop will $10–$20. $5 for supplies, wine 945-8109. SolAmor Hospice is looking for vol- focus on engaging youth and fostering included. Space One Eleven, 2409 Through October 31 unteers to visit patients under hos- creative expression. Free. 2–4 p.m. 2nd Avenue North. Details: 328-0553; Photography art exhibit by David pice care in patients’ homes as well Birmingham Public Library, Story Castle, [email protected]. Corliss. Proceeds benefit the Bladder as nursing facilities. Call Ashley K. 2100 Park Place. Details: 226-3600; Cancer Advocacy Network. Art Classes Incubate Gallery offers Starks at 991-9091 or email www.bplonline.org/about/press/Default. a variety of art classes. For more [email protected]. aspx?id=369. Vulcan Park and Museum information, visit www.incubate- 1701 Valley View Drive; 933-1409; gallery.com. www.visitvulcan.com. Art/Dance/Music Classes Ballet, Through January 25, 2013 acting, and visual art for ages 3–5. “Red Mountain Rising: An Oral Musical theatre for children. History Collection.” The stories of Improvisation, ballet, jazz, modern, miners whose efforts built and hip hop dance for tweens and Birmingham into the Southern city teens. Bookbinding, knitting, quilt- Birmingham of iron and steel. Admission rates ing, modern dance, ballet, drawing, apply. During regular park hours. painting, acting, comedy, creative Citywide Appraisal storytelling, and cabaret performance for adults. Details: 975-4769; ESTATES, TRUSTS, REVIEW, www.artplayasc.org. LOANS, INVESTMENTS, DIVORCE, Auditions Christ City Church is MARKETING producing the Christmas comedy WILLIAM SIMS Fruitcake November 29–December 1 Authentic Indian Cuisine TEL 205 977-4220 and December 6–8. Casting 3 ener- 2226 Highland Avenue South getic men ages 18–35. Open audi- 939-3805 • www.tajindia.net

17 black & white • www.bwcitypaper.com • September 06, 2012 FOOD & DRINK O Beer Hopping CONCERT The world of craft beer. By Danner Kline CALENDAR New Beer Highlights Though vineyards have long operat- (Bolded text indicates a new listing.) Thanks to legislation raising the bot- ed their own wineries, this practice is tle size limit, many new beers are almost unheard of in the world of now available throughout the state. beer. My favorite of the series is Local Shows Here are the highlights from some Oregasmic Ale, a pale ale with a rich, 9/10 JoJo Hermann from Widespread Panic—Barnes & Noble (Patton Creek) I’ve tried recently. bready malt backbone and plenty of 9/11 Train/Mat Kearney/Andy Grammar—Tuscaloosa Amphitheater Samuel Adams hit Birmingham floral and citrus hop flavor. 9/13 Alan Jackson—Tuscaloosa Amphitheatre hard and heavy with large bottles on A fun surprise among the new 9/14 Yelawolf/Rittz/Trouble Andrew/DJ Vajra—Sloss Furnaces Bomber Day (August 1). They range arrivals was Blaecorn Unidragon, one 9/14 Kelly Clarkson/The Fray—Tuscaloosa Amphitheater from low-priced “normal” beers also of several imperial stouts produced 9/16 SupersuckersZydeco sold in six packs (such as by Clown Shoes. I’ve tasted at least a 9/16 Wanda JacksonWorkplay Octoberfest) all the way to expen- hundred imperial stouts and so I’m 9/18 Corey Smith—Tuscaloosa Amphitheatre sive, small-batch special releases new rarely impressed by one. Blaecorn 9/20 Margaret Cho—Comedy Club to our state. Stony Brook Red is one Unidagron succeeded. At twelve per- 9/21 Brian Regan—BJCC Concert Hall such rarity; it’s immensely popular cent alcohol, it’s a massive beer with 9/21 Indigo Girls with the ASO—Alabama Theatre with folks I know who’ve tried it and a heavy body, and is as black as 9/25 Sarah McQuaid—Townhouse Tea Shoppe, Mt. Laurel definitely one of the best beers I’ve night. I was amazed at its complexity, 9/27 Chris Robinson Brotherhood—Workplay ever had from Samuel Adams. That’s with chocolate, coffee, raisin, and 9/27 Frank Turner—Black Market Bar (5 Points) not surprising for a beer inspired by some spicy hop character. It seems to 9/28–29 Carlos Mencia—Comedy Club Belgian sour ales. be easy for breweries to brew an 10/02 Grimes/Myths—Bottletree Stony Brook Red is a blended imperial stout that tastes good, but 10/03 Slightly Stoopid—Bama Theatre, Tusc. beer—half freshly-brewed Belgian red it’s tough to make one stand out 10/04 Pujol—Bottletree ale, half sour ale partially fermented from the pack. Clown Shoes hit a 10/04 Gotye/Missy Higgins/Jonti—Tuscaloosa Amphitheatre with brettanomyces and lactobacillus home run with this one. 10/06 Miranda Lambert—Oak Mountain Amphitheatre and aged for six months in oak casks. 10/07 Bonnie Raitt/Randall Bramblett—BJCC Concert Hall That’s a pretty ambitious undertaking • • • 10/08 Dan Deacon—Bottletree for the largest brewery in the country 10/10 Sleigh Bells & araabMUZIK—Workplay Soundstage that still qualifies as a “craft brewery” Alabama’s embarrassment of riches in 10/10 James McMurtry—Workplay under the definition set by the newly available beers continues to 10/11 Avett Brothers/Grace Potter & the Nocturnals—Tuscaloosa Amphitheatre Brewers Association. The resulting grow. Yet another brewery is launch- 10/14 The Melvins—Bottletree beer is delicious, with plenty of tart- ing distribution in our state this week. 10/14 R. Kelly/Tamia—BJCC Concert Hall ness but not so much as to scare away Like many breweries in southern 10/16 Henry Rollins—Capri Theatre, Montgomery drinkers who are new to sour beer. It California, San Diego’s Ballast Point 10/17 Emmylou Harris and her Red Dirt Boys—Alys Stephens Center should be especially appealing to any- Brewing is most famous for its extrav- 10/19 Alejandro Escovedo—Bottletree one who enjoys tart red wine. agantly hoppy IPAs and double IPAs. 10/20 Gov’t Mule—Alabama Theatre Rogue Ales is another brewery The brewery’s most renowned beer is 10/20 Mutemath—Workplay that shipped a huge variety of Sculpin IPA, which sits at the number 10/20 Eric Church/Justin Moore & Kip Moore—BJCC Arena bombers on August 1. The most one spot on BeerAdvocate’s list of top 10/25 Neil Young/The Alabama Shakes—Tuscaloosa Amphitheatre interesting are the beers in the American IPAs. But the entire Ballast 10/26 John Prine—Bama Theatre, Tusc. “Chatoe Rogue” series. The folks at Point portfolio is highly regarded. 10/26 Mike Watt—Bottletree Rogue decided to start their own 10/29 Brendon Benson—Workplay hop farm during the hop shortage of • • • 11/01 Anthony Bourdain—Alys Stephens Center 2007. They’ve since begun growing 11/13 Pretty Lights—Boutwell Aud. their own barley as well, and they In other exciting beer news, the 11/26 Napalm DeathZydeco incorporated these locally grown long-awaited Hop City Craft Beer & ingredients into their Chatoe Rogue Wine store is scheduled to have its series. In fact, all the hops and malts grand opening on Thursday, Regional Shows that go into brewing the beers are September 13. The location on 3rd grown on a farm operated by Rogue. Avenue South, next to Pepper Place, 9/12 Elton John—Von Braun Center, Huntsville is the second for the 9/15 Beach House—Marathon Music Works, Nashville Atlanta beer retailer. 9/18 Guided By Voices—40-Watt, Athens, GA While we already have 9/18 Ben Folds Five—Tabernacle, Atlanta some great beer- 9/20 Amon Tobin—Tabernacle, Atlanta focused stores in 9/20 Beth Orton—Belcourt Theatre, Nashville Birmingham, Hop City 9/21 Beth Orton—Variety Playhouse, Atlanta promises to stock a 9/21 Steve Earle—Flying Monkey Arts, Huntsville more extensive inven- 9/22 Nick Lowe—Mercury Lounge, Nashville tory than most have 10/02 Dinosaur Jr.—Variety Playhouse, Atlanta the space for and will 10/02 David Byrne and St. Vincent—Ryman Aud, Nashville Another Pint Please... (flickr) sell that inventory 10/03 David Byrne and St. Vincent—Cobb Arts Centre, Atlanta with an exceptionally 10/06 Switchfoot—Cullman County Park high level of expertise. 10/06 “Soundland” w/My Morning Jacket/Young The Giant—Riverfront Park, Nashville Store manager Chris 10/07 Willie Nelson—Von Braun Center, Huntsville Reid moved from 10/07 The Shins—Ryman Aud., Nashville Atlanta to run the new 10/08 The Shins—Cobb Arts Centre, Atlanta location, and he 10/09 Jack White—Fox Theatre, Atlanta insists he can help 10/14 ZZ Top—Von Braun Center, Huntsville customers pick beers 10/17 Pat Metheny—Variety Playhouse, Atlanta they will enjoy based 10/19 Rufus Wainright—Ryman Aud., Nashville on the buyer’s tastes 10/19 Die Antwoord—Marathon Music Works, Nashville in food and other bev- 10/20 Die Antwoord—Center Stage, Atlanta erages, such as coffee 10/20 The Afghan Whigs—Masquerade, Atlanta and tea. & 10/20 Rufus Wainright—Tabernacle, Atlanta 10/25 Juliana Hatfield—Variety Playhouse, Atlanta Danner Kline is the 10/26 The Sea And Cake—Mercy Lounge, Nashville founder of Free the 10/31 Alanis Morissette—Tabernacle, Atlanta Hops. Visit 10/28 David Sedaris—Mark Smith Concert Hall, Huntsville www.freethehops.org 10/31 Primus—Tabernacle, Atlanta for more info. 11/01 Rush—Verizon Wireless Center, Alpharetta, GA 11/05 The Who—Gwinnett Center, Duluth, GA 11/11 Kreayshawn—Center Stage, Atlanta

18 September 06, 2012 • www.bwcitypaper.com • black & white O Agrarians: Pierce Pettis/Kate Campbell/Tom Kimmel/Grace Pettis The Nick: Prosevere/Bad Luck Dame/ Crippling Horse Accident/Poynte Oak Hill: Mike Latham Talk Like A The Oasis: Possum Live Ona’s Music Room: Big Daddy’s Big New Band w/ Frank Ranelli Otey’s: Pharmhand Pirate Day Overtime Bar: 90 Proof Trio Pub 261: Tommy Crowder Band September19AllDayParty! Music Ranelli’s: MCBS Electric Open Jam Redline Bar: Eric Hillis & Heather Reese Food & Drink Specials The Saloon: Jerome Walls Satterfield’s: Carlos Pino & Brandon Over $1,000 in Cash and Prizes Thursday, 9/6 Peeples Beads•Beads•AndMoreBeads Bacchus Pub: The Whiskey Dix Stillwater Pub: URI Billy’s (Eng. Village): The Haulers SuperBowl Outdoor Ent.: Franklin Road LIVE MUSIC Cajun Steamer (Trussville): Cody Wine’d Down: Doublewide Soul Howell Wine Loft: Sucker Wells Zig(oftheZigtones)from5to9p.m. Courtyard 280: Erica & Eric Workplay: Sam Bush KaraokeUntil1a.m. Courtyard Southside: Derek Nolin Zydeco: Tim Tyler Fuego Cantina & Saloon: Open For Lunch Starting at 11 a.m. Daniel Hughes Saturday, 9/8 HappyHour4to7Dailywith50cOysters Gabriel’s: Live Acoustic Avondale Brewing Co.: Bourbon & Grey Bar: Sam Foster Bleach CollegeFootballOnTheBigScreen Hooters (Trussville): Zach Doss Bacchus Pub: Matt Carroll Innisfree: Billy Gant Back 9: VooDoo Jones NFL Sunday Ticket Iron Horse: Violent Stupidity City Vineyard: Leonard Watkins Jazz Underground: Connection Band Courtyard 280: Huck & Boss Band LIVE Jolly Rogers: Shotgun Trubadours Courtyard Southside: The Living Dream 26BEERS MUSIC Mafiaoza’s: T.U.B Unplugged Fuego Cantina & Saloon: Aaron Blades NTAP Margarita Grill: Jerome Band O Marty’s: Brent Adams/Errick Smith Gable Square Saloon: Eric McGinty Moonlight on the Mountain: Alan Gabriel’s: Matt Hill Rhody/Terry Barnett Gip’s Place: Chris Simmons & the The Nick: Bad Crowd/Frank Smith Royal Blues Band Oak Hill: Rick Carter Grey Bar: Acoustic Duo Series The Oasis: Possum Innisfree: Pioneer Chick’n Stand Sail to 367 Valley Ave • Homewood • (205) 290-7447 • Open until 2 a.m. Old Car Heaven: Glen & Libba Iron Horse: Downstroke Ona’s Music Room: Michael Glaser Jazz Underground: Connection Band www.JollyRogersTavern.com Quartet w/ Pedro Mayor Jolly Rogers: De Ja Blue Otey’s: Jason Parker Trio Margarita Grill: Excalibur Pub 261: Dee Dee Marty’s: Southern Phonyx/Blue Redline Bar: Matt Ritchie Galaxy Rogue Tavern: Acoustic Happy Hour Matthew’s Bar & Grill: Oceans/Selling Rucker Place: Goodfellas Mary/Five Shot Jack/Cousin Boogie The Saloon: Daniel Hughes Metro Bar: Wild Fruit/Brent Stillwater Pub: Moe’s Blues Band Byrd Village Tavern: Jeff Tyler Moe’s BBQ (Lakeview): Matt Smith & Will Cash Friday, 9/7 Moonlight on the Mountain: Chris Avondale Brewing Co.: Royal & Porter/Bonnie Whitmore/Charlie Faye Toulouse/Sam Gunderson Duo The Nick: Voices In The Trees/The Bacchus Pub: TKO Birmingham w/ Dirty Clergy/Storm The Bay Wick-It The Instigator The Oasis: The Amazing Live Back 9: Mr Mayhem Seamonkeys Beef ‘O’ Brady’s: Kat & Jack Duo Ona’s Music Room: Televised Game & Blackwell’s Pub: Matt Smith & Blanton The Best In Recorded Music Reed Otey’s: Beyond Blues Buffalo Wild Wings (Trussville): Zach Overtime Bar: Whiskey Dix Doss Pub 261: Zippy D & Dirty Love City Vineyard: Lisa Mills Rare Martini: Erica’s Playhouse Courtyard 280: MP4/SK5 Redline Bar: Matt Broach Courtyard Southside: KD Battles The Saloon: Aaron Blades Band DanielDay Gallery: Randy Buell Band Stillwater Pub: Beck Hall & Friends Emergency Room Lounge: Cotton Box Wine Loft: Brooke Phillips Band Road Wine’d Down: Blues Hammer Fuego Cantina & Saloon: Zydeco: Downright Jerome Walls Gable Square Saloon: Open Sunday, 9/9 Mic w/ Eric McGinty Cajun Steamer (Hoover): Bobby Legg Gabriel’s: Outshine DanielDay Gallery: 2Blu & The Lucky Grey Bar: Sam & Justin Stiffs Innisfree: Slang Gabriel’s: K kid Iron Horse: Deputy 5 Margarita Grill: Reagan & Rebecca Jazz Underground: Connection Band Marty’s: Jason Bailey’s Sunday Band Jolly Rogers: Phase II The Nick: Day Sailor Mafiaoza’s: III Outta V Rojo: The Cancers Margarita Grill: Theatrix Stillwater Pub: Matt Carroll Marty’s: The ARC/Thomas Henry Band Monday, 9/10 Metro Bar: Blue Galaxy Barnes & Noble (Patton Creek): JoJo Moe’s BBQ (Lakeview): R&R Ragan Hermann From Widespread Panic Moonlight on the Mountain: The New Cajun Steamer (Trussville): Brooke

19 black & white • www.bwcitypaper.com • September 06, 2012 LIVE MUSIC Village Tavern: Village Tavern Zydeco: The Malah w/ Higher DJ/DANCE Learning Thursday, 9/13 Courtyard Southside: Dj Kop Thursday, 9/6 Monday, 9/17 Cajun Steamer (Trussville): Cody Bacchus: DJ RamRod Tuesday, 9/11 Courtyard 280: DJ Kop Howell Matthew’s Bar & Grill: DJ Charles III Courtyard Southside: Dj Kop Courtyard 280: Huck & Boss Courtyard 280: DJ Kop 80’s/90’s Dance Request Party Courtyard Southside: Derek Sellers Courtyard Southside: Dj Kop Nana Funks: DJ Matrix Tuesday, 9/18 Gabriel’s: Parks & Guest Rare Martini: Dj Lee J Courtyard 280: DJ Kop Grey Bar: Sam Foster Steel: DJ C Dubb Wednesday, 9/12 Courtyard Southside: Dj Kop Above at the Redmont: Rumba Latina Hooters (Trussville): Zach Doss Friday, 9/7 Nana Funks: DJ Matrix Wednesday, 9/19 Innisfree: Billy Gant Iron Horse: Violent Stupidity Bacchus: DJ Roulette Rare Martini: DJ Jason Brodie Nana Funks: DJ Matrix Jolly Rogers: D.B.Cooper Project Innisfree: DJ Blake Rare Martini: Dj Jason Brodie Mafiaoza’s: Locust Fork Trio Nana Funks: Retro Dance Party w/ Thursday, 9/13 Margarita Grill: Jason Mayo DJ Matrix Nana Funks: DJ Matrix Thursday, 9/20 Marty’s: Steve MCullough/Errick Rare Martini: DJ Quackenbush (Top Rare Martini: DJ Lee J Nana Funks: DJ Matrix 40) Steel: DJ C Dubb Rare Martini: DJ Lee J Smith Steel: Mark AD Steel: DJ C Dubb Moe’s BBQ (Lakeview): CBDB Friday, 9/14 Moonlight on the Mountain: Nick Saturday, 9/8 Innisfree: DJ Blake Friday, 9/21 Young/Rebecca Moreland Bacchus: DJ Roulette Nana Funks: Retro Dance Party w/ Innisfree: DJ Blake The Nick: Loves It Emergency Room Lounge: DJ Rudy DJ Matrix Nana Funks: Retro Dance Party w/ Oak Hill: Allen Barlow & Jon Innisfree: DJ Mark AD Rare Martini: DJ Quackenbush DJ Matrix Campbell Martini’s International: DJ Paco Steel: Mark AD Rare Martini: DJ Quackenbush The Oasis: A Couple of Monkeys (Latin Music) Steel: Mark AD Ona’s Music Room: Pedro Louis Mayor Nana Funks: All Night Dance Party Saturday, 9/15 Trio w/ DJ Matrix Innisfree: DJ Mark AD Saturday, 9/22 Otey’s: Cooper Trent Martini’s International: DJ Salsa Steel: DJ Flux Innisfree: DJ Mark AD Pub 261: Excalibur Nana Funks: All Night Dance Party Tyler Navarre’s Bar & Grill: DJ JJizzie Martini’s International: DJ Salsa Redline Bar: Stephen Rockett & Matt w/ DJ Matrix Nana Funks: All Night Dance Party Baker Steel: DJ Flux Sunday, 9/9 w/ DJ Matrix The Saloon: Delanor Matthew’s Bar & Grill: DJ Jersey Sunday, 9/16 Steel: DJ Flux Stillwater Pub: Sam Gunderson & Monday, 9/10 Metro Bar: Metro Moobah (Free Friends Moombahton show) Village Tavern: Village Tavern Courtyard 280: DJ Kop Zydeco: Brent Cobb Band Friday, 9/14 Phillips Margarita Grill: Kevin Smith Courtyard Southside: Kat Delacruz Avondale Brewing Co.: Eddie & the Margarita Grill: Ron & John’s Surf The Oasis: Rick Carter Gabriel’s: K Kid Public Speakers/Brooke Philips Trio Shop Rare Martini: Mario Carerras Open Grey Bar: Acoustic Cafe Back 9: Deputy 5 Marty’s: George Scherer Mic Comedy Iron Horse: Rex Murphy Beef ’O’ Brady’s: Matt Broach The Oasis: Andrew Hull Redline Bar: Open Mic & Jam w/ Margarita Grill: Erath/Marchant Billy’s (Eng. Village): Hutch Edwards Pub 261: Carl Ray DeeDee Marty’s: George Scherer/Errick Smith Project Wellington’s Bistro: Blues, Soul, R&B Stillwater Pub: Eric McGinty The Nick: Black Pistol Fire/The Chad City Vineyard: BJ Miller & Mack Davis open mic Zydeco: Emmitt-Nershi Band w/ Red Wesley Band Courtyard 280: The Haulers/Matt Hill Clay Revival The Oasis: Keitha Williams band Tuesday, 9/11 Ona’s Music Room: Bonus Round Courtyard Southside: Kat Delacruz Cajun Steamer (Trussville): Jeff Tyler Wednesday, 9/12 “Unplugged” w/ Gabriel Tajeu DanielDay Gallery: HaleyBop Mafiaoza’s: The Goodfellas Billy’s (Liberty Park): Goodfellas Otey’s: Rockstar & Lance Emergency Room Lounge: 4 Play Buffalo Wild Wings (Hoover): Zach Doss Pub 261: John Mac & Gio Gable Square Saloon: Open Mic w/ Cajun Steamer (Trussville): Hunter Redline Bar: KOP Brent Stauffer “I drive from Tuscaloosa just Lawley w/ Tony Kurre The Saloon: Kat Delacruz Gabriel’s: Preston Summerville to hang out at this place.” Courtyard 280: Matt Hill & Sean Satterfield’s: Glen & Libba Grey Bar: Jason Mayo — Mia E. Bunn/Matt Barnes & David Koonce Stillwater Pub: Antioquia Innisfree: Yawl Iron Horse: Longreef INSIDE Jolly Rogers: The Amazing Live Sea Monkey’s A friendly neighborhood bar. Cold beer and cocktails. A real watering hole. Mafiaoza’s: Foxxy Fatts Company Margarita Grill: Pharm Hand OUTSIDE Marty’s: Jason Bailey Band/Groove A courtyard filled with old statues, iron Daddy gates, wisteria vines, concrete tables, Metro Bar: India Ramey benches, and French iron bistro chairs. Moe’s BBQ (Lakeview): Red Mountain No better atmosphere in town. Moonlight on the Mountain: Bishop- OUTSTANDING FOOD Davidson/Claudia Nygaard We dare you to find a better sandwich. 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20 September 06, 2012 • www.bwcitypaper.com • black & white Zydeco: Boombox w/ Jimi Fritz Marty’s: Steve McCullough Marty’s: George Scherer/Errick Smith Redline Bar: Matt Ritchie Moonlight on the Mountain: Open Mic Metro Bar: Timber & Tide The Saloon: John Elrod Saturday, 9/15 Night Moe’s BBQ (Lakeview): Stuart McNair Satterfield’s: Carlos Pino & Brandon Avondale Brewing Co.: River Dan The Nick: Chris Wilson/Planet Trio Peeples Back 9: The Naked Eskimos Earth/Lakecia Benjamin Moonlight on the Mountain: Jeff Stillwater Pub: Dorian Green City Vineyard: Lauren Brown & Matt The Oasis: Andrew Hull Mosier/Red Mountain White Trash Wine’d Down: Tracey & Alan Willis Wellington’s Bistro: Blues, Soul, R&B The Nick: Long Gone Darlings Wine Loft: Laser’s Edge Courtyard 280: Redemption open mic Oak Hill: Jarrett Smith Workplay: The Handsome Courtyard Southside: The Haulers The Oasis: Seducing Alice Family/Quaildogs Gable Square Saloon: The Daughters Tuesday, 9/18 Ona’s Music Room: India Ramey Gabriel’s: After the Crash Cajun Steamer (Trussville): Jeff Tyler Pub 261: Slang Acoustic Saturday, 9/22 Gip’s Place: Debbie Bond & the Mafiaoza’s: The Goodfellas Redline Bar: Jeff Allred Avondale Brewing Co.: Panama Jack & Trudats Margarita Grill: Reese The Saloon: Boss & Huck the Hangouts Grey Bar: Outshine The Oasis: Rick Carter Stillwater Pub: Frank & Gary Back 9: M-80s Innisfree: 5 O’clock Charlie Rare Martini: Mario Carerras Open Village Tavern: Jeff Tyler City Vineyard: Kevin Harrison Iron Horse: 17th Floor Mic Comedy Workplay: Seryn Courtyard 280: Voodoo Jones Jolly Rogers: 2Blu & The Lucky Stiffs Redline Bar: Open Mic & Jam w/ Zydeco: American Aquarium w/ Bama Gable Square Saloon: Scott Hudson Margarita Grill: Living Dream DeeDee Gamblers & Mama’s Love Gabriel’s: Citizen Jayne Marty’s: Bonus Round/Pearl Keys The Saloon: Karaoke w/ Chance Smith Gip’s Place: The Banditos Moe’s BBQ (Lakeview): Patrick Mullins Stillwater Pub: Eric McGinty Friday, 9/21 Grey Bar: Acoustic Duo Series & Joel Kauffman Workplay: Ingram Hill w/Sam Grow & Avondale Brewing Co.: Stuart Innisfree: Z & the Party The Nick: Rock U Live! 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